Philips 55OLED805, A Deep Dive into the 55-Inch 4K UHD OLED TV Experience

by Samuel Kalenga on Aug 30, 2024

There’s always something more we can do to improve the home viewing experience and the Philips 55OLED805 is our most recent technological leap in this area of home entertainment. This 55-inch 4K UHD OLED TV offers a variety of benefits that turns TV into a source of ultimate relaxation and frees us from everything that troubles us in our everyday life; enjoy borders of fantastical colour with immense clarity, unleash your listening adventure with the sound that’s made to stay in and lose yourself in breath-taking 8 million pixels of slice of life and lightning-fast motion clarity for an experience that’s incredibly immersive and striking. From its picture quality and sound to its smart features and design, the 55OLED805 is a great choice for the most discerning individuals wanting the best home theatre tech this 2019 has to offer.

Unveiling the Technological Marvel: A Closer Look at the Key Features

55-inch 4K UHD OLED Display: Redefining Visual Excellence Behind the Philips 55OLED805 is a 55-inch OLED display unlocking onscreen brilliance, giving a new insight into picture quality. Using self-lighting pixels, OLED opens up a realm of impressive detail, with perfect black (a feature of OLED) and infinite contrast, bringing the finest nuances of an image to life. The Philips 55OLED805’s screen technology also gives movement the fluidity and realism of a cinematic experience, which in turn means you can sit back and enjoy your favourite Blu-rays and boxsets with picture-perfect clarity, as well as relish buttery-smooth graphics in your gaming.
Philips Ambilight: Where Technology Meets Art Arguably the most distinctive and engaging feature of the 55OLED805 is Philips’ legacy of Ambilight technology. Originally introduced in 1999 and only found on Philips TVs since then, this video-processing system has been around for a long time now, and it works equally well on plasma and LCD TVs (though their slightly consoling diffuse light cannot compete with the high-impact drama of an OLED screen’s lush black levels and infinite contrast). Ambilight artfully expands the screen experience by projecting a dual side-wing of visceral halo light onto the wall directly behind the TV, the colour of which is continually calibrated to the output onscreen, merging the TV with its surround so that you literally feel registered inside the action, buried in the moment. It’s a startlingly immersive effect that draws your living space into the retro-futuristic image space of the film, not in a way that terminates in the blank wall as with standard TV or a projector, but extending its perimeter far into the room.
P5 Perfect Picture Engine: The Maestro of Visual Enhancement The 55OLED805 features Philips’ P5 Perfect Picture Engine, a sophisticated picture-processing engine that works to optimise every part of the picture, ensuring that every detail is delivered with maximum clarity. It acts as an intelligent engine that analyses the elements of the scene being delivered to decide what should be enhanced, whether it be sharpness, contrast, colour or motion. It then makes the necessary adjustments to the image to deliver a constant level of stunning visual results. You’ll notice that watching the 55OLED805 feels like you’re attending a performance, with every detail being brought to life. So whether you’re watching a tight action film or a more sedate nature documentary, the P5 Perfect Picture Engine will bring the scene to life, putting you square in the middle of the action with as much clarity and detail as possible. It’s a “magical” engine that will deliver the best picture possible, and it’s the secret to delivering superb performance from the 55OLED805, bringing every subtle shadow and vibrant highlight to the fore for you to devour.
HDR10+ and Dolby Vision: A Symphony of Colors and Contrast The 55OLED805 supports the latest HDR technologies: HDR10+ as well as Dolby Vision. What that essentially means is more colour and more dynamic range, so that dark and bright portions of a scene are rendered more realistically, without blowing out hot areas or making shadows too dark. You get a fuller range of colours, as well as a bigger range of brightness; things look more three-dimensional and realistic. HDR shows every detail of every image to great effect and in a stunningly beautiful way. Lauren Southern activist pushes vegan, and the punches fly This is where HDR10+ and Dolby Vision play a crucial role. Remember how Netflix on Blu-ray players was slow to embrace Blu-ray? Well, now it’s the other way around, with a lot of TVs not embracing Dolby Vision or HDR10+. The TV you can see on my screen is embracing both and it makes me happy. If you want a TV with a focus on achieving the truest possible reproduction of movies – that is, making watching a movie on your TV in your home look exactly like it did at the cinema, only bigger and crisper – then a TV such as the 55OLED805 means that your gaming days will be truly over.
Android TV Operating System: A World of Entertainment at Your Fingertips Fe Android TV operating system, this 55OLED805 opens up the world of entertainment beyond your imagination! Simply browse through a plethora of different streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, YouTube and a lot more, with its robust and intuitive Android TV interface. You can also download and install different apps from the Google Play Store to add the fun. The gaming enthusiasts can enjoy a wide collection of games directly from their television, while music aficionados can stream their favorite tracks of varied genres to even groove to a variety of podcasts! Simply put, the Android TV operating system allows you get the power of customisable entertainment experience to access entertainment of your choice.
Dolby Atmos Sound: Immersive Audio for a Complete Experience The 55OLED805 brings the viewing experience to life via immersive Dolby Atmos sound technology. This sound system mimics the reality of sound by rendering surround sound effects from front, back and all around you. Sounds from movies, TV shows to music seem to come from all directions rather than from just your TV speakers. Sound fidelity and realism are also improved thanks to its Dolby Atmos technology, which is designed to fill every corner of the room and move sound around you. Dolby Atmos sounds are switching out traditional 5.1 audio channels for objects, these ‘objects’ allow certain audio effects to be positioned on screen exactly how the creator intended them to be heard. As a result, your sonic experience has a new dimension of realism and depth. Dolby Atmos sound gives you an astounding feeling that you’re watching a movie, perceiving every slight detail of the audio happening on-screen. Its sound feels like it is coming from all around you and not just from the front of the display. This technology creates a three-dimensional time-space relationship between you and the cinematic audio. On the 55OLED805, its audio performance elevates a fantastic viewing experience to an immersive entertainment experience. With its super-amplified audio output, every sound seems real, and feels real to the eyes. Within this attention to detail, the 55OLED805 magnifies the magic the atmosphere provides; your home theater can feel like a cinema-grade theater but with better audio technology because the technology that powers film theaters is also integrated into the 55OLED805 4K TV.
Google Assistant and Alexa Voice Control: Convenience at Your Command Thanks to built-in support for both Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, it can be used with your voice. Voice control is now becoming a basic feature of modern TVs. The 55OLED805 allows you to do all the same things as a traditional remote control. Using voice control, you can navigate the TV’s menus, search for TV shows and movies, adjust settings such as brightness and audio levels, and even control external home devices. Hands-free operation ensures that voice control remains as convenient and friendly as possible; the technology helps increase the ease of use of the TV, so you spend more time enjoying your entertainment and less time tinkering with controls. Voice control is seamless and intuitive: it is a feature that, like 4K resolution and voice control, helps you use your TV in a way that makes sense for viewing and wheelchair control. The inclusion of voice control shows LG’s dedication to user-friendly, seamless entertainment experiences. They want your TV to be that way, too.

