New TV's - Trying to Avoid LG

[fourstardan]

My OLED LG has gone again at 7 years old, it's got horrendous burn now in a section I notice watching footy or golf. This current screen was replaced about 3 years ago with the Yellow SOD issue.

I'm looking around and it feels like LG are the only lot still flogging TV's with Dolby vision, better quality touted on reviews etc, so what can I do when i've been bitten before?

Samsung has no Dolby Vision support, Bravia uses Google interface and Panasonic uses Amazon Firestick? Not feeling that as I'd rather a TV company did my OS.

Anyone else had this issue with only seeing LG again being the most decent option?

[Radec]

Panasonic do come with Dolby Vision IQ, at least the top end OLED ones do, along with the most alternative HD formats compared to other manufacturers.

Also I'd rather TV's came with Fire TV or Google rather than their own OS which always seems like the last to get regular updates and support of apps or getting apps binned off since the TV company don't want to pay for to keep them supported.

Looks like Panasonic or Sony would be the only alternatives to LG currently.

[Defcon5]

If you are getting another OLED, won’t the panel be made by LG anyway?

I thought only the Samsung QD-OLEDs were not LG

[mikef]

I’ve gone for Sony’s because of the Google Android operating system (and I otherwise use Apple for my mobile devices)

This is to be able to install anything I like from the Play Store, like a VPN that I use for streaming TV from overseas

No complaints (I think all TVs now want to fill the home screen with promoted content of one sort or another, hard to avoid that)

[GravelBen]

I will actively avoid TVs with google OS next time, I have one and its a truly awful user experience.

[Luke.]

I can't see anything wrong with just lobbing a Fire Stick in the side. Beats, IMO, every homegrown OS.

[fourstardan]

Defcon5 said:

If you are getting another OLED, won’t the panel be made by LG anyway?

I thought only the Samsung QD-OLEDs were not LG

I thought Bravias were the only ones, but maybe not then.

I think the days of a TV lasting 20 years like the Philips LCD I've just thrown out are long gone.

[TEKNOPUG]

I have an 8x series (806) Philips OLED. Very happy with it, especially Ambilight.

[kingston12]

fourstardan said:

Defcon5 said:

If you are getting another OLED, won’t the panel be made by LG anyway?

I thought only the Samsung QD-OLEDs were not LG

I thought Bravias were the only ones, but maybe not then.

I think the days of a TV lasting 20 years like the Philips LCD I've just thrown out are long gone.

I agree. I've got a six year old LG OLED that has now got literally hundreds of dead pixels around the edges of the screen, and researching the problem made me think that this was a problem on a good proportion of the pre-2020 models. I think that the extended warranties on these are probably used quite a lot!

I've also got a 2022 model which is fine (so far), but seems to have it's own list of issues that a lot of users have encountered.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, the problem with moving away from LG is that you'd effectively have to move away from OLED altogether as they still seem to make the panels for the vast majority of other manufacturers. I've never seen an LCD TV that rivals the image from an OLED.