Curved TVs

I tend to leave the color saturation quite low. Too much sharpness can create unrealistic edging.

Both tend to get turned up too far in showrooms because the rubes think it looks good.

Sorta like the extreme Loudness (hi and low boost) of Bose headphones.

Is your tv on a wall mount or on the stand? If on a stand, how far from the wall is the front of the screen?

It's on a TV stand, in a corner of the living room angled about 30 degrees. The closest edge is about a foot from the wall, the farthest two feet. I use a sub and two column speakers.

Being in the corner, it's visible from the couch, love seat and easy chair, for about seven people (if we had that many).

Viewing distance varies from 10 feet to sixteen.

Temperature in the room is 65, relative humidity 23%. Two dogs on lap, both sound asleep.

I generally don't like wall mounts because, unless the room is specially designed, the TV usually ends up way above eye level.

In a corner. Of course. Only place you could put it that won't help me.
Oh, well...

It just occurred to me that you got a 55-inch screen. I'm considering a 65-inch screen, so your installation wouldn't do my any good anyway. Guess I'll have to work on my math Rats!

55 is ten less than 65. That's 5" off each side.

Did that help?

Yeah. And just a little off the top.

5" off your cuestick, you'd never miss it.

You've heard of miniature golf? Look into miniature billiards.

Some of my cues cost more than that television. I think I would miss it.

Up until December 2014, it turns out, all Samsung UHD TVs came with a 1TB hard drive loaded with 10 UHD movies.

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A: Preload content
Movie G.I Joe: Retaliation, World War Z, Night at the Museum, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The counselor, Life of Pi, Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness, Forrest Gump, The Book Thief
Documentary The Last Reef, Grand Canyon Adventure, Cappadocia, Legend of Flight (soft / hard ver.), Rescue, Bear, Kinabalu Climbing, The Genet (Screener.mp4), Sojourn, Oregon, Microscape Butterflies, Phantom Fire, San Francisco Flow, Bailee Moore, Cooking For Love (1Ep.), Cooking For Love (2Ep.), Cooking For Love (4Ep.), Ryan Beatty : Hey LA, Santorini Action, Another Way, Atmosphere, Dreamline, In The Woods, Khumbu Valley, Mix, Myanma (Burma), Perspective, Puppy Race, Vancouver City 2, Dive to New World

It goes for $350 new and about $250 on eBay and Amazon.  Although there is no other 4k content available, to speak of, I don't think this collection of movies is worth two fifty.  Do you?

I don't want to say you guys are crazy, but about $500 is what I envision for a TV.

They are an extravagance, true.

Like 3D and before it Blu-ray, the hardware to support the higher resolution exists (has to exist) before the content is marketed. I am told, by online reviews, that UHD content looks AMAZING on a UHD television. I hope to find out.

Meanwhile, "plain old Blu-ray" looks pretty stinking amazing to me. I have a small collection, maybe a dozen, of Blu-ray movies designed for showing off the capabilities of Blu-ray. There are the Atlas series of travelogues to Brazil, China, Italy and Australia. I have a set of discs featuring sunsets and sunrises. I have several BBC nature documentaries.

Frankly, just having higher resolution on content not intended to take advantage of it somehow just isn't all that impressive.

richard09 wrote:

I don't want to say you guys are crazy, but about $500 is what I envision for a TV.

Maybe a little bit crazy.
You're in the right ballpark' $500 will get you a TV that is better than anything imagined just a few years ago.

Like... My old Samsung HDTV. You pay shipping.

You can buy a new Samsung 48-inch LCD TV for less than $500.

Shhhh. I almost had him.

Oh. You meant shipping costs in addition to $500. I thought you were indicating that shipping costs were adequate remuneration. Sorry to step on your dick like that.

_Howard wrote:

Some of my cues cost more than that television. I think I would miss it.

Now that is crazy. All that money for a stick of wood, with no electronics in it.

What!? A "stick of wood"? A "stick of wood?" If you're nice to me I won't give any of my cue makers your address and tell them you said that.

All of my favorite things are sans electronics.

4k content is rare but will be expanding in 2015.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/can-get-4k-ultra-hd-content-new-tv/

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Recommended Internet speed of 25 Mbps or higher,

For people who can't even watch a u-tube video without endless buffering, there will be no new content.

Discs and flashdrives.

Netflix has three plans, basic, standard and premium, $7.99, $8.99 and $11.99 per month respectively.  You need standard to get HD and premium to get ultra-HD.

For twelve bucks a a month, I can buy DVDs and keep them forever.  Right now, the amount of 4k content on Netflix may not justify the expense -- House of Cards and some nature documentaries.  And I'm not even sure they're free-with-subscription.

Guess I need to check it out.

Okay, I rejoined Netflix (forgot I tried them 4-5 years ago, but they didn't) and am streaming a 25-minute ultra-HD "documentary" about American deserts.  Lots of time lapse photography of clouds moving over canyons, and shifting sand dunes, and aerial flyovers of Arizona and New Mexico.  My friend Jan Nickman invented this genre in 1985 with "Natural States" and, although the cameras have gotten better, the concept hasn't changed a whit.

I have a 30-day free trial to watch as much content as I can.  We'll see if I get bored with it.

Oh, the visuals?  Stunning.

Watched the first episode of Orange is the New Black after Deserts.

As much as the sharpness made the sand dunes and rock formations gorgeous, it's the skin tones and little human details that really rock UHD.