LG UM8070PUA 82 Class HDR 4K UHD Smart LED TV

Comprably afforable 86 on the market...

If you're looking for a new Smart-Projector-Display-Size-TV and have the living room space for it, you can't go wrong with this model. It comes as the full LG experience; aka including the Magic Remote, unlike another SKU#UK6570PUB that's more expensive and doesn't include the Magic Remote. Without the MR, the TV loses a lot of it's magic and smartness. We have a friend that own that model and he was not happy. I'm not too techy about TVs, but ... Show Moreone thing I do know is turning it on for the first time, you'll want to make sure it's properly setup by someone that's familiar with the best TV settings and options. Because, the TV isn't at it's best by default and a lot of default options literally prevents the TV from shining aka the peak brightness with HDR will be much lower. Our techguy had to turn off energy saver mode (enabled by default) to show us the true brightness of the TV's HDR capabilities. Otherwise the TV looks really dimmed. Some of the features I like about the TV are all it's built-in apps (tho the main one we care about is just YouTube) to handle streaming movies, TV shows, and local video playback. It's very nice to just use your smartphone and cast the videos you normally watch on it to the big screen TV seamlessly. No need for extra dongles or accessory attachments. It handles all the popular codec formats and even play local 4K60fps video from an external hard drive smoothly. We have a 8TB external drive and the TV reads it without problems. I'm not going to talk too much about picture quality, because we don't have a large sample size of knowledge with other TVs and I also think most people are in the same shoe as us that don't care too much as long as it's an improvement over the old TV. With that said, if you're coming from a 1080P TV and watch old local TV shows and none-of-that 4K stuff, well, it's hard to see any improvements. However, once you see actual 4K stuff on a 4K TV, wow. Very clear. It's also especially nice, since it's at such a large size. One main issue with these very large TVs is finding a stand that would fit. The two legs to keep the TV up is very far apart. So most TV stands wouldn't have the width necessary to hold it. So keep in mind your old TV stand, if you're upgrading from 65 or smaller, might not be long enough and you'll need to get a new TV stand for this new monster size TV. So consider there may be extra expense from that. One thing for sure, once you go this size, you'll never want to go back smaller.Show Less

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