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JVC LT-39CA120 Android TV 39" Smart HD Ready HDR LED TV with Google Assistant (Renewed)

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Brightness drops a little, but both HDR and SDR content benefits hugely from the change, and skintones and colours look far more natural as a result. These inputs are treated just like apps or watched programmes, so if you regularly use the HDMI 4 port, for instance, then that gets pole position in your recently watched list. Games suffer particularly badly, and while fast-moving games in 4K don’t look too bad, dropping the resolution to 1080p results in a smeary-looking mess. It’s not too noticeable in brighter scenes, but detail and colours are smudged by horrible blur in darker moments.

If you find it at a good discount, then you may be willing to forgive its flaws – and you might even find yourself pleasantly surprised at what you do get for the money. Similarly, while images look crisp in 4K when the camera is moving slowly, fast action and sports shows up the panel’s limitations, with detail becoming flattened and indistinct. It’s a shame, then, that Dolby Vision content in the Disney+ app suffered from some horrible juddering during our testing.

Netflix was seemingly unaffected but watching content via Disney’s streaming service was blighted with hitches and jerks throughout. Four white shortcut buttons towards the bottom give quick access to Prime Video, Netflix, Live TV and the Apps screen, so it’s easy to bounce between all the different sources. 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. Images look soft, smeary and lacking in detail, and this combines with the poor motion handling to make for some very unimpressive results. A contrast ratio of for example 400:1 means that the blackest black on screen is 400 times darker than the whitest white.

Loading… RatingLet us know what you think about the JVC LT-39C610 LED Television by leaving a product rating.In SDR mode, its default Standard picture preset puts out a maximum brightness of around 369cd/m² and achieves a very respectable contrast ratio of 5,329:1 even with all the contrast– and colour-enhancing features turned off.

To connect your universal remote control, you need the model number and brand name of both the remote control and the television. 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. Measuring the inches on your LED television is done by measuring the diagonal distance between for example the upper left corner and the lower right corner of the screen (not the edge).

The JVC’s modest backlighting means that it does struggle with HDR content in brighter rooms, and here the Dolby Vision Bright profile lends a helping hand to make sure things don’t end up looking too dim, even if shadow detail does end up looking washed out in the process. In darker scenes it’s possible to see blooming around the edges where the backlight bleeds through too readily, and there’s also some dirty screen effect visible with striping and blotchiness visible on dark grey backgrounds. There’s oodles of detail on offer, and just enough brightness to give images a decent amount of pop and excitement. Those colours aren’t as intense as they should be in HDR mode, though, so don’t expect the kind of eye-popping colour which you get from pricier sets – the JVC covers a mere 70% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut, which is far less than even many mid-range TVs. If, however, you prefer voice control, then you can hold the microphone button on the top of the remote and chat to Alexa.

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