Simple question, new TV time for new home, so which one, Oled  or Qled?

 

Or any other thoughts?

 

Cheers.

Oled will always give a better picture but if you mainly watch TV in a very bright room then other options may be better.

Have you read about the newly announced Sony QD-Oled's too?

17 minutes ago, john999boy said:

Have you read about the newly announced Sony QD-Oled's too?

No, I don't generally get too involved in TV stuff, but new house, new partner, new life, gonna make sure the new TV is nice.

 

Having said that, don't we all know that despite paying £10 a month extra for the HD package on Sky she's still gonna watch & record everything in standard definition...🤣

OLED for me. I'm on my second one and have never looked back. They make a fantastic monitor to view photographs on, as the latest sets have extremely accurate colour balance (or you can adjust them yourself). Virtually all OLEDs are made by LG these days with Panasonic and Sony tweaking their bought-in LG panels and of late, they have added a large heat sink, so they can run the screens even brighter than the LG original. 

Well 4 weeks til house move, then we can start shopping for the right one. Sounds like the extra expense of an LG Oled is gonna be the way forward, but A2, B1, or C1? I guess for another £140 the C1 is gonna win. 🤔

Edited 25 January, 20224 yr by Rustynuts

37 minutes ago, Rustynuts said:

Well 4 weeks til house move, then we can start shopping for the right one. Sounds like the extra expense of an LG Oled is gonna be the way forward, but A2, B1, or C1? I guess for another £140 the C1 is gonna win. 🤔

I have some LG oleds including a C1 and there is a difference.

Edited 25 January, 20224 yr by john999boy

2 or 3 years ago my son bought a stupidly large 55inch LG OLED tv, horrible white frame to match his Imac something or other. Eye scorching over bright over coloured unrealistic pic out of the box. He bought it to watch 4k football from BT sport, and straight away he noticed that when someone kicked a ball any distance, the ball would disappear before magically reappearing at the feet of the recipient. Much playing with (incredibly confusing) menus and advanced settings ensued for a day or two and the best we could manage was the ball briefly popping up mid flight. LG support knew about this issue and guided him through some secret menus to tweak this, that and some other. No difference. Dolby this, dolby that.

 

Watching a match was a farce, and to me utra painful as I find luminous grass and football strip impossible to watch.

It went back and he watched the football on his 5k imac screen instead.

 

Recently he bought the latest 48" Sony OLED, much less in your face and from what I've seen quite a nice picture. He did have some similar issues with fast moving sports initially, but managed to find how to turn off all the stupid post processing that supposedly enhances the experience and never does. Sound is good too, much better than most.

 

Me? I have a 2009 42inch Panasonic Plasma that I personally calibrated years ago to near perfection. With a decent source, i.e.not Freeview but good HD feeds from satellite channels the picture is still sublime. Even though its only a 768*1024 panel, you would never guess its not full HD. You can watch at any angle with no change in picture at all, which is a priority as we are using one of the smaller rooms for the TV

 

100Hz, no fancy postprocessing or gimicks, natural skin colours, grass as it should be etc. And no disappearing football or tennis balls.

 

 

 

 

LG has a new range of OLEDs coming out this year, so I expect there will be some cracking deals on the C1 in a few months time (or less perhaps)  

22 hours ago, xman said:

Me? I have a 2009 42inch Panasonic Plasma that I personally calibrated years ago to near perfection. With a decent source, i.e.not Freeview but good HD feeds from satellite channels the picture is still sublime. Even though its only a 768*1024 panel, you would never guess its not full HD. You can watch at any angle with no change in picture at all, which is a priority as we are using one of the smaller rooms for the TV

 

Our living room TV is an LG 55" doohicky, Ultra HD I think. I personally prefer my 2007 37" Panasonic plasma since I can wire it into the Hi-fi. Even if it's enough to heat the house...

You will be able to wire the tv into your hifi still. It might take an HDMI to 3.5mm breakout doohikey that you put into the eARC socket (usually number 2 HDMI on an LG. Then set the audio to ARC output. You may need a doohikey box to do a hand shake and convert digits to analogue, but I suspect Amazon will have something. 

Which model telly is it? A lot of tvs still have a 3.5mm socket hidden somewhere 

 

This is the kind of device (it's the first one I found, so not a specific endorsement) That might help.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SOUTHSKY-Converter-Digital-Extractor-Adjustable-Black/dp/B087N4K7KK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1V4X4TE9DNKPB&keywords=arc+hdmi+to+analogue+converter&qid=1643202354&s=instant-video&sprefix=arc+hdmi+to+analougue+converter%2Cinstant-video%2C69&sr=1-1

 

Btw if your telly still has a scart lead then it's super easy to get a converter lead 

Edited 26 January, 20224 yr by Lady Elanore

3 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

Our living room TV is an LG 55" doohicky, Ultra HD I think. I personally prefer my 2007 37" Panasonic plasma since I can wire it into the Hi-fi. Even if it's enough to heat the house...

I find it surprising how many of us, including myself, are still using and are happy with our old Panasonic Plasma TV (and room heater😁).

I was happy with mine until it blew up 

 

The thing with OLED is that everything that you liked about Plasma (and made it the enthusiast's 'go to' choice in its day) is present in OLED and a whole lot more....except the room heating bit of course (they do get warm though  ) 

54 minutes ago, Liger1956 said:

I find it surprising how many of us, including myself, are still using and are happy with our old Panasonic Plasma TV (and room heater😁).

 

I've got a Samsung plasma in my bedroom, a 32" one from 2008. Works great as well on the rare occasion I use it.

On 26/01/2022 at 13:05, Lady Elanore said:

You will be able to wire the tv into your hifi still. It might take an HDMI to 3.5mm breakout doohikey that you put into the eARC socket (usually number 2 HDMI on an LG. Then set the audio to ARC output. You may need a doohikey box to do a hand shake and convert digits to analogue, but I suspect Amazon will have something. 

Which model telly is it? A lot of tvs still have a 3.5mm socket hidden somewhere 

 

 

Och Amanda that's too much effort for a troll-like being such as myself.

 

Seriously though, I have no idea what model the telly is but it doesn't have long since one of the HDMIs (HDMI 2) has decided it doesn't want to live anymore.

 

The Hi-Fi is in my bedroom, as is the telly that connects with it. So I shouldn't be stuck. Thank you though. 

Edited 29 January, 20224 yr by AnnoyingPentium