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McDaniel

McDaniel

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Hey All,

Looking to get a new TV in a couple of months when I move to my new house.

I have a budget of around £2500 (I can save ~8% at Currys due to a work scheme too). I will be sat around 3.5m from the screen and it will be used for Gaming and Films mostly so input lag is important.

At the moment I've got my eye on LG OLEDs. I've noticed the B6/C6 are both at £2.8k and with my discount will sit around my budget.

C6 as I understand it has passive 3D and the LG chipset over the B6 otherwise the same. The curve is the other feature C6 has, I am not adverse to C6 and I am the primary user, with the odd bit of company (heyooo).

What are peoples views on curve (won't be wall mounted) - anyone have a C6/B6 that can share any insight?

Any other TV's I should consider?

Oh finally 65" is minimum for me, I'd love a 75 but realise for my budget I'd lose a lot of quality for the size with something like the Hisense

Thanks Y'all.
 
Why not wait for the inevitable discounts around the spring as the new TVs from CES 2017 start to get released to the public. I remember my Sony x85 in 2014 went from a £2000 set to £999 just months later because of this. Made me re-think the timing of future purchases.
 
Regardless of the TV the best advice you will get is this. Ignore your work scheme, spend the 8% more if needed and buy from John Lewis or Richersounds for the 5/6 year warranty and hassle free returns/swaps/customer service/buyer's remorse.
 
mdixson said:
Why not wait for the inevitable discounts around the spring as the new TVs from CES 2017 start to get released to the public. I remember my Sony x85 in 2014 went from a £2000 set to £999 just months later because of this. Made me re-think the timing of future purchases.
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I'll be buying late March / early April - when I move I wont actually have a TV but can happily wait till then, just doing research now :)

Scrutinize said:
Regardless of the TV the best advice you will get is this. Ignore your work scheme, spend the 8% more if needed and buy from John Lewis or Richersounds for the 5/6 year warranty and hassle free returns/swaps/customer service/buyer's remorse.
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This is a really good point thanks.
 
McDaniel said:
)What are peoples views on curve (won't be wall mounted) - anyone have a C6/B6 that can share any insight?
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I've got a B6 and have seen a C6.

My views are that whilst the flat screens look more appealing to me, if there's any possibility at all of you wanting to watch 3D blu-rays in the future, then the C6 is the sweet spot as the curve is very subtle.

Domestic 3D appears to have died, but the 3D on the 2016 OLEDs is extremely good and 3D blu-rays will be available for a good while yet. The problem comes when your 2016 set dies and you've built up a library of 3D blu-rays that could become useless.
 
Does it have to be an LG/OLED? Reason I say is that a Panasonic DX902b is one of the best LED tv's ever made and can only be bettered by the Sony Z9D which is a lot more money?

Agree about RS and JL, only two places that I will buy a TV from. 5/6 Years cover and excellent customer service when things go wrong!
 
GHazy said:
Does it have to be an LG/OLED? Reason I say is that a Panasonic DX902b is one of the best LED tv's ever made and can only be bettered by the Sony Z9D which is a lot more money?

Agree about RS and JL, only two places that I will buy a TV from. 5/6 Years cover and excellent customer service when things go wrong!
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Not at all, just the OLED were in budget and seemed to tick a lot of boxes :)
 
Cool, RS have the 65" DX902b for £2349, this set is superb for the price and has the best colour accuracy of any TV. It does have a bit of Halo and slightly aggressive lighting but it is great.

If in no rush see how much the new 2017 tv's come out at as these will knock the prices down as well considering LG, Sony and Panny are all now doing OLED
 
GHazy said:
Cool, RS have the 65" DX902b for £2349, this set is superb for the price and has the best colour accuracy of any TV. It does have a bit of Halo and slightly aggressive lighting but it is great.

If in no rush see how much the new 2017 tv's come out at as these will knock the prices down as well considering LG, Sony and Panny are all now doing OLED
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I'll do some reading on that TV, thanks for the suggestion.

I won't be buying to late Mar/early Apr not sure when 2017 range are out but hopefully will knock current prices even more!
 
VincentHanna said:
I looked at the DX902b (and owned a AX802b) and honestly, the OLED blows it away.

I've seen some really bad smearing artifacts on the 902b

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Ah waiting for how long this would take. I have owned OLED and I own the DX902 and the only time OLED really looks better is on SD content. At 4k HDR this and the sony are better and thats from a professional calibrator and from what I have seen. Plus like I have said this tv has the highest colour accuracy of EVERY TV on the market.

Should I now start linking all the issues with OLED? Nope simply gave an option to consider that was all. As for the smearing again it's mainly the first load of 65" panels that came out March/June 2016.
 
