Philips or Sinotec : 50" LED

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Sold my plasma and I am in the process of buying a LED TV. Actually allowed myself to be badgered into a Sansui Smart TV but it is complete crap, the sound is horrible and running Android 4.0.4 it takes ages to switch on so it's going back to Hi Fi Corruption.

My options are thus the 50" Sinotec STL-50FD36 or the 50" Philips 50FPA4509/56. Any recommendations on either?
 
Is the Hisense LEDN50D36P any good?
I see both the Philips and Hisense comes with 10w x2 speakers where as the Sinotec only has 8w x2.
 
The_MAC said:
Phillips, don't waste your time with Sino-crap
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It's not the same Philips you knew, it's pretty much a Chinese rebrand so on par with Hisense, Sinotec etc...

for Roux, two friends of mine, both not very TVphiles bought that TV and took it back within a day, it ghosts horribly and it lags apparently too.
 
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I recently bought a Sinotec product that had a latent defect (kept crashing) and contacted them from their website contact form.

Got a reply back from them (the directors PA) that their technical guy would contact me.

Had no response after 7 days and took the product back for a refund at Makto.

Its now 6 weeks later and still no response from technical and even after emailing the sender of the first (and only) email still no reply.

I will never buy a Sinotec product ever again if this is the level of after sales service this poor excuse for a company provides.
 
Lupus said:
It's not the same Philips you knew, it's pretty much a Chinese rebrand so on par with Hisense, Sinotec etc...
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While they may have been bought by a Chinese company however Philips SA still handles repairs. You still get 2 years warranty and they have an awesome spares sourcing system.

I wouldn't worry so much about the "new" Philips TV products in terms of quality because the Dutch company has been collaborating for a while with the Chinese before they finally bought out the TV section from Philips. Also Philips wouldn't allow the Chinese to use their brand if they weren't any good. Philips still kicks ass.
 
HiSense would be a better bet as they now back their product with a 4yr guaranty.
 
Honestly what is your budget? Can you stretch it a bit and get an LG, Samsung or Sony? As the other brands you will either get something okay, or a lemon. My first Sinotec 6 years ago was a lemon, the next one they replaced it with was a lot better but it still didn't compare with the Samsung I replaced it with.
 
I think that HiSense is one of the up and coming companies that is starting to make a name for itself.
It seems to be creeping up to the level of LG and Samsung.
 
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Got R3k for my plasma and not looking to spend a lot more on a replacement. The Sansui I now have went for R5700 so I'll probably add R1~2k on top of that and get the Hisense.
 
There was a Samsung 48" LED TV doing the rounds for R7899 two weeks ago.
 
Can't go less than 50" seeing as we are used to 51". Not going plasma again despite seeing how nice the 60" Samsungs over at PnP Hyper was. I am leaning towards the D-LED HiSense : http://www.hisense.co.za/tvs/D36/50/0
Seems more of a brand name than the generic Sansui/Sinotec/Logic/What-have-you ranges.
 
Rouxenator said:
Bleak it may be, but it is a lot nice than the PS51D450A2 I parted with for R3k.

I am very much sold on the D-LED Hisense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfOG60VApHg
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I reckon you're setting yourself up for some disappointment if you think D-LED and Hisense is going to give you good/extraordinary PQ. That video is also 4 years old, edge lit LED-LCD does a good job these days, nothing like the exaggeration in the video.

Take it with a handful of salt.
 
Works pretty well, the sound is on par with the 10 watt X2 I had in Samsung. About the D-LED, well as you hinted I can't tell the difference without paying close attention to very dark pictures. Worth R7k, definitely no, but at least there is no burn in, its 1080p and uses a 3rd of the power. That's about all there is to the Hisense.

The customer service from HiFi Corp in Cape Gate was exceptionally good, it's like the had an attitude change or something.
 
So much for D-LED, it is direct but not dynamic as can be seen in the picture below. Grabbed this pic from Ebay.
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I think both are 8ohm. Installed the latest AMD Omega video driver, makes a big difference in Kodi running DXVA2 HD. I am begining to love my 50" Hisense D-LED.

SD content still does not look quite as good as on plasma but getting there. I think with the right tweaks in the video driver settings it will be on par with my old 51" PDP.
 
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