The flagship set for this year, so far at least, is the OLED+908, which is an OLED screen with Micro Lens Array technology. The main benefit of this technology is a brighter panel – brighter still than 2022’s OLED.EX panels, with a 70% jump in peak brightness to 2100 nits.

like you I typically waited until I was ready to turn the TV off, mostly at the end of a evenings viewing. No matter which picture setting you go for, we’d recommend switching off most of the extra processing or setting it to low, and adjusting from there if you need to – apart from motion processing, which you’ll want to switch on. On the HDR front, the OLED806 has pretty much the full house, with HDR10, HLG, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision all supported. HDR10+ Adaptive is on board, too, allowing the TV to automatically adjust HDR10+ content to ambient lighting conditions, and while Dolby Vision IQ isn’t officially supported, Philips says the combination of standard Dolby Vision and its AI-powered light sensor effectively does the same thing.

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While selecting modes and changing settings involves interacting with Philips’s own menu system, the core user experience is provided by Google, in the form of Android TV 9. The fact that there are essentially two operating systems working concurrently makes for a less unified experience than you get from a Samsung or LG TV (the Home screen feels more like a source than the true core of the user interface) but Android TV is getting better with each new version and is better laden with apps than ever before. Of course, the picture is only as good as the processor managing the image and the new P5 AI picture perfect engine did a great job during my viewing time. It controls image sharpness, motion handling and colour realism and unscaled ITV1 from standard definition to 4K in amazing quality. Lesser 4K panels suffer from poor quality upscaling but this wasn’t a problem here, programming was sharp and smooth as you would expect from a top end television. Approximate diagonal size of the display. If the manufacturer does not provide such information, the diagonal is calculated from the width and height of the screen.

There's also compatibility with the HDR Gaming Initiative Group (HGIG) system, which passes control of game HDR to your console or PC, and the 55OLED806 sees Philips finally getting serious about input lag. Here, 40/60Hz and 1080p/60Hz sources take just 15ms to render – less than half the time took on 2020's OLED805 set (HCC #313). This also drops to 8ms with 120Hz sources compared to around 25ms on the OLED805. USB recording for digital channels only, recordings may be limited by broadcast copy protection (CI+). Country and channel restrictions may apply.From the OLED856 to the 9206, 4K/120Hz, Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and AMD’s FreeSync Premium Pro will be supported. Philips is finally a TV tuned for gamers. 5th Gen P5 AI picture processor

The interface is clean and easy enough to navigate. It’s not the most intuitive, nor the most clearly laid out but it’s really not the clunky experience that you may have seen before – it’s much smoother and faster than the Android TV of yore. The only slight flaw with the OLED806’s delivery of Interstellar is that it doesn’t suppress the film grain in the way that some other TVs do, even when noise reduction is switched on. One could easily argue, though, that the film grain is part of the presentation, and it’s certainly not something that we find off-putting. Upscaling is handled well by the set’s P5 processor, and HD content retains a lot of the same qualities as 4K footage, with punchy, vibrant colours, superb detail and good contrast. There is a touch of noticeable noise, particularly in streamed content, but it’s still a very enjoyable watch indeed.Philips’ TV App collection is left out, though we can’t imagine many will be crestfallen by that. There is VRR but no eARC or an auto low latency mode. There’s greater dynamics and punch to the Philips’s sound, and a crispness and clarity that ensures you miss little. The Sony A8’s actuator arrangement ensures that audio and video are better spatially linked, but the OLED805 sounds better than most. Verdict This television contains lead only in certain parts or components where no technology alternatives exist in accordance with existing exemption clauses under the RoHS Directive. We make big reductions to the Colour, OLED Contrast, Sharpness and Brightness settings, and turn off Perfect Natural Reality, Perfect Contrast and Ultra Resolution. You may well find that using one of the other presets as your starting point results in fewer adjustments being necessary. The OLED805 is also the first Philips to support Filmmaker Mode, although it doesn’t appear as a named preset in the TV’s menus. To activate it, you simply select the Movie mode. Though why you’d want to is beyond us: the UHD Alliance might claim that it delivers the picture exactly as intended, but it’s hard to believe that the bland, lifeless image produced by the preset (and the Filmmaker Mode on LG’s 2020 models, for that matter) is what any director had in mind when sitting in the editing suite.

Unlike the OLED and LCD ranges, the Mini LED will feature a Smart TV experience designed by Philips itself, rather than Android TV. Three-sided Ambilight will be on board though, as will feature an integrated soundbar designed by Bowers & Wilkins. Dimensions, weight and color Information about the dimensions and the weight of the specific model with and without stand as well as the colors, in which it is offered to the market. Width is just about the most challenging film out there when it comes to motion processing, and it causes problems for the Philips’s default Standard motion setting. It’s worth pointing out that this setting is capable of some amazing feats, and for much of our time with the OLED805 we’re delighted by the smoothness and sharpness of its motion, particularly where consistent, steady pans are concerned, such as the one across the river towards the town. TV is wall mounted, inside the sweet spot of 10-20cm away from the wall. Wall is mushroom in colour, so dark cream, richer magnolia kinda deal. If I set the lounge light option to display green, then I get a fairly decent green colour, however when set to follow video and there are scenes of trees/grassland/jungle etc I get yellowy brown at best. I've set the wall colour to the closest match I can see but no amount of fiddling with other brightness / saturation settings seems to be able to fix this. As your 856 is new don‘t overly worry if it’s doing this in shorter times than mine above, as I seem to remember the times were quite shorter when mine was new, or perhaps I was just watching it more…

This time there's a 3.1.2ch Dolby Atmos soundbar strapped onto the stand which makes for a very tidy flagship OLED TV solution indeed. It comes in 48in, 55in and 65in sizes and the satisfaction that each time the soundbar has been tuned to make sure that the audio sounds as if it's coming from the centre of the screen. At the bottom of the range is the 7506. It boasts a better specification than the 7906 in a few respects, evident by the P5 Perfect Engine processor, DTS Play-Fi, as well as HDMI 2.1 support in VRR, eARC and ALLM. We’d speculate that some of the 800 series OLED features, such as the Fast Motion Clarity, may not make it to this model. No release date or price has been revealed yet. The downside of OLED is its potential longevity, as it's an organic material that can decay and it's typically can't reach the peak brightness of LED panels - which means that HDR effects can be greater from a LED-based panel. The operating humidity shows the acceptable level of humidity, in which the display will function flawlessly. It sets a lower and an upper humidity level for safe operation and is measured in percentage.