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Philips 77OLED807-12 77 Inch Smart 4K Ultra HD HDR OLED TV

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The Philips OLED707 has the same OLED panel, same 70W speaker system and same P5 AI processor as the flagship 807 (above). However, its Ambilight system is three-sided rather than four-sided. Size class of the display as declared by the manufacturer. Often this is the rounded value of the actual size of the diagonal in inches.

Dialogue is well positioned and always clear without sounding short of context, and the impressive 70W of power Philips has placed at the OLED807’s disposal helps the set project its sound far beyond the physical boundaries of its bodywork, creating a surprisingly large and immersive soundstage. Philips has launched a new gallery function this year called Aurora. It is an app containing various wallpapers – both static and moving wallpapers – combined with Ambilight mood lighting. At launch, it is not possible to use your own photos but the company is looking into possibly enabling it, they told us earlier this year but stressed that they cannot promise anything. Aurora is not a screensaver or "off function" meaning that you must enable it manually unlike the gallery function found in Samsung The Frame and 2022 LG OLED TVs. It is instead more similar to the gallery function you find in slightly older LG TVs or Samsung "QLED" LCD models. Rising energy costs in Europe may make Aurora seem less attractive at this time and compared to Samsung's version in The Frame Aurora it seems less polished. Improvements to the 6th Gen P5 AI processing include adding more ‘intelligence’ to the incorporation of the TV’s light sensor in the sets AI functionality. Tech fans expect faster, smarter gadgets every year so it's no surprise that Philips has treated its latest TVs to a new processing chip, the 6th Gen P5 AI. Picture quality: While there's no worthwhile native 8K content doing the rounds, our testers were very impressed with the Z2’s overall picture quality.

Under the hood, it’s also a different beast to LG’s other models. Though its chip is based on the a9 Gen 5 AI processor seen in the G2 and C2 OLED Evo models, LG says it’s a 'modified', more powerful, 8K version. The set also comes with unique picture algorithms and custom heat dissipation technology – though LG declined our request for details about how exactly that works and is different from the ones seen in its other OLED sets. Design and features: The 42-inch C3 has a different design to its larger siblings that makes it look more like a monitor or bedroom TV. This makes sense as LG markets it directly to gamers and those living in smaller spaces.

We also didn’t get on with the new Ambient AI modes, especially in the way they tend to make pictures look excessively dark, leading to a loss of shadow detail, if you’re watching the TV in a dark room. So you should turn these off. This need to change the default motion processing mode brings us to the fact that while the OLED807 is better out of the box than its predecessor, you should still get involved with its intimidatingly convoluted picture set up menus if you want to make sure you get the absolute best picture results. As well as the motion adjustments, all noise reduction should be turned off for the vast majority of native 4K and premium quality HD sources, for instance. Enhanced Ambient intelligence adjusts brightness, gamma and colour in real time to suit changing ambient lighting conditions.Information about the maximum vertical viewing angle, within which the image on the screen is of acceptable quality. Through our extensive suite of tests, our only complaint is that a bit of dark detail is missing when watching SDR content. Last year, Philips moved to the MediaTek MT5895 SoC which is also found in this year's OLED807. Philips refers to it as MT9970B but it is more or less the same SoC found in Sony's Android TVs / Google TVs with similar HDMI 2.1 features. CPU/GPU performance is decent but cannot match an external box such as Nvidia Shield and is not close to matching Apple TV 4K. Gaming has not taken off on the Android TV platform so most users will most likely find it good enough for streaming and general use.

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