LG OLED vs Samsung QLED - 65”

I picked up the 65" LG C1 OLED for my living room in April for $1650 on Amazon. Very very happy with my purchase. Not enough time to be able to say anything about burn-in. It's definitely bright enough for me and I haven't had any glare issues, but I keep my windows closed most of the time. Viewing angle is amazing, from my kitchen I can see everything perfectly even though I'm practically viewing from its direct side.

I know you're not doing gaming but I built a home theater/gaming PC alongside this TV purchase and 4K120 HDR G-Sync gaming from my 3080 Ti video card is downright stunning. I mostly use that HTPC or my Nvidia Shield but the built-in webOS is actually pretty nice. You might not need the Roku anymore depending on your use case.

The bummer though was that it won't pass through DTS signals. When people mentioned it doesn't do DTS I thought I'd still be able to pass it through blindly, but no. I don't think Samsungs will do so either, though. Apparently a lot of TV manufacturers are dumping paying DTS licensing fees. I have a lot of surround stuff in a variety of formats so I had to abandon eARC and pick up an HDMI 2.1 AV receiver because of this. Atmos should be fine though.

As for the QLEDs. They looked really nice at Best Buy. I thought they looked better than the C1 OLED but I chalked that up to either the C1 lacking in brightness by comparison or just maybe being configured poorly. I still bought the C1 in the end anyway though as I had other considerations. But I don't think anyone would be disappointed in the picture quality on those QLEDs.

Thanks efrad, great review. That is what I was hoping to hear.

There are 3 main factors to consider:

1) Only the LG can do Dolby Vision
2) The samsung can get much brighter which is great for HDR (but only HLG, HDR10 or HDR10+ since it is samsung)
3) The LG can do perfect blacks

Still running my 65" Vizio 1080p from around 2014. I bet anything would be a massive improvement.

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Anyone have any experience. 2021 models. Glare vs brightness vs burn-in.

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I've been trying to decide this too. 2021 models are the way to go right now

Just bought a 77” Sony A80J OLED for media room and a Samsung QN90A mini led for bright living room full of windows . I really wanted to do oled in both but living room is way too bright

Both still in boxes until I move in new house

I bought both from Costco due to 90 day returns and 5 year warranty in case anything goes wrong with either

Samsung QN90A is the mini LED, comparable to OLED but much brighter. I will say I notice a little blooming in game mode on the QN90A though.

The 2022s are out though and Samsung has jumped into OLED and has the best TV out on the market right now according to rtings.com. Samsung S95B

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Are you worried about the OLED in a bright room? I have a few windows but full length curtains when needed.

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I’m putting the OLED I bought in a media room that I can darken so it shouldn’t be a problem there.

In my future living room, there are more or less 3 walls of windows that I won’t be able to cover. Because of that, I went with the Samsung QN-90A (Costco version has slightly different model code but same tv). Currently this tv and the LGC1 are going for the same price

If you can control your light, I’d lean to the C1. If you buy from Costco, you could always try it out and have 90 days to return