Philips 48 inch OLED806 Review

Philips adds a 48-inch screen size to its OLED range with the 48OLED806 which includes all the current HDR formats including both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, plus two new HDMI 2.1 full bandwidth inputs and gaming features such as VRR, AMD FreeSync Premium and ALLM, a first for the brand.

Added to the feature list is the Philips TV USP of Ambilight, a full-on, four-sided bias lighting system that can be used to combat eye fatigue when viewing in a dark room, or for adding lighting effects that follow the action on screen for complete immersion. It’s a fantastic feature only available on Philips TVs.

And overall, the OLED806 directly competes with the LG 48C1 and does so with some strong image quality, excellent motion and video processing, along with accurate calibrated images and very good sound quality. There is more competition than ever at the 48-inch screen size and the Philips puts together a very strong proposition that comes highly recommended.

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[allanallen]

Just a heads up for enabling the 2 greyed out boxes on series x with this tv. Go into general settings and turn the hdmi 2 input into Auto game mode then they become available to check and you get vrr.

[michaeltovey]

I have owned a 48oled806 for six months now. Sound quality is surprisingly good (don’t use my sound bar now). Picture quality is really good and ambilight gives a nice glow in the room. My only criticism is the fairly clunky android operating system but the ability to create favourite channels list largely overcomes this. Overall very pleased with the tv and rate it good value for money at the £850 paid.

[andrewstevenson]

Well can I give you a warning very important warning. I got this tv and the quality is amazing and can’t fault the quality. But sadly the OLED has one fault that will put anybody off.. See what the tv does is when it thinks you have watched tv that will cause some image retention it will force you do a cleaning called OLED screen care. Now the problem is it doesn’t restart to tell you it’s finished. And if you do it early it tells you to redo it. And what is worse is it asks you to do it after 7 hours tv. Then the more you read online this has been a problem since 2020 and we are now in 2022. Sadly a beautiful tv really beautiful but a problem like this makes it totally impossible

[mgfchappo]

Settings please, got the 48 inch 806, gorg pic, but would like your input as well...

[smoothie]

Just got a 65” OLED706, read it’s identical minus the remote, feet and 4 side Abilight. AVfourms confirm ?

[peterteekens]

How great it would be that when people connect HDMI Arc soundbar to their Philips TV OLED (Android) the volume bar in the screen will show up when changing volume on the Philips remote. As it was in the old Philips Matchline days. The bar on the HDMI arc soundbar doesn't work either., and the "feauture" isn;t explained neither.

[deepanmurugan]

Why can't we have a flagship TV across any brand that has:
1) Support for all HDR Vision, Dolby Vision IQ, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG, Adv HDR Technicolor.
2) IMAX Enhanced + Filmmaker Mode + Netflix Calibrated Mode + Calman Home (AutoCal) + ISF mode.
2) Native Dolby Atmos decoding + DTS X passthrough eARC (decoding wud be great too) & all major audio codec support for playback.
3) Full fat HDMI 2.1. (48 Gbps) with 120Hz 4K 4:4:4 on at least 1-2 HDMI inputs
4) Gigabit Ethernet (It is 2021 ffs !)
5) USB 3.0 (atleast 1)
6) Working VRR, ALLM & 4K 120Hz Dolby Vision gaming features. Probably need onboard FreeSync/GSync

I just don't understand how FLAGSHIP models of Samsung, LG, Sony, Philips, Panasonic etc have ridiculously priced high end models that doesn't have all the above mention in ONE HIGHEND TV.

[Hubert]

great review. now i just wonder what the calibrated settings are? :)

[MildaCrayfish]

Hi, thank you for review, .. please.. Can I connect my audio system with this TV with jack 3, 5 to phones on TV ? (from 2x cinch)

[allanallen]

The same model I own has just encountered solarised (negative) picture. The menu settings were fine just the picture, I had to turn off and take plugs from wall socket and that refreshed it and now it seems fine, I'm wondering if I have a bad main board and should replace its only 3 months old.

[renekuhn]

could do a philips 707 colour setting as I'm getting one this week is that a good set the 65inch

[mgfchappo]

Settings please, you've done the c1, you said this is better, so where are the pic settings please

[yellowmonkey]

how do you know the film mastered nit level is? is it on the disc box or would you have to look it up.

[cpnvbzc]

How is the brightness compared to the LG C1?

[hooperb]

Anyone got any calibration settings for this please? Just Brought the TV comes the weekend would really appreciate people's help

[djordje.a]

Hello @AVForums,
Is it better option to buy Philips 55 806 OLED or 65 706 OLED for ~120 euros more, when picture quality vs price is considered?
Thanks!

[GumpGump]

I wonder if this is winning OLED of the year….or is it the Sony A80j?

[quuhod]

Just a warning for those looking to use this as a PC monitor, I got one recently and had major issues. When switching to it from my main monitor it would default to a lower resolution which I had to change every time, also it would often shut down when changing settings on my graphics card (e.g. resolution, G-Sync etc) and the only way I could fix it was to unplug it from the mains. I sent it back and got an LG C1 which I've had no issues with at all.

[mikeallen]

Can anyone pls tell me out of this and lg c1 which has better picture quality? Rtings don't do philips so hard to find spec breakdown between 2 ( an in depth one) I understand interface is better with lg perhaps better gaming features although they both do 120 at 4k. I'm torn between these 2 sets

[navpreetsingh]

Purchased on release 3 months ago, I can already see screen retention and burn even with the static image thing set to high, it's not looking good for reliability