Looking in the shops the OLED TVs look incredibly vivid, too vivid IMO. Is that just a shop trick?
Yes. I’m led to believe they have a setting to give a super vivid picture in the shop. AVForums have links to reviews of most modern TV’s, including changes to the settings that will give a better balanced picture, but once you’ve got that, you can make your own changes to get something that’s more accurate to your own tastes.
My last two sets have been Sony Bravias, the previous one to what I have now lasted over ten years before the set started to play up, and the picture degraded. Both came from Curry’s, they’re the nearest to me, less than a mile away, and they took the old sets away.
I bought both at special offer prices, the current one is an LCD IIRC, a 55”, and the picture is as good as I could possibly want, after making changes in settings.
Four cats here, regularly sit in front of the LG, no nose prints.
Four cats here, they regularly sit in front of the LG, no nose prints because I have the TV mounted on the wall like a sane person.
It's almost 2026, is there any compelling reason to still have a TV in the corner of the room sitting on furniture? They're not as deep as they are tall any more, the argument that they take up too much space or dominate the room is bogus when it takes up as much room as a painting.
It's almost 2026, is there any compelling reason to still have a TV in the corner of the room sitting on furniture?
Viewing angles, wall space, chasing the cables in?
There isn't a suitable wall to put my TV on. The one place it could go would mean losing a big feature mirror and sticking it above the fireplace.
The viewing angle from one of the sofas would make it unwatchable from there and aside from that it would be too high. In fact most people who wall mount have them too high - your screen should ideally be eye level when you're sat watching it
My living room, which is far from small, really wouldn’t suit wall mounting.
Well it would work well for 2 viewers. But that’s it. As we think we’ll be back to 4 next summer the tv will go back in the corner
Viewing angles, wall space, chasing the cables in?
Viewing angles, fair, not every room is square I suppose.
Wall space... what the heck have you got all over your walls? It doesn't take up any more space on a bracket than it does on the wall. You could have it on a swing arm and shove it out of the way when it's not in use, even.
Chasing the cables, are they chased in when they're dangling down the back of a cupboard? It's not a particularly onerous job but if you don't want to rip up the wallpaper - I couldn't be arsed either - there are cable management options. I use this stuff.
The one place it could go would mean losing a big feature mirror and sticking it above the fireplace.
We had a feature mirror (or as I like to call it, a "mirror") on the fireplace. I moved it to an adjacent wall. It's actually better in its new location, it's opposite the window and reflects more sunlight into the room. Your Living Room May Vary.
most people who wall mount have them too high
Very true.
Four cats here, regularly sit in front of the LG, no nose prints.
It's almost 2026, is there any compelling reason to still have a TV in the corner of the room sitting on furniture? They're not as deep as they are tall any more, the argument that they take up too much space or dominate the room is bogus when it takes up as much room as a painting.
windows on 2 walls here with a door and radiator on the third and a big fireplace on the 4th so no suitable wall in this house hence it sits in the corner which also gives us better viewing angles to our sofa position. Not every house has 4 blank walls to choose from.
TBF in our old Victorian house we could only get a 43" TV in next to the alcove by the fireplace. It was wall mounted on a cantilever arm so came out at a bit of an angle.
There was no way we could have gone for a bigger TV, unless we mounted it above the TV, which I'm personally not a fan off, as it would have been way too high.
New build bland box of a house we live in now, wall mounting makes perfect sense.
Horses for courses init.
Amazon link to the Hisense messed up by Amazon’s app
Should be Hisense telly
Lovely, natural looking picture and unlike my Samsung never had to adjust it.
Sorry not read the thread but I'm an ex TV engineer and I'm really picky with TV's.
Got my first oled a few years back and I'm still absolutely blown away by it. It's an LG, they make great oleds.
I love SF shows and movies, space scenes in the likes of Interstellar or Foundation are jaw droppingly good on an oled. It's a genuine and noticeable upgrade rather than just going for ever bigger screens with the same average picture quality.
No screen burn issues on it, or on my ultrawide oled PC monitor.
I won't be upgrading till it till it literally falls apart.
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Looking in the shops the OLED TVs look incredibly vivid, too vivid IMO. Is that just a shop trick?
Don't worry about that, the TV will be in display mode for use in shops, it's deliberately vivid and you'll never use it in that mode at home.
I have an LG CX OLED. Movie night at home with the lights off with Dolby Vision and Atmos is a thing of beauty. Well worth the investment. Back-lit TVs cannot compete.
It's almost 2026, is there any compelling reason to still have a TV in the corner of the room sitting on furniture? They're not as deep as they are tall any more, the argument that they take up too much space or dominate the room is bogus when it takes up as much room as a painting.
