Kogan Electronics

Easy to set up, and navigate all the inbuilt features. Has a Great picture and lots of included apps. Remote control is easy to use and a compact size. Its not too heavy to pick up either. I'm loving my new TV so far.

My 65" Google Smart TV meets my expectations with ease – I am very pleased with the picture quality of this TV. I love having the ability to download apps from the Play Store. Delivery was prompt and the package was well packed and protected during travel.

I couldn't edit my review on Dick Smith Australia for this item. Neither could I write another review on kogan.com or any other website because there… Read more

didn't seem to be any other places of review for these headphones. So I thought I might put a page in product review for these headphones.

Judging by how cheap they are, they provide sound quality that in my opinion has high clarity, is very acute and very clear with good base. I use these on my desktop PC. So I also bought a onboard sound card, which would assist in the quality of sound also. The sound card is a Sound Blaster made by Creative.

I was comparing the specifications to a $100 pair of headphones which are also DJ monitoring headphones. I wouldn't buy any other kind of headphone because I prefer to have headphones that actually utilise sound rather than just play sound.

The frequency, the impedance and the drivers on these headphones might be a little bit smaller than those of other headphones, but the difference is minute, barely making them worse or better than more expensive headphones. although these headphones being $40 and more expensive headphones at $100 are still exceedingly cheap compared to a pair that cost $900 and I can not imagine you owuld get heaps more out of your expensive head phones..

It's hard to comprehend how a pair of headphones can vary in sound in regards to the highest of quality, seeing as we are dealing with micro technology and the difference in sound. Its not always obvious,

obviously headphones like this encapsulate your ears allowing you to hear everything which you can't really hear through open speakers even if they are the highest of quality speakers the sound is still traveling through open air effectively and essentially depleting, diminishing and distorting sound. Which is not the case with headphones because they are a closed system.

For these Kogan headphones, I couldn't even find a comprehensive list of the specifications that drive the sound through hardware And what specifications I could find, I could see that the differences between more expensive headphones were menial, if not inconsequential entirely.

Apart from that, you've got the obvious factors like the cable, 3.5mm jack and the comfort of the wear. These headphones are very comfortable to wear long term. Obviously cable means better connection and faster, quicker sound. Also clearer sound. the 3.5 millimeter jack. Well it's not as good as an optical jack obviously but for some reason I don't think I've ever seen a headphone that has an optical connection anyway so we cant really compare that!

So as far as I can tell and as far as I can say through experience is that these headphones provide very nice clear sound especially for say movies. In scenes where there's thunder or rain you can hear very clearly the thunder and the rain as well as the voices, very nice sound and they seem to drive the sound to areas which is good helps to create the effect required through watching a movie so I can't complain with these headphones as they seem to perform very well despite the fact they are gray import Kogan headphones that's no reason to belittle or condemn them

LOTR fellowship of the ring sounds very good through these headphones, I can certainly hear sound detail, the most subtle to the most vvibrant with out loss of audible clarity

Very happy with the whole experience – Great communications; very fast delivery; very well packaged. The TV was incredibly easy to set up and the image is fantastic. I'm very happy with the whole experience. Thank you.

This magnificent 85 inch TV is the perfect viewing box for clarity and rich intense colours. Kogan provided outstanding customer service and… Read more

responses to questions were fast and very helpful. The TV arrived very quickly and was delivered by helpful Couriers who handled this very large package as if it were a newborn baby. They placed it exactly where we wanted it and their manners and disposition could not be faulted. This large TV was not too heavy to mount on the wall, and the Instruction Manual provided was clear and easy to follow. We now have the best picture-quality available and an AI TV that is more clever than our cat. I would be happy to purchase again from Kogan and can not speak highly enough about their products, service and delivery team. Outstandinding.

​If you're still using crappy built-in speakers on your TV, do yourself a favor and get this. While it’s a budget-friendly option, the sound quality… Read more

is a 100% improvement.