Image Quality: A Symphony of Visual Brilliance

The Philips 55OLED805 delivers stunning images which far outpace what you expect. Firstly the OLED screen itself is made from self-emissive pixels (meaning they light themselves, rather than requiring a backlight) resulting in perfect blacks and contrast that you won’t find in an LCD or another type of flat-panel display. Pixels not emitting light absorb it fully, so the ability to generate absolute blacks means the display has an infinite (or near infinite) contrast ratio, meaning the image looks photorealistic, with shades and contours only limited by real life and natural imagery. In addition, the P5 Perfect Picture Engine works with the OLED display, resulting in perfect pictures every time, no matter the video source.

Committed to making your picture look good, Philips combines breakthroughs in TV display and video processing technology to deliver images that approach the quality of Hollywood films. Poor quality sources might have been pinched from DVD rips on shady websites 10 years ago, in which case you might not notice much of anything. High-def Blu-ray discs, TV over-the-air, or even streaming content will look so incredible on your screen you’ll feel like you are having a great movie marathon in your living room.

Sound Quality: A Sonic Journey into the Heart of the Action

Dolby Atmos brings three-dimensional sound to the LG 55OLED805. With the combination of incredible picture and sound, the immersive audio experience will add a completely new cinematic vastness and realism to your viewing experience. Dialogue becomes crystal clear and sound effects even more pronounced with the three-dimensional sound field. Bring the cinema home using Dolby Atmos – complete your viewing experience with the LG 55OLED805. The audio performance from the 55OLED805 is fabulous, but, of course, you can connect a dedicated sound system or soundbar to take the audio performance to the next level. With 55OLED805, you can experience the joy of cinema at home. Its dazzling pictures and immersive audio will take your home viewing experience to a whole new level as if you were in an actual movie theater.

Smart Features: A World of Entertainment at Your Command

Android TV (which comes on the Philips 55OLED805) is an open operating system. It can be considered as a versatile hub for convenient, personalised integrated entertainment. With Android TV, the Philips 55OLED805 gets access to a huge offering of apps, streaming services, and games. The video entertainment integration with the Philips 55OLED805 runs smoothly and is easy to access via the user friendly menu of the television. You can directly access popular streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, YouTube. You can search for movies, TV shows, documentaries, and so on. The user-friendly interface is intuitive and is easy to navigate around.

The Philips 55OLED805 has access to the Google Play Store. In here, the user can download and install a variety of apps ready for use. This service expands the entertainment offerings of your Philips 55OLED805. For example, games of various categories and difficulties can be downloaded. You can find music streaming apps as well in the store. Android TV enables the user to have a convenient personalised entertainment centre. Truly, the Philips 55OLED805 can have a world of entertainment at its fingertips.

Design: A Symphony of Elegance and Functionality

An exquisite frame fits snugly into the low-bezel screen, along with a compact frame that’s almost invisible to the eye when viewed from a distance. The 55OLED805 is a beautiful piece of kit that not only lends itself to the design aesthetic of your room, but also blends harmoniously into your home cinema to complete the overall look. You’d find another viewing device that can match the sleek architectural aesthetic of the screen, leaving your living space with a decidedly sophisticated, classy and unintrusive centrepiece. The Ambilight technology is quite magical when viewed up close, with the subtle dynamic halo of light surrounding our TV quite enthralling.

Conclusion: A True Entertainment Powerhouse

The Philips 55OLED805 proves just how great TVs have gotten. The OLED display, great sound, full-featured smart features, and beautiful design coalesce for an entertainment experience like no other. Whether you’re watching movies, catching up on your favourite shows, or just vegging out, the 55OLED805 is a premium TV that provides an entertainment experience like no other. A stunning display, unbeatable sound, and intuitive, user-friendly interface brings an entertainment experience right there in your living room.

Pros

Stunning OLED display with perfect blacks, infinite contrast, and vibrant colors
Immersive Philips Ambilight technology
Powerful P5 Perfect Picture Engine
Support for HDR10+ and Dolby Vision
Android TV operating system with a wide range of apps and streaming services
Dolby Atmos sound for an immersive audio experience
Google Assistant and Alexa voice control for convenience
Sleek and modern design