The whistle blows for the World Cup which will take place from November 20 to December 18. Traditionally the pretext for renewing a screen, major sporting events allow manufacturers to place their best “players” on the field. They need it. Since the Covid, television sales have been down: minus 15% in volume since the start of the year. Explanations: if the French have massively equipped themselves during the confinements, the financial concerns of the moment due to inflation and the rise in the price of energy quite legitimately plunge them into a wait-and-see attitude.
OLED (but more expensive) for high contrast images; Basic LED LCDs (cheaper), QLED (higher brightness LCDs); and more or less adapted to video games, there is a choice on the shelves. As the World Cup approaches, the editorial staff of “20 Minutes” wanted to give you some shopping tips, its good plans, by offering you a selection of 4K televisions (3840 x 2160 pixels) in 48, 55, 65 and 75. inches, to enjoy matches in XXL version. And beware, the biggest are not necessarily the most expensive. If they are included in this selection, it is because their quality, their performance/price ratio, or even their large image size/price ratio caught our attention.
Panasonic 48LZ1500: a 48-inch screen that is certainly compact but with exceptional images
With its OLED TV 48LZ1500, Panasonic offers a television whose size (48”, or 121 cm) allows it to embrace most interiors: living room, bedroom, office. 4K 120 Hz, HDR10 + and Dolby Vision, its colors are calibrated for a rendering as faithful as possible to cinema films. With it, sporting events will also gain in contrasts. Moreover, the device is ALLM (Auto Low Latency Mode) compatible and automatically adapts to video games as soon as a console is connected to it. Bonus for noisy football evenings: you can connect up to two Bluetooth headphones! 1,490 euros.
Our opinion : Panasonic perfectly masters the image quality of its televisions and this model stands out. Its compatibility with all formats (HDR10/HDR10 + for Prime Video; Dolby Vision for Netflix; HDR10, Dolby Vision, for Disney+; and HLG for TNT) won us over and makes it universal. At the same time, it has a fairly muscular sound of 2 x 15 watts, compatible with Dolby Atmos.
Sony XR55A75K: a 55 inch with perfect images that turns up the sound
An essential reference in the world of televisions, Sony offers with its XR55A75K a screen cut out for great entertainment. OLED, equipped with the Cognitive Processor XR (a chipsets which, thanks to artificial intelligence, optimizes the image quality where the eye is looking), this 55” (139 cm) can do without a sound bar. The Acoustic Surface Audio technology developed by Sony transforms the screen into a loudspeaker by broadcasting high and medium audio signals directly through the screen. On arrival, a power of 4 x 10 watts. 1,690 euro.
The One 8807. Recognized as one of the best on the market, this processor is the guarantor of high-end and very fluid images. Looking good for the gamingwith its 120 Hz panel and HDMI 2.1 socket, this excellent 65” (165 cm) model with a sound power of 20 Watts is also HDR10 + and Dolby Vision. 1,099 euros.
75C635 does not complain about the quality of its 4K panel, which is QLED. Compatible with HDR10 + and Dolby Atmos, it is a Google TV whose customizable interface offers direct access to the main platforms of streaming. It is equipped with Onkyo speakers (2 x 15 watts), three HDMI sockets (including one eArc) and two USB sockets (2.0 + 3.0). Its adjustable feet allow it to accommodate a sound bar. 999 euros.
Our opinion : The QLED name of this television hides an LCD screen based on Quantum Dots (or quantum dots) which offer a much more energetic colorimetric spectrum. Nothing to do with OLED! Attention, the counterpart of the tight price of the device is its native refresh rate of 50 Hz (50 frames per second). If it can optimize its frequency up to 120 Hz for video games, it is not the ideal model for gamers inveterate. There remains a very large product, certainly not the best of the 75 inches, but which allows you to really have fun without necessarily sticking a consumer credit on your back.