​Plug & Play: Connected instantly via HDMI ARC, and now my TV remote controls the volume automatically. ​Big Sound: It turns a "tinny" TV into more like a home cinema experience for a fraction of the cost of big brands. ​It’s not the most expensive gear on the market, but for the price, the value is unbeatable. Highly recommended for a massive instant upgrade.

4/5 Stars = Sound (Personal) 4/5 Picture (Personal) 4/5. Frame Rate on Sport, 5/5. Gaming Frame Rate on console, 5/5. Colour Definition 4/5. Set up… Read more

Options 5/5. Sharpness Processing QLED Display 4/5 - This depends upon network feed quality, and the TV processor ability is not as advanced as a 55" $3000 QLED 4K TV equivalent because you haven't bought a high level processor. The processor 3/5 in this TV is adequate to provide a decent pixelated and NON fragmenting frame rate, sharpness 4/5 is quite okay for everything observed on screen. Controller button placement and design 5/5, Apps work like any other Smart TV, 5/5. Controller Remote Microphone Talk with Google TV, 5/5, Child TV Lock 5/5. As it's new, there are lots of hidden features you have to discover.

FYI for buyers of this unit - this review is a set-up guide because Kogan doesn't have an advanced option to understand the menus inside this TV. Below is my TV set up for most content, stereo amp connection and media hub options and picture refinement for movies, sport and games:

Picture (Personal) Sharpness 82, Brightness 55, Colour Saturation 41, Hue 53 (be careful - less is magenta, middle is yellow, higher is green), Contrast 64 (back to front - higher is crisper and lighter), Gamma 1 (changes lightness). Advanced Settings - Colour Temperature WARM, Dynamic Contrast - ON (use this to make colours chromatic - very good for games), Noise Reduction - OFF (don't know why this exists - might be useful for stills photographic images and using TV as monitor for photo editing) ALLM - OFF, Motion Estimate and Motion Compensation (MEMC) - Middle or (HIGH for action sports and never OFF). Screen Brightness 55 (this is the setting for lighting in your room - it helps to reduce reflection on the display from external sources). WCG - WCG (this makes the colour overall a little more RED, warmer.) Some movies do not need this, and it is easy to turn on or off to adjust colour bias (but note here, I don't like this setting on Auto).

Sound for TV Speakers Only - (Personal setting Only). Dolby - OFF or ON (depends on feed type - note digital feed likes this setting ON, whereas TV from Aerial input it really should be OFF). Surround Mode - OFF, Advance Settings - OFF (if you are going to use advance settings they are below and not here).

To access Personal Equaliser: In the window which displays - Personal Settings - Press Personal Settings x2 times - this opens Personal Equaliser. 150Hz 3, 250Hz 4, 500Hz 3, 1000Hz 2, 2000Hz 0, 5000Hz -2, 10000Hz -3. You can do without a soundbar with this EQ set up, as it's pretty beefy and has good midtone balance with softer tweeter end note makes dialogue clear as the sharpness is chopped out. No hiss whatsoever.

TV Speakers Warning: Sound Audio Output TV Speakers is very sensitive out of the box - You have a +/- bar controller which is 0 -100. The highest I have used is 21 and that is obnoxious loud. There is no way to correct or reduce this skew, except for the almost deaf 3/5 will hear clarity and destroy neighbourhood peace. Don't accidentally destroy your TV speakers, it's a little scary how sensitive this really is 2/5 (needs firmware update to fix slider audio output volume).

Adding External Devices: TV Audio to Audio Amp or Soundbar instruction guide as this is not in the Kogan instruction guides online - Install your cable connections to SPDIF/Optical (optical OUT on TV direct to Optical IN on Amp) or HDMI-ARC (be aware this TV uses HDMI-ARC port 2. You must use an ARC-Ultra High Speed HDMI Cable. You cannot use a standard HDMI cable for this type of connection. Connect from HDMI-ARC 2 direct to Digital Amp, HDMI-ARC dedicated port. As this is a fairly new type of connection, a lot of oldish media amps do not have a dedicated ARC port. Network amps will have a dedicated ARC TV port. If your Amp does not have ARC, you must use SPDIF/Optical instead.)

