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Currently we are in the process of moving to a unit in approx April and looking for 2 TVs.

 

Were converting one bedroom to a media room (for movies that my wife doesn’t want to watch 😂) but the living room still needs a TV.

 

currently the room is glass on two sides so glare during the day makes it difficult to watch without put blinds down. But most importantly is the sound because with doors open you get street noise so the current no name brand tv is almost impossible to hear.

 

looking to watch things like sport during the day and movies etc would be in the other room.

 

looked at the Samsung picture frame TVs ie anti glare, but would this be the best option as they have a separate box and speaker quality is unknown to me? TCL do similar in front facing speakers.

 

Looking at 55-65 size range and approx up to $2000 but price is secondary to something that actually meets needs.

 

Secondary and not really the purpose of this topic is, media room I’m looking at same size but it’s better light and sound controlled so more about  handling darker movies ie action is probably more important eg probably an OLED but who’s? Sound detail over sound size is important.

 

anyway, if you have any suggestions please comment. Thanks.

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Suggest using Rtings as your initial research tool.  

https://www.rtings.com/tv

Yes, USA models and brands, and sometimes questionable ratings but it provides a lot of criteria that you can consider.  Then with a shortlist look at other reviews and local models. 

 

Yes, OLED is still the best, but not necessarily so in a bright room. 

 

As for audio, the best ones are a pass but most are poor.  You will be  better off adding a sound bar.

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Im a big believer that in a media room go as big as you can afford and also leave money for sound. Being able to immerse yourself in the sound is 80% of the experience imo.

 

Samsung have an 85 inch qled for under $2k that’s where I’d start and then if a sound bar is all you can get away suggest looking at a sennheiser ambeo or Sonos and sub. If Sonos you can connect some rears which in a small room will probably sound good enough given sound isn’t high on the priority list atm. Will be a clean setup too. I have a Sonos arc and sub in my living room and it sounds pretty good, even for music.

 

if 85 in the media room go 65 in the living room so when you go to the media room it’s a bigger experience.

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Our oled is in lounge room that is surrounded with windows that can all be closed off with block out blinds either way windows open or shut if seems to do fine in there …

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All TV's seem to be at some discounts ATM, BUT, you have the CES 2025 on between Jan 8th-11th, I'd wait to see what each TV manufacturer that is showing there new models are going to be. SONY don't do CES anymore.

The usual thing is the new TV's are announced at CES, prices of the old models start to go down around late Feb/March so they can clear the warehouse for new stock.

That's usually the best time of year to buy a new TV.

 

No question about it, LED/LCD for the high amount of light room

Nearly every LED/LCD will suffer from screen reflection, no matter what supposed anti glare coating is put on it, the more of a anti glare coating a LED/LCD has, the less sharp the picture will be [It's a annoying trade off] plus you have the other trade off which is a narrow viewing angle with LED/LCD.

The only OLED that you might be able to use in the Bright room would be a Samsung S95D, but since Samsung has not fitted a heatsink to the back of this QD-OLED,  I don't know how long the panel would last.

[Sony use the same panel in their A95L, and fit a heatsink to it [And charge accordingly], but it is unavailable in Australia for reasons unknown]

 

I'd strongly AVOID any SAMSUNG TV that used a separate box, they are notorious for having problems, or just stop working, and good luck trying to get it fixed, Samsung are also notorious for not honoring warranties [You don't get to be Number 1 on the complaints list on the NSW dept of fair trading for nothing ]

To be honest, SAMSUNG is trading on it's name it made, when it WAS making decent TV's, those days have gone unfortunately , and have been for a few years now.[unless you buy a Top line model....even then]

 

They are still better than a lot of the Chinese brands like Hisense , mainly because the Chinese brands badly written operating software is appalling, so many things go wrong with their TV's because of it.

 

OLED for the light controlled room.I'd probably opt for a LG G4 model, which are at a attractive price ATM.

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On 21/12/2024 at 10:27 AM, Tweaky said:

No question about it, LED/LCD for the high amount of light room

Nearly every LED/LCD will suffer from screen reflection, no matter what supposed anti glare coating is put on it, the more of a anti glare coating a LED/LCD has, the less sharp the picture will be [It's a annoying trade off] plus you have the other trade off which is a narrow viewing angle with LED/LCD.

The only OLED that you might be able to use in the Bright room would be a Samsung S95D, but since Samsung has not fitted a heatsink to the back of this QD-OLED,  I don't know how long the panel would last.

[Sony use the same panel in their A95L, and fit a heatsink to it [And charge accordingly], but it is unavailable in Australia for reasons unknown]

we have the sony a90j with heat sink on back.. to be honest though most OLED are designed for 4k uhd these days so have twice the output of older TVs that used to just do SD TV so manage well in bright rooms quite easily.. 

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37 minutes ago, betty boop said:

we have the sony a90j with heat sink on back.. to be honest though most OLED are designed for 4k uhd these days so have twice the output of older TVs that used to just do SD TV so manage well in bright rooms quite easily.. 

Sort of true, the problem is that to have them work in a bright light room, you'd have to have the TV's light output set at MAX at all times, especially if it hasn't got a heatsink fitted to the panel [which only each manufacturers Top models do]

 

I wouldn't recommend that for a OLED no matter how much new technology has come.

You'll usually find that a calibrated OLED usually looks the best on none 4K material with the brightness set at around 75%, most of the calibration settings given at the RTings site seem to bear that out.

Just let the TV auto adjust the light output to MAX when playing 4K UHD, which if you end up watching a lot of streamed content from the likes of APPLE or KAYO/FOX Sports, will be in that format anyway.

 

OLED TV are like the old CRT TV's, as in the brightness will reduce over time [Also BLUE output will be the first to show this], so treat them nicely by NOT having them running at MAX Brightness 24/7 will help them live a bit longer.

 

I'd also chip in to say try and get a OLED that can play back Dolby Vision encoded material, that is the icing on the cake when it comes to PQ.

More and more streamed content [especially from APPLE] is in Dolby Vision/Dolby Digital - occasionally Dolby Atmos as well.

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5 minutes ago, Tweaky said:

Sort of true, the problem is that to have them work in a bright light room, you'd have to have the TV's light output set at MAX at all times, especially if it hasn't got a heatsink fitted to the panel [which only each manufacturers Top models do]

Tweaks I think we over state these things our lounge room filled with light all around has been through crt to 3 gen of plasma to oled and it’s fine really 

 

5 minutes ago, Tweaky said:

wouldn't recommend that for a OLED no matter how much new technology has come.

You'll usually find that a calibrated OLED usually looks the best on none 4K material with the brightness set at around 75%, most of the calibration settings given at the RTings site seem to bear that out.

Reality is people adjust expectations in a light filled room surrounded by windows no one is going to be doing any critical viewing of any sort in those sort of conditions with any panel. even if we’re pumping in light from a panel you are tying to fight light with light. Given the 10s of thousands of nits possible with daylight you can’t win …let alone all the reflections that no amount of anti reflective coatings going to help.

 

5 minutes ago, Tweaky said:

Just let the TV auto adjust the light output to MAX when playing 4K UHD, which if you end up watching a lot of streamed content from the likes of APPLE or KAYO/FOX Sports, will be in that format anyway.

They do anyways … we have never jacked up light for when windows opens around the room and it’s not like it’s still a complete sun room or something 

 

if we want we likely shuts few blinds for any sort of sensible viewing most folks would. 

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