Summary: Open letter to the Cnet Reviewer:
I think your rating/review is plain wrong as you totally skipped using 4K upconverting receivers and 4K upconverting blu-ray players to drive this 4K TV all the time, with any source upconverted! Also, high resolution photos look spectacular on this set where you can truly see the detail of your photos...
You do a lot of good analysis, but overly weight it with 1080p content comparisons. it's like saying a rocketship sucks running on unleaded gas... totally useless and laughable
Plus, the pricepoint alone deserves another point, it's 1/3rd the price of the Sony 4K and skips the gimmicks, leaving you thousands of bucks to pay for a good 4K upconverting receiver and source.
Please rewrite with some facts on using a 4K upconverting BluRay player or 4K upconverting receiver (dozens available) to review in comparison to 1080p LCD TV's (can't compare to plasma or oled, totally different tech), and feel free to add a couple of stars back then as it holds up well.
You can send everything to it in 4K, then compare the quality of 4K conversion in the receivers you select.
Also, don't you think people buy 50" sets because they don't have the room for 60" or larger sets? It's the right size for regular viewing distances in small living rooms, and sure while the 84" Sony might be nice, most people buying sets in this price range don't have a hanger for a living room and 10' doorway to push an 84" set thru...
Recommending any 1080p LCD screen over this 4K LCD set is just as ridiculous and backward thinking as would be recommending a 480p 32" tube TV when 50" LCD HDTV's just came out, but I suspect many reviewers did and never regretted misguiding readers ...
Same story here, you got only half the story right, as if 2013 was 1999 all over again...
I am not biased to 4K and you did a pretty good writeup, but as I thought the 480p Trinitron tubes back then were very good with DVD's in comparison to the first 1080p LCD's, it's just the old tech was going nowhere as HDTV's were replacing them anyway.
More Obvious sources of High Resolution material you forgot in your review...
Why also didn't you use millions of high resolution photos to display, and compare to the 1080p sets?
You have tons of DSLR reviews, did you forgot they take 4K + photos?
Likewise, did you forget to read the manual- it has a Photo viewer? Do you think it's for
playing 2K photos from 1995 only?
hmm....
Looking at your title listed right now "Finally, a 4K TV you can actually afford. Too bad you'd never want it.",
it appears you never got any ad money from Seiki, so you are instead resorting
to trashing a decent enough 4K LCD just to generate clicks?
With big glaring ommissions from your review, I doubt you'd consider these facts to include at this point
in a revision as it doesn't fit the nature of your title.
Please consider re-writing your review and rating in relation with better than 1080p sources, or better yet, contact a company with real Red 5K and 4K footage, people might learn how this set punches far above the rating you gave it..
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