Living room TV reccomendation

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Loismustdye

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#315109 14-Jun-2024 10:48

Hi all, looking at replacing the living room tv with a new screen, mostly for terrestrial tv and streaming, any “session” for a movie we watch in the lounge on the HT.
The living room is our main living soace with kitchen and dining in it as well and has a lot of glass ranch sliders on one wall, which currently doesnt cause any reflection onto our 11 year old 60 LCD
Looking at an lg 55 qned
https://www.noelleeming.co.nz/p/lg-55-qned86-4k-smart-tv-with-quantum-dot-2024/N228319.html $1900
Or for slightly more a similar sized panasonic oled
https://www.noelleeming.co.nz/p/panasonic-48-4k-oled-with-dolby-atmos-speakers-4k120hz-gaming-2023-tv/N219268.html $2100

Lg comes in at approx $100 less plus a $200 pressy card
Anyone have these screens or any experience with models in the same range. In particular the panasonic UI as our oled in the lounge is an lg and still has all the main apps like plex/youtube etc
As above its likely to be our “daily driver” so to speak with main use for tv, netflix, small amount of sky sport streaming etc.
Thanks

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#3248731 14-Jun-2024 11:25

We have two Panasonic OLEDs; I find the UI and apps fine - and (in what may not be a popular opinion!) I much prefer the Panasonic UI to LG's with its annoying magic remote, even if it is basic and won't win any beauty contests. It has most (if not all?) of the apps we need, though I'd note more demanding apps like Plex take a while to load. We use the built-in apps much of the time, though do have a GCCWGTV attached to both TVs.

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#3249124 14-Jun-2024 18:45

Thanks, biggest concern is the panasonic UI but tour real world experience suggests it works OK.
We can always revert back to the trusty apple tv for the odd app that it doesn’t have

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#3249138 14-Jun-2024 19:18

Love our Panasonic 65 inch , prefer it over our Samsung and our LG ,there are some great deals on the moment

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#3249217 14-Jun-2024 20:37

Be aware your current LCD is probably matte (I'm guessing based on your description about no reflection issue). You will probably find a lot of newer TVs are glossy, certainly OLEDs as they like to show off their inky blacks and contrast, which look better on non-matte screens. If reflections will be an issue in your space there are still matte options, such as the Samsung Frame since their 2022 models, but you might want to sight your chosen options in store before clicking buy.

Also, see if the retailer will throw in an Apple TV or Chromecast with Google TV. Folks will have opinions about whether a dedicated streaming device is necessary or not, but something often overlooked in that debate is TV software gets far less frequently updated than the streaming devices. You don't want to end up with a TV that can't stream Netflix, for example, just because the TV isn't up-to-date.