Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Compare this TV to my 2 year old 4K LCD and the enhanced picture quality is night-and-day different with this screen looking more beautiful in just about every aspect. Even my wife and kids who don't generally notice picture (or sound) quality nuances immediately commented on how gorgeous the picture was (my daughter even said "I had no idea what I've been missing out on"). I could sing praises to the picture quality all day. The screen itself is no thicker than my phone (thinner, perhaps, even). HOWEVER, the cabinet on the back of the screen is still a few inches deep, so that means that the screen itself is being held at minimum, a few inches from the wall, which kind of negates the ultra-thin-screen advantages. Actually, at this point, that kind of becomes a liability. Why? Because now the screen is so thin, you have to be careful when you are handling the TV to hang it on the wall so you don't crack the screen and since there is essentially no bezel and the more "touchable" cabinet is in the middle of the back of the screen, it's hard to have anything to hold on to. If it were possible, I'd prefer to have the cabinet take up the entire back side of the TV like a normal LCD screen typically does, and if that enabled them to spread the contents of the cabinet out a bit more and make it it just a fraction of an inch thinner, all the better. The sound is much better than the TV it replaced, but it's still just "TV Speaker" quality. For the most part, if you care about sound, you aren't going to use the TV speakers, anyway, but if you are stuck with them, this TV sounds pretty good. They say the screen IS the speaker. Not sure how they did that, but there is some pretty good spacial matching overall. It is advertised as being a Dolby Atmos screen, but when I tried to get my Roku to go into Atmos mode, it said the TV was not compatible. Not sure if that's the TV, the Roku, or something with my connection, but it looks amazing as-is... I'm not sure what "Atmos" would add. Speaking of Roku, this TV comes with Google TV built in. Before we get going, I have to admit that I'm a bit of a Roku fan-boy, but having said that, I need to say that I'm not terribly impressed with Google TV. I mean, it's fine, but I'm not going to use it because everything it can do, Roku can do, but not the other way around. When I was first setting this up, I originally opted NOT to enable any of the smart features--I just wanted it as a regular TV that would show whatever was on my Roku. I was VERY turned off that I had to accept a bunch of privacy policies and other licensing sorts of things before I could use it just as a regular TV. It's an array of pixels, guys--why do I need to accept Google's privacy policy--at this point, Google doesn't have anything to do with it. After the initial set-up, I went ahead and enabled the Google TV features. I was super annoyed because I wanted to set YouTube up under my wife's account, not mine (because this TV was going to mostly be used by her), but that wasn't an option if going through the Google Home app. I figured I needed to add her to my home as an admin (I hadn't done that yet simply because she usually wants to have nothing to do with administering the network or smart devices or any of that sort of thing--she just wants to press a button and have it work). Once she was added, I tried to re-initiate the set up, but then it refused to get past the part where it asked me if I wanted to set up the TV (something about not being able to authenticate the TV). After 20 minutes of futzing with it, I did a factory reset and tried again. Fortunately, this part where the TV asks you questions and you answer with the remote was pretty quick and simple. I still had to set it up under my account, but I could add her later. Annoyance. It then proceeded to add a ton of channels I had absolutely no interest in and I had to go and remove them all one-by-one. Annoyance again. One of the channels I DID want, The Great Courses Plus, was nowhere to be seen. I tried going to the Play Store and adding it, but it's not there for Google TV. It's there for my Android phone, but not the TV, which means that just because the TV is running a flavor of Android, that doesn't mean you are going to be able to load up whatever media apps you want. Good to note. In the end, my TV can go to Netflix, Youtube, Vudu, Amazon Prime, and a few other big players, but I still need to keep my Roku hooked up if I want to access all the stuff I'm interested in and as long as we're doing that, then what's the point of using the smart features built into the TV in the first place? I disconnected the TV from my network and I'm just using it as a plain TV again and that's just fine with me. And as a side-note--I don't really care for the texture on the back of the remote, but again--since I'm using the Roku, then for the most part, I don't need the TV remote, so no biggie. SUMMARY Picture quality: 10+/10 Sound quality: For a TV, 9/10. Compared to an external system, 3/10 Smart features: 8/10 Ease of installation and setup: 8/10 Other notes: -3 for requiring acceptance of privacy policy when just using as plain TV -0.5 for irritating texture on back of remote