On today’s section of You Asked… What’s nan champion measurement to power each your devices pinch 1 remote? What’s a bully action for nether 1500 dollars? And… LG G4 aliases TCL QM8K?
Best TV Under $1,500

John asks: I person a Samsung from 2014 (I’ll put nan exemplary number present successful nan text), and backmost successful 2014, it was 1 of nan newest 4K TVs, and it’s still going. But I’m losing immoderate pixels. I person 12 ample achromatic spots coming into my screen, but I tin still watch. I want to upgrade and don’t want conscionable an edge-lit TV, but I don’t want to break nan slope either. Can you urge a QLED aliases OLED that’s astir 1500 dollars?
Hey John… you’ve sewage a awesome fund to activity pinch because, successful that value range, location are immoderate awesome TVs. It looks for illustration nan Samsung you’re upgrading from was a 50-inch model. So if you’re going for 65 inches, great, but if you’re looking to enactment astir nan aforesaid size astatine 55 inches, nan options are moreover better. So I’ll database a fewer successful some sizes.
At 55 inches, Samsung’s S90F would beryllium outstanding. It’s a QD-OLED TV that’ll springiness you 1 of nan champion images around. The colour and opposition are a joyousness to watch, and it comes successful correct astatine your value headdress of 1500 dollars.
Now, if you want to prevention a small spot and don’t mind taking a spot of a measurement backmost successful position of color, nan 55-inch LG C5 is different awesome OLED action astatine 1400 dollars. What it does do amended than nan Samsung S90F is SDR brightness. So if you’re successful a agleam room and watching sports, for example, nan LG whitethorn beryllium a amended action for you. And for streaming movies and shows, you do person Dolby Vision available, whereas Samsung doesn’t support that HDR format—though I don’t deliberation that should really beryllium a dealbreaker.

At 65 inches, we tin look astatine a fewer premium QLED TVs, and we’ll instrumentality pinch LG and their QNED92A. It’s nan champion they offer, and 1 of its biggest benefits complete nan OLED options we conscionable mentioned is brightness, particularly for SDR viewing. It besides comes pinch 4 HDMI 2.1 ports, for illustration nan erstwhile 2 options, arsenic good arsenic Dolby Vision HDR.
Finally, there’s nan Hisense U8QG and TCL QM8K, 2 TVs that compete intimately twelvemonth aft year. The TCL appears to person amended blacks, which will make it nan amended prime successful a acheronian room for contrast. But wherever nan QM8K comes successful correct astatine 1500 dollars, nan U8QG is connected a superior waste correct now for astir 1100 dollars.
So, for illustration I said, you’ve sewage a awesome batch to take from there. And to sum it up, for OLED, I’d astir apt spell for nan S90F. And for QLED, I deliberation TCL makes a slayer TV pinch nan QM8K. But it’s difficult to spell incorrect pinch immoderate of those.
Do You Need Two Remotes?

Tyler asks: Do you person to usage abstracted remotes pinch each of these? I person a TCL TV and would for illustration a soundbar, but dislike utilizing 2 remotes for flipping and volume?
Flipping. I emotion nan word “flipping” for changing nan channel. I deliberation my dada still says it each nan clip because man, does he flip done channels for illustration crazy arsenic soon arsenic a commercialized hits.
Anyway… no, you decidedly do NOT request 2 remotes. Ever announcement that cosmopolitan remotes hardly ever get talked astir anymore? That’s because these features are each built into nan TVs now.
On your TCL TV, spell to (fill successful nan blank pinch steps to HDMI Control and sprout B-roll astatine office)…
Now you tin power your measurement done your TV distant arsenic if it were portion of nan TV itself. In fact, pinch HDMI Control, you tin do a batch much than conscionable alteration nan volume. You tin run outer devices for illustration Blu-ray players, streaming devices, aliases moreover crippled console menus pinch conscionable your autochthonal TV remote.
Also, Tyler—and anyone other wondering—we talk astir this taxable and a batch much successful immoderate of our TV settings guides for TCL and different brands that we person present connected nan channel.
83-inch LG G4 and an 85-inch TCL QM8K

Alex Garcia asks: What would you spell pinch betwixt an 83-inch LG G4 and an 85-inch TCL QM8K? Price is not overmuch of a difference.
This is simply a awesome problem to have, Alex. But I gotta opportunity thing first.
I’ve been accused of being an OLED fanboy successful nan comments. And I’m hurt. I don’t moreover ain an OLED TV. At home, I person a Samsung QN90C and TCL QM8. So, nary bias here. I conscionable effort to beryllium nonsubjective and urge nan champion TV for everyone’s needs pinch nan accusation given.
So… pinch that retired of nan way, objectively, the LG G4 is nan superior TV. And this is connected nan heels of raving astir nan QM8K earlier successful this video. From a image value standpoint, OLED is conscionable connected different level, particularly erstwhile it’s 1 of LG’s champion pinch infinite contrast, superb image processing, and unthinkable colors.
But image value isn’t everything. It’s a lot, but not everything. And sometimes nan differences successful a acquisition are going to travel down to nan small things: Do you for illustration nan operating system? How do nan remotes consciousness to use? Is nan TV successful a agleam room? How often are you watching TV? And not to beryllium overlooked… what’s nan budget?

In this case, Alex, I’ll inquire you… do you person immoderate penchant successful operating systems? I thin toward Google TV connected nan TCL alternatively of WebOS pinch LG, but that’s conscionable me. The aforesaid goes for remotes. There’s conscionable a batch going connected pinch nan distant for nan LG G4. I deliberation they cleaned it up a spot pinch nan G5 this twelvemonth by ditching nan numbers. But connected nan G4, I’m conscionable not a fan.
Now, are either of those dealbreakers erstwhile it comes to OLED vs Mini LED? They wouldn’t beryllium for me. Instead, I’d look astatine nan room nan TV will beryllium placed in. If there’s a batch of ray I’m battling and I request eventual brightness, I’d spell TCL. In a room wherever nan light’s amended controlled, OLED is king.

But finally, there’s ever a consequence for burn-in pinch OLED TVs. We’ve noted successful plentifulness of videos connected nan transmission that location are features successful today’s OLEDs that thief mitigate nan issue, but there’s still a risk. And for this, I’d opportunity see really overmuch you watch TV and what you’re watching. News and sports programming pinch changeless logos connected screen, and playing games pinch logos and maps that beryllium successful 1 place, summation chances for burn-in—especially if you’re playing for hours astatine a time.
I’d besides opportunity get connected immoderate of nan forums and look for stories others person shared astir their experiences pinch nan TV, particularly since you’re considering nan G4 that’s been retired for much than a twelvemonth now.
It’s a batch to deliberation astir sometimes, but these are nan things that I see erstwhile trying to springiness you guys an answer.
In this case, I’d spell pinch nan G4. But hopefully, now you person a fewer much things to thief make your decision—things that possibly you weren’t reasoning astir before.