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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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
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.
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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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.
Did you manage to sort this issues with the tcl out?

Cheers
 
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