The biggest issues with the JVC, however, are that it struggles with both motion and upscaling – two key performance elements of any self-respecting 4K TV. One 4K panel is not as good as the next and there are many more aspects that determine whether a TV looks and sounds good. It has also progressively been getting more and horizontal lines across it and takes at least 10 minutes for the screen to fully turn on as the image comes on gradually in sections of the black screen.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).If you want reasonable quality HDR on the cheap the LG UM7400 is a far better bet but if you can find the JVC going cheap then it may still be worth considering as a bedroom or second-room TV.

It's actually owned by Argos's parent company Sainsbury's and it makes everything from dishwashers to tablets and, of course, TVs.In terms of usability, the Fire TV interface does a lot right, but the JVC’s processor does struggle to keep it running smoothly. The Fire TV interface is very likeable despite its more sluggish moments, and being able to tell Alexa what you want to watch is a big plus. The poor motion handling and upscaling will rightfully knock it off many people’s wish lists, but for watching everyday TV and streaming services, it’s passable. Any suggestions, we went through the initial set up process twice and netflix works so we know the wifi is connected.

You will be required to collect it from there, so please make sure you will have someone ready to help you. You can all but forget about the glorious, eye-popping spectacle of pricier TVs, but dim the lights and toggle the Dolby Vision Dark profile on, and you’re rewarded with a pretty watchable picture. In terms of overall brightness, the JVC performs very similarly to the LG, but drops behind on HDR performance and has poor motion handling.uk - Offer of the day Designated trademarks, brands and images are the property of their respective owners. This 43in model struggled to get bright enough to remain watchable in brighter rooms, and with no support for dynamic HDR formats and a sub-par backlight, HDR content was unwatchably dim.

Once you’re into the Fire TV interface proper, you’re faced with a familiar set of tiles offering apps, recently watched programmes and suggestions of things you might want to watch.It’s a shame, then, that Dolby Vision content in the Disney+ app suffered from some horrible juddering during our testing. If our decades of TV testing has told us one thing it's that the specs on a box don't always equal a good TV. As other reviews I also bought my TV in 2021 and after just one year (a month after the guarantee ran out) it stopped turning off properly and kept turning itself back on when we didn't want it to.