Philips 65OLED935
Philips’s latest OLED TV features an integrated B&W soundbar, but does this slice of AV convenience offer the best of both worlds?
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Television | £2699 whf.cm/65OLED935 |
A good array of connections, with four HDMI sockets
Combining a television with an integrated soundbar may be the height of convenience, but unless that soundbar is top quality, you’re stuck with it. The Philips 65OLED935 is a sleek, powerful television that aims to get around this pitfall by having hi-fi specialist Bowers & Wilkins design the speaker system.
This isn’t Philips’s first TV and soundbar combination. Its predecessor, the OLED934, also had a Bowers bar built into a stand. This time it has a more modest price, with the 3.1.2ch Dolby Atmos soundbar making this a tempting AV solution for those who like to keep things simple and clean on the eye.
But to describe the Philips 65OLED935 in those terms is doing it a disservice. Beneath that steel exterior, there is a TV with impressive specs that could even outperform its soundbar-less sibling, the five-star-rated 65OLED805. With a dual AI engine inside its top-of-the-line P5 processor, Philips is confident enough to describe the 935’s performance as OLED+.
Tidy sums
The Philips OLED935 comes with two chrome brackets in the box, one for wall-mounting the other to use as a stand. A cable tidying system means that the join between the soundbar and the TV itself is seamless. The stand needs a surface at least 88cm wide and 26cm deep to accommodate it.