Philips 807 Review – World's First Publicly Advertised OLED.EX TV

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We review the Philips 807 OLED, the world’s first TV publicly advertised to be using the new OLED.EX panel. Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/HDTVTest – Enter promo code HDTVTest for 85% off and 3 extra months FREE.

Our review sample is the 65-inch Philips 65OLED807/12, but it’s also available in 48-inch (model number 48OLED807), 55-inch (55OLED807) and 77-inch (77OLED807) screen sizes.

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47 thoughts on “Philips 807 Review – World's First Publicly Advertised OLED.EX TV”

  4. Philips should be focusing on better Hue integration and lighting as their selling point. Or better yet integrate with LG and Sony to get hue lighting onto those.

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  5. Again a top notch video, humor and actual technical facts about the product. Great work as usual.

    Off topic: I’m finding it hard to find, but if you set your Xbox to 120hz and play games at 30 or 60fps. Will it reduce input lag or is this false? I own the Oled805 (1080p 120hz or 4K HDR 60hz) and would love to have a better input lag over hdr and 4k if this is the case.

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  6. I can find Phillips' LCD TVs at my local Walmart, but I can't seem to find their OLED TVs anywhere. Are they not available for purchase in the United States of America, and if not, do they have plans to make them available?

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  7. I have a C6 and C2. My C6 although much older and worse in just about every way still gets more use for movies. 3D passive 4K OLED with Oakley 3D glasses is still way more impactful then my C2s improvements. C2 is better for all other content, but man I still cannot get over the C6's 3D. Its literally the only good 3D TV that was ever made. If all 3D TVs had this tech then it never would have died as a format. I would love to see C3 add it back as a memento to what could have been (and just as a raw flex of the tech). 3D headsets will probably bring the format back in the long run, but for now I still love my C6 and wouldn't part with it for anything currently on the market.

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  8. I had just bought one of these, and was delighted to see you recommend it.
    Do you have suggested settings for the (personal) perfect picture?
    We find vivid too bright, natural tints whites to a weak tea colour, expert one makes the screen a bit peach in colour, expert 2 is slightly darker peach, calman is seems to be very similar to expert 1.
    The reason I ask for your recommended settings, is that football matches grass looks clumpy and undefined, especially on the wide shots, and background billboards, especially white on purple become blurry.
    Player numbers (red on white) seem to bleed together.
    I'm sure I'll work it out eventually, but at the moment my personal settings make whites a bit beige, and it just seems a bit dull.

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  9. The MediaTek MT5895 chipset used by Philips on an OLED and now on a new OLED.EX tv must indicate that this chipset STILL requires some extensive programming to work "as advertised by MediaTek" themselves way back in either late 2019 or early 2020 when the first TVs were announced like the aforementioned Sony Bravia X900H or X90H or XH90 Full Array Local Dimming LED LCD technology tv that at least does not have the fate of screen burn in that OLEDs have… even if this is the brand new OLED.EX fresh out of LG's labs.

    While an additional processor would have been ideal to solve any "lacking performance", the fact that even Philips here is still using the MT5895 chipset without an additional processor must be a clue that their engineers, as well as MediaTek's must be aware of in that there must still be some headroom once the proper programming code is writen in firmware to increase performance across it's Quad Core CPU architecture and it's additional GPU processor which essentially points to FIVE processing units which just one being a dedicated graphics processor. I also notice that some of the Installed RAM of 3GB and specs seems nearly identical to 2020's Sony Bravia X900H TV where the current firmware 6.1772 version cannot do full 4K HDR 120Hz VRR with Full Array Local Dimming at the same time… which even if we want to believe this is some sort of "chipset limitation" it still takes human programmers to have the knowledge to write efficient and high performance code… while balancing the use of the Android O.S. and Google APPs and all that other bloatware added to these tvs otherwise unless I am wrong here these tvs would have had Octa Core CPUs just like year 2017 budget Samsung smartphones did.

    I do wonder if you Vincent could revisit the Sony Bravia X900H tv later this year IF a newer firmware is released or probably sometime next year if a loaner TV can be arranged just to update and compare performance numbers… last I checked some of the 2020 and 2021 HDMI 2.1 tvs were showing up as "pre-owned" private sales online where some of the sellers were asking roughly $1,000 USD to almost barely $850 USD because these are still very high performance and high quality tvs despite the fact that it is 2022.

    Also Sony just barely rolled out 4K HDR 120Hz VRR and also 1440p modes in firmware update this year for the Sony PS5… while at the same time they have released natively programmed games that shipped to retail on the BD-ROM disc with all the features to enable HDMI 2.1 features on compliant tvs like 4K HDR 120Hz VRR which so far only braggy reviewers who spent a small fortune of around $2,500 USD average for 65 inch OLEDs or bigger just to brag on their youtube channels while still suffering from problems, glitches and issues on their super expensive displays which unfortunately the TV reviewers seem rather forgetful of as they seem to treat tvs as disposable products not worth comparing in the two and a half year time span it must take to build the programming code to enable most of the advertised features MediaTek company boasted about nearly three years ago at industry presentations.

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  27. is there a review on the LG CS6? Is it just rebranded C1? Is a 55" CS6 worth £850? With LG A9 processor, me thinks yes. Better to choose LG CS6 over LG A2 or B2? BTW, Gaming is not important to me.

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  28. Great video. Just bought one of these and really very impressed with it! I have a question though that maybe you can answer. After switching to 120FPS, why does the resolution stay at 3840x2160p and not drop down to 1440p? I was under the impression that most 120FPS games were 1440p but when I tried it with Dirt 5 and Destiny 2 (Crucible) it was the same as your video at 9:17 (ie reporting 4k)

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  34. I bought the LG C2, my friend the 807 in 77“. In default Filmmaker modes the 807 produces a crisper and punchier HDR Image with more contrast. Looks better than the LG result to me.

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  36. Thanks for this review, it was long-awaited. Got an OLED+907 yesterday and been trying to find guidance on optimal picture settings (the menus have changed somewhat since last year, so the 806 settings video isn't as helpful anymore), in case anyone knows of a place to seek guidance on this.

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  38. I bought a Philips 807 about a week ago. The near black chrominance overshoot is very noticable and makes movies like "Nope" unenjoyable.

    How likely is it, that Philips is going to fix this with a software update?
    Does anyone have a Tipp on how to reduce the overshoot?

    I love everything else about this tv and it would break my heart of I had to send it back, especially because I got it for a price of 1111€

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  40. 2:33 What the heck, flashing artifacts. How did this get past certification? This makes me want to avoid Philips OLED TVs at all cost until public confirmation that it is fixed.

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  41. How is the light quality?
    Does it match Plasma TVs?
    or is it still poor LED light that gives flat dead looking colors? 😉

    The problem with you Vincent boy is that you only measure the whitebalance of the light from the tv.
    thats not good enough.
    even crappy LED light can show 6500K but then colors will look off.

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  43. My main issue with my Philips 65OLED705/12 is Dolby Vision through HDMI. It works fine on native Android TV Apps, but as soon as you connect a DV compatible device such as a Fire TV 4K Max or NVIDIA Shield TV Pro the blacks and overall contrast gets crushed. Black is no longer black, but grey. (yes, ULTRA HDMI is set to optimized) While you can try to correct it by adjusting gamma and brightness, you'll lose a lot of detail and brightness. This is a common issue (at least with this model) and hasn't been acknowledged by Philips to this day.

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