Philips OLED+934 4K OLED TV Review - Sensational Bowers and Wilkins Sound

The Philips OLED+934 sits just below the flagship OLED+984 in the 2019 range and sports a European style design and a stand-alone soundbar from Bowers & Wilkins. This soundbar features proprietary B&W drivers with a 2.1.2 layout with upward-firing drivers and it has a bass port to the rear. It sits out in front of the TV and uses a special bracket that turns the whole thing into a stand for the 934 when table mounted. You get a second stand in the box for wall mounting the soundbar with the TV.

The OLED+934 also features HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision and HDR10+ high dynamic range systems along with Dolby Atmos sound. The TV uses the 3rd Generation P5 picture processor which Philips claims delivers excellent noise reduction, upscaling, and motion handling, while pulling more detail from SDR and, thanks to superior tone mapping, HDR content.

There is also the Android OS (v9 or P for Pie) which has a decent complement of apps with Netflix, Prime Video and YouTube 4K HDR services with more available via the Google Store. There is also voice assistant capabilities using Google Assistant and Alexa. We did notice some bugs with apps, which have been reported back to Philips and these will be fixed as soon as possible. They were slight lip-sync issues with Netflix and Prime video and no sound on the BBC iPlayer app within the TV smart system. We had no issues with off-board sources.

As this is a Philips TV, you also get the now-familiar (and extremely useful) three-sided Ambilight which can be used as a static bias light to keep your eyes less fatigued when watching in dim surroundings. You can also select modes that follow the video on screen and as such change the colour to suit whatever is on the screen such as blue for the ocean or green for a football pitch. This does get quite distracting as does the follow sound option that can turn your living room into a disco from the 1970s.

So does second from the top mean second best? Let’s find out…

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[avforums]

00:43 - What is the Philips OLED+934?
02:57 - Design, connections and control
04:46 - Measurements - Out of the Box
06:35 - Measurements - Calibrated
07:47 - HDR Results
09:16 - Performance
13:12 - Verdict

[nihilityjoey]

Great review as always. Philip's are really coming along and providing strong competition to panasonic, sony and LG. That sound bar looks great as well.

[JensBuehl]

Thx for the review. Will it support Atmos via ARC and an external AVR? Asking since no eARC mentioned.

[handle]

Everytime I click on a AVForum review video I imagine Rush Subdivisions

[alexis]

Hi, if it’s possible to have your Best settings to calibrate manually this tv please ? Thank you

[anUntouchable]

It would be great if you guys can start doing vs battles on YouTube. I would love to see the best TV's on the market put up against each other in a side by side comparison with you deciding on an overall winner - would make compelling viewing/content

[szymona.]

Hi ! that TV better than the latest sony oled?

[eurovisie]

In almost any review of the philips oleds in 2019 I read or hear that the philips has more colour.. In this review I hear again that the tv has oversaturated colour.. Or maybe say more deep colour.. I think it must be philips aim to do this on purpose !? Isn't it ?
And as phil mentions, . this is measured in the supposed to be the most to the industrie-standards picture mode ! So I question, if this is the purpose of philips. Because they know.. people like more colour !!
But I agree that there are let's say 6 more picture-mode that could give enough colour to the actual tv-buyers. So they could give a reviewer a up to point sdr picture mode to the standards.. To get better reviews. Because that'w where reviewers check them for.. Or maybe philips is not able to get their tv's to the standard.. ?

[masterblaster]

Can it play contents of USB drive ? FHD, UHD ? Would I be able to play my videos rom USB storage 128GB, 256GB etc.?

[streak]

I've owned this TV for 6 months now. It really is a great TV. Couple of annoying issues I found, the first TV I received from JL was wonky, TV sits on a tiny bar that connects to the soundbar. I couldn't get it straight how hard I tried. JL were great and sent a replacement with professional install. Guy had never set one up before and couldn't understand why the TV sat on such a small connection. He did however ensure my replacement was straight. Secondly netflix Dolby didn't work on the first TV, anything Dolby came out crackling and green lines. Again, replacement TV solved this issue so maybe I was unlucky. As for the replacement, the colours are great. The blacks amazing. I've owned ambilight TVs for years so knew what to expect, however this ambilight feels a little weaker than my previous models (even on highest settings). I also can't seem to connect this TV to my hue lights, not a major issue but bugs me. The sound quality is amazing, I don't think you really get the true Dolby Atmos (DA) feel without the speakers behind you, but the BW soundbar does an amazing job. It's nice that the TV notifies you when you are watching a true DA movie. Only Netflix through the TV can offer DA. Amazon via the TV gets HDR+, however if you connect the Amazon cube, you obtain DA movies. Although choice of DA films is limited in both services but is slowly increasing.

My previous Philips TVs had horrible blurring in fast paced movies but with this Oled, the blurring is all but gone.

Controller feels very cheap for such an expensive TV, but works and I like how they have the netflix smart button added.

Would highly recommend this TV. Watching interstellar in the dark with volume on high, wow.

[motohunt]

I am heavily considering between this one or the Samsung Q90T..

Could anyone with experience tell me which would be the overall better option.

I am a gamer on Ps4 Pro and eventually Ps5 too! I game in both bright and dark conditions as well as watching movies so a TV which handles both very well would be great.
HDR 10+ and 4k is important but 120hz not so much I don't think even a Ps5 will be capable of 120hz. But on the other hand yeah the 33 milliseconds result of this TV indeed seems a bit held back.

So overall this or Samsung Q90T. 🤔🤔🤔

[gurulo_rubelek]

Greetings everyone. I owned this model for 3 weeks. I love ambilight, this was the main reason I have bought it. I have read and watched a few tests, here are my thoughts, very shortly: since this is a 2019 Philips flagship model, I would expect to be flawless. Silly me, there is no such thing. Three pro reasons to buy it: ambilight, soundbar, TV has an amazing picture on SDR. Cons: although they say it supports Dolby Atmos, it doesn’t. It should be fixed with future android software updates. Audio(lip-sync) issues, both on youtube and sdr TV mode, pixel refresh process was visible and disturbing to me, every 5-10 minutes the pixels are shifting-orbiting. I qoute from Philips website: Pixel Shift
“Pixel shifting” moves the entire displayed content (including OSD / menu) by one pixel to the left/right or up/down up to a total of 8px in order to reduce burn-in effects. The pixel shift will be executed once per 80 seconds of runtime. The plastic remote control is a shame. I own a 32PFL9604H/12 model which is at least 10 years old, it has a premium remote control, made from metal, now that is what I call a remote control. Although I love the ambilight, I took back the TV and changed to LG E9. I am planning to buy a Philips hue sync hdmi box+accessories. Cheers.

[Bigticket]

No mention about bugged dark HDR10+ and DV implementation. You are not honest

[dwpslyfox]

As I understand it, there is no eARC, no hdmi 2.1?, no vrr or gsyn/freesync, no ATSC 3.0 tuner, behind the curve input lag (in the 30's in 2020...really?), and it has a bowers and wilkins soundbar which I'm assuming isn't an option you can opt out of as it's implemented in the is strange, considering those in the market for an high end oled probably have dedicated surround systems which make the soundbar unnecessary. Now, saying this, I'm speaking from the perspective of someone who has a 5.2.4 system, and if I'm wrong about the soundbar, I would like to know. But it seems to be an addition which many/most would prefer to have a choice about in the end, perhaps able to save some cost because they already have a better solution in the home environment. Peak brightness? I'll assume it's middle of the road in that aspect as well. All in all, disappointing, considering the pricing. Hard to understand how this set gets a "highly recommended".

[psycheevolved]

How long do your sentences need to be. Frustrating