55" OLED or 65" LED TV...

[Funk]

tobinen said:

Right or wrong, I am waiting for Friday. If a B7 is still £1,500-ish (or lower) then I will buy one.

This thread has completely ruined my plans for a 49" Samsung Q7 QLED or 50" Sony XE9005

My Sony 55XD9305 st the bed last week and did this:



To their credit Sony support have been great and I've just arranged delivery of the upgraded replacement on Friday - they're sending an XE9305 which apparently is better in almost every area as it uses the X1 Extreme chipset from the ZD9.

Annoying to have been without the screen for a week but I'm very glad I have a 5-year warranty...!

Edited by Funk on Wednesday 22 November 22:02

[gizlaroc]

Can't you pay a little more and get the Sony A1??

[Funk]

To be frank I'm grateful for the spec bump as it is and that they're sorting it with minimal fuss!

[gizlaroc]

I actually really like the Sony XD9305 and EX9305 and is one of the few/only LCD displays I could happily live with.

[Funk]

Out of curiosity, anyone have any idea what would've caused the screen to do that? What failed?

[EvoDelta]

gizlaroc said:

I actually really like the Sony XD9305 and EX9305 and is one of the few/only LCD displays I could happily live with.

I have the XE93, and whilst it is very lovely it is not without it's issues. It randomly crashes quite often, and also very slow to switch between inputs.

[Funk]

I mentioned on a thread over on AVF that I'd probably not have an Android-based TV again.

[bodhi]

I think ours is the XD94 (the 65 inch version of that model), and I would agree, its a cracking TV, slightly let down by Android TV.

With Android TV I would say the app selection and built in Chromecast are superb, but the pop ups telling you things have stopped working are less so. Normally solved by a quick power cycle, but still annoying. It wouldn't stop me from buying the same TV again however.

[Ciaran]

Ciaran said:

Hello

My friend is moving house on Friday and wants to surprise her husband with a new tv. She has a budget of up to £1500, what would you suggest?

Thanks

Just to update this she ended up going with a Sony 65" XE8596C for £1250

Size does matter!

Edited by Ciaran on Friday 24th November 12:06

[Digitalize]

55 B7 can be had for £1350 from Currys with code TV10

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-home-entertai...

Can most likely get Richer Sounds to price match that too.

[GG89]

Couldn't resist, need to call RS now and see if they will match the price above and refund me the difference - sure they will they're a good bunch.

[Dal3D]

I was weak too bagging a C7 at £1349:

Edited by Dal3D on Friday 24th November 18:39

[Luke.]

Dal3D said:

I was weak too bagging a C7 at £1349:

Edited by Dal3D on Friday 24th November 18:39

If I didn't have two children under 6 I'd have done just the same thing.

[GG89]

Richer sounds refunded me the difference and beat curries by £20 so it cost £1329 in the end.

Result.

[spants]

Just picked up the 65" B7 - it is amazing!
Richer Sounds price matched an Amazon offer to £2419

[Funk]

My replacement XE93 from Sony arrived Friday and the picture quality is incredible; I can't believe the difference between the XD and XE! The black levels are almost OLED-good - it's hard to believe it's an edge lit panel. The other thing that's remarkable is the brightness in HDR mode (1500 nits vs ~1000 nits on the XD) which makes far more of a difference than I'd imagined. It's the one area OLED still isn't there on yet either, in think the LG panels only reach 750 nits so around half that of the XE.

Still hate the Android interface though, but it is much slicker on the XE than the XD.

[jmorgan]

Think of the blacks though........ I really cannot say that I miss the nit battle with blacks so black you do not know when the TV is off.....

[BIRMA]

Funk said:

My replacement XE93 from Sony arrived Friday and the picture quality is incredible; I can't believe the difference between the XD and XE! The black levels are almost OLED-good - it's hard to believe it's an edge lit panel. The other thing that's remarkable is the brightness in HDR mode (1500 nits vs ~1000 nits on the XD) which makes far more of a difference than I'd imagined. It's the one area OLED still isn't there on yet either, in think the LG panels only reach 750 nits so around half that of the XE.

Still hate the Android interface though, but it is much slicker on the XE than the XD.

That's interesting because I've only just replaced my 55 inch XD93 Sony for an LG B7 55 inch OLED.
Although originally I did go down to Currys with the intention of buying the LG OLED the £3K price of the OLED put me off and the Sony rep convinced me and to a certain degree I agreed the Sony was a really good picture and better value for money at the time than the OLED.
After only about 6 months and just recently I replaced the XD mostly because of the hateful Android operating system but secondly I just couldn't get a picture I was happy with and spent more time tweaking the settings that watching it.
Out of the box the LG just performed better picture wise with very little tweaking so much so I went and bought another for my games console.

[legzr1]

jmorgan said:

Think of the blacks though........ I really cannot say that I miss the nit battle with blacks so black you do not know when the TV is off.....

Nor me.

When a TV is capable of hurting your eyes with brightness during darks scenes I don't see the point in twice, eight or 100 times that brightness.
All that is good with OLED comes from black blacks - a million nits ain't gonna change that.

[swisstoni]

That's just nitpicking.