JVC Fire TV Edition 55'' Smart 4K Ultra HD HDR LED TV

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It’s also important to have a good idea of your expectations in terms of quality too. You may not actually be looking for the best quality product if your main goal is to get cheap Televisions. So spend some time considering what’s important to you and think about the areas that you’d be happy to compromise or not. Upscaling is somewhat disappointing. While the image is sharp, colours appear washed out compared with the TV’s handling of native 4K content. We searched for all of the Televisions that we could find at Currys. In total we found 268 different products available.

Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product. Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Televisions, but at a realistic and reasonable price.The presence of Dolby Vision is particularly good news for a budget model. ‘Dynamic’ HDR formats such as Dolby Vision are capable of adapting to the limitations of low-end 4K TVs, whereas ‘static’ HDR formats such as HLG and HDR10 rely more heavily on a TV’s natural talents. At this price, those talents are routinely in short supply. JVC Fire TV Edition review: Key specifications

Once you’re into the Fire TV interface proper, you’re faced with a familiar set of tiles offering apps, recently watched programmes and suggestions of things you might want to watch. In addition to the usual suspects, you’ll also notice tiles for the TV’s various HDMI inputs and terrestrial TV tuner. These inputs are treated just like apps or watched programmes, so if you regularly use the HDMI 4 port, for instance, then that gets pole position in your recently watched list. Please note: Failure to produce the card and relevant ID means we are unable to release goods on collection. It’s a shame, then, that Dolby Vision content in the Disney+ app suffered from some horrible juddering during our testing. Netflix was seemingly unaffected but watching content via Disney’s streaming service was blighted with hitches and jerks throughout. Once you notice it, it’s very distracting. Hopefully this is something which can be ironed out with a future software update. Dimensions: - TV with stand: 699 x 1130 x 216 mm (H x W x D) - TV: 656 x 1130 x 82 mm (H x W x D) - Boxed: 780 x 1215 x 154 mm (H x W x D) It is quite hard to compile a proper article without any sleep lately but still I will do my best to present you a mid-range 4k Smart TV that comes at a good price in UK - the JVC LT-50CF890.Brand, as mentioned earlier, is another really important factor to consider for buying Televisions. TV with stand: 762 x 1243 x 227 mm (H x W x D) - Stand: 18 x 600 x 227 mm (H x W x D) - Boxed: 860 x 1369 x 154 mm (H x W x D) At first, I tested this feature on a 1080p Blu-ray of The Martian, before moving on to a 480p and then an HD version of Arrested Development. Colours looked rather drab, which made the image less lifelike, although the upscaling overall was smoother and less noisy than that I experienced with the Hisense 50A7100FTUK. Sound quality The LT-55CF890 features the old Fire TV interface and not the all-new Fire TV experience available on some of its streamers. It’s large and straightforward to navigate with tabs for the home screen, live TV, your videos, movies, TV, apps and settings. The LT-50CF890 is not a bad TV at all - nice simple design (could be a bit slimmer though), good set of features, OK price. The biggest problem for this TV might be the competition from other brands.

Next up we thought it would be useful to narrow down our search a bit more and only look at Televisions made by JVC. We managed to find 18 options at Currys.

You’re also going to want to know how durable the product is, so here we’d advise taking a look at the materials that the Televisions are made from. The JVC fared a little better than expected in our testing. In SDR mode, its default Standard picture preset puts out a maximum brightness of around 369cd/m² and achieves a very respectable contrast ratio of 5,329:1 even with all the contrast– and colour-enhancing features turned off. Fire up HDR mode, and peak brightness increases to 400cd/m² while contrast remains high at 5,358:1. The biggest issues with the JVC, however, are that it struggles with both motion and upscaling – two key performance elements of any self-respecting 4K TV. I didn’t expect much given the 60Hz refresh rate, but the panel’s slow response time is painfully obvious. It’s not too noticeable in brighter scenes, but detail and colours are smudged by horrible blur in darker moments. Similarly, while images look crisp in 4K when the camera is moving slowly, fast action and sports shows up the panel’s limitations, with detail becoming flattened and indistinct.