Seiki SE39UY04 39-Inch 4K Ultra HD 120Hz LED TV (Discontinued)

Just got this in the mail today (Freaking love amazon prime!) I pulled the trigger on it saturday morning, and its here today!Sorry to hear for all those who had bad experiences with this TV. I hope that my experience doesnt go south, and this TV lasts long enough for it to be worth the $549.99 I paid which was a STEAL IMHO, but hey, I also bought the 4Year warranty, just in case because I have never heard of this brand.If you are looking for a no frills, non smart TV with no bells and whistles that has a vivid, clean picture and a fair amount of inputs, this is your TV.If you need something with apps built in, stear clear and go bay 4K for a TV with an underwhelming embedded system that skips and shudders trying to wirlessly stream 1080P MKV's this is not your TV.If you have an HTPC, or a Enthusiast grade workstation/gaming rig with all the latest goodies, and are looking for a 4K solution that isnt ridiculously expensive like the ASUS flagship, or the unreleased APPLE version of the same SHARP IGZO LED, then this is your TV.I have 8PC's in my house, 2 are Mac's all the rest are either Linux or Windows. Initially I wanted to plug this in to my 2011 Macbook Pro to test it. The 2011 Mbpro doesnt have native HDMI, but if you have one you probably also spent the ridiculous amounts on all the stupid dongles so you can output to TV's, etc. I tried using a Dynex cable i bought at fry's that adapts the Native Mini Displayport to HDMI, and plugged that into the Seiki TV. I normally run a Apple 27inch Cinema LED from the displayport and it runs 2560x1440 with no issues. When i plugged in the Seiki, I could tell that my mbpro detected something, but it did not display anything. So next i tried a different HDMI cable, just to see if the SEIKI "UltraHD" HDMI cable they sent was faulty, but it wasnt. Next i tried plugging this into a dell latitude e6430, which also didnt show anything on the SEIKI, but stopped outputting to the laptop monitor like it detected something, just never displayed it on the seiki. Now my Dell is locked down by group policies from my job prohibiting me from being able to change much or customize much on it, so it could be that I needed to fool around with some display settings and it would have started working, however I cant, so I gave up on the HDMI route on my dell even though it natively has an HDMI port. When you buy this TV, it comes with free tech support form Amazon for 30 days, which I have never used when buying anything from Amazon, but in this case I actually decided I'd call them. I called and they answered with a live person in Oregon within about 20seconds... Great experience there... I mean cmon, a live person all in less than 30 seconds? Take notes other companies, you all are screwin the pooch big time sending us off to timbuktu, and bangalor to talk to some half wit idiot who we cant understand what we're asking about, that has no interest in any of the products you sell and is just hoping to be able to use a real toilet when they make a doodoo, and have some sophistication like that roll of white paper product that americans use, and not have to once again wipe with their ass with their left hand. Anyway, enough about that... Just take note, HP, IBM, Dell, SONY, hell pretty much everyone, dont send us overseas, follow amazon's example and keep your support in the US with people who we can understand, who understand us and are helpful, intelligent, and friendly. My tech support experience was great. The gentleman i spoke with couldnt find much information on this particular TV, and had a lot of the same ideas I had already been trying, but he suggested something I didnt want to try, but had thought of, but since he was asking I went ahead and tried it. I plugged in a VGA cable to the SEIKI unit and connected it up to my Linux box, which displayed immediately, albeit just a CLI. Next i connected the same VGA to my Dell, and it also displayed an upscaled 1366x768 which the TV upscaled to 1920x1080i@60HZ. So I was able to evaluate that the TV had no missing pixels like some of the reviews described, and was not damaged in any way. Not satisfied yet, the Tech stayed on the line with me while i tried other PC's. I took the TV with me into my living room and connected it to my shuttle xpc sh67h3 HTPC with onboard HDMI and windows 7, and it detected the TV and output also at 1920x1080i@60HZ, but this time it was clean, crisp and not upscaled from 1366x768. After a little research, i found that my shuttle pc's mobo couldnt support any higher resolution than the 1920x1080 that it was putting out, so I stopped, content that once my caselabs case finally arrives, and I assemble my dream PC, this will be a sick monitor for it, with great pixel density and a very high resolution. What is my dream PC you ask? See below :)I just built my dream PC to use for working at the home office in order to lower my tax liability while still preserving some tangible asset that I can enjoy working on, and this is the perfect Display to round out my dream PC. Spec's of my new PC are:Intel Hexacore i7 4960X Extreme (LGA2011) Intel i7-4960X Extreme Edition LGA 2011 Processors BX80633I74960XCorsair Dominator Platinum 64GB 2133MHZ DDR3 (8x8GB) Corsair Dominator Platinum 64 GB (8x8 GB) DDR3 2133MHz (PC3 17066) Desktop Memory CMD64GX3M8A2133C9ASUS Rampage IV ExtremeASUS Rampage IV Extreme LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel MotherboardEVGA GeForce Titan w/ 6GB GDDR5 each, in SLI(2x) EVGA EVGA GeForce GTX TITAN SuperClocked 6GB GDDR5 384bit, Dual-Link DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI,DP, SLI Ready Graphics Card Graphics Cards 06G-P4-2791-KRCorsair 1200W AXI series PSUCorsair Professional Series AX 1200 Watt Digital ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Platinum (AX1200i)Pioneer (BDR-208DBK) BD/DVD writer Pioneer BDR-208DBK 15x Internal Blu-ray BD/DVD/CDNZXT IO PanelNZXT Aperture M Internal 5.25-Inch Mesh Card Reader with 2x USB 3.0 (8c-aper000-w0b)NZXT Illumination LED & Controls NZXT Technologies 5.25-Inch Hue RGB LED Color Changing Controller (8c-hue0000-00b)2x Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SSD's RAID 0 (boot drive)Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE1T0BW6x 7200RPM Seagate 3TB HDD's in RAID6 Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 7200 RPM 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3000DM001Corsair H100i CPU Water cooling,Corsair Hydro Series Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler H100iCaselabs Magnum STH10 (Custome Case)Logitech Logitech MK710 Wireless Desktop Mouse and Keyboard ComboSeiki Digital SE39UY04 39-Inch 4K Ultra HD 120Hz LED TVAmazon, you should freaking pay me for writing this, and give me some kick back because i just spent like more than 6K on my new PC :) I love you amazon!

