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I have the 65" LG G5 TV and the OLED on this TV is crystal clear and so bright. If you work for a conpany thats affiliated with LG, you can enroll with your work email and get a really nice sound bar and bluetooth speaker as a bundle for around $1620 before tax.
The G5 is a 2025 TV, while the Sony A95L is a 2023 TV. The G5 is also 2X brighter, and has four 2.1 HDMI vs two. If you're into gaming, the G5 also has a much lower input lag. Finally, the G5 is cheaper right now on Amazon as well. G5 all the way for me. $3,800 for an about to be 3-year old TV is just crazy!
No intent to start a war but want to state that the King of TVs for 2023, 2024 was A95L (2023 and 2024) and the predecessor A95K for the prior year and the Successor Bravia 8 M2 for 2025. Expensive but probably the best.
No intent to start a war but want to state that the King of TVs for 2023, 2024 was A95L (2023 and 2024) and the predecessor A95K for the prior year and the Successor Bravia 8 M2 for 2025. Expensive but probably the best.
Prepare for battle, no one gets to have this opinion but me!
No intent to start a war but want to state that the King of TVs for 2023, 2024 was A95L (2023 and 2024) and the predecessor A95K for the prior year and the Successor Bravia 8 M2 for 2025. Expensive but probably the best.
Prepare for war. And now it's 2025. LG G5 and Samsung S95F have entered the chat.
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Android/Google TV >>>>> WebOS and TizenOS.
I would never choose those TVs based on the lack of GoogleTV alone.
Does GoogleTV have its own problems, of course, but app development and support for GoogleTV far outstrips any other TV built in operating system.
Could you use an external streaming device? Sure, but then you're spending extra for extra hassle and less integration.
Since I got Android/GoogleTVs, I stopped using my two Nvidia Shield TVs and Apple TV devices on my TVs, there's absolutely no benefit, and I like just having it all integrated with one remote and no input switching, extra HDMI and power cable hassles.
I have multiple 6+ year old Android TVs still going strong, still getting updates, still support all the same apps as when I got them, whereas my Samsung TV keeps getting stripped of apps one by one over the years because the app developers don't want to keep updating them, so they get REMOVED from the TV.
if you are stickler about tone mapping and picture processing of low quality content, Sony is like no other
This is still Sony's differentiator (& maybe the remote LOL).
There is no match for Sony's cinematic picture - better than intended by the director in some cases.
Else the LG's are closer than ever like u said.
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Yeah I wanted this tv so bad but it never came down in price. Now it has been surpassed by both Samsung and LG in most features that the majority cares about. $3800 fo a 3 year old tv with aging tech in a time where tech becomes obsolete every 5 years is just not worth it. Plus, for the same price you can get an 83" oled. If sony had made an 83" in this model I might have bitten but it would probably be $6k.
Pass for me.
Yeah I wanted this tv so bad but it never came down in price. Now it has been surpassed by both Samsung and LG in most features that the majority cares about. $3800 fo a 3 year old tv with aging tech in a time where tech becomes obsolete every 5 years is just not worth it. Plus, for the same price you can get an 83" oled. If sony had made an 83" in this model I might have bitten but it would probably be $6k.
Pass for me.
Sony still has the best picture processing out there
As I stated before...if you are sticker for a picture " like the director intended" or want to watch lower quality content and have the TV do its magic with the processing, then this is the TV for you
However..if you are not a stickler for those things and you like a brighter picture then there are better options
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I would never choose those TVs based on the lack of GoogleTV alone.
Does GoogleTV have its own problems, of course, but app development and support for GoogleTV far outstrips any other TV built in operating system.
Could you use an external streaming device? Sure, but then you're spending extra for extra hassle and less integration.
Since I got Android/GoogleTVs, I stopped using my two Nvidia Shield TVs and Apple TV devices on my TVs, there's absolutely no benefit, and I like just having it all integrated with one remote and no input switching, extra HDMI and power cable hassles.
I have multiple 6+ year old Android TVs still going strong, still getting updates, still support all the same apps as when I got them, whereas my Samsung TV keeps getting stripped of apps one by one over the years because the app developers don't want to keep updating them, so they get REMOVED from the TV.
Oh no doubt google tv is better than tizen or webos. But imagine paying nearly 4k for a TV and complaining about an extra 150 bucks for an Apple TV. Also with hdmi CEC, it integrates nicely and provides superior picture quality. If a better integrated OS is the deal breaker between picking an objectively better panel then I don't know what to tell you.
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if you are stickler about tone mapping and picture processing of low quality content, Sony is like no other
However , the gap is close these days and I would be hard pressed to pay a big premium over the current LG G5
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I would never choose those TVs based on the lack of GoogleTV alone.
Does GoogleTV have its own problems, of course, but app development and support for GoogleTV far outstrips any other TV built in operating system.
Could you use an external streaming device? Sure, but then you're spending extra for extra hassle and less integration.
Since I got Android/GoogleTVs, I stopped using my two Nvidia Shield TVs and Apple TV devices on my TVs, there's absolutely no benefit, and I like just having it all integrated with one remote and no input switching, extra HDMI and power cable hassles.
I have multiple 6+ year old Android TVs still going strong, still getting updates, still support all the same apps as when I got them, whereas my Samsung TV keeps getting stripped of apps one by one over the years because the app developers don't want to keep updating them, so they get REMOVED from the TV.
if you are stickler about tone mapping and picture processing of low quality content, Sony is like no other
There is no match for Sony's cinematic picture - better than intended by the director in some cases.
Else the LG's are closer than ever like u said.
Pass for me.
Could you use an external streaming device? Sure, but then you're spending extra for extra hassle and less integration.
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Apple TV 4K is your friend
Pass for me.
As I stated before...if you are sticker for a picture " like the director intended" or want to watch lower quality content and have the TV do its magic with the processing, then this is the TV for you
However..if you are not a stickler for those things and you like a brighter picture then there are better options
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I would never choose those TVs based on the lack of GoogleTV alone.
Does GoogleTV have its own problems, of course, but app development and support for GoogleTV far outstrips any other TV built in operating system.
Could you use an external streaming device? Sure, but then you're spending extra for extra hassle and less integration.
Since I got Android/GoogleTVs, I stopped using my two Nvidia Shield TVs and Apple TV devices on my TVs, there's absolutely no benefit, and I like just having it all integrated with one remote and no input switching, extra HDMI and power cable hassles.
I have multiple 6+ year old Android TVs still going strong, still getting updates, still support all the same apps as when I got them, whereas my Samsung TV keeps getting stripped of apps one by one over the years because the app developers don't want to keep updating them, so they get REMOVED from the TV.
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