Samsung 65KS8000 or LG OLED55B6V

Had this tv a week.
Great neutral colour.
HDR good on blue ray (UB700) & some demos but not Samsung demos.
Gaming lag ok.
Great local dimming & amazing contest bar small bright objects which is to be expected from a FALD.
Not noticed LCD smear on my 58" but there is a bright vertical line an inch thick a quarter in from the right which can be seen in mid tone panning scenes.
No DTS unlike every other TV.
Sometimes apps suffer from audio drop outs with optical 5:1 & removing ext recording HDD can fix this.
If pass Dolby 5:1 audio through this TV from a console there is a 1 second audio delay with no compensation in menu.
No YouTube HDR.
On-board H.265 player is faulty & can't play half the HEVC videos thrown at it.

Great TV but need a good amp with multiple digital inputs as the digital audio out from this TV is terrible & no DTS... What were they thinking.
Also need a good external H.265 HDR video player, plus with smart HDR apps as the audio out from this TV can't be trusted.

I highly recommend the DX902 if you also have a good amp & video/smart player due to Panasonic failing on the software side & will likely fail in their 2017 range too.
 
The saga continues...
Returned 2x Panasonic FALD's due to bad DSE & banding. Apparently even the more expensive Samsung FALD suffers from DSE. It must be due to shining bright lights directly behind the LCD.
DSE & banding were more apparent in HDR. The blue sky in Forza 3 was horrific, half was darker because of the DSE. I'd be a FLID to go FALD again.
Looking at the following 2 TV's now...
Samsung 65KS9000. Issue are poor HDR movies in a dark room due to LED's at bottom wrecking the black letterbox.
LG 55E6. Issues are a possible stuck on pixel & dropping on a good one, though 65" has more banding issues.

Both are about the same price.
My viewing distance is 2.5m or a better 3.3m. Is it worth sacrificing image quality for another 10 inches?
 
juno_first said:
The saga continues...
Returned 2x Panasonic FALD's due to bad DSE & banding. Apparently even the more expensive Samsung FALD suffers from DSE. It must be due to shining bright lights directly behind the LCD.
DSE & banding were more apparent in HDR. The blue sky in Forza 3 was horrific, half was darker because of the DSE. I'd be a FLID to go FALD again.
Looking at the following 2 TV's now...
Samsung 65KS9000. Issue are poor HDR movies in a dark room due to LED's at bottom wrecking the black letterbox.
LG 55E6. Issues are a possible stuck on pixel & dropping on a good one, though 65" has more banding issues.

Both are about the same price.
My viewing distance is 2.5m or a better 3.3m. Is it worth sacrificing image quality for another 10 inches?
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Once you go OLED you wont go back to lcd :p
 
peahead said:
Once you go OLED you wont go back to lcd :p
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A few people have said that.
Righto, gotta get from Currys as thats where my exchange is in limbo atm & they said I can wait until 17th April.
I dont wanna refund as I'll lose the original deal on a UB700 for £73.
55E6 it is. Currently £2199. Hope it drops on the Easter sales or enough beforehand.
 
Input lag is fine. Mass Effect Andromeda looks good in HDR upscaled to 4k on the Xbox 1s.
50% grey on my 55 is virtually perfect unlike the previous 2 58DX902 which had really bad DSE + dead pixels! I'm not going try a 5% slide like most the geeks on AVForums do as no TV is perfect & I've only seen 1 banding line once in a dark scene but now its gone?
Peak brightness looks about the same as my old JS8000 but ironically I reckon HDR is vastly improved purely because HDR on LCD requires the backlight to run at max which increases clouding, shafts of light from the LED's, haloing from FALD & a general loss of black.
Even SDR TV shows like The Expanse benefit from OLED in the space scenes. Although BBC News looked better on a DX902 I think because it had better calibrated colour out the box.
Yes, OLED is in a different league but I do agree peak brightness needs to improve. I've read 2017 OLED are only 10% brighter too & don't have 3D so reckon I jumped on the OLED train at a good time, because I ain't never getting off :D
 
Glad you finally went OLED, I don't see me going to LCD after having mine.

I want a 65" 4k one but need to wait till the end of next year.
 
MG42Maniac said:
Strong purchase. People will always pick flaws in OLED TVs like brightness and input lag but the actual picture quality is in a different league to LED when you actually start watching decent quality content on it.
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Inky blacks, nom nom nom! I'll probably replay all the great dark games and films if one day I get an OLED.

 
Was looking at Sony XE90 49" but I keep reading all this OLED talk, only thing is 55" might be a bit big for my room unless I wall mount it.

Im looking at the LG55B6V.

Is this set ok for someone who games.

Im a complete noob when it comes to OLED.
 
beachBOYken said:
Was looking at Sony XE90 49" but I keep reading all this OLED talk, only thing is 55" might be a bit big for my room unless I wall mount it.

Im looking at the LG55B6V.

Is this set ok for someone who games.

Im a complete noob when it comes to OLED.
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I was going get the B6 but at the time it didn't have the gaming lag fix. It may have it now.
TBH tho for an extra £200 I'm very happy with the E6. I think they all use the same screen anyway plus I like 3D.

Yeah very impressed with OLED. Finding myself watching older films with a lot of black in them & when friends come round shouting 'look at that black' :D
 
juno_first said:
I was going get the B6 but at the time it didn't have the gaming lag fix. It may have it now.
TBH tho for an extra £200 I'm very happy with the E6. I think they all use the same screen anyway plus I like 3D.

Yeah very impressed with OLED. Finding myself watching older films with a lot of black in them & when friends come round shouting 'look at that black' :D
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Nice.

How is Hdr content, heard oled has lower nits so less brightness for hdr?
 
Where are you all getting your deals from?

Only an extra £200 for an E6?


I have around 2-3k to play around with for a TV. Hoping to get a good deal. Ideally I wanted a 65'' for that kind of money!
 
HDR Peak brightness is good enough for me but noticeably less than a dx902. Sometimes it hurts your eyes in a dark room but that's when there's a dark scene just before.

When I got my E6 the B6 was £200 less.
 
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