The P5 Engine takes its name from the five pillars of image quality that the processor optimizes. These are source signal, sharpness, color, contrast, and motion sharpness. AI has been in mid and top-tier TVs for some time now and the P5 is no different as it can analyze each frame individually and make corrections and improvements whenever necessary. Precious few TVs at the OLED807’s price point carry a 70W audio system – never mind a 70W audio system with a dedicated bass speaker. It’s hardly surprising, then, to find that this Philips model sounds far better than the vast majority of other TVs in its class, despite the remarkable thinness that characterises much of its bodywork.

The LG G3 is also a home theater standout. While Sony still has the best image processing of any TV manufacturer, LG has been working hard to improve its processing on its newer TVs, and it shows. The LG has great upscaling and excellent low-quality content smoothing capabilities. Furthermore, it supports Dolby Vision HDR, delivering an incredibly immersive movie-watching experience that perfectly recreates the content creator's intent. It also supports a wider range of advanced audio codecs, including DTS:X, one of the most widely used audio formats on UHD Blu-ray discs, ensuring you'll get the best audio experience possible when connected to a compatible A/V receiver or soundbar. A new "Film detection" category also helps calibrate picture settings to the genre of content being watched, and support for the light-sensitive HDR10+ Adaptivemode unveiled by Samsung last year. The OLED 806 comes with two HDMI 2.1 ports along with two more older HDMI 2.0 ones which is a pretty standard configuration for all TVs bearing a MediaTek SoC. Although some other manufacturers like LG offer more HDMI 2.1 ports at least two are better than one. The problem here is that one of them is also the one with ARC/eARC functionality so if you plan on using that then you are left with a single HDMI 2.1 port. With the 9206 we move into Philips’ LED range. While the elegant design remains, performance and features drop.DCI P3 is a color space, introduced in 2007 by the SMPTE. It is used in digital cinema and has a much wider gamut than the sRGB. Compared to the LG, another win for the Samsung model is its four full HDMI 2.1 bandwidth ports, all capable of doing up to 4k @ 144Hz. The TV also doesn't lose color vibrancy and brightness when in Game Mode; if anything, it's a tad overbrightened in that mode, but in turn, your games pop. It's otherwise a very accurate TV, requiring no calibration to look its best. It's the best OLED for most people. A higher-end model, the Samsung S95C OLED, competes directly with the LG model on price. While the S95C is certainly one of the best OLED 4k TVs you can get, it's less versatile than the LG and isn't worth the price difference over the S90C. Some will accept these occasional flaws as a fair trade for what is otherwise excellent processing. For others, those flaws will be too distracting and, if so, the new Pure Cinema motion setting could be for you. This results in slightly smoother and sharper motion than is produced by simply turning the processing off entirely (the only option on last year’s sets) with none of the shimmer you get from the more aggressive processing options. It's still not perfect, though, and the long and the short of it is that some rivals, particularly Sony and Panasonic, still offer better overall motion processing. This means that if you want to place the TV on some furniture and have a soundbar you want to use you will have to be creative by placing something under the legs to lift it up. Not the most practical or good looking thing to do and we have actually seen a lot of people complaining for exactly this problem. A strange decision by the design team really and one we hope they will not repeat in future releases.

Crucially, outside of the spectacular but occasionally forced-looking Crystal Clear preset, there’s nothing gaudy or forced about the OLED807’s new brightness and colour achievements. The P5 processor deploys the extra capabilities of the new EX display with enough finesse and experience to ensure that it delivers nothing but positive outcomes. The only slight flaw with the OLED806’s delivery of Interstellar is that it doesn’t suppress the film grain in the way that some other TVs do, even when noise reduction is switched on. One could easily argue, though, that the film grain is part of the presentation, and it’s certainly not something that we find off-putting. Philips’ latency of their premium TVs has always lagged behind their competitors, but that should change in 2021. The Sony A80L/A80CL OLED is a great OLED TV, and like all Sony TVs, it has great image processing features. However, it's very expensive; it's in the Samsung S90C OLED's price range, significantly outperforming the Sony model in all metrics except image processing. The Sony is also more expensive than the LG C3 OLED, which again outperforms the Sony in most metrics except image processing, so the A80L isn't a good value for most people.For now, the OLED806 features Android TV (v10) as an operating system. It’s not half-bad by the generally pretty bad standards of Android TV, with a good selection of apps (including Disney+ but not Apple TV) and a layout that’s marginally less infuriating than on previous Android TV interfaces. Mini LED joins the Philips family of TVs, promising thin screens and blazing HDR brightness. However, Philips won’t be wading into the 8K with no models on the horizon.