OLED TV & AV Receiver

hulio jordio

Hello, I have an LG 37LM620T, Onkyo TX-NR515, Boston Acoustics Soundware XS 5.1 speakers & QED silver anniversary XT. All bought from yourselves over the years.

I'm thinking about upgrading to a OLED TV.

What would you recommend between the LG OLED55B9PLA & Panasonic TX55GZ950B?
If changing TV would I need to upgrade the AV receiver?

Thanks

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

hulio jordio wrote: »

Hello, I have an LG 37LM620T, Onkyo TX-NR515, Boston Acoustics Soundware XS 5.1 speakers & QED silver anniversary XT. All bought from yourselves over the years.

I'm thinking about upgrading to a OLED TV.

What would you recommend between the LG OLED55B9PLA & Panasonic TX55GZ950B?
If changing TV would I need to upgrade the AV receiver?

Thanks

Hey Hulio Jordio.

Thanks for the post.

That's not a bad AV receiver and speaker pack you currently have, however it does not have the technology to passthrough or decode any of the 4K signals.

Its a tough choice between the two to be honest.
The 55B9 really is a cracking OLED and its current price of 1199 Euro is very hard to pass up :)
I own one of the older versions myself.

Let me know your thoughts.

greasepalm

Pardon me from butting in as you mentioned onkyo amp does not have the technology for passthrough or decode any of the 4k signals and not sure what that means if i upgrade to a 4k tv.
 A new box with twin sat and cable/saorview + iptv ready is with me but not setup yet and when in use box to tv via hdmi and optical from tv to amp is what is setup for previous boxes.Forgot to say new box is 4K.
 Thanks again

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

greasepalm wrote: »

Pardon me from butting in as you mentioned onkyo amp does not have the technology for passthrough or decode any of the 4k signals and not sure what that means if i upgrade to a 4k tv.
 A new box with twin sat and cable/saorview + iptv ready is with me but not setup yet and when in use box to tv via hdmi and optical from tv to amp is what is setup for previous boxes.Forgot to say new box is 4K.
 Thanks again

Hi Greasepalm.

Do you also own one of the Onkyo 515's?
The Onkyo TXNR515 was in production before 4K was rolled out so the HDMI ports are not capable of carrying the signal.

For 4K, all devices must be 4K compliant including TV, AV receiver, HDMI cables and any sources that you are using.
You can then just use HDMI to connect you devices to your receiver and then one HDMI to the television.

Hope this explains thing a little.

greasepalm

I could not remember what model and see its the tx-sr875 and upscales to 1080.
What confuses me is when i played a blu ray it was 1920 x 1080 full picture and sound .
So it looks like the amp is pre 4k and cannot handle 4k content but am assuming spdif would still work.thanks

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

greasepalm wrote: »

I could not remember what model and see its the tx-sr875 and upscales to 1080.
What confuses me is when i played a blu ray it was 1920 x 1080 full picture and sound .
So it looks like the amp is pre 4k and cannot handle 4k content but am assuming spdif would still work.thanks

Hi Greasepalm.

Yes the 875 was pre 4K so I would say it will have issues with a 4K signal.

The upscaling side of things on it means that if it is fed a none 1080 signal it will upscale it. However if you play a BluRay through it, it does not need to upscale and will display in full HD 1920x1080 as this is what the disk will be decoded in.

Blu Ray is 1920 x 1080.
4K is 3840 x 2160.

SPDif is an audio optical cable and will carry sound from your device to the 875 as is not connected to the image.

Hope this explains things.

hulio jordio

Richersounds.ie: Kenny wrote: »

hulio jordio wrote: »

Hello, I have an LG 37LM620T, Onkyo TX-NR515, Boston Acoustics Soundware XS 5.1 speakers & QED silver anniversary XT. All bought from yourselves over the years.

I'm thinking about upgrading to a OLED TV.

What would you recommend between the LG OLED55B9PLA & Panasonic TX55GZ950B?
If changing TV would I need to upgrade the AV receiver?

Thanks

Hey Hulio Jordio.

Thanks for the post.

That's not a bad AV receiver and speaker pack you currently have, however it does not have the technology to passthrough or decode any of the 4K signals.

Its a tough choice between the two to be honest.
The 55B9 really is a cracking OLED and its current price of 1199 Euro is very hard to pass up :)
I own one of the older versions myself.

Let me know your thoughts.

Just ordered the 55B9, thanks!

Richersounds.ie: Kenny

hulio jordio wrote: »

Richersounds.ie: Kenny wrote: »

hulio jordio wrote: »

Hello, I have an LG 37LM620T, Onkyo TX-NR515, Boston Acoustics Soundware XS 5.1 speakers & QED silver anniversary XT. All bought from yourselves over the years.

I'm thinking about upgrading to a OLED TV.

What would you recommend between the LG OLED55B9PLA & Panasonic TX55GZ950B?
If changing TV would I need to upgrade the AV receiver?

Thanks

Hey Hulio Jordio.

Thanks for the post.

That's not a bad AV receiver and speaker pack you currently have, however it does not have the technology to passthrough or decode any of the 4K signals.

Its a tough choice between the two to be honest.
The 55B9 really is a cracking OLED and its current price of 1199 Euro is very hard to pass up :)
I own one of the older versions myself.

Let me know your thoughts.

Just ordered the 55B9, thanks!

Thanks for the business Hulio Jordio :D