The Loewe dividend
Loewe’s back. Loewe is, of course, the German TV maker much beloved of Australian video cognoscenti of the early 2000s. You could have your Japanese and Korean TVs back in those days, or you could go for quality German stuff. Indeed, I did just that. For several years my own reference TV was a Loewe Xelos 32-inch model. (I mention that for a reason to which I’ll return.)
Under the local management of Indi Imports, the brand is being reinvigorated in Australia, once the company’s largest non-European market. Here’s the first model from its new wave on which we’ve laid eyes: the Loewe Bild 3.55 OLED TV.
Equipment
‘Bild’ is German for image, or picture, or photo, scene, sight... that’s what my elementary Google skills tell me. OLED means what it says. The ‘3.55’ tells us that this is part of the 3 series, which also features a number of LCD panels in the lesser models, and that it has a 55-inch panel.
It’s priced at $4499. Expensive? In fact, it costs only 10% more than the entry-level OLED from the brand famed for the technology, LG. And it costs $500 less than the mid-level 55-inch OLED model from that brand. (Although
