Panasonic OLED woes

[rabski]

Too true, clearly you haven't!

In fairness TV tech moves rapidly and in the past a properly set up Samsung is fine, especially no bigger than 55 inch in my experience. I don't like how Samsung try & build in obsolescence to their offerings though.

I found at the same 'asian cuisine' retailer the LG 65 inch was set on default settings not demo settings and it was all about the black definition. It was stunning. No way does it look fake. Hence why we bought it & once played around with settings we are very happy.

We're not critical movie watchers, we don't own a player DVD, Bluray or 4K and my wife mostly watches crap Thai movies on YT. But it produces stunning images really well... all of the time.

Fair nuff. Dunno about obsolescence, but then I don't tend to touch apps or use them much, so we haven't had any issue. We've got YT, Netfilx, Qobuz and the BBC and ITV catchups, but that's it. My main thing with Samsung has been (for us) 100% reliability. As above though, we don't watch much.

 

[Hornucopia]

Wow! I’m still using my KURO Pioneer 50 inch plasma-top of the line for years.
Still -hope I’m not hexing this! -working well.
though I’m sure the picture isn’t as defined as OLED, but good and worry free. Must be 15 years old……guessing, bought Costco, as end of line. You can still get them,there’s a guy specialising on t’bay.
As to size, there’s a relation of room size to screen size.
50 inch supposed to be fine for 15 x 10 ish rooms (feet)
A bit like speaker size? Though I’ve always had big speakers……

 

[Signs]

I think my Panasonic 902b is one of the best TV's I've ever seen !

 

[AnilS]

@Hornucopia I had a Pioneer 507 (pre Kuro). Never screen burnt and given away to a friend. Still no burn.

I have an old Panasonic plasma in the garage. Only used on free view. No screen burn.

Now, I'm told by Panasonic, I've screen burnt this, much newer, OLED TV.

I haven't done anything wrong so it seems the newer stuff is inferior.

Again, I'm still looking at narrowed it down to a Sony X95L.

Waiting on RS response now.

 

[eastsoutheast]

I would buy from John Lewis and purchase their screen burn waranty. My LG77 OLED CX range is perfect after more than 3 years although its used carefully and no gaming.

 

[AnilS]

I would buy from John Lewis and purchase their screen burn waranty. My LG77 OLED CX range is perfect after more than 3 years although its used carefully and no gaming.

Sadly, I have to buy the replacement from RS as they have made a cash offer to take back the faulty TV. I can't take that money and shop elsewhere.
Maybe next time.

The Sony X95L is my first choice TV but they cannot get stock.
I have until the first end of November to replace it.

I really don't want to be forced into accepting an alternative but let's see as it's some weeks away.

 

[rabski]

I would buy from John Lewis and purchase their screen burn waranty. My LG77 OLED CX range is perfect after more than 3 years although its used carefully and no gaming.

Used carefully and no gaming?

So much for progress. In the 1970s, using a TV carefully meant not kicking it too hard. It seems that in 2023, you have to be careful what you play on the screen in order to avoid issues.

 

[parcelmonkey]

Used carefully and no gaming?

So much for progress. In the 1970s, using a TV carefully meant not kicking it too hard. It seems that in 2023, you have to be careful what you play on the screen in order to avoid issues.

Absolutely. My wife was playing one of her Thai / Khmer movies the other day off a website and it had a permanent logo showing. That went off pronto. It's the TV or her. Neither come with an extended warranty... Most upset she was!

 

[cooky1257]

Sammy 95b oled here. I take precautions to avoid screen burn , I think a recent firmware update dropped the peak brightness a tad to help mitigate any issues but if you leave the tv on without auto turn off or screensaver enabled you are inviting trouble There is one pause mode that strangely seemed to bypass these however ( can't recall but think it was a paused ITV X program).