Hello, I am looking to buy a new 2020 Android TV 43" to 49" inches max. I want it to run smooth and not lag like the TV I bought 2 years ago (Philips 7303) that lags like crap and is very slow.
My max budget is 1000$ I am not looking for an external android box or firestick, I am looking for an android tv.
Any recommendations ?
Out of curiosity, why not look at an external box? They're going to be cheaper and more powerful, more often than not. Way easier to upgrade, too
TV manufacturers won't guarantee support after a few years. My Skyworth is a pretty bad Android TV. If I could do it over again, I'd get a good quality TV and connect an NVidia Shield to it.
Seriously...don't exclude the idea of an external box. Personally I have a 2019 C9 OLED and I still use a 2019 Nvidia shield because it's AI upscaling is just so good. Not to mention...Android all the things. Even though the built in system is actually decent and quite fast, the shield is just better.
Just buy the TV purely for the display. Best quality and accuracy display that meets your size and compatability requirements. Then use an Android TV box (highly recommend the 2019 shield) and then literally completely ignore the built in smart system and original TV remote. Act as if your box is the main system.
Far more upgradable. Not to mention typically things built to do one job, more often than not do it better than things trying to do everything in one unit, while still at a reasonable price.
The only decent chipsets in TV’s for running the Android TV OS are the new, noticeably more powerful ones in the Sony X85G / X95G / A9G and 2018 Sony “Master Series” TV‘s.
Everything else is comparatively underpowered Rubbish.
Suggestion, buy a Verizon Stream 4K or wait for the TiVo Stream 4K. Both are excellent, snappy, bang for the buck Android TV devices.
Sadly, your experience is fairly typical of smart TVs. They tend to be slow, kludgy, and don't get a lot of security upgrades.
If you want my advice, take your $1000, find yourself a TV with good picture quality that is under $800, and then buy an Nvidia Shield to attach to it.
Nobody took in consideration what I wrote about not wanting an external box or firestick
Tbh, I was searching like crazy for an Android TV so Samsung, lg and other brands was out of the question and most android TV were, how should I put this, the brown stuff that comes out of the rectum to be polite. Until I came across a search about a xiaomi TV. Interested in that TV I ready and watched some reviews in many blogs and youtube.
While many of those reviews were always about the same, 8 core processor 4K with HDR10 and bla Bla Bla, nobody talked about the actual interface and the possibilities we could have by being an Android TV
What the heck, I bought myself the Xiaomi mi tv 4s 55" and it has been a blast. There are limitations of course, like, portrait forces apps don't function correctly on the tv since play store only shows up a tiny already tested apps on it but I download them somewhere else It has build-in Chromecast which never failed me and works flawlessly with an app called Bubble upnp I installed an a torrent search engine and a torrent player so whatever movie I want to watch, I just can and it works flawlessly and many many more advantages.
The cons I should say the image setting doesn't let you do many things other brands do, you're stuck with like 5 filters, cinema, sports, default, and 2 others but the screen is Rgb calibrated and what I've seen it is pretty close to 100% Being an IPS direct LED technology has it flaws but it has Full Array local dimming to help those black contrast and not show the obvious Led bleeding flaws.
All in all, I couldn't be happier with the TV itself, what a bargain too, 450 euros for a 4K awesome quality TV which I can even play PUBG or asphalt 9 directly from a controller for free, isn't that awesome? Anime, movies, series? No problem, only 2 clicks away with the right apps installed.
And the best of all is when the TV goes to standby mode and starts to show those 4K high quality close-ups of Nature/wild animals that I programmed it to do only to have guests complementing the quality of the TV and say: "That must have been a really expensive TV!" On which I firstly reply, yup, costed me over 1k but later on correct the false statement by saying it's true price.
There are better TV's out there, no doubt, OnePlus TV will be a big hit but at the end of the day, is the money really worth it?
Don’t get a smart tv. Save a few bucks and get one without built in android and buy a shield to go with it.