TVConfusion
Novice Member
Hi all,
I've been in the market for a new TV for a few months now. I kept putting Hisense LCDs in my basket and then changing my mind at the last minute, but as it turns out a family friend who changes tvs every year had one going spare so he sold me his 55 Sony A1 OLED for £300. Rude not to at tha tprice so I thought great, that'll be a good bedroom TV until I can get an LCD for the living room. Its a 2017/2018 model so might have some issues that 2020 models seem to have worked out? I've run it through a panel test and it looks great. There are some lines on the red panel but this is only visible when seeing full screen greys from what I can see in actual content, I can live with it. The picture is just astounding and the built in subwoofer makes for easily the best sound I've ever heard from a TV, competing with my £300 Samsung soundbar I bought 18 months ago.
Unsurpsingly I've fallen in love with it and I want to keep it as my living room TV. Thing is I had a few reasons I wasn't confident about OLED and I was wondering if anyone had advice on these?
We have young children so the living room TV gets a couple hours a day of Cbeebies. This has a yellow logo in the top right. My wife will also watch a couple of hours of daytime TV that tends to have banners around the bottom of the screen. Will these be problems? I've read that I might be best using a zoom feature to cut off the outside of the picture when used for content that has logos or banners?
We use subtitles for all content. One of our family is hard of hearing and it is great for helping the kids with their reading. i've seen on RTings that subtitles could be a problem. I've been able to change the subtitles to grey with a black background for Disney+ and Amazon (We dont use netflix) but we also watch a lot via Plex, and this doesnt have the option for dark grey subtitles. Would I be best using another colour rather than white?
Third is gaming. I love to game and one of the reasons I've been wanting to upgrade is to get in on the PS5 action. I've never seen the point of a ps5 when I was on an old 1080p TV. This tv has about 30 input lag which isnt amazing but should be ok, but if I game on it are crosshairs, health bars etc going to damage it?
The fourth issue, and perhaps the most pressing one is our TV gets a lot of use. It tends to go on about 7am and wont turn off till about 11pm. Can an OLED survive this amount of daily use without breaks? I know my wife and kids often have it on when they aren't actively watching so I could maybe get it turned off more via nagging, but not sure I can break that habit entirely.
Any tips and advice you might be able to offer is warmly appreciated. I'm not sure I've ever been so stressed over a TV, but I don't know how much of that is from the FUD over Oled panels over the years? I will of course read up on here the threads about burn-in etc, but I was hoping someone may have advice that would help me avoid problems with my specific usage patterns.
I've been in the market for a new TV for a few months now. I kept putting Hisense LCDs in my basket and then changing my mind at the last minute, but as it turns out a family friend who changes tvs every year had one going spare so he sold me his 55 Sony A1 OLED for £300. Rude not to at tha tprice so I thought great, that'll be a good bedroom TV until I can get an LCD for the living room. Its a 2017/2018 model so might have some issues that 2020 models seem to have worked out? I've run it through a panel test and it looks great. There are some lines on the red panel but this is only visible when seeing full screen greys from what I can see in actual content, I can live with it. The picture is just astounding and the built in subwoofer makes for easily the best sound I've ever heard from a TV, competing with my £300 Samsung soundbar I bought 18 months ago.
Unsurpsingly I've fallen in love with it and I want to keep it as my living room TV. Thing is I had a few reasons I wasn't confident about OLED and I was wondering if anyone had advice on these?
We have young children so the living room TV gets a couple hours a day of Cbeebies. This has a yellow logo in the top right. My wife will also watch a couple of hours of daytime TV that tends to have banners around the bottom of the screen. Will these be problems? I've read that I might be best using a zoom feature to cut off the outside of the picture when used for content that has logos or banners?
We use subtitles for all content. One of our family is hard of hearing and it is great for helping the kids with their reading. i've seen on RTings that subtitles could be a problem. I've been able to change the subtitles to grey with a black background for Disney+ and Amazon (We dont use netflix) but we also watch a lot via Plex, and this doesnt have the option for dark grey subtitles. Would I be best using another colour rather than white?
Third is gaming. I love to game and one of the reasons I've been wanting to upgrade is to get in on the PS5 action. I've never seen the point of a ps5 when I was on an old 1080p TV. This tv has about 30 input lag which isnt amazing but should be ok, but if I game on it are crosshairs, health bars etc going to damage it?
The fourth issue, and perhaps the most pressing one is our TV gets a lot of use. It tends to go on about 7am and wont turn off till about 11pm. Can an OLED survive this amount of daily use without breaks? I know my wife and kids often have it on when they aren't actively watching so I could maybe get it turned off more via nagging, but not sure I can break that habit entirely.
Any tips and advice you might be able to offer is warmly appreciated. I'm not sure I've ever been so stressed over a TV, but I don't know how much of that is from the FUD over Oled panels over the years? I will of course read up on here the threads about burn-in etc, but I was hoping someone may have advice that would help me avoid problems with my specific usage patterns.