SPDIF/Optical Configuration: Note with using SPDIF/Optical configurations from TV: The multi device use option is to run optical to the Media Amp and control all your external devices from that input/output whilst having a completely separate digital feed for Aerial only which throughputs to TV from your Network or media Recorder/Player which uses an RCA Digital Coaxial Stereo connection. This set up allows you to be using 3 systems at the same time. 2 can record separate channels from TV signal inputs as 1 is external network online input doesn't require TV to provide signal whilst the other is using TV aerial input indirectly whist the 3rd is live network input feed on primary HDMI 1 channel. You cannot do this using HDMI-ARC set up.

Advanced Connections: *!* If you are going to change a setting in this area, it overrides the preset setting, as you are now in Manual Advanced Menu for the entire TV OS. (You may want to write down your setting procedure and if you get stuck you can reset all the settings to default and start again).

Click on COG button on your controller to open the Setting Menu on your TV. The COG icon in the top right corner of your TV screen menu should be highlighted. Tap the Black Circle on the controller 2 times quickly. This opens all settings menu on your TV.

Channels and inputs - Channels: You can create a Favourite list. You can also delete unwanted scanned channels, do diagnostic of signal strength to get the best quality for your area, and you can organise your channels the way you like to see and use them. < back to settings.

Display and Sound - Audio Output - Output Device: TV Speakers for TV Speakers, SPDIF/Optical OUT to Stereo 2 Channel Amp SPDIF/Optical IN connects to external speakers or Media Amp SPDIF/Optical IN connects to surround speaker system or Soundbar, (note here you cannot connect a Soundbar direct unless you dedicate that Optical OUT/IN to just Soundbar use and it turns off the TV speakers and the Headphone connection too).

HDMI-ARC to HDMI-ARC input on Media Amp (mutes TV audio when device is on and in use. This blocks TV audio use for another purpose.) Or you may buy a Digital Audio Controller with all the above INPUT/OUTPUT types and connect to PC Audio Visual Controls rendering turning the TV into a monitor with stereo speakers.

When using SPDIF/Optical you must turn ON PCM. This is in Sound Settings.

In - Audio Output Type - turn on PCM. This can stay this way forever as it doesnt affect TV Speaker output quality.

Picture Quality: 4/5 is purely dependent on the feed you get from either Aerial or Network - (Ethernet cable connection ) online speed via your modem and ISP. It varies. All your cables should be CAT7e. You can observe the input signal speed at the top of the channel when it is loading - e.g: 720p, 1080p, 4K / Hz Audio quality. Note network speed from steaming apps varies based on the network load in your server connections, your local area usage and the account subscription feed type from location stream connection.

A 4K TV of this type cannot enhance quality. Go buy a $6000 UHD 8K OLED TV as you will be paying for the multiprocessor chipsets with separate motherboard CPU & GPU which refines the input to feed a REFINED cleaner result. This is what you pay for mostly in any Smart TV today. It is less important to discuss how to refine picture quality beyond measure, as this TV is good enough for general use, especially sport and computer gaming, but it does lack slightly on Cinematic Delivery 4/5, out of the box without doing anything you will have 2.5/5 picture quality at most.

Direct Recording: Setting up recording directly from this TV is tricky. *!* You must not allow the TV to assign your device after it has been formatted. If you do - you cannot record live TV to the device. Doing so will automatically assign your external drive to be your Download Content media Library, which I find pretty useless because what am I going to download if I use online feeds from streaming like Netflix or On Demand. Both of these save your Content and Makes a Personal Library Online. And, this TV has 16GB of dedicated Library Space without any external attachment. But if 16Gb isnt enough, you can record directly to a large USB or SSD. Mine is 1Tb, and I can see 0.9Tb of that space. I can't set the buffer, but formatting sets a buffer equivalent to the TV recording settings. 1 important factor here is that you should remove this device connection whenever you do a firmware update on your TV.

