The EISA Awards 2016-2017 have been announced ahead of IFA 2016 in Berlin. LG’s OLED wins best high-end TV and LG also receives the award for best Smart TV. Panasonic wins “Home Theatre TV” and Philips takes home “Best Buy TV”. There are no TV Awards for Sony.

EISA Awards 2016-2017
As always, EISA has introduced a few new categories. This year, four of the major TV manufacturers receive praise but Sony is out in the cold. LG’s OLED wins the “High-end TV” category and, like last year, also wins for best Smart TV.

Panasonic DX900 wins ”Home Theatre TV” and Samusng’s curved edge-lit KS9000 wins in a newly-created category named ”European TV”. Philips’ upcoming 7601 gets the award for ”Best Buy TV”. The award for best UHD player was awarded to Panasonic UB900.


TV/picture
Home Theatre TV - Panasonic 65DX900E
High-end TV - LG Signature OLED65G6
Smart TV - LG UH770V
European TV - Samsung  UE55KS9000
Best buy TV - Philips 65PUS7601
Ultra HD Player - Panasonic DMP-UB900
Home theatre projector - BenQ W2000
AV Accessory - Spin Remote

Sound/speakers
Soundbar - Yamaha YSP-5600
Soundbase - Canton DM 55 
HT Speaker system - Dali Opticon 5.1
HT receiver - Denon AVR-X2300W
Best Value HT Speaker System - Monitor Audio Bronze 5.1
HT High End - Trinnov Audio Altitude32

Eisa is also giving out awards to cameras and mobile devices. See all of them at eisa.eu. Last year’s awards can be found here.