more heat than light wrote:Yeah those are OLEDs, they do of course do cheaper LCD sets. The LG model you're talking about is last year's, 2018's B8 starts at the same price (£2499), and that's not even their top spec TV. Buying an older model is fine, but if you're spending that kind of money I'd want it to be supported for as long as possible.
Depends entirely on when you buy and what price you can get.
Last year there were initially similarly priced LG and Panasonic OLEDs and the LGs were in the end £100s cheaper, we'll have to wait 6 months or so to see what happens with that. The only chance of meeting the current budget at the moment is to buy what is essentially last years model (although they've literally only just been replaced, we aren't talking about TVs massively outdated here).
There haven't really been many (or any) reviews I've seen of the 2018 TVs yet either, personally if I needed a TV in the next few months, I'd save the money and go with a TV that is a known quantity, rather than one that hasn't been out there for a while to be tested.
All that aside, OLED might not be the way to go either. Its what I went with, but there are still questions about how long the TVs will perform to a reasonable standard and that effects all manufacturers of OLEDs.