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Same for me. Love my LG 65 OLED.

Only had my LG65 OLED for 5 months, can't fault it at all.

We still love our Panasonic OLED, stunning images and colours. No burn-in (it seems better in that respect than our five year old Panasonic Plasma), although we've only had it a few months.

Sony would have been our next choice, but I've heard of complaints when a service in Android crashes, leaving an error message box in the middle of the screen.

We have had our Panasonic OLED EZ1000 for over 18 months now and the picture quality has got better with time.
Prior to buying we auditioned the top of the range Loewe, LG and Sony.
The Loewe looked nice aesthetically but the picture was so so. Same for the LG although the C series is great value.
The Sony relied on too much processing for my liking.
Went for the £7k Pany at the end because it gave the best picture, colours and motion handling.
We only use it in Pure mode with all the processing switched off.
Still have our 10 year old Kuro and occassinally spin a few discs eg Aliens for the dark scenes but the OLED is an improvement and hope it will last as long as our Kuro!

Over the years most of the televisions that I bought were Panasonic. However, when it came to Panasonic OLED, typically, in store, the actual panel was slightly bent.

Our eyes are different, but for me and my other half, the Loewe was substantively better than the Panasonic - both visually and sonically.

The only thing I found with the Bild 7 was some sort of edge enhancement going on that couldn't be turned off.
I know you don't sit a foot from the screen, but if you get that close you can easily see it, same with the Philips.
Now, most people I have viewed them with see this as a sharper image, I saw it as something that would annoy me.

I still have a B6, swapped for a C7 and decided to keep the B6 as I actually preferred the image on it, so returned the C7.

I have got image burn on mine, you can see it with a 100% red window, never in actual content though.
Mine is from the Yellow ticker tape on Sky news, [censored] they have to use yellow is beyond me?!

TV pictures a bit like sound are quite subjective and "the best" doesn't suit everyone. Over the years I can appreciate high sound quality but I find picture quality way more subjective. So the more money I can spend on sound equipment the more I can appreciate the quality or faithfulness to real life situations.

However picture quality not so. I like cinema and go as often as I can and always have but I'm not always enthusiastic about how the film makers make the picture I see. Likewise the current HDR tend in TVs is not really to my liking. I don't have a cinema room so viewing is in a traditional lounge with daylight / wall reflections all thrown in. I watch 4k Blurays and sometimes prefer non-HDR picture no matter how "non-ideal" this may be in experts' eyes.

A projector is out of the question in terms of home living aesthetics, expense and my better half!

I have owned Sony TVs for over 40 years and constantly view the likes of Sony, Panasonic, Samsung and LG for my next purchase. I use my Meridian 5.1 for all viewing (via Oppo, Sky Q or optical 5.1 from the TV for some non-Sky streaming) so don't care what the TV sound is like. In that respect my wife hates sound from a TV as she's used to the Meridian quality. So it's always about the picture and what I like it to look like. My current Sony 4k LED is not bad but has shocking viewing angles. In that respect OLED and now the latest Samsung QLED are way better.

Ultimately the next TV will be LG/Sony/Panasonic OLED or Samsung QLED. I have viewed Loewe but find them expensive relative to the others for little picture quality improvement (to my taste in picture). My wife says I'll look at them all and still buy a Sony! Doing comparative viewing in a shop is really tricky due to lighting, relative location of the sets and the shop settings.

QB

I like Sony the most.

I have had a them for years, and it is the only LCD I have ever liked.

HX923, W905 and now an XE9005.

I have no issue going from the OLED to the Sony FALD LCD, many things I prefer about the Sony.

I agree with you on HDR too, often they have just got the settings wrong.
Going between the standard and HDR version you can see this easily.

I'm sure if you have not really calibrated your screen it looks great, but I wish there was an option on Netflix etc. to stick with 4k and turn HDR off.

It looks as though Loewe has once more declared insolvency.

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I like my Samsung QLED just fine.

I do think the gap between OLED and LCD has closed to the point where it comes down to personal choice.

The new Samsung Q90R QLED gets round most of the issues that LCD tech still had, it has good viewing angles, doesn't go too dark with its dimming in dark scenes and crush detail and black level is now at a level where it really isn't an issue.

I still think there are certain scenes were OLED still does what an LCD can never do, no matter how many backlight zones it has, but overall I'm pleased that LCD has got so good as I prefer the motion on LCD and more importantly I 'like' to have Sky News on all day, and with their stupid bright yellow ticker tape it wears the pixels in that area far quicker than elsewhere.

After 20 years with plasma and OLEDs I have only ever had a problem with Sky and their yellow ticker tape!!
I have been a gamer for years, I even left the Singstar logo on my Pioneer 500M Kuro for 12 hours to prove image burn is not an issue to the guys on AVforums, but OLED does not like yellow logos and banners, be careful!