£2500 is bang on for a 65" B6V. If you go into a proper shop like RS, where you can play with the feed and settings you will see that OLED technology is where it's at. The expensive LED sets do look very nice, no denying that but OLED beats it. Take the LED TVs off of the demo mode, put some actual content on and watch as the OLED pulls comfortably ahead. All you hear from Samsung reps is "HDR1000", so it can go uncomfortably bright, can it do anything else? I was looking for a new TV in November and was prepared to spend up to about £2500. I looked at all the usual suspects and dropped £2000 on the 55B6V, couldn't be happier. It breathes new life into Blu Rays. Infact, Blu Rays look so damn good that it's hard to justify UHD Blu Rays unless it's a stellar title.
 
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£2500 is bang on for a 65" B6V. If you go into a proper shop like RS, where you can play with the feed and settings you will see that OLED technology is where it's at. The expensive LED sets do look very nice, no denying that but OLED beats it. Take the LED TVs off of the demo mode, put some actual content on and watch as the OLED pulls comfortably ahead. All you hear from Samsung reps is "HDR1000", so it can go uncomfortably bright, can it do anything else? I was looking for a new TV in November and was prepared to spend up to about £2500. I looked at all the usual suspects and dropped £2000 on the 55B6V, couldn't be happier. It breathes new life into Blu Rays. Infact, Blu Rays look so damn good that it's hard to justify UHD Blu Rays unless it's a stellar title.
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Again I got my tv from RS, it's never been in demo mode and has been professionally calibrated. I also returned the OLED due to shocking motion handling, there are issues with every single tv on the market but at present the 2016 OLED vs LED does not comfortably beat them at all. 2017 might be different but I have seen side by side these tv's and the only area OLED excelled is pure black sky like stars in sky or SD tv otherwise the colours of the DX902 are far more realistic than current OLEDs.

Have you seen proper 4k hdr like revenant, deadpool etc???? Because they are miles better than Blu ray
 
GHazy said:
Does it have to be an LG/OLED? Reason I say is that a Panasonic DX902b is one of the best LED tv's ever made and can only be bettered by the Sony Z9D which is a lot more money?

Agree about RS and JL, only two places that I will buy a TV from. 5/6 Years cover and excellent customer service when things go wrong!
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I had the choice between the LG OLED or the Panasonic 902b 58" TV, in the end I went for the Panasonic and haven't looked back since having it. Unbelievably good tv for an LED and pretty highly rated.

The only thing that impressed me about the OLED was the black levels, they are better than the Panasonic that I have.

VincentHanna said:
I looked at the DX902b (and owned a AX802b) and honestly, the OLED blows it away.

I've seen some really bad smearing artifacts on the 902b

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I've yet to see any of this smearing effect either on HD or SD, so that leads me to say that it must be a fault screen.

I picked up my 902b 58" tv for about £1949 back in Nov, which I thought was a decent price and got the 5 yr warranty with it through Curry's. Was going to buy mine from JL but they had none in stock at the time of purchase.
 
GHazy said:
Again I got my tv from RS, it's never been in demo mode and has been professionally calibrated. I also returned the OLED due to shocking motion handling, there are issues with every single tv on the market but at present the 2016 OLED vs LED does not comfortably beat them at all. 2017 might be different but I have seen side by side these tv's and the only area OLED excelled is pure black sky like stars in sky or SD tv otherwise the colours of the DX902 are far more realistic than current OLEDs.

Have you seen proper 4k hdr like revenant, deadpool etc???? Because they are miles better than Blu ray
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I guess we will have to agree to disagree on LED vs OLED. Main thing is that we are both happy with our purchases.

As for 4K Blu Rays, the two titles you mentioned are the stand out ones, I am more talking about the plethora of upscaled 2K ones.
 
MG42Maniac said:
I guess we will have to agree to disagree on LED vs OLED. Main thing is that we are both happy with our purchases.

As for 4K Blu Rays, the two titles you mentioned are the stand out ones, I am more talking about the plethora of upscaled 2K ones.
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I think the issue is that OLED is the future but it still has a lot of issues which hopefully 2017 tv's will have improved on. For now personally OLED is still new tech with issues to overcome, LED is tried and tested which does offer the best 4k HDR experience as quoted by professionals.

At the end of the day I was giving options on this thread that Top tier LED such as the Sony and Panny should not be discounted. The biggest issue with going into a shop and looking side by side is pointless, they are 99% of time set up incorrectly, nothing like actually home view and many shop work on commission.

RS offer good independent advice so it's always worth popping in there. It's a good time to buy over the next few months more so than ever as I have already said as there are now more than one OLED seller which will help drive pricing down.

At launch the B6 etc were not worth their money over LED not a chance in hell, this year will be different I think.
 
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