Neal136
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Why don't we all skip this archaic crap and jump right to 8K?
85" Class Q900 QLED Smart 8K UHD TV (2018)
85" Class Q900 QLED Smart 8K UHD TV (2018)
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Do you mean QLED? Samsung does not make OLED.
Two very different technologies. Only LG manufactures OLED panels. Sony purchases their OLED panels from LG.
Up until recently, I was in the consumer electronics industry, primarily Home Theater (Audio & Video) for 20 years.
A quick rundown for anyone that cares.
OLED is by far the superior technology. Samsung is trying to prolong the life of LED as they have been the leader for many years. They chose to confuse consumers about 2 years ago by switching their marketing campaign from calling their TV's what they actually are. Shortening Quantum Dot LED to QLED, to make it sound like OLED. Samsung chose to not invest in OLED technology due to cost, and continue with LCD technology. All LED tv's are LCD's (LED back lighting vs CCFL back lighting), confusing consumers who can't bother to do research since they started to be manufactured and sold at retail. OLED is Organic Light-Emitting Diode. OLED functions more like a Plasma did.
The simple answer is QLED's only advantages are brightness and image retention (burn in). So those who are tricked into believing a brighter picture is a better picture will like Samsung. Especially if you prefer to watch TV in a bright room, or having lights on, versus a darker more theater like room. OLED is superior everywhere else when comparing actual picture quality. Better black level, contrast, color, viewing angle. It's only limitations are still price (more expensive).
Both tv's are impressive. One great, one good. If you want big, you can get an 82" Samsung QLED for a lot less then the 77" LG OLED. If you want the best possible visual experience and are content with a 55" or 65", the LG OLED has become much more affordable and is the best TV on the market. Ever to date. Period. It is now the reference TV technology all others are judged by. Reviews are given based on comparisons. Every TV will be judged and compared to the latest benchmark, the LG C8 series TV. Previously it was still the Pioneer Elite (& latter Panasonic who bought Pioneer's technology after Pioneer left the video industry) Plasma TV's.
If you take a little time to do some research, you will see everything I have stated is true and fact. The only reason you may find TV's with higher ratings than the LG, is when price is taken into consideration. Consumer Reports always had cheaper TV's rated higher as they based their reports on "Value" over absolute "Picture Quality". That's where Audio/Videophile websites excel with their reviews. They judge on quality instead of overall value. A quick analogy, much fewer people would buy a Corvette if they could afford a Ferrari.
But in the end, buy what YOU like. What makes YOU happy, It's your hard earned money.
Yeah that was a typo. I ment QLED.....
All good points, but as my personal research suggested , OLED was FAR too expensive at the time. Which was about a year ago, and regardless of what the supposed experts say, my eye could not tell at regular HD levels the difference in picture quality, with the minor exception of the black levels, which were just not enough for me to justify the price difference.
As you said its all in the eye of the beholder and not much else matters in the end.
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Torn... buy a crappy 82" Samsung or buy an excellent OLED LG 65" that will look small across my vast living room...?
Decisions, decisions...
Decisions, decisions...
This is exaclty the choice I had to make.....
Crappy is not the word for the Sammy.....not as good was my final decision, but at the time, 2000 bucks didn’t make that better .....worth while.
Very happy with my 65 Samsung.
I dont think any set looked very good at 85.....even LG.
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I'm not too happy with my 48 inch 3D 1080p Samsung right now. Bought it in late 2014 and only four years later I've got half a dozen outlines of the backlight bulbs that can be clearly seen whenever the picture is depicting a bright scene. So much for hanging on to a 3D model for years and years.
Interesting, I read a story about those panels and the defects that happened with them......
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Crappy 82" and then 8K in two years.
This could be a good plan.
Interesting. I've only seen the 82" screen at Costco but the picture looked fine... (at brightly-lit Costco that is).
But the 75" tvs I've seen in the Magnolia area of Best Buy looked great. To my eye, the Sony LED looked best (900F). But maybe I'll take another look at the 65" OLED LGs. It's just that I've got like 15 feet distance in my living room now and 55" looks small.
This could be a good plan.
Interesting. I've only seen the 82" screen at Costco but the picture looked fine... (at brightly-lit Costco that is).
But the 75" tvs I've seen in the Magnolia area of Best Buy looked great. To my eye, the Sony LED looked best (900F). But maybe I'll take another look at the 65" OLED LGs. It's just that I've got like 15 feet distance in my living room now and 55" looks small.
Room Size vs set size is a very weird thing. My former main set, a Panasonic 46 “ish” plasma (still a great picture) was replaced by mu800 Samsung 65. The size appearance difference was astounding, especially considering the horrible job the Panasonic did with scaling pictures in letterbox formats to fill the entire screen. The viewing distance is only about 11 feet there.
