Doctor Feel or anyone else that can help.
TV blew up last night.
Looking 60 inch UHD LED LCD Smart narrowed it down to Samsung v LG. Our last LG tv lasted nearly ten years without a hitch despite massive use but all our other shit is Samsung.
Any advice nerds?
I will go against the grain and say Samsung. The series 9's are an incredible piece of kit. However, LG's probably come a little bit cheaper and on paper there may not be a huge difference. I like Samsung for not only the picture etc, but the software and operating system design. As a retailer their warranty claims were one of the easiest processes to go through. Contrarian to what someone else said here, our most returned brand name TV's would have been LG.
Make sure you have a look at the TVs in the shop, and ask for the remote so you can mess around with it and change the contrast levels because obviously displays are always set to Dynamic in order to be unrealistically vibrant for sales purposes. Other things to look for is stuttering (you may not notice it until you've watched it for a bit) and how it depicts moving objects. Moving objects quite often experience a blocky/edgy blur around them which looks awful.
In the end, brand name means very little and it comes down to what you like the most in the shop, but my personal preference is Samsung. I've got a series 8 myself. OLED is great picture wise, but it had some serious reliability concerns on release. This may have changed though, I've been out of the game for two years now.
Seriously - don't be afraid to listen to a salesperson and ask them the hard questions about reliability/returns, which TVs are selling well and what to look out for, 90% are serious about their job 10% are slime. You will know which is which.