Sceptre E505BV-FMQK 50-Inch 1080p LED HDTV

Bought 2 of these for placement at the foot of my bed. I am extremely near-sighted (-5.50) and can only read if a book is within 6 inches of my face. Yes too close for comfort. So I got 2 huge TVs, hooked them up to my computers and DVR, and now I can read e-books on this pretty much giant kindle, or watch TV without needing glasses. Yes both TVs side by side are wider than a King bed. Yes I can't see the rest of the room, but I can't see crap anyways so what do I care.The TVs have 2 hour sleep timers and a ton of other options. Just like any TV when you get it you need to adjust the color, contrast, brightness. (if you haven't you should). The only problem I've found with this TV is that it doesn't hold the CUSTOM backlight setting. If you turn off the TV and fire it back up, it stays on custom, and all the color, contrast, brightness, sharpness, stays how you set it, just the backlight kicks in to 100%. Kind of annoying since if you use it to read and stare at the screen you'll get a migraine with it at 100%. Around 50% you can see it dimming and around 30% it's comfortable to read with. Watching TV you blink more than when reading. So you get little breaks with your eyes with it as a TV and blinking. Reading is staring almost and even with it set to white text on black background it's still bright enough to give you headaches and make your eyes bloodshot. Yes these are some powerful LEDs.Lets learn real fast:LCD vs LED vs PLASMALCD - Liquid Crystal Display - just like in your old calculator or digital watch. The current runs through polarized sheets and displays an image as a whole. Cheaper and going the way of the Dodo bird as it's an old technology that can't keep up with consumers demand for higher and higher def tv (personally I think HD killed a few movies and definitely local news seeing all that bad makeup, lol) . Being in Colorado here I will add that these can freeze and break if you move with one in the back of an unheated moving van (most U-Halt* arent... *cough cough can't say company names which is why I usually use the term "Mall-Fart" on amazon when talking about a rhyming named local store known for their always low prices)LED - Light Emitting Diodes - just like the new high efficiency light bulbs. Uses less power but brighter. Each pixel has a group of colored LEDs in it and as a whole makes a picture by certain ones being on of off. Average cost but after time you can get a dead pixel that will just ruin your damn life. Ohh you know that green one that never goes off. Yeah, that annoying one... These can NOT freeze but other components can so is still not good to move in a moving van if it's freezing.Plasma - ahem, I repeat, plasma. If you want one of these... Panasonic stopped making them in 2013 and Samsung and LG stopped making them in 2014. These are the Dodo bird I was talking about earlier. If you think you want one because you have money to blow... Go with an OLED instead. It's pretty much the best around. OLED is the best NOT PLASMA!Also note when looking for a TV most people neglect audio. If you don't have a surround sound system and rely on the stock speakers. The ones in this TV are decent. Not to tinny, not too bassy either. If I'm trying to watch TV at night 10 is loud enough. If it's daytime 15-20 usually handles it. 25 is when I'm playing video games like Wolfenstein New Order and I need to hear everything. Anything over 25 sounds like it's at 25. No noticeable difference until about 70 then it gets crackly from the static in the line I guess. I would also note that I usually set my main volume to 90% on my computer and devices. You get less feedback like that and you don't ruin your ears. So it probably could be a little louder but I'd say it's already almost 85-90db. It's pretty loud.If you have any questions, please place them below and I will help you if I can.

This TV has been amazing for me. I have had it for a few months now and I am really thrilled with it. The picture quality is amazing. A few things about it to warn, the base is pretty wide, but there's no bottom of it so it's tough to put it on anything other than a flat surface like a table. I was hoping to rest it on my receiver (it's in a secondary bedroom and it's an old receiver I'm not too concerned if it breaks) but it was just a tad too unstable so I couldn't. Also the remote is horrible...there's really no other way to say it. It's cheap and I'd recommend using another remote. Really any other remote. But for the basics it does work, I can't really complain except I use Harmony remotes so I'm sort of a snob. The refresh is great I don't see any artifacts or anything, there is not much heat given off either. Admittedly I have not tried any of the fine tuning of the picture (if it even offers that) I got this for the bedroom where I watch the occasional movie or game. But for the price...I couldn't be happier. Thanks Sceptre!---update still going 3 years and 9 months later---, I have expensive TVs, and I have this cheap TV. I'm not going to tell you this is as good as my TV that I spent 3x more on. It's just not. But what I will tell you is that the technology changes so fast, and this TV has been phenomenal. I mention the tech because you can't just dump a 2k$ TV after a year because a bigger one with q higher resolution came out. But you can if you only spent 500$! I expected maybe a year out of this TV and it has given me just shy of 4 (and still going). I don't think I'll buy another crazy expensive TV because with this type of TV I could upgrade every year to the latest and greatest tech for 3 years for the cost of one expensive one. For me this has well exceeded the original 5 stars I gave it. I hope the rest of their tvs work as well as this one has for me.

This is an incredible TV at the price point - it's hard to tell the difference in picture quality from big name brands anyway.Hard to really knock the picture quality - it's great. No backlight bleed like my terrible 70" aquos - it's crystal clear, crisp. I changed some settings like turn on memc, dynamic contrast. I reduced contrast slightly (by like 5, not sure if it matters with the dynamic contrast), increased color and sharpness settings by about 5. I may still mess with it, but it seems pretty nice with those settings ( not that default was bad)I already had a sound bar I use with it, so can't judge the sound - but frankly none of these slim LED backlit TVs have good sound - you can get a basic sound bar for $50-100, mines a bit fancier with a subwoofer and such but no problem. No idea why anybody would knock it for bad speakers.The stand is nice and sturdy, but I only used it for a day before I put it on the wall.Remote is basic and lackluster, but I don't use it.No smart TV, but I don't like smart TVs. I have an Xbox one hooked to it (which I also have a remote for, and run the cable through) which is the reason I never use the remote. Xbox one totally replaces a smart TV and more without the awful, slow interface. More practically on a budget I'd be fine with a roku stick or a Chromecast.Overall it's great, can't get s better deal. I hope it lasts awhile but I don't foresee any issues.