65" for £1000

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TV will be used for Netflix/Prime

Gaming PS5 and PC, so 100hz+ and hdmi 2.1 would great, not looking at OLED.. screen burn worries me! lol

looking at these so far, any others that I should be considering?

SONY BRAVIA XR-65X94KU
TCL835k (mini led)
Sony BRAVIA XR65X90KU
SAMSUNG QE65Q70BATXXU
SONY BRAVIA XR-65X90KU
SONY BRAVIA KD-65X85KU
Philips 65PUS8897

cheers
 
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Used for gaming, but not looking at OLED?

You’re missing out IMO


I pretty much use my TV exclusively for gaming, and I haven’t had screen burn on any of my OLEDs since the B8.
 
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The TCL TV is currently £75 off from Hughes, plus 10% cashback via Topcashback.

Actually considering myself to replace an LG B7 OLED that suffered from worn pixels after less than four years below average usage.
 
I was in the same boat being worried about burn in and looking for a 65" TV, but it seems that burn-in isn't a problem any more and OLED is better in every way (except peak brightness).
 
Don't know about the OP, but I pulled the trigger on the TCL TV (55", the 65" doesn't fit in my space)

With discounts and cashback from a couple of sources (Topcashback, my bank and credit card) I will have ended up paying £648.

Should get it Saturday.

Likely I'll start a thread based in going from OLED to mini LED and what my thoughts are.

To be honest I didn't think I'd ever go back to a non OLED TV. But the fact that mine hasn't lasted four years and the six year warranty is useless, it's really put me off buying another one.
 
barmyllama said:
Don't know about the OP, but I pulled the trigger on the TCL TV (55", the 65" doesn't fit in my space)

With discounts and cashback from a couple of sources (Topcashback, my bank and credit card) I will have ended up paying £648.

Should get it Saturday.

Likely I'll start a thread based in going from OLED to mini LED and what my thoughts are.

To be honest I didn't think I'd ever go back to a non OLED TV. But the fact that mine hasn't lasted four years and the six year warranty is useless, it's really put me off buying another one.
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When you say worn pixels what exactly happened? Was it not covered under warranty?

In my experience anything 2018 or over has been perfect for OLED. That includes hundreds of hours in games. All my tvs have been calibrated, so not overly saturated but apart from that no babysitting.

Still I'd definitely be interested how you find the difference as I'm ordering a bedroom tv soon just for movies. Thinking of getting a 65 LG 2022 entry level oled (LG A series) for 1k.
 
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When you say worn pixels what exactly happened? Was it not covered under warranty?

In my experience anything 2018 or over has been perfect for OLED. That includes hundreds of hours in games. All my tvs have been calibrated, so not overly saturated but apart from that no babysitting.

Still I'd definitely be interested how you find the difference as I'm ordering a bedroom tv soon just for movies. Thinking of getting a 65 LG 2022 entry level oled (LG A series) for 1k.
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Started a thread here, although the pictures I posted have auto deleted.

Is This Image Retention?

My LG B7 OLED has developed a green to tint. It's still under warranty with Richer Sounds. I called them today and explained the problem. First thing the guy said was image retention. I immediately disagreed and so he then asked me to send images. Which I have done and this is what I sent. I...
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But basically the red sub pixels have literally worn out and now the image has a permanent green tint, mostly to the middle of the screen. Richer Sounds say they don't cover it, so that's that.

Although if I get it repaired via LG they will refund that cost of a fixed price repair of £200.

Problem is that this service is suspended until April and even when it's back up and running, it's a three week turn around.


When it's finally repaired (new panel basically) that will be the second new panel on the TV from new. First one developed vertical red stripes after about 10 months.

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Wow sounds like you've been really unlucky. I think if you took (or threatened) RS to a small claims court you'd win. They are pretty much admiting fault by offering to pay for the repair.
 
£200 for new screen is bargain if that includes the techs fitting it, disposal of the old one, and it's a big screen say 65"

That's ignoring the failures...and the issue could be a replacement may be new but it may have uneven colour/grey scale blotching and I don't know what the come back of that is. It's one thing if it's under warranty, another if it's out of warranty and you paid for new screen
 
barmyllama said:
Don't know about the OP, but I pulled the trigger on the TCL TV (55", the 65" doesn't fit in my space)

With discounts and cashback from a couple of sources (Topcashback, my bank and credit card) I will have ended up paying £648.

Should get it Saturday.

Likely I'll start a thread based in going from OLED to mini LED and what my thoughts are.

To be honest I didn't think I'd ever go back to a non OLED TV. But the fact that mine hasn't lasted four years and the six year warranty is useless, it's really put me off buying another one.bu
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barmyllama said:
Don't know about the OP, but I pulled the trigger on the TCL TV (55", the 65" doesn't fit in my space)

With discounts and cashback from a couple of sources (Topcashback, my bank and credit card) I will have ended up paying £648.

