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New TV - recommendations or stay away from?

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  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
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    Zellah said:
    no1catman said:
    mobileron said:
    Tosh is now a supermarket brand along with Sharp,Hitachi etc,made by Vestel in Turkey.
    Interesting - did not know that.
    ...
    The morall of this story is - stay away from Toshiba!!

    As was previously stated your TV is (was) Vestel in new colours.  Most other brands are repackaged Vestel products - Toshiba, Sony, Goodman, HItachi, JVC, the Argos brands Alba and Bush, Sharp, Panasonic (off and on)...  The only companies who make their own TVs these days are Sony, Samsung and LG, which is reflected in the price.  Some of the other brands like Philips pulled out years ago and "their" TVs are again something else with their name slapped on it.

    So if you want to avoid Vestel (aka cheap and cheerful), don't buy anything unless its one of the three exceptions.
    I need to replace my 42" Pioneer Kuro plasma (428XD) and was planning on buying a new 48" OLED tv. The 48" Philips 935 OLED with a Bowers and Wilkins soundbar was on the top of my list as it seems to get great reviews everywhere. Should I reconsider as you say Philips no longer make their own TVs? The other options for me are the 48" LG CX OLED and the 48" Sony A9 OLED. All three TVs are around the £1500 mark but given that I only buy a new TV every 10-15 years, cost isn't a huge factor.
    Cheers.


    Go 55"
    if going LG check you need to pay the extra for the C the B are often better value. 
    Stick Panasonic on your list.


  • roddydogs
    roddydogs Posts: 7,479 Forumite
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    People still feeding a thread from may?
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Thats a bit nasty .
    OP may be gone but still of interest this topic to others .
    getmore4less post of particu8lar interest to me .

  • Zellah
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    Zellah said:
    no1catman said:
    mobileron said:
    Tosh is now a supermarket brand along with Sharp,Hitachi etc,made by Vestel in Turkey.
    Interesting - did not know that.
    ...
    The morall of this story is - stay away from Toshiba!!

    As was previously stated your TV is (was) Vestel in new colours.  Most other brands are repackaged Vestel products - Toshiba, Sony, Goodman, HItachi, JVC, the Argos brands Alba and Bush, Sharp, Panasonic (off and on)...  The only companies who make their own TVs these days are Sony, Samsung and LG, which is reflected in the price.  Some of the other brands like Philips pulled out years ago and "their" TVs are again something else with their name slapped on it.

    So if you want to avoid Vestel (aka cheap and cheerful), don't buy anything unless its one of the three exceptions.
    I need to replace my 42" Pioneer Kuro plasma (428XD) and was planning on buying a new 48" OLED tv. The 48" Philips 935 OLED with a Bowers and Wilkins soundbar was on the top of my list as it seems to get great reviews everywhere. Should I reconsider as you say Philips no longer make their own TVs? The other options for me are the 48" LG CX OLED and the 48" Sony A9 OLED. All three TVs are around the £1500 mark but given that I only buy a new TV every 10-15 years, cost isn't a huge factor.
    Cheers.


    Go 55"
    if going LG check you need to pay the extra for the C the B are often better value. 
    Stick Panasonic on your list.


    Thanks, but anything over 50" is too big. The 48" OLEDs - at present only from Sony, LG and Philips (not panasonic AFAIK) - are the only 3 choices available to me. I did have my heart set on the 48" Sony OLED but the sound on the Philips 48" OLED is supposed to be great, with a similar picture quality on both TVs. Not too keen on the 48" LG OLED as it doesn't run Android TV which the Sony and Philips OLEDs do (I use Kodi a lot on our bedroom tv which is a Sony LCD). Decisions, decisions, decisions....
    https://www.avforums.com/reviews/philips-oled-935-tv-review.18144
  • wongataa
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    Zellah said:
    no1catman said:
    mobileron said:
    Tosh is now a supermarket brand along with Sharp,Hitachi etc,made by Vestel in Turkey.
    Interesting - did not know that.
    ...
    The morall of this story is - stay away from Toshiba!!

    As was previously stated your TV is (was) Vestel in new colours.  Most other brands are repackaged Vestel products - Toshiba, Sony, Goodman, HItachi, JVC, the Argos brands Alba and Bush, Sharp, Panasonic (off and on)...  The only companies who make their own TVs these days are Sony, Samsung and LG, which is reflected in the price.  Some of the other brands like Philips pulled out years ago and "their" TVs are again something else with their name slapped on it.

    So if you want to avoid Vestel (aka cheap and cheerful), don't buy anything unless its one of the three exceptions.
    I need to replace my 42" Pioneer Kuro plasma (428XD) and was planning on buying a new 48" OLED tv. The 48" Philips 935 OLED with a Bowers and Wilkins soundbar was on the top of my list as it seems to get great reviews everywhere. Should I reconsider as you say Philips no longer make their own TVs? The other options for me are the 48" LG CX OLED and the 48" Sony A9 OLED. All three TVs are around the £1500 mark but given that I only buy a new TV every 10-15 years, cost isn't a huge factor.
    Cheers.


    Philips sold their TV division years ago to a Chinese company.  All Philips televisions for a good while now have nothing to do with Philips  - the electrical company based in the Netherlands.  There is nothing wrong with Philips televisions and as you have noticed they get good reviews.
  • mobileron
    mobileron Posts: 1,218 Forumite
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    Get the Sony for the better quality video panel.
  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
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    They are all still all LG panels inside.

    The differences are in the connections, software, picture processing

    Sony better motion and sound

    For many the LG wins with 4x HDMI 2.1 ports which support variable sync

    .neither has HDR10+  if that is wanted it is back to the Philips.
  • Just had great service from Richer Sounds - under 6 year warranty on a Panasonic 50" TV.  Ended up swapping the TV out for a brand new Samsung 55" (UE55TU8500). Way better TV (especially on the apps built in - which many manufacturers only pay lip-service to).  Can't fault it, picture, sound, all good - and also came with a brand new 6 year warranty again. Superb.
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