My 9 year old 52" 1080p tv in the livingroom is not doing so good anymore. A blue pixel pattern and fainter red blotches are overlaid on the entire screen like a bad film grain effect, digital noise. Apparently one of the control boards deep inside the tv might have to be replaced, however with it also suffering from horizontal banding issues for a while now it's time for a replacement.

I've been looking at TVs and for 55" the price difference here is
LG 55" LED 55UJ6300 CAD 880
SONY XBR55X800E CAD 1300
SONY XBR55X900E CAD 2000
LG 55" OLED OLED55C7P CAD 2500

Now I can barely spot the difference between 720p and 1080p from the couch on my current 1080p (before the extra dither effect on top) so 55" seems a bit of a waste for 4K. I would be happy with a good new 55" 1080p tv yet the only 1080p tv nowadays seem pretty basic :/

For 65" it looks like this
LG 65" LED 65UJ6300 CAD 1466
SONY XBR65X850E CAD 2200
SONY XBR65X900E CAD 2800
LG 65" OLED OLED65C7P CAD 4000
SONY XBR65Z9D CAD 7000

On rtings.com the LG OLED scores very high naturally, 8.8 overall score, highest of all tested, beating out the Z9D. The 6300 rates pretty poorly. In store OLED looks great, yet it also has its own special show running while all the other tvs have the same material, ofcourse it stands out. They're all set too bright anyway to get any real feeling for differences.

I don't want to spend more than 2500 on a new tv, doubt I can get away with that much already but if it lasts 9 or 10 years again I have a convincing argument :) So as it looks now, either 55" OLED C7P or 65" LED 850E. Or wait until the 65" OLEDS go on sale, big sale... Or perhaps the 900E will go on sale which at least has local dimming which the 850E doesn't have.

Both the Sony and LG have disadvantages, Sony's image quality rapidly degrades at an angle, so sitting from behind my laptop it might not even look as good as my 1080p tv does now (even with the digital noise I can't see from here). While the LG still suffers from some image retention if the kids leave a game on for half a day plus it has ABL.

Any alternatives?
Anyone have any experience with Sony and LG tvs?

How noticeable is the difference between that and an LCD screen? The only OLED screen I have is for my PSV.

OLED tv's are very expensive, but they also represent the largest jump in picture quality I've seen in my lifetime.

Edit: I should add that this has more to do with the vibrancy of the colors and the super high levels of contrast more than it does the jump in resolution.

Since I don't own an Oled tv yet, I can't say but I have had a Galaxy phone since the S1 which has had OLED displays and everytime I try to switch to a different phone that doesn't have an Oled display... I just can't.. So I'd say it's worth the price any day. My next monitor and tv is 110% gonna be Oled

It would depend on how far away you sit.

If you sit 8+ feet away, I’d recommend going with the 65 inch TV. I don’t have an OLED TV but have seen them in person. They are great, especially in the color department. With that said, I personally believe that the bigger size would make a bigger difference.

I went from a 55 inch to 60 inch last year and I’m happy with the size difference. 65 inch would probably be even better. (as long as you aren’t sitting too close as I’ve said)

It would depend on what you value more.

I have no clue about OLED tv's but LG makes some very good products. I have 42" 120hz 1080p LCD TV by them and a top loading HE washing machine by them both are very good products.

I'm still of the opinion that, unless you simply have heaps of money to burn, we're better off being patient for another year or two as the price of OLED screens will continue to drop rather drastically.

I'm more than happy with the 4k LED I picked up last year and, while the OLED screens looked a little nicer when I was shopping, the difference was (in my opinion) often barely noticeable. For the moment, they're the best TVs on the market but the additional cost doesn't seem worth it yet unless you're a bachelor with no financial worries lol

The only OLED I have to compare it to is PSVR, which looks stunning in the color department and black level (if the software handles it correctly). It's a night and day difference with my 1080p LCD projector, but those have much worse contrast by default.

In stores the LED tvs don't really look any better than my current LCD tv, which was a high end model 9 years ago. OLED looks better yet will I really notice the difference in day to day use. I don't expect to have significant access to any 4K content soon, HDR even less, so does it really make a big difference for blu-ray and standard netflix / hd cable.

We sit at about 10-11 ft from the tv. Bigger would definitely be better. However most of the content we watch on it is still 720p/1080i cable tv. Compression artifacts are already very noticeable on the 52" one. But for 1080p gaming it's a bit on the small side. Pretty ridiculous tv is still stuck at 6-7 mbps mpeg-2 1080i while consoles are moving on to 4k :/

I kInda have the feeling it's still too early to jump to 4K, yet it's too late to upgrade to better 1080p as all the 1080p plasmas have vanished.

Granted you wont see the big difference because you normally would only have 1 TV in your living room, unless you have an LED TV beside an OLED TV, but OLED definitely gives you the much better screen. If you dont mind coughing up the money for the OLED then why not.

Yup, kinda have the same feeling. 9 years ago I spend 4500 on a top of the line 1080p tv, the one that's now breaking down. However that was before kids, college funds, dentist bills and living in a much smaller house.

On the other hand, black level is king while watching movies. That gray haze instead of black always bugs me in dark scenes.