One of the most all-round spectacular TVs ever made
65in OLED television | £3199 | whf.cm/OLED937
From its gleaming, slinky and Ambilightenhanced design to its ground-breakingly bright, colourful pictures and classleadingly powerful sound, Philips’s 65OLED937 is arguably the most all-round spectacular TV we have tested.
Thanks to its combination of a beautiful metallic finish, super-thin panel design, B&W-designed external speaker enclosure and a new and improved, four-sided version of Philips’s Ambilight tech, the 937 is certainly a dramatic-looking TV.
LG Display’s latest EX panel delivers significantly more full-screen and peak brightness than older designs. And since every pixel in an OLED TV can deliver its own light, this new brightness should have no negative impact on the screen’s black levels, hopefully enabling the set’s contrast performance to be even more dazzling than that of previous Philips OLEDs.
The picture processor is the top-tier version of Philips’s latest P5 Gen 6 picture engine. It uses two chips to carry out the immense amount of processing, rather than the single chip found in cheaper models. As well as the extra real-time processing power, the twin-chip approach allows Philips to add one or two significant extra features. Most notably, there is an Advanced HDR system that optimises detail, brightness and colour based on analysis of every single frame of an HDR10 source. There is also greater use of AI machine-learning techniques across multiple picture-performance areas, as well as Ambient Detection features that analyse your room conditions much more thoroughly than regular ‘ambient light compensation’ systems, to try and continually optimise picture quality.
As well as HDR10 and HLG, the 937 caters for both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision formats. This means, simply, that the TV will always take in the best version of any content you feed it. Connections on the 65OLED937 include four HDMIs, two of which are HDMI 2.1 supporting 4K/120Hz, VRR, ALLM and eARC audio pass-through.
Finally, it doesn’t feature simply another sound system designed by British hi-fi powerhouse Bowers & Wilkins; it features a full multi-channel speaker system so large and powerful it has to be housed in an external enclosure that also doubles as the TV’s desktop stand.
The system’s amplification delivers a maximum of 95W across a 5.1.2-channel configuration, with the .2 part alerting us to a pair of up-firing drivers, each driven by 12.5W of amplification, to back up the
