We were looking for a new laptop for me, specs important, build feel important. We didn’t find anything worthwhile.<\/p>\n
So the other thing I wanted, besides a UHD 4K laptop was, a UHD 4K large monitor for my desktop (which I built long ago, it feels.) We were at BestBuy and went to look where we had so recently purchased our lovely Sony 65x850C. Over on the other side there were the smaller ones. I knew there was one model that fit my bill. It was cheaper there than on Amazon, wasn’t perfect, but as good as I’d really be mostly happy, Android TV, 4 HDMI inputs, \u00a0and Sony as the maker.<\/p>\n
I have a 43″ monitor with this: my desktop running at 3840×2160 60FPS, a DirecTV mini-genie (not 4K), and my PS4.<\/p>\n
Even better I have the Android TV interface, Netflix 4K programming, everything upscaled looks great too. My office isn’t a bright room, it’s gorgeous all the time. XBR-43x830C is really nice on a desk, and will handle things nicely in the future. $699.99 is a great price. I am happier with computing and PS4 play. Better than a laptop, for now. I don’t see anything worth while coming about until end of the year, at the earliest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We were looking for a new laptop for me, specs important, build feel important. We didn’t find anything worthwhile. So the other thing I wanted, besides a UHD 4K laptop was, a UHD 4K large monitor for my desktop (which I built long ago, it feels.) We were at BestBuy and went to look where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1014],"tags":[1049,1029,288,1050,819,1051],"class_list":["post-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-devices","tag-43x830c","tag-65x850c","tag-directv","tag-mini-genie","tag-ps4","tag-uhd-4k-as-monitor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2342,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2015\/12\/12\/sony-bravia-4k-uhd-android-tv\/","url_meta":{"origin":2379,"position":0},"title":"Sony Bravia 4K UHD Android TV","author":"Maisy","date":"Saturday, December 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Mid-December is already here! Wow this month has gone fast. Weather has been up and down, very cold, very warm and in-between up and down. The Highlight of the Month is: We got a 4K Sony Bravia TV last week. I love it. It's a 65X850C, plenty of HDMI inputs\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Entertainment"","block_context":{"text":"Entertainment","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/entertainment\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2367,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2015\/12\/16\/xbr-sony-android-tv-update-brings-rvu-to-2015-tvs\/","url_meta":{"origin":2379,"position":1},"title":"XBR Sony Android TV update brings RVU to 2015 TV’s","author":"Maisy","date":"Wednesday, December 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There was an Android Update to Sony 2015 XBR tv's yesterday (December 15, 2015) that finally brings DirecTV Ready to be true. It's alive! If you have a Genie HD DVR, you have it hooked up to your home network via ethernet ... connect your tv to the same ethernet\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Devices"","block_context":{"text":"Devices","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/devices\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"DirectvMaximumLocations","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DirectvMaximumLocations-500x375.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3318,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2018\/04\/30\/a-dvd-is-not-a-blu-ray\/","url_meta":{"origin":2379,"position":2},"title":"A DVD is not a Blu-ray","author":"Maisy","date":"Monday, April 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Disc,\u00a0CD,\u00a0DVD, Blu-ray These words are not all interchangeable. No. Not at all. Disc is the first word. It is what each following word is. Saying \"disc\" means one of those formats, not a specific one though. Disc is an optical disc. [In other computing terms: Disk is a Hard Drive\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Computer and Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Computer and Internet","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/computer-and-internet\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2658,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2016\/08\/01\/amazing-what-you-can-get-for-about-700-today-compared-to-a-few-years-ago\/","url_meta":{"origin":2379,"position":3},"title":"Amazing what you can get for about $700 today compared to a few years ago","author":"Maisy","date":"Monday, August 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In January I posted\u00a0Lack of Nice Laptops; 43x830C Monitor is Wonderful instead\u00a0which was important in terms of upgrade for me, I wanted a laptop, had for a long time, but the model I liked was not available any more, other good ones were way too expensive. On Saturday we got\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Computers"","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/computers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7999,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2025\/04\/30\/office-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":2379,"position":4},"title":"Office games","author":"Maisy","date":"Wednesday, April 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been planning to move my office around. Basically de-junking and turning\/pivoting my table desk to the left which takes me away from my 4k Sony 49\" tv I've been using as my pc and gaming monitor. I'll be getting a Samsung Odyssey Geo G8 for my desk. I'll keep\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Computers"","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/computers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2947,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2017\/06\/28\/live-tv-is-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":2379,"position":5},"title":"Live TV is Dead","author":"Maisy","date":"Wednesday, June 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I came to a decision today. PS Vue, I had subscribed to it this year, not too long ago, over a month though. Found I used the interface only a few times, got someone else to use it one day, and a few times had my husband fiddle with it,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Entertainment"","block_context":{"text":"Entertainment","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/entertainment\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}