Absolutely dire
Absolutely dire! How can TPV market such rubbish under the Philips brand? The OLED754 has so many problems I don't know where to start. The worst problem is the lipsync which has the vision arriving almost 1/2 a second after the sound on TV tuner progamme. Oddly, it is perfect on HDMI input, so clearly they can achieve the basic function of a TV - when used as a monitor - but utterly useless as its main function, a TV!
As for the customer 'service', what a total joke! They try to make it out to be all your fault, the customer's fault, and they'll make you answer loads of irrelevant questions over and over again, they ignore everything useful you tell them, they ask you to do a complex technical procedure about formatting a USB stick then uploading some files to it, plug it into the TV then tapping in a secret code to the TV, then downloading the files to a computer, then blah blah BLAH! All designed to waste your time and to avoid their responsibility for making a truly terrible TV. They even ask you to take a picture of the TV and send it to them... as if that will fix a lipsync problem! They tried to tell me it was my amplifier, despite it happening on the internal TV speakers with noting connected to the TV at all! - because they refuse to LISTEN to what the actual problem is. And then without any warning, they closed my ticket for warranty repair / replacement for no reason whatsoever. They will try every trick in the book to wriggle out of their responsibilites.
They lied to the retailer, telling them they had closed the ticket because I was unable to upload new firmware, which was a complete and total lie!
In any case, new f/w can't fix a lipsync problem if they haven't fixed the lipsync problem... because they don't know there is a lipsync problem.... because they don't listen to customers, loads of them on avforums who have similar lipsync problems with the 754 TV... And there's no company more deaf and more stupid than the one that refuses to listen to customers who collectively tell them they have problems with their products.
Eventually, after being ignored and generally abused by TPV customer 'service' helpline (ha ha!), when I wrote an email to Philips CEO Frans A van Houten (his email is easily found at ceoemail . com), complaining bitterly at the problems TPV has caused me, his UK man at TPV, Mr Jones contacted me and promised he'd sort out my TV and also sort out all the problems other people complaining about TPV TV on the Philips . co . uk Trustpilot thread were complaining about. His offer to replace my 754 with a better 855 TV backfired because he forgot to tell me TPV have separated the speaker and headphone volume control in the Android operating system, and so the sound volume and muting through an external amplifier can't be controlled by the remote control volume and mute buttons, only by the headphone volume slider control which is roughly 10 menu presses deep into the control settings! Not helpful at all, TPV, what a stupid thing to do. Loads of people have complained to Philips / TPV about this online, even youtube videos have been made begging Philips to fix this, but they refuse to listen to customers. It was even delivered with a Euro 2 pin plug instead of the required UK 13 amp 3 pin plug, so clearly it was a knock-off not intended for the UK market. Now how's that for customer care, supplying a replacement TV that can't even be plugged it? You couldn't make this nonsense up.
Unless TPV / Philips start listening to customers and fix their diabolical 754 TV and offer some sort of customer service, they will lose customers, and hopefully will go bust as a just reward for ignoring customers and blaming customers for the faults.
10 December 2020
Unprompted review