Should get it Saturday.

Likely I'll start a thread based in going from OLED to mini LED and what my thoughts are.

To be honest I didn't think I'd ever go back to a non OLED TV. But the fact that mine hasn't lasted four years and the six year warranty is useless, it's really put me off buying another one.
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how are getting on with the tcl?

The issue with your LG is the sort of thing that puts me off oled, regardless of how good the blacks and motion are!
 
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topher said:
how are getting on with the tcl?
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If I'm totally honest, it's as good an image as the B7 OLED but brighter.

We watched John Wick 3 on 4k Blu-ray on Friday evening. After setting up the TCL TV on Saturday, I watched parts of it again and to my eyes it was just as good.

I should image there are edge case scenarios where, side by side the OLED would have the upper hand.

But with my eyeballs, under most of my uses cases, I don't think I have any regrets going from OLED to mini LED.

I learned over the time I've had the OLED that when it comes to 4k Blu-ray, it's the source master and how it was shot in the first place has more influence on how good an image you get.

Outside of the image quality, there are a few minor niggles with the TCL TV that am working through at the minute.

It didn't play nice with my AVR to start with. Had to disconnect every and reconnect in priority order to get CEC/HDCP 2.2 handshakes to work.

The only issues now is that the native Netflix app isn't working with Dolby Vision for some reason, yet Disney+ is working fine.

And even though I have power CEC control turned off, the TV turned my amp on when I turned on the TV. But I've had this issue with my LG TV too, so I know it's the flakey nature of CEC.

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So for whatever reason the Dolby Vision and Netflix seems to be limited to Drive to Survive, as other content works fine. Also had the same issue on my Nvidia Shield. So who knows what's going on there.

CEC issue are doing my head in. Even with power control turned off on every connected device and the TV itself. The TV still turns on the amp when I turn on the TV. The only way to stop it is turn off CEC control. But if I do that then I don't get sound from my amp when I actually turn it on and select the TV as then source.
 
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barmyllama said:
If I'm totally honest, it's as good an image as the B7 OLED but brighter.

We watched John Wick 3 on 4k Blu-ray on Friday evening. After setting up the TCL TV on Saturday, I watched parts of it again and to my eyes it was just as good.

I should image there are edge case scenarios where, side by side the OLED would have the upper hand.

But with my eyeballs, under most of my uses cases, I don't think I have any regrets going from OLED to mini LED.

I learned over the time I've had the OLED that when it comes to 4k Blu-ray, it's the source master and how it was shot in the first place has more influence on how good an image you get.

Outside of the image quality, there are a few minor niggles with the TCL TV that am working through at the minute.

It didn't play nice with my AVR to start with. Had to disconnect every and reconnect in priority order to get CEC/HDCP 2.2 handshakes to work.

The only issues now is that the native Netflix app isn't working with Dolby Vision for some reason, yet Disney+ is working fine.

And even though I have power CEC control turned off, the TV turned my amp on when I turned on the TV. But I've had this issue with my LG TV too, so I know it's the flakey nature of CEC.

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So for whatever reason the Dolby Vision and Netflix seems to be limited to Drive to Survive, as other content works fine. Also had the same issue on my Nvidia Shield. So who knows what's going on there.

CEC issue are doing my head in. Even with power control turned off on every connected device and the TV itself. The TV still turns on the amp when I turn on the TV. The only way to stop it is turn off CEC control. But if I do that then I don't get sound from my amp when I actually turn it on and select the TV as then source.
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Did you manage to sort this issues with the tcl out?

Cheers
 
topher said:
Did you manage to sort this issues with the tcl out?

Cheers
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Sort of.

I basically turned off CEC control in the TV settings and then when I wanted to use the amp, turned it back on. So not an ideal solution, but workable.

The Dolby Vision issue was a HDCP 2.2 handshake issue. Probably caused by using pass through on the AVR.

It's all moot now anyway.

The best solution I got from Richer Sounds was a discount on a new TV. After around 3 months of waiting for LG to start their repair service I gave up and took RS offer. Ended up with an LG 55 A2 for £399. That's now my main TV and the TCL went in to another room.

I still maintain the TCL TV's image is great, but the LG TV plays better with my equipment and the TCL TV doesn't have access to the Play Store, so there's certain apps I can't install, such as BBC iPlayer.
 
i would say to anyone, view them in person because it is so subjective.

Sony have their own look to the picture in my opinion, you either like it or you dont and the settings do not seem to allow you to significantly change the look of the overall picture if that makes sense.

They have their own version of QLED they call triluminous as far as i know.
 
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