I didn't. I thought I'd focus on stocking food for the imminent nuclear war, and also renovating my place first. Then Sony and Panasonic unveiled their new OLEDs which are still not out yet, so I'm waiting all over again.
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I didn't. I thought I'd focus on stocking food for the imminent nuclear war, and also renovating my place first. Then Sony and Panasonic unveiled their new OLEDs which are still not out yet, so I'm waiting all over again.
Not to quote myself, but I thought it you guys should know that I just bought a huge new 4K HDR TV. Who needs food, right?
Grats!!!what did you get? And 4Pro time?
I got a stupidly expensive 65" Sony ZD9. After much deliberation, it seems the best option for my house.
I will get a Pro at some point. For now the original will do. Should still give me some nice result for HDR games, right?
I think it should! I've never seen 4Pro vs 4 HDR comparison articles so I assume it just works.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
Whew, I was afraid you'd gotten the new LG Wallpaper TV. I'd have been extremely jealous if you had. Now, I'm only a tad jelly.
Regards,
SB
Whew, I was afraid you'd gotten the new LG Wallpaper TV. I'd have been extremely jealous if you had. Now, I'm only a tad jelly.
Regards,
SB
Way off topic but after months of research, the OLEDs just aren't there yet. So like I did with Plasma years ago, I decided to go for what is probably the best and most mature piece of an old technology as it is still better for my needs than the new and developing tech, which now has at least an extra 5 years to mature before it can enter my house.
They don't review all that bad surprisingly, well Thier higher end models. They are not top tier but above the usual supermarket rebrand landfill fodder.
I think they make the panels for lots of the top companies so have a decent starting point tech wise.
Loads of HDR compatible TVs coming out so if you are after the real deal keep your witts about you when checking out cheap TVs.
ProspectorPete
Regular
True in a way, what they don't tell you is even the best OLED has some kind of black crush going on. With a minimal amount of ambient light, a ZD9 compare well against a equivalent OLED.
That's basically one of the main issues that made me choose the Sony. I really want to love OLED but we can see in 5 years or so.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
That was true in past years but apparently LG has addressed this for the coming 2017 panels.
http://televisions.reviewed.com/content/lg-w7-series-4k-oled-tv-review
The Sony ZD9 is basically only better WRT max brightness (which is much higher) It features more black crush than the new Wallpaper TV. It also still suffers from blooming and light halos as do all LCD TVs, although it has been improved in that area similar to the slightly better Panasonic DX900. http://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.php?subaction=showfull&id=1474868470
The brightness helps it on retail show floors as the lighting isn't calibrated for proper movie watching. In a properly lit room the Wallpaper will have better black levels but lower HDR max brightness. It also won't suffer from light halos and blooming (which is often one of the reasons why even 2016 OLEDs that suffered from banding in greyscale testing at the lower end scored higher than the best LCD TVs). It's a trade-off at the moment as there is no "perfect" HDR TV.
Anyway, all of this would probably be better served moved to the OLED thread or another thread created if we wanted to continue to the conversation.
That said, I completely understand why London-Boy would want to go for the ZD9. It's a fantastic TV.
Regards,
SB
If all these posts could be moved to some other thread, that would be nice!!
Regarding the W7 OLED... well that is really way beyond my budget! So it wasn't really an option same for all the 2017 OLEDs.
Regarding the W7 OLED... well that is really way beyond my budget! So it wasn't really an option
same for all the 2017 OLEDs.
Done! (hope no-one saw my mistake )
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Is it really sad that I'm in Antigua sunbathing and exploring for two weeks and I can't stop thinking of when I get back home and get my new TV, and fire up Horizon and some nice HDR content from Netflix? Sad.