For about 6 hours, this was a great monitor for technical work, entirely because of its high resolution. You wouldn't want to use it for anything else because of its awful color, uneven backlighting, bad lag, nasty afterimages, and 30Hz maximum refresh rate at 4K resolution, but it sure did fit a lot of text.Then, with no provocation, the screen popped up a "NO SIGNAL" error. I power-cycled it and fiddled with the connections, and tried moving from HDMI 1 to HDMI 3; no change. I switched to HDMI 2, which took a bit of effort because there's a protrusion on the case that prevents plugging most HDMI cables (including the supplied one!) into HDMI 2. On HDMI 2, it was able to display a signal... but only at up to 1920x1080 resolution, which made this just an ugly TV. I verified the brokenness with three different HDMI cables, four different laptops running three different operating systems, a desktop PC, and a PS3, so this was definitely a hardware problem.I called Seiki's tech-support line. It dropped me to voicemail after 15 minutes on hold, so I left a message. I waited a day and tried calling them a few more times; nobody answered. I emailed them; no response except an automated acknowledgement from their ticketing system. I waited a few days, and then gave up on Seiki entirely and started the Amazon return process.In addition to the serious brokenness described above, I should mention that every single thing about this monitor is kludgy and terrible, from the start of the setup process where you drive a bunch of pointy wood screws into the plastic base, to the painfully slow (~1 minute) startup every time you turn the thing on, the idiotic default settings (overscan and unsharp-mask enabled on 4K inputs, as if any human on the planet would want that!), to the broken HDMI EDIDs that require weird configuration tweaks on many computers, to the lame user interface, to...Sometimes you get what you pay for. It turns out the reason that this TV costs a quarter of what the competition costs is that it and its manufacturer just suck. 4K displays are going to get cheaper. Don't waste your money on this one. Wait.

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