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Philips 65OLED935

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Television | £2699 | whf.cm/65OLED935

Combining a television with an integrated soundbar may be the height of convenience, but unless that soundbar is top quality, you’re stuck with it. The Philips 65OLED935 is a sleek, powerful television that aims to get around this pitfall by having hi-fi specialist Bowers & Wilkins design the speaker system.

This isn’t Philips’s first TV and soundbar combination. Its predecessor, the OLED934, also had a Bowers bar built into a stand. This time it has a more modest price, with the 3.1.2ch Dolby Atmos soundbar making this a tempting AV solution for those who like to keep things simple and clean on the eye.

But to describe the Philips 65OLED935 in those terms is doing it a disservice. Beneath that steel exterior, there is a TV with impressive specs that could even outperform its soundbar-less sibling, the five-star-rated

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