Time for a new telly but which one

[Seymour Butts]

does anyone have any experience with hisense just wondering what this would be like

Although I couldn't be swayed and went ahead and bought my 60" Samsung today (and am really very, very happy with it)
when you look at the Hisense you linked to it's incredibly good bang for your buck.
Technically speaking it ticks all the boxes.
It does have a relatively slow refresh rate but....... how important is it to you ??
I was actually looking at a 60" version of this today and I was really impressed with the picture quality but typical of JB Hi fi they only feed pictures that suit the respective brand but the easy test is just do what I did, record or download something that is typical of what you enjoy watching and put it on a data stick and tell the sales people to play it. They will, hey hate sales walking out the door
As a TV it can't be that bad, hell the bought the rights to an Arena down here so they must sell a few.
If it fits your budget then like I said - bang for your buck.

[weirdo]

Personally I would stay away from the cheaper brands. Unless you know someone that has one and can recommend it. But as I mentioned, I would advise going and looking at some in action BEFORE purchase. Sound quality is a big issue in a lot of TV's these days with very little room for speakers.

admin makes a good point there
Make sure you test the sound of each tv as well
if you don't, suddenly that 'cheap' tv you bought could end up more expensive if the sound is crap and you have to go out and buy a soundbar (which seems the trend lately) or any other external speaker system
look at the tv as a whole, vision AND sound

[LeroyPatrol]

That's what I like about my old Panasonic. It has speakers on the front of the TV. The sound is so good compared to the rear speaker TV's.

Leroy

[gordon_s1942]

I believe my first flatscreen (Pryod) with side attached speakers had a better sound output than any of the 5 different sized Flatscreen TV's I have now with their hell knows where they are speakers.
Unfortunately the Big screen TV doesnt have an earplug to connect a sound bar to.

[donhe7]

Gordon, I used an "optical digital to A/V adapter" to connect a sound bar to our Toshiba LED LCD TV, before I was able to locate a "Sound Plate (Base)" with an optical input which solved the poor quality sound which is a feature(!!) of virtually all flat screens. Admittedly the sound base which I bought was not expensive, but it improved the bass component of the sound considerably.

donhe7