LG vs. Sony 65” OLED

Which TV is best? A general overview.
 

This will never be known unless you are prepared to educate yourself with the finer details of picture quality. All you need is your remote control. After experimenting and tweaking you may be relieved to find you have “upgraded” your picture, and no longer think a new TV is required.

You will never know what your current TV is capable of unless you learn how to use all the options available for fine tuning your set in the TV menu options.

NEVER just buy the best looking set with the best looking picture you see in a showroom setting. There are ways to improve your picture resolution and sound if you bother to experiment.

My first rule of thumb with any set l would like to purchase is to first ask the sales person for a black check….. If the overall screen test exhibits any grey areas or clouding, reject that model and move on to another example. No complete black background will compromise picture resolution.

Back home do final set up using live broadcasts like a snooker match (colour of balls), or a tennis match (to check the net clarity), and best of all F1 for speed and picture motion. Be armed also with the best Blurays you own with fast CGI moving images to test the set the correct level of motion processing required.

My understanding is with Sony, you're paying for much better image processing. But I'm sure the differences may seem subtle and LG often times seems like a great value  

I do own two Sony's, one is 14 years old 1080p, the other is a nine year old 4k. Both still operate like the day I purchased them. 

I have a Panasonic 60 inch plasma TV.   I’m still waiting for the next best thing or that it breaks

@sextantcv4  My buddy had the last 60” Panny Plasma and about a year ago got a Sony Bravia 7 microLED TV and thinks it is much better all around.  I was curious how it compares to the similarly-priced Sony OLED Bravia 8 I just bought and saw this review that I found very interesting in comparing the two technologies and their relative strengths and differences.  Anyway, just thought I’d mention it as he had a similar TV to you and found the Bravia 8 to be a significant upgrade, and he loved his Panny Plasma (he’s a very knowledgeable and critical videophile BTW) so he doesn’t say this lightly.  FWIW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taz8Ur_j_I

@soix  thank you for posting the video!  Looks like I should definitely keep in mind the micro LED option 

@stereosanctity Sony TV sets of old……

Yes l agree with your assessment of the Sony (Bravia?) processing. Years ago it was right up there with Panasonic Viera sets from memory. In fact the Bravia processor was amongst the quickest on some TVs and were favoured by gamers for the quick refresh rates. The set up menus are brilliant and the TVs work best when most of the settings “in settings” are actually set to off. Talking to TV engineers this is the broad concensous with all TVs, the more processing you can eliminate the purer the picture. The Sony Bravia motion processing in most cases does not even have to be set to “high” for optimal performance. Take my advice, turn off as many of the settings as possible that have been preset by ANY manufacturer. The set you have just purchased has probably been optimised for the retailers showroom which under bright ambient lighting is just the opposite to your living space.

l have had 3 Sony TVs over the last 20 years and still have two (one over 15 years old slumbering in a bedroom). I had originally bought an LG 32” for that bedroom but it went gizzzzzz with the sound one day, like a siren going off that you couldn’t stop without pulling the plug. Richer Sounds exchanged the set instantly. It was a common fault apparently. When l fine tuned and adjusted the TV back lighting for mainly in the dark viewing, it developed another fault. During dark background titles at the end of films when there were not “many bright titles” the TV would shut down, turn itself off… not detecting a picture. So that one went back to exchange. A year later l sold it half price to my sister. In short order it developed another fault on a part of the set l never used… the headphone socket she used to feed her sound system. It went back for repair under warranty and a month after the warranty finished the sound went completely.

So that’s pretty much underlined my opinion on LG. I will never buy one ever again. All of the Sony TVs l have owned never caused concern. lt amazes my son that l am still using a 12 year old (not a 4K) set in my cinema room with “an old” Cambridge Audio Universal 752BD. 
 

l will say it again …. Turn as many menu settings to “off” as you can!