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expired Posted by Houston_R • Mar 14, 2021
Mar 14, 2021 6:03 AM
Hisense - 70" Class H65 Series LED 4K UHD Smart Android TV for $499.99+FS
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I don't know about future sales, of course, but I would definitely not count on the 75H6510G coming down to $500 this month.
If it was me, I would (and did) spend the extra $100 for the 75H6510G, because a combination of a better panel and a 15% larger panel would be more than worth paying 20% more to me.
But this is a fair price for an ultrabudget 70 inch. I'm just not as confident it will be better than the onn, Smart, Sharp, Insignia, and so on TVs available at a similar price.
But this is a fair price for an ultrabudget 70 inch. I'm just not as confident it will be better than the onn, Smart, Sharp, Insignia, and so on TVs available at a similar price.
Unfortunately, there is very little objective testing available for these ultrabudget models. And to be fair, there are lot, and they come and go quickly. But it does make it challenging to figure out which are equivalent or not.
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https://www.lifewire.com/hisense-...ts-1847076 [lifewire.com]
I don't know about future sales, of course, but I would definitely not count on the 75H6510G coming down to $500 this month.
If it was me, I would (and did) spend the extra $100 for the 75H6510G, because a combination of a better panel and a 15% larger panel would be more than worth paying 20% more to me.
But this is a fair price for an ultrabudget 70 inch. I'm just not as confident it will be better than the onn, Smart, Sharp, Insignia, and so on TVs available at a similar price.
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So yeah, when you think $100 extra over a couple years is something like 14 cents a day--If you can manage it, and you watch just a moderate amount of TV over those couple years, I'd say it is probably going to be worth it.
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Foxconn bought Sharp but they haven't had any tv's sold in the United States, therefore, current televisions with the Sharp name are Hisense manufactured. I'm not familiar with your source, Tab-TV, but I do trust what Consumer Reports [consumerreports.org] states, especially since they aren't hawking products to get affiliate sales.
Foxconn bought Sharp but they haven't had any tv's sold in the United States, therefore, current televisions with the Sharp name are Hisense manufactured. I'm not familiar with your source, Tab-TV, but I do trust what Consumer Reports [consumerreports.org] states, especially since they aren't hawking products to get affiliate sales.
Now it looks to me like these new Aquos-branded TVs are the first to be "manufactured" by Sharp for the U.S. market since the termination of that deal. But that doesn't necessarily tell you anything in particular about the source or quality of the panels they are using.
The aspect of all this I find a bit intriguing is in 2017, Sharp sued Hisense, claiming that Hisense was putting the Sharp brand name on low quality TVs, thereby devaluing the Sharpn brand. As I understand it, Sharp eventually dropped this lawsuit. But theoretically, at least, this means Sharp could potentially be intending to rebuild its brand value by doing things like selecting higher-spec panels to put into its U.S. television models, at least relative to whatever they were accusing Hisense of putting in Sharp-branded TVs.
But that is entirely speculative, and I wouldn't buy a TV on that basis.
All this is underscoring a rather unfortunate fact about the current television industry, which is that we typically do not have much transparency into exactly what panels are going into any given model. Obviously the companies are committed to providing panels with whatever specs and features that they actually market, but otherwise very often they give extremely limited descriptions.
So, we end up reliant on third-party testers like rtings and such to evaluate the panels, but they simply don't test enough TVs to really pin down what panel is in all these models. In fact, you can have panel variations between different sizes, and possibly even within a specific model/size over time, and none of that is being tested comprehensively.
Oh well! Personally, that means I would be reluctant to buy something like these new Sharp models unless and until they did get some serious third-party testing which provided some indication of the relatively quality of the panels they are using.
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