New TV

[steveblue8]

Hello

I have mentioned this before regarding black artifacts and blocking on my tv through sky Q,

I understand after getting support from this forum

that sky q being old now and newer televisions are more advanced that my budget samsung Q60D tv

will always show this,

so now i am buying a new tv, and would like peoples opinion of what to buy ?

not being really tech savvy, and really overwhelmed by all the new televisions it is hard to choose,

A friend reccomended 3 televisions, samsung S95, Sony bravia 9 or Sony bravia 8.11,

amy help offered would be greatly appreciated, i am looking at a 65 inch tv

Thanks

[BenJoBanjo]

@steveblue8 

The Sony Bravia 8ii was recently crowned the best TV of 2025 after blind testing against the other main competitors. It's an excellent TV, very versatile, with stunning picture quality, far exceeding the technology in the decade old Sky Q hardware. 

If I was in the market for a new TV and had the money that's the TV I would buy. 

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@steveblue8 wrote:

Hello

I have mentioned this before regarding black artifacts and blocking on my tv through sky Q,

I understand after getting support from this forum

that sky q being old now and newer televisions are more advanced that my budget samsung Q60D tv

will always show this,

so now i am buying a new tv, and would like peoples opinion of what to buy ?

not being really tech savvy, and really overwhelmed by all the new televisions it is hard to choose,

A friend reccomended 3 televisions, samsung S95, Sony bravia 9 or Sony bravia 8.11,

amy help offered would be greatly appreciated, i am looking at a 65 inch tv

Thanks

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The Samsung s95d or f models are a good tv to have with SkyQ, I have the d model with excellent picture quality. The margins between them all in the recent hdtvtest shootout are small but the Samsung comes out slightly better in a bright room. and the best living room TV.

Really any choice is down to personal preferences.

[steveblue8]

Hello again

thanks for your reply, but i had not realised how much televisions are ?

would a cheaper mini led tv about £1000 still suffer from black crushing through sky q box ?

Thanks

[BenJoBanjo]

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@steveblue8 wrote:

Hello again

thanks for your reply, but i had not realised how much televisions are ?

would a cheaper mini led tv about £1000 still suffer from black crushing through sky q box ?

Thanks

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It depends on how the source content is encoded in the first place. One of the reasons I stopped watching HBO content on Sky several years ago was because they used such a high level of compression that it caused horrendous posterisation and near-black flickering to occur on dark scenes. No amount of money spent on a TV could improve that. 

Sky have improved their compression in recent years, particularly on UHD HDR content, but less compressed content from third party apps on a dedicated streaming device as opposed to a Q box, still tends to look better. 

MiniLED TVs can produced excellent image quality. Look for one with as high a peak brightness as possible and as many local dimming zones as possible. Try and watch some dark content on one before committing to buy. Some can have aggressive dimming algorithms where the backlight fluctuations can be distracting or cause blooming around subtitles. 

I personally much prefer OLED which, although less bright than mini-LED, produces an overall better image quality for me, especially as we don't watch much TV in daylight. 

[steveblue8]

Thanks for your reply

i was looking at a bravia 7 or lg 65 C 

i know they are more than £1000

but its so confusing with so many tvs to choose from

Thanks

[Chodley]

Get an OLED. Mini LED is ok but OLED is still the best.

unless you tend to watch in a bright room during the day.

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@steveblue8 wrote:

Thanks for your reply

i was looking at a bravia 7 or lg 65 C 

i know they are more than £1000

but its so confusing with so many tvs to choose from

Thanks

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If you were to go with a mini led tv then TCL have a reasonable range. Have a look in this thread https://www.avforums.com/forums/tcl-tvs.591/

[steveblue8]

Hello again

Thanks for all the help i have received

i have got it down to two tvs, Samsung S95F or LG G5 Both 65 inch

both expensive but have saved up

any feedback to which one with  the sky Q Box, I do watch in the day some light comes in the room ?

would be greatly received

Thanks

[BenJoBanjo]

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@steveblue8 wrote:

Hello again

Thanks for all the help i have received

i have got it down to two tvs, Samsung S95F or LG G5 Both 65 inch

both expensive but have saved up

any feedback to which one with  the sky Q Box, I do watch in the day some light comes in the room ?

would be greatly received

Thanks

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LG G5. 

It's a more versatile TV and has Dolby Vision so you'll get the benefit of it from Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+ and other streaming services, using the apps on the TV itself, not the Q box.

Samsung don't have a Dolby Vision licence and is limited to HDR10+ which Sky Q won't output either. 

[steveblue8]

Thanks for the reply

I was leaning towards the LG

but was worried it would be darker than the Samsung ?

[BenJoBanjo]

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@steveblue8 wrote:

Thanks for the reply

I was leaning towards the LG

but was worried it would be darker than the Samsung ?

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You will not be disappointed by the brightness level of the LG - it can go brighter than you'll ever need it to. You would need to sit it side by side with the Samsung and play identical content at the same time to notice much in the way of overall brightness difference.  

[steveblue8]

Thanks for the info

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@BenJoBanjo wrote:

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@steveblue8 wrote:

Hello again

Thanks for all the help i have received

i have got it down to two tvs, Samsung S95F or LG G5 Both 65 inch

both expensive but have saved up

any feedback to which one with  the sky Q Box, I do watch in the day some light comes in the room ?

would be greatly received

Thanks

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LG G5. 

It's a more versatile TV and has Dolby Vision so you'll get the benefit of it from Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+ and other streaming services, using the apps on the TV itself, not the Q box.

Samsung don't have a Dolby Vision licence and is limited to HDR10+ which Sky Q won't output either. 

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HDR10+ or DV, makes no difference as with today's TV's with their higher peak brightness, DV only came about when OLED's were all of low nits anyway, plus many recent tv's have excellent tone mapping as well. Thus any differences are extremely marginal.

There is no real justification in having DV over HDR10+ unless the individual has a collection of HDR blu-ray's with most of the streaming sources having both DV and HDR10+ content anyway.

Sky Q outputs in HLG , alongside the BBC's iplayer content.

The G5 was actually released flawed and with many picture quality issues, LG has released a number of firmware updates in an attempt to resolve them but the 'purists' are still stating they are there.

[steveblue8]

Thanks for the reply

yes people do say greenish blueish tint on LG G5 and burn in still a problem?

Also samsumg S95F has magenta tinge with burn in?

I thought about Bravia 9 but feedback says they are rubbish?

so many different tv types its mind blowing?