Google TV: Offers a lot of Movie content on the fly. You don't really have control of the feed, but you can exclude (erase) some references in Advanced Settings if you are not using accounts for Network Entertainment. YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, Disney are preset locked. Unless you have an account, you cannot access these. And note here as this TV is a Smart Google TV you must have a Google Account to use the feature User profile for creating a Personal Library and getting rid of all the suff you will never use as it declutters the system and makes your TV more economic on power need. You can prioritise your Apps on home screen including Antenna which is all free to Air TV feed - see Channels and inputs settings for other options.

General Thoughts: This Kogan TV is fairly easy to set up - Bare-bones 3/5 out of the box, it's a little rough and the settings which go into Advanced Options for setting up external devices is vague or non-existent in Kogan's Setup guides1/5. I just spent 4 days playing around to figure out this TV's setting, and they are pretty comprehensive 5/5, just a little tough to get right because I havent got a technical guide to help me clarify what I'm doing. I don't want to change these settings ever again if possible. The best thing about doing advanced set up is that each area is a separate process 5/5, so just make a checklist and work through each device you are connecting to be seamless with, how you know and expect it to work. TV OS Set up does not reset when you turn power supply off at wall socket 5/5.

Gaming: Gaming on this TV is superb. Frame rate with a Series X is 120Hz. I set this to Auto as some games wont run 120Hz and it can cause flicker if you try too be too demanding on older games and indy type content is better on 90 or 60Hz. The 4K visual quality is crisp, no aberation at edges of frame or fuzziness in center section of screen, is very good with fast movement games, framerate dependent on device input quality. No bloom with aliasing or aberration with fog, haze, rain effect, dust storma and lightning are beautiful. Again, here you must have good network setup and a higher than average internet speed makes a big difference in what the Hz rating is going to be consistent in visual outcomes. If you stream online, Hz will vary dependent on where it is coming from, or going to, and what you pay for may not be received the same because the quality is inferior between upload and download qualities.

Overall: This TV isn't 5 Stars. It is because you have to do a fair bit of tuning to get the right picture and sound, plus there is a slight bias toward yellow in picture lighting. I've done my best to remove it to neutral, but it is extremely hard to get neutral tone. But for a Smart TV, which is under $900.00 is a rediculously good price for what it delivers. My TV was build in July 2025.

I have updated this review 18/10/25 as I have finished the advanced set up options and added them to thiss review as I consider them worth doing.

This TV has a really nice screen saver which you can customise with family photos from your Google Account Folder if you wish or the Google pictures are spectacular quality 5/5 if you decide to just have those.

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Great value for money, but some GPS frustrations – Bought this watch a few weeks ago as I wanted an inexpensive watch to record some workouts and runs and some HR monitoring. Pros: Great value for… Read more

money - they have crammed everything that I need in a smartwatch, especially GPS, as I wanted to track my running. HR monitor appears to be accurate, SpO2, resp rate, sleep tracking, all great features to have. Battery life seems very good and touch screen is reasonably responsive. Taking calls works well, speaker is very reasonable and mic is good, notification dismissal and quick replying is handy as well.

Cons: the Veryfit app is the only app you can sync with, and it constantly bugs you to re-enable location services on your phone to "get the most out of the app", but I've been fine with all the features of the app with my phone location off. It does not sync well to other apps. Ie. the sleep tracking does not sync to the main sleep app I use, and when it syncs my runs to Strava, the software confuses my starting HR with my average HR, so it looks like I completed a 15 min run with an average HR of 66 (I wish!). When you log a 'traditional workout' (or similar), the info it sends to Strava comes across as a run, and so it looks like I move as a pace of 3 hrs 27 min per Km (which my friends all have a good laugh at!) When the GPS function works, it is fantastic, but the trouble is that sometimes it just fails to connect. Often, it will take ~2-5 minutes to connect to GPS, so you'll have to hang around and wait before your walk/ride/run/etc, sometimes longer as it fails and you need to tell it to retry. Today, I just finished a 30 Min walk and had to retry 5 times and eventually gave up trying to connect the GPS because my walk was finished. A small con is that on the quick-access menu, the clock option is 'alarm', and there is no option to swap it for stopwatch or timer. You can always access these through the main menu, but again, a few extra steps.