However, that Panasonic plasma 46 replaced another 46 downstairs (Toshiba theater-wide projector) , and even thought the set is slightly smaller and the distance is actually longer, (being its wall mounted), the set seems bigger than it was upstairs and bigger then the 46 is replaced....
Weird stuff.....
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Just watched this again. Man they really did get everything right. Every single element that I had daydreamed about since childhood (Han meeting Chewie, meeting Lando, Han joining the Empire, winning the Falcon at Sabaac, making the Kessel Run, droid labor in the spice mines, etc.) was as good or better than anything I'd ever imagined.
Every single exterior modification that Lando made to the Falcon being broken or torn off after 10 minutes of Han being at the controls is freaking hilarious, lol. It's like it's impossible for it *not* to be a hunk of junk as long as he's flying it, lol.
All the patrons of Drydon Vos' lounge really show how decent the casino at Canto Bight *could* have been. Glammed up humans and aliens that were still cool *and* creepy, just like you'd expect in SW. I like that one shot where Qi'ra is talking to Maul and you see Maul's hologram on the left and that suit of Mandalorian armor in the background in the middle. The closest we'll ever get to Darth Maul and Boba Fett sharing the screen together.
Best music outside of the OT/TPM too.
Every single exterior modification that Lando made to the Falcon being broken or torn off after 10 minutes of Han being at the controls is freaking hilarious, lol. It's like it's impossible for it *not* to be a hunk of junk as long as he's flying it, lol.
All the patrons of Drydon Vos' lounge really show how decent the casino at Canto Bight *could* have been. Glammed up humans and aliens that were still cool *and* creepy, just like you'd expect in SW. I like that one shot where Qi'ra is talking to Maul and you see Maul's hologram on the left and that suit of Mandalorian armor in the background in the middle. The closest we'll ever get to Darth Maul and Boba Fett sharing the screen together.
Best music outside of the OT/TPM too.
jye4ever
Broke and happy
My 1080p 3D workhorse is still 100% functional
thank god because it gets used the most we just watched Polar Express 3D lastnight. I pray it doesn’t break.
Sorry couldn’t resist lol
My favorite calibration show off pics
Thst Grievous pic can hold up to a full zoom in inspection of it and all of these are off an iphone 6 or Ipad Air camera with no PS trickery!
Ontop of that they’re all only 1080p!!!
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Prime Clone
Super Freak
Nice to know the PT is good for something Jye!
jye4ever
Broke and happy
GG was great in the original CW cartoon but what a POS useless character in ROTS lol
Prime Clone
Super Freak
As the resident hi-res expert, could you answer a coupla questions:
* I was looking at finally making the jump to 4K mid to late next year. Might I as well wait for 8K by then, or will it be a few more years till it's affordable?
* According to this chart, the optimum size for a 4K set at our viewing distance of 2.5m-ish is 70" and up. Would you concur?
* I was looking at finally making the jump to 4K mid to late next year. Might I as well wait for 8K by then, or will it be a few more years till it's affordable?
* According to this chart, the optimum size for a 4K set at our viewing distance of 2.5m-ish is 70" and up. Would you concur?
What movie is that seat belt buckle pic from it's driving me nuts that I can't recall, lol.
GG was great in the original CW cartoon but what a POS useless character in ROTS lol
Yep, a total waste of time. I would have just extended Dooku's role. But no, we needed more CGI.
jye4ever
Broke and happy
Speed Racer one of the most incredibly sharp looking 1080p movies out there.
The movie itself well never go full Wachowski.
jye4ever
Broke and happy
[FONT="][FONT="]While I believe any investment in 4K now will be relatively inexpensive I will gladly put up my 1080p image quality against any 4K image and I’m certain that my will be as good if not better than most of the 4K in peoples homes. [/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="][FONT="]There is nothing wrong with waiting it out we’re talking about 2 years here. [/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="][FONT="]Oh one more thing buy as big as as you can afford and fit in your space. [/FONT][/FONT]
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I think one of the problems with 4k is there is no real content for it yet, unless you buy 4k specific blurays or spend more on a fancy netflix subscription to get it. And even then the content itself isn't something you really want to binge watch.
jye4ever
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Do my posts all look messed up like that lol
Give me 8k:
OT
MCU
LOTR
Raiders
Die Hard 1
Predator 87
T1
T2
Aliens
Robocop 1
Conan 1
First Blood
Rocky 1
Exorcist 1
Leave me alone lol
Give me 8k:
OT
MCU
LOTR
Raiders
Die Hard 1
Predator 87
T1
T2
Aliens
Robocop 1
Conan 1
First Blood
Rocky 1
Exorcist 1
Leave me alone lol
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