Our LG 49UF850v recently stopped working so it’s now time to get a new TV. I have a budget of around £1500 and I’d like to include Sonos beam in with that. I’d like to get the best ~50 - 55” TV I can afford and I thought this would be fairly straightforward but it’s proving to be anything but. It’ll get fairly varied use Netflix, Prime, Xbox One X (I will eventually upgrade to Series X or PS5), Blu-ray, Sky TV, YouTube etc.
My initial search found the Philips 55OLED805, this seemed to get great reviews and ambilight which I’ve had on a previous TV and really like. I then found out about potential OLED burn-in/image retention and the fact this will be near a large window/double glass door has put me off a bit. The large window has only really been a problem with the LG on summer mornings because of the direction but it is a bright room.
I then settled on a Samsung Q80T or Q90T these looked great in store to me, almost as good a picture but much brighter than the LG CX OLED they were next to. I then found out about the QLED image stutter and have read a lot of the thread on the Samsung section of the forums. No idea how bad this actually is or how much I’d notice it but the term unwatchable seems to come up a lot.
So I’m not sure where that leaves me really are the OLED and QLED issues not as bad as they are made out, am I best to go for something else like a Sony XH90/XH95? Or maybe a mid range LCD similar to the LG it’s replacing like the Philips 58PUS9005?
My initial search found the Philips 55OLED805, this seemed to get great reviews and ambilight which I’ve had on a previous TV and really like. I then found out about potential OLED burn-in/image retention and the fact this will be near a large window/double glass door has put me off a bit. The large window has only really been a problem with the LG on summer mornings because of the direction but it is a bright room.
I then settled on a Samsung Q80T or Q90T these looked great in store to me, almost as good a picture but much brighter than the LG CX OLED they were next to. I then found out about the QLED image stutter and have read a lot of the thread on the Samsung section of the forums. No idea how bad this actually is or how much I’d notice it but the term unwatchable seems to come up a lot.
So I’m not sure where that leaves me really are the OLED and QLED issues not as bad as they are made out, am I best to go for something else like a Sony XH90/XH95? Or maybe a mid range LCD similar to the LG it’s replacing like the Philips 58PUS9005?