I'd suggest sir has a very narrow appreciation of room and house layout variance across the UK property stock.
Wall mount (as long as low enough) can be brilliant and we have lived in a house where this is what we had. But not always possible even if preferred.
Also.....shocker.....room focal point 'might' not be orientated 100% on the gogglebox - stove and windows with a view might take priority or at least a significant consideration when prioritising room layout.
Sure.
But if you can stand it on a chest of drawers then you can mount it on a swing arm where it takes up even less space/attention and where cats aren't walking. We have a nice painting which isn't 100% the focal point of the room, it's not propped up on a bloody easel.
I have an LG OLED, a modest 45", about 2 years old. Was thinking about getting a larger version as we've got a bit more space in our new house.
The picture quality is awesome, which by itself is enough to get me to buy LG again. However i do find the software quite annoying.
The thing is regularly asking to do software updates, or even worse, retune the terrestrial channels. We relent and press yes/install/whatever, and within a week it's asking again. It just can't be necessary! Yes we've tried changing the settings.
Software-wise there are also many many bloatware apps and games, which are of no use to me. While I can ignore them, I don't really want my kids fiddling with them. And I find it especially annoying to have my precious TV time interrupted to install a load more crap that I don't want.
LG have obviously got a deal with every streaming service you've never heard of, that they'll get a pre installed app and a big banner splashed across the home screen, in the hope that someone will click on it. Meanwhile terrestrial TV is a tiny icon in the corner. Clearly there are market forces at work!
It's tempting to see if other brands are similar.
Sure.
But if you can stand it on a chest of drawers then you can mount it on a swing arm where it takes up even less space/attention and where cats aren't walking. We have a nice painting which isn't 100% the focal point of the room, it's not propped up on a bloody easel.
Maybe, just maybe...
You could do you and try not to get quite so angry about what others do? 😉
Personally, I couldn't think of anything worse than having the TV swinging on a cantilever bracket in the lounge
Software-wise there are also many many bloatware apps and games, which are of no use to me. While I can ignore them, I don't really want my kids fiddling with them. And I find it especially annoying to have my precious TV time interrupted to install a load more crap that I don't want.
LG have obviously got a deal with every streaming service you've never heard of, that they'll get a pre installed app and a big banner splashed across the home screen, in the hope that someone will click on it. Meanwhile terrestrial TV is a tiny icon in the corner. Clearly there are market forces at work!
Bloatware - you can uninstall apps you don't want. Kids can't fiddle with apps that are not there.
Banners - turn off "Home Promotions" in the settings. There's also an option to turn off "Recommended Content".
On the Home Screen in general, I basically never see it. I have turned it off being shown when I turn the TV on. With it off the TV will just go the the last input used e.g. terrestrial, or the input for whatever external hardware I have turned on. For launching apps I use the Quick Launch function - you can assign apps/inputs/channels to different numeric keys on the remote, and then just hold the relevant key down to launch it. Hold down '0' on the remote to set up.
I don't get hassled for software updates I leave it on automatic and it does it while in stand-by.
The picture quality is awesome, which by itself is enough to get me to buy LG again. However i do find the software quite annoying.
The thing is regularly asking to do software updates, or even worse, retune the terrestrial channels. We relent and press yes/install/whatever, and within a week it's asking again. It just can't be necessary! Yes we've tried changing the settings.
To be fair, retuning is because of the broadcaster not the TV.
The LG interface is bloody annoying though. It'd be enough to make me choose a different brand next time if I thought they weren't all going the same way now.
You could do you and try not to get quite so angry about what others do?
You do know I'm not being entirely serious, yes? 😁
Mines on a unit in the corner like the 80's, Sue me 😛
Wall mount wouldn't work in our lounge with the seating arrangements, plus I cba chasing the feature wall out, only repapered it this year.
Amazon link to the Hisense messed up by Amazon’s app
Should be Hisense telly
Lovely, natural looking picture and unlike my Samsung never had to adjust it.
I ended up getting the 50" version from Curry's this weekend, very impressed with it, especially for 300 quid.
You do know I'm not being entirely serious, yes? 😁
Well, it's hard to tell sometimes... 😉
Current 55" set up. The corner on a stand is the best option for us
The LG interface is bloody annoying though
Not as bad as the Samsung. I wish I'd kept my old Samsung and never let it update! "You will watch Love Island, Eastenders ... etc!"
Hisense interface is pretty good. Bit busy, but all the main apps are easy to see and get at. Also, Freely TV gives you the normal BBC/ITV etc channels instead of Samsung's utter garbage Samsung TV+ (deleted from my TV)
Well, it's hard to tell sometimes...
