Our former television was okay. We got the old LG LED TV right after getting back on one of the final flights through Narita during the COVID pandemic. We were still under quarantine when the Amazon delivery guy knocked at the our door. He was in the elevator, half way to the ground floor, before we could open it!
I suppose the LG 55SM8600PUA was a good 2019 TV. However the backlit LED never had deep blacks. The 4K refresh rate wasn't robust. It was sort of a standard workhorse. In retrospect though, we did spend a whole lot of our lives in front of that screen.
This past winter, I did a whole lot of 'homework' after deciding it was time for a new TV. While in Sri Lanka this winter, I decided on an LG OLED. We couldn't move up in screen size as our apartment is only around 750 sq ft. Our living room television cannot be larger than 55". I noticed the smallest demonstration sets in stores are now 65".
I pulled the trigger on Saturday via bestbuy.ca as the clearance prices are starting in order to make room for new 2026 models. If the price drops further in the next month, I'm covered by the price guarantee.
As well as the optimum size for our apartment, yesterday, we found that this is the largest screen that we'd be able to squeeze into in our Kona EV.