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Supposedly Visio has an answer to the OLED that's about 1/2 the cost possibly in our Canadian market already. Haven't looked in last little while, I read some preview article about it a couple months ago.
It's not really a name brand though they seem pretty good. I know a few people that have had their Visio T.V.s for 5 plus years.

Funny you can find record players around again in the shops and the C.D. players have gone. I picked one of the Sony's a couple years back, has a pretty decent D.A.C. in it.

I've been waiting for OLED for years and i'm still holding out for more mainstream offerings and technology revisions.
LG does have some flat screen versions, a 55" and 65".

Maybe I could start a go fund me so I can get the new tv I want. I love the new OLED's but I just cant justify the money, YEt

I had to change my 7 year old samsung in the livingroom, the lcd screen was giving problems lately... I had bought it at the time because brand name.. had a ton of issues.. (power supply caps and so on) after opening it up a few times to fix it and examined some of the parts inside noticed that it had the most cheapest parts you can find on the market and was made to fail within 5 to 6 years.. to top it off it was a the higher end tv model from samsung and had paid over 3.5k from future shop... anyways bought a vizio m65-c1 at bust buy for 1800$... with some tweeking so far so good and picture is damm good for the $$$ for the HT room have an epson projector had it for a while and solid picture with a decent price....

Good to know JB. I have looked at a M70 C3 for 2200 bucks but had read their upscaling engine was not the greatest so I was on the fence and started looking at Sony. My dad bought a Sony XBR 55 inch at BB on sale and really likes it. I checked out downtown but they have like 15 TV's all next to each other and it just makes it so hard to tell if I would like it or not. I am not sure the OLED's will come down to my price range any time soon so I may have to bite the bullet we will see.

I did try out the Visio M65 for a bit. I am told it's a wonderful TV but I just could not stand it. I could not find any settings to lower the motion correction and it was stuck in the Soap Opera effect mode.

This is something that they have fixed but the kicker for me was that the TV would not auto download the new firmware that fixed this issue. After a call to Visio I was told that the TV will do it at some point, but there is no way with the current shipped firmware to force this to happen. I just gave in and went to the more expensive but I think better looking Panasonic TV.

You get to the point sometimes of if truely seeing some TV's side by side properly calibrated you might see some things of one being better over another but they are all pretty much on common ground. You eyes will become adapted to whatever you buy and it will look great.

Out of the box the vizio didn't look good at any of the video presets.. after some tweeking and trying a few of the internet forum settings for that tv I found what seems works best, I did get a vizo sound bar with wireless sub (found a 5.1 soundbar on kijiji for 100$) ...funny thing as when I was buying that tv someone was going for warranty with their sony tv, I doubt any major brands have high quality components inside of any of their tv's, they are made with lowest quoted supplier parts that said I just can't justify paying over 3k anymore for something that will fail within 5 or 6 years. I had no trouble with any of vizo updates (Matt perhaps something wasn't ok with your wifi settings on the tv)

Richard:

SONY sent me an email today on their new HDR technology TVs that is showing at the CES that boasts about improved contrast & brightness:

http://www.sony.ca/en/electronics/high-contrast-ratio-led-backlit-4k-hd-tvs

Watch the short video here:

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/05/sony-4k-hdr-tvs-and-ultra/

Might be worth a look but undoubtedly will initially be pricey...

TAM