https://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/p/veon-60-inch-4k-ultra-hd-go…
548 for a big boy with 3 year wARty
it looks good?
veon tv bargin?
Lpedrolewisnz11 on 29/11/2025 - 12:45
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They're acceptable image quality for the price, but don't expect anything great. Colours are not accurate, not super bright so best suited to a darker room etc.
Trade Depot doing $599 but free shipping so cheaper if you can't pick up
https://tradedepot.co.nz/60-ultra-hd-smart-led-tv-with-googl…
Personally I will not buy a Veon TV again. Poor picture quality and the worst sound on a TV I have ever heard.
I would say most people would pair it with a soundbar. TV speakers are never good
The electronic 'engine' that runs a TV is supposed to be optimised for the screen size. In a budget TV, they use an 'engine' with peak performance for a 40" display. When you go up to (say) a 60" TV, the 40" 'engine' is stretched to cover the 60". It keeps production costs down, but at the expense of proper performance for the larger screen size. I guess it gets to the point for (say) an 80" display where they HAVE to use a bigger 'engine'. Remember - we're talking budget TV's and this is one of the reasons that they are budget. Premium TV's DO have engines appropriate for the screen size, but the budget TV's 'stretch' the smaller circuit.
As in the power supply?
Same pixel count on most TVs
The internal electronics that deliver the final picture. Similar to a car, whose engine options might be 1.6, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 litre etc., etc., etc. The 1.6 is a basic A-B 'slug', whereas the 3.0 has a bit of grunt and is more pleasant to drive. In a TV, where we assume that the manufacturer did a good job, we don't realise that the budget TV makers (and a few others) stuck in the most basic (cheap) circuitry that they could get away with, and even on the bigger screens (say 60"), they often only put in circuitry that was optimum for a smaller screen (such as 40"). This manifests (in the bigger screen sizes) as washed out colour and brightness; settings have to be higher (the system is working hard to hide the fact that the circuitry is over extended to cover the bigger screen size). Simply put, the circuitry is over-worked in the name of cost-cutting, because the 'proper' circuit for the larger screen size would cost the manufacturer more money. Generally, in a budget TV, everything is optimised for a 40" display, and they push the envelope using the same circuitry inside a TV with a bigger screen to make more profit. So if you take a 40" and a 60" TV from the same budget TV manufacturer (with more or less the same model numbers, such as TVL523640AU and TVL523660AU (not true model numbers for the purposes of this conversation, but showing the differentiation between 40" and 60" models), and ran them for equal time (at the same time), you would more than likely notice a deteriotation in performance of the 60" model long before the 40" model, because the 60" model is struggling to keep up with its less-than-ideal overworked electronics that were really designed for a 40" TV. In the real world, we all know that you could take half a dozen identical models and run them side-by-side and get different results in performance and longevity due to luck-of-the-draw, BUT the fact is that in many budget TV's, a 60" (for example) is working harder than it should from day 1 because it's really a 40" dressed up to operate a 60" screen, and that puts a strain on the circuitry. I wasn't trying to start a w@r; just covering not very well-known issues with the way that sizing and pricing of budget TV's happens.
Hi can you link to some proof of this? Or is this just your opinion? Manufacturers do use cost-cutting measures in budget-friendly models, but this typically involves using cheaper components for all parts (e.g., lower-quality panels, less advanced video processors, fewer ports, basic speakers, less robust power supplies) rather than using parts intended for a smaller size.
I thought the doubts might happen, and I didn't want to get involved in heavy discussion. I'm a semi-retired electronics design engineer and was a QC inspector for international electronics companies. I have been to a few factories in China where 'stretching' of the circuitry was done to cover bigger panel sizes, which effectively degrades/lowers the quality of the components being used for the bigger panel sizes. As I said, the budget TV 'engine' is often optimised for 40" screen sizes, and those TV's are generally as OK as they can be. However, the factories 'push their luck' by sometimes/often putting the same engines to run the larger panel sizes as a cost saving method. Yes, when you buy a 40" or 60" TV (for example, as given in my previous comment), you may get the comfort of the supplier's warranty, but at the end of that warranty, the wear and tear and remaining life of each TV will likely be substantially different, to the detriment of the larger sized item. I'm speaking from inside knowledge and experience that factories don't exactly want the world to know, but I'll try and find something to get your teeth into. But TV repair people will know that often, a replacement main board for a budget TV manufacturer's 40" and 60" TV (for example) will have the same part number. I can assure you that the 40" TV did not use a higher spec board from the 60" TV. It's the other way around - the 60" TV got the lower spec board from the 40" TV and the TV settings were 'tweaked' to cover the fact. The tweaks stress the lower quality board, reducing its durability over time.
Wow! Thanks for the explanation. Will this TCL 65" C7K Premium Smart 4K QD-Mini LED TV (2025) be OK?
https://www.harveynorman.co.nz/tv-and-audio/televisions/tcl-…
a favourite across australia for a good quality but affordable TV, much cheaper across the ditch though. Similar price could fetch the newer c8k https://www.ozbargain.com.au/search/node/tcl%20c7k%20sort%3A…
Sorry, I can't find the YouTube clip.
Post as a deal OP