Nuance in text is difficult.
Current 55" set up. The corner on a stand is the best option for us
That mirror would have to go. That or give everyone opera glasses.
Nice room, mind.
That mirror would have to go.
But, but, but...then it would be at stupid height - which you've already (very correctly) objected to.
As others have attested, can't ho back to back-lit technology after living with OLED. It the greatest leap in TV since colour was introduced. It's a better picture than the cinema. If you get one with good upscaling it also breathes life into older movies that previously look ridiculously dull on LCD. If you like gaming it goes into overdrive!
But, but, but...then it would be at stupid height - which you've already (very correctly) objected to.
A good point. Do you really need that mantelpiece?
Still no decision made here, got bogged down in the BF sale madness on all sorts of stuff besides TVs!
Argos sale is still on until some other places until midnight tonight, that has 10% code if ordered on their app, better than cashback deals I've seen.
Tempted by the "safe" bet of 43" LG Nano 90, that would be ~£215.
But there's ~43" TCL and Hisense models, I think some with freeview rather than freely, that do 144Hz that would be good for PS5 sessions and are under £500.
Not sure I could justify ~£775 for an LG C5 OLED 42" at the mo.
Still find it harder to buy stuff when the outdated stuff, like our 2009 LG 32LH3000 that still works!
After about 14 years with my LCD panel I moved up to an OLED. Panasonic 48", while the old TV Still worked - I gave it away via some market place or other, it owed me nothing. The new TV was a £800/900 ish, but it gets used every night over a number of years and while a cheaper model would in principle do the 'same' job. I really care about image and sound (so never use the TV sound) and I'm hyper critical of naff TVs and blocky dark scenes. So while it was expensive, it's not a cost I regret paying out for.
Still find it harder to buy stuff when the outdated stuff, like our 2009 LG 32LH3000 that still works!
Same here. We have a Sony 32" from about 2011 that refuses to die. I want a bigger telly, she wants a bigger telly, but we can't get away from the waste of buying one when we don't need one.
Ordered an LG OLED48B56LA from richer sounds. Hopefully i won't regret not getting a c5
So how long will it take for me to upgrade the Netflix subscription?
So how long will it take for me to upgrade the Netflix subscription?
You probably won't because the standard sub picture will look better anyway by just being on an OLED TV!
The biggest issue I've found since getting the OLED is that the other TV in the house (a reasonable LG LCD) now looks crap 🤦♂️
Hopefully i won't regret not getting a c5
Doubtful - I believe the B5 is good anyway.
Still find it harder to buy stuff when the outdated stuff, like our 2009 LG 32LH3000 that still works!
Same here. We have a Sony 32" from about 2011 that refuses to die. I want a bigger telly, she wants a bigger telly, but we can't get away from the waste of buying one when we don't need one.
I think 14 (or more) years is long enough to move it on without feeling 'wasteful'. You're only here once - if you use the TV daily, as we do, and you can afford a new one then get one..... big OLED's are pretty amazing.
You could always pass the old one on to someone else or a charity shop. Our 18 year old 46" plasma was still going strong so we gave it to one of our daughters.
I kept a similar age 32" Sony, had it in a 2nd room for a bit. Gave up watching it as once you are used to a bigger screen you wonder how you could see what was happening on that tiny postage stamp in the corner of the room with aging eyesight. Now set up with an indoor trainer.
Sold a 32" for my dad who wanted a bigger screen, it went within hours.
Funny isn't it. I remember the first TV I bought. A 14" Matsuia special from Argos.
My first proper TV was a Philips 28" wide-screen flat CRT. Would seem tiny nowadays. Yet massive at the same time with big bezels and being really deep.
I think it is partly down to the way TV programs are made; modern, high budget, TV is made with far more detailed sets, special effects etc. Production levels are more like a film, they assume the audience will be watching on a larger screen.
You mean we won't have to pause the film, take our glasses off and peer at the telly to see what the text says
Ordered an LG OLED48B56LA from richer sounds. Hopefully i won't regret not getting a c5
So how long will it take for me to upgrade the Netflix subscription?
Do you have amazon prime? There's a reasonable amount of hdr & 4k content free,
But as above even standard video looks better due to the infinite contrast and pure blacks that OLED can do.
I have a c2 so I dunno what the differences are really but the menu and settings are very comprehensive.. It's worth taking a few hours to watch a few set up guides on YouTube as the Tv's software has *a lot* of configurable options for sound and picture etc... It's well worth taking the time to understand and get to know the settings interface to get the most out of it.
