Budget £1500-1600 - Best 55" - 65" Telly?

[Craterloads]

So have around £1100 in vouchers for a replacement TV at Curry's for my failed 65" and willing to put in a few hundred extra to cover any purchase.

My main use is movies and gaming (PC & PS4 / XBOX) and plex streaming, so low input lag is critical. Probably have to scale down to a 55" to stay in budget.

From a bit of research and youtubing today ive highlighted a couple that tick the boxes

Samsung 55Q80R QLED (£1350 Price matched) & LGs OLED55B9PLA OLED (£1450 Price matched)

Kind of leaning to the OLED as has HDMI 2.1 and seems like a really good set for gaming, samsung looks great too, brighter and great for gaming.

Which of the two are better and any other suggestions that i could take a look at?

 

[BlairH]

Just going to be straight. I have 5 OLEDs in the house (various 2015-2018 models); in living rooms, bedrooms, the computer room and the kitchen. They're amazing. Absolutely unlike any legacy display technology (including "QLED").

The recent announcement that the 2019 LG OLEDs are to receive a G-sync update -via software- makes a very compelling case if you are going to use this as a PC gaming display. I'm actually a bit jealous of you, as I don't have a 2019 model. Additionally, the 2019 models (and in fact, the 2017 models onwards) have very low input lag for gaming.

My use case is similar to yours; I don't use these displays for productivity. If I want to bring up spreadsheets, I'll use my ultrawide. Anything entertainment related goes on one of my OLEDs. There's no point in shelling out a grand for an nVidia 2080ti, ostensibly to crank the rendering setting up, if the image quality is going to be hampered by haloing, backlight bleed, DSE and other issues.

In terms of reliability, my C8 had some banding initially, which was visible in content. It was replaced by the retailer. They will all have some degree of banding, but this will only generally be visible on 5% grey slides; if it's visible in content, get it replaced.

 

[aoaaron]

Just going to be straight. I have 5 OLEDs in the house (various 2015-2018 models); in living rooms, bedrooms, the computer room and the kitchen. They're amazing. Absolutely unlike any legacy display technology (including "QLED").

The recent announcement that the 2019 LG OLEDs are to receive a G-sync update -via software- makes a very compelling case if you are going to use this as a PC gaming display. I'm actually a bit jealous of you, as I don't have a 2019 model. Additionally, the 2019 models (and in fact, the 2017 models onwards) have very low input lag for gaming.

My use case is similar to yours; I don't use these displays for productivity. If I want to bring up spreadsheets, I'll use my ultrawide. Anything entertainment related goes on one of my OLEDs. There's no point in shelling out a grand for an nVidia 2080ti, ostensibly to crank the rendering setting up, if the image quality is going to be hampered by haloing, backlight bleed, DSE and other issues.

In terms of reliability, my C8 had some banding initially, which was visible in content. It was replaced by the retailer. They will all have some degree of banding, but this will only generally be visible on 5% grey slides; if it's visible in content, get it replaced.

Such a good point. Why do people care about the sharpest graphics and put it on dire displays?

 

[Craterloads]

Just going to be straight. I have 5 OLEDs in the house (various 2015-2018 models); in living rooms, bedrooms, the computer room and the kitchen. They're amazing. Absolutely unlike any legacy display technology (including "QLED").

The recent announcement that the 2019 LG OLEDs are to receive a G-sync update -via software- makes a very compelling case if you are going to use this as a PC gaming display. I'm actually a bit jealous of you, as I don't have a 2019 model. Additionally, the 2019 models (and in fact, the 2017 models onwards) have very low input lag for gaming.

My use case is similar to yours; I don't use these displays for productivity. If I want to bring up spreadsheets, I'll use my ultrawide. Anything entertainment related goes on one of my OLEDs. There's no point in shelling out a grand for an nVidia 2080ti, ostensibly to crank the rendering setting up, if the image quality is going to be hampered by haloing, backlight bleed, DSE and other issues.

In terms of reliability, my C8 had some banding initially, which was visible in content. It was replaced by the retailer. They will all have some degree of banding, but this will only generally be visible on 5% grey slides; if it's visible in content, get it replaced.

Cheers, went with the oled. Ended up losing 10” which is significant, feels a bit small but will adjust. 65” was too big to be fair for my room, felt it was too big for gaming sitting close but brilliant for movies.

Ended up costing me only a £200 after 3 years of ownership of the 65ks9000 which I’m pretty happy about with a fresh 5 year warranty to boot. They wouldn’t price match at the store I went to due to being a warranty replacement voucher. So just paid the £400 extra, went to another store across town and got them to price match it no questions asked and refunded

Just set up tv, not calibrated or anything but initial impressions. It’s certainly seem to be less bright compared to the ks9000, but the blacks and uniformity of the panal are incredible. On the ks9000 the top and bottom of the screen Had significant light bleed in brighter scenes and noticeable hallowing. colours don’t seem as bright / vivid but certain that’s just poor out of the box calibration.

Gaming, it’s a good improvement, feels very snappy and instant. Samsung was good too but the LG does feel better.

OS Samsung felt better, snappier. Bit cleaner and easier to use, but is first day with the LG so will learn and adjust, but there is a deffo speed difference in loading apps like plex or Netflix. Also reflections are quite bad on the LG.

Overall though very happy, can’t wait for hdmi 2.1 graphics cards for 4k 120hz


Edit. What’s the best way to check for defects like banding, dead pixels or any other issues. Don’t even know what banding so will google that.

 

[mid_gen]

Just going to be straight. I have 5 OLEDs in the house (various 2015-2018 models); in living rooms, bedrooms, the computer room and the kitchen. They're amazing. Absolutely unlike any legacy display technology (including "QLED").

The recent announcement that the 2019 LG OLEDs are to receive a G-sync update -via software- makes a very compelling case if you are going to use this as a PC gaming display. I'm actually a bit jealous of you, as I don't have a 2019 model. Additionally, the 2019 models (and in fact, the 2017 models onwards) have very low input lag for gaming.

My use case is similar to yours; I don't use these displays for productivity. If I want to bring up spreadsheets, I'll use my ultrawide. Anything entertainment related goes on one of my OLEDs. There's no point in shelling out a grand for an nVidia 2080ti, ostensibly to crank the rendering setting up, if the image quality is going to be hampered by haloing, backlight bleed, DSE and other issues.

In terms of reliability, my C8 had some banding initially, which was visible in content. It was replaced by the retailer. They will all have some degree of banding, but this will only generally be visible on 5% grey slides; if it's visible in content, get it replaced.

The 'gsync update by software' is, IIRC, more of a case of nVidia enabling VRR over HDMI on their cards, which previously only worked on DP.

End result is the same though, VRR on your nVidia card connected to your 2019 OLED.