49" 83C delivered on the 2nd December 2015...
As a qualified Broadcast technician I have to say this is one of the most frustratingly badly-designed and executed televisual products I've ever had to deal with... Unpacked the set, temporarily connected to download the latest firmware.
I'm quite prepared to live without all the 'smart tv' stuff... Have zero interest in Netflix or any of the other gubbins; bought the TV on that basis. Even just trying to use it as a TV is frustrating!
Satellite Tuner(s):
i) Don't expect to be able to use DiSEqC - Although it's supposed to be supported it just plain doesn't work! I had a frustrating time yesterday trying to tune in my dual-dish system... Same feed to my old receiver works perfectly.
ii) For the curious who might connect a 'Fransat' dish in the hope of seeing an alternative UHD demo; the set doesn't decode it! - You'll get sound but a blank screen! - Doesn't bode well for future 4K transmissions! - the Astra 4K demo is fine, looks good etc...
iii) Whatever idiot designed the channel listing interface needs sacked never to work again; such is the level of gross incompetence!
A) Whilst you're trying to delete all the porn, shopping and other rubbish from your channel list the set will inexplicably and randomly crash, reset, or return channels to the list that you have deleted.
B) During this seemingly random process it's possibly to wind up with channels you THOUGHT you had deleted occupying channel positions on your guide that are numbered over 10,000 - i.e. position 10149... You cannot access any position over 9999 from the listing interface! - Thus the only way of removng something you might find really offensive from your guide is to start the retuning and sorting process from scratch!
C) Attempting to move an item up the channel list will - quite randomly - result in the channel you are trying to insert in a given position 'swapping places' rather than being inserted in the new position; thus you still wind up with a channel in the wrong place.
iv) Secondary dish input appears to do nothing - attempting to invoke it will crash the set!
Given that the Android features don't actually WORK it would be nice to remove the icons for this stuff - a lot of which I REALLY wouldn't want to use anyway - from my 'home' screen! I don't need the telly to tell me what it thinks I ought to be watching either!
Having DELIBERATELY disconnected it from the internet I don't need a wee sad looking cloud icon telling me that either!
LONG time user of Sony products including their professional machines from the days of U-Matic riight up 'till now! Really disappointed in them that they'd even build a prototype this badly-thought-out... These UIs are just not even remotely competent!
And OH! - did I mention there is no output from ARC? I just used an optical connection but REALLY???? And then there are the tales earlier in this thread of them censoring (deserved) negative reviews! I'd expect this sort of rubbish from a no-name supermarket telly! Not one of the best known names in the business!
And I'll remember all this the next time I'm speccing-up our replacement broadcast kit...
