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Philips 65OLED805

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Television | £2199 | whf.cm/65OLED805

This set has recently taken home our Best Buy Award for best TV over £2000, so we feel it deserves a full magazine review rather than the half-page we could give it for our Awards issue.

Philips knows that Ambilight alone, though brilliant, won’t be enough to convince everyone to buy its OLED over one of its many rivals, so it’s also pushing the envelope in the two most crucial areas; performance and price.

In short, not only does the Philips look and sound better than rivals such as the LG CX, it costs less, too. Ambilight, in the end, is just a lovely sweetener.

Spectacular extension

Ambilight extends the on-screen action onto the wall around the TV in the form of coloured light. It looks spectacular, but it also benefits the performance, making the display seem bigger, drawing the eye into the action and increasing

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