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My Sony KDL-40EX403 is still going strong some seven years after I bought it from JL. It has the occasional hissy fit when selecting HDMI inputs, and a recent transmission change on Freeview HD audio caused an issue with audio dropouts (luckily, the change was reversed). I know that I'm on 'borrowed time' with the unit as Sony hasn't provided any firmware updates since the end of 2015, so the next change to something Freeview-related could signal its demise, unless I just use it for its HDMI inputs.
I've been tempted to jump to 4K, but the continuing standards change (HDMI 2.1 being amongst them) is holding me back. That and the rubbish picture quality for anything other than 4K sources. Just about every panel that I've checked-out looks great when handling a 4K source, but upscaled HD looks wrong, and upscaled SD looks terrible to me, and given that at present there's a real lack of 4K material to watch, combined with the fact that Freeview and Freesat (my main sources) are largely SD, any move to a larger 4K panel would actually be a retograde step from my current Sony TV.
I'm definitely up for a larger panel at some point, but the dust needs to settle a bit in the 4K space and my current TV needs to die before SWMBO will give me budget approval to buy something new!
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