Philips 65OLED8 05
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The Dutch company has managed to combine performance improvements with aggressive pricing to hit a very sweet spot
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This set has recently taken home our Best Buy Award for best TV over £2000, so we feel it deserves a full magazine review rather than the half-page we could give it for our Awards issue.
Philips knows that Ambilight alone, though brilliant, won’t be enough to convince everyone to buy its OLED over one of its many rivals, so it’s also pushing the envelope in the two most crucial areas; performance and price.
In short, not only does the Philips look and sound better than rivals such as the LG CX, it costs less, too. Ambilight, in the end, is just a lovely sweetener.
Spectacular extension
Ambilight extends the on-screen action onto the wall around the TV in the form of coloured light. It looks spectacular, but it also benefits the performance, making the display seem bigger, drawing the eye into the action and increasing perceived contrast.
The only downside is that the OLED805 is thicker than some of its rivals (just over 1cm thicker than the LG CX, for example), and that a gap of 10-20cm needs to be left between the screen and the wall in order to maximise the effect. For us, the trade-off is well worth it.
The set is broadly handsome; a pure black panel with a thin metal rim (although the visible screen actually begins a few millimetres inside this) and dainty, metal feet. They give the set a footprint of around 80cm and keep the screen low to the furniture on which it’s placed. If you need to make space for a soundbar, there are extension pieces in the box that allow the TV to stand taller.