Overall, it is ok. It is definitely a case of "you get what you pay for". For $75-80, it is great, but I would be lying if I didnt say the GPS issue wasnt very frustrating.

Good TV with lousy sound and first tv ive had with no sub title option even though the menu gives the option to select sub title language. Disappointing. It's otherwise used with Google chromecast a really good unit

Monitor screen cracked in first 24 hours of receiving it. The screen is very sensitive. Even with two people handling it from the middle and… Read more

underneath and lying it face down on top of the packaging to put the stand on. Don’t touch the sides it’s really thin and that is where mine cracked. Had it 7 days before it died the black screen of death. I did ask what they can recommend regarding the issues but Kogan said not covered under the warranty and didn’t suggest anything else. $750 now going to the rubbish.

Remote stops working,unusale without remote sent me another remote same as first.Very hard to get to customer service,do not buy kogan banded… Read more

products.Unit was discounted 60%,now I know why.DO NOT BUY.When it is working very good but randomly emote stops working.

Steer Clear of Kogan, product is poor at best and is no system in place for customer service at all – I purchased this TV 5 months ago, paid $600 to get it professionally installed and have never put a finger on or near the tv. One night it flickered… Read more

then it simply stopped working. That was 2 months ago. I have sent 8 emails to Kogan and once someone called to apologize and say someone will come to take it with a full refund, I got an email to say someone will call within 3 business days. Now total silence. I have gotten nowhere as there is no number to call or customer service whatsoever. I believe their entire business model is set up to scam. They buy a cheap product to on sell that might work but when it fails no discussion.

Cheap flimsy junk that breaks with the slightest movement – This TV is not durable or fit for purpose. All it takes is for a small bend in the screen, which is very flexible and has no structural support, for… Read more

it to come loose and crack, as happened to me.

I would not have bought this flimsy TV had I known, with reasonable expectations based on hundreds of other TVs I've experienced handling as a professional audio visual installer.

It is also not suitable for wall or trolley mounting as the mounting nuts are too low and close together allowing the screen to wobble around like cardboard, no, actually cardboard is stiffer.

To give you an idea of how flimsy it is, I was in the process of peeling off the sticky plastic protective film, holding it with one hand on the top when the screen came out of the frame and cracked.

Kogan's response: "After reviewing the photos supplied, it appears that the issue you described was not the result of a manufacturing defect, nor did it occur through the intended use of the product"

It is clear this product is badly designed, cheaply manufactured and it's fair to say the intended use for any TV is to able to be picked up and moved around without breaking. I didn't even get to turn it on!

Horrible – 16.12.24 $36 plus $13 post. The writeup for this mouse said it was excellent in every way. I have found it for the price to be equivalent to a $10… Read more

mouse. It over or undershoots - veers to the left or right when you're aiming straight. When you click the mouse doesn't respond. It needs to be plugged into the USB port almost constantly because it doesn't hold it's charge for more than a couple of hours. My previous anywhere mouse was perfect. Fast and accurate and would click every time. It was also AA battery which lasting for months. I want my money back on this - its disgusting and wasted my time and money.

After going though the ring sizing exercise was happy when received the product. 12 mths on, am disappointed. Supposedly charge lasts up to 6-7 days,… Read more

what isn’t stated is that if you turn on all functions this is reduced to 2 and now it doesn’t reach a full 24 hour charge and I have to turn phone off then on to get it to sync with the ring! Lesson learned, you get what you pay for! Won’t buy any Kogan products again!