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Television Displays and Technology Thread: The ERA of OLED is Now
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Vivid picture mode and the soap opera effect turned on?
Sorry man, you won't find many fans of those things here.
LG is lowest input lag. Generally, right now, if you can find a B7, that's going to be your best value.
I'm happy you like that but Vivid is never accurate. You should try to calibrate it with Normal mode or something like a Cinema mode first.
LG OLED's have lower input lag, are lower priced and seem to get brighter in HDR. I have a hard time recommending the Sony OLED's unless you really value their motion and don't care about price.
Lmao
Haha. I know, but I didn't feel like playing with settings all night so I just went with what popped. Watching Game of Thrones in soap opera effect was like watching the most brutal daytime soap opera I've ever seen!
I tried the settings for the P series from rtings and didnt think it looked good. I'll wait and see if they post some new ones for the 6 series.
The only eyes you need to impress are your own. Personally, I'd say Vivid appears most impressive in the short term but when you get used to a "movie"-esque setting, it's a far better image long term.
Sounds like they did a good job of addressing the main complaint with last year's tv.
Monitor.
There's practically zero even remotely "enthusiast" TVs left in that screen size. If you care at all about picture quality, you'll want a monitor.
Yeah at that size I would probably say a g-sync/freesync monitor would be your best bet.
Thank you both! Guess its time to research brands and prices
Although plasmas can flicker up to 10 times per refresh to construct their image (thus the 600hz), a selling point of the 2012 and 2013 Panasonic models was that they needed far less flashes to do so. By constructing the image in less time motion appears sharper, but this has the side effect of making 60hz flicker visible again, which I find pretty funny. It's still a softer flicker than on a 60hz crt, and I can only ever see it by walking into the room while it is displaying a nearly or fully white image as my eyes will adjust in a few moments, but it is there. Now the 96hz mode on the other hand... It takes minutes in a dark room for me to stop seeing the flicker there, but at least it stops at all. I'd imagine for some people it never does.
It's probably a coin flip, or perhaps more of a dice roll, just like with the overall picture quality of a theater. I don't go to theaters much anymore, but when I do I usually see sample and hold blur. When I saw Zombieland (back in the day I suppose.. its been a while), during the panning shot of them driving down the long 2 lane road in that suv, I distinctly saw the triple strobe of 72hz flashing. But that was a while ago, at this point most projectors being used likely do not flicker.
Of course I would post in this thread about something involving a plasma lol. I really want to go oled, but I also really, really want the 2.1. The truest struggle. And I should try a dolby cinema some time, maybe it will change my opinion on theaters.
Was just checking the market for a 4k Blu-ray player as I love to watch movies and am very aware of the compression in all those streaming services.
Impulse bought a Samsung UBD M8500 because it was 140 bucks on eBay. Bought the 4k version of Planet Earth 2 as well. This gonna be good! Hope everything will arrive till Saturday so I can try it.
Impulse bought a Samsung UBD M8500 because it was 140 bucks on eBay. Bought the 4k version of Planet Earth 2 as well. This gonna be good! Hope everything will arrive till Saturday so I can try it.
Like it's not OLED or even close, but I almost feel guilty paying $650 for it. The motion really is the biggest issue (and there seems to be no upscaling at all), but other than that it's good. Good uniformity (other than the 1-2" corners), surprisingly deep blacks and surprising brightness.
Can you keep me updated on what you think of this TV?
I'm looking for a cheaper TV and this one, what with its HDR, 120hz screen has caught my eye but I can't seem to find a rtings.com esque review of it, particularly the input lag in 4k@60Hz 4:4:2 HDR, as my current (and old) TV has something like 48ms input delay in 4K so I have to keep my PS4 Pro in 1080p for that 26.5ms delay. Also, hooking my PC up to it and finally seeing what 120fps is all about is a HUGE draw.
It's going to be either this TV, or one of the TCL P6s' when they arrive in the European market this summer.
Hey mates, I found this LG 32GK850G monitor and to my untrained eyes it doesn't look half bad, anyone care to share some insight? Or maybe even an alternative
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824025836&ignorebbr=1
LG 32GK850G << LINK
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824025836&ignorebbr=1
LG 32GK850G << LINK
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How close to the monitor will you be sitting? It has a VA panel... color degradation becomes super obvious the closer you are to a VA screen. I sit 2 fit away from my 32 inch IPS monitor.
Unfortunately I can't take advantage of the sound. Using OLED TV speakers :(
Really need to invest into a nice sound bar...
Pretty close, as it is gonna be my PC monitor. So should I look for a IPS monitor?
My Kuro died from a mainboard error (power light blinking 7 times) and Pioneer didn't want to fix it. So I bought a LG 55C7T. But I haven't really felt blown away by any content yet. Tried God of War and Uncharted 4, they look good but not like, remarkably different. Don't have any 4K blu-rays. Don't know if my BD player even plays 4K. Netflix wants another 3 bucks a month for 4K, so I haven't pulled the trigger yet. Youtube tech demos are pretty but they're just tech demos and tech demos are boring. TLOU Remastered has really bad HDR imo. Any recommendations? Besides buying a XB1. Lol.
C'mon Smokey! You get killer GPU's, time to invest in a good home theatre sound system. Get a nice ATMOS set up and you will love it!
How likely is HDMI 2.11 and specifically VRR to be a "premium" feature for the foreseeable future?
Or should be expect basically all 2019 models to have it?
I'm very tempted by the TCL of course, but I'm worried that by buying now, I'll be missing out on this feature next year.
Or should be expect basically all 2019 models to have it?
I'm very tempted by the TCL of course, but I'm worried that by buying now, I'll be missing out on this feature next year.
I don't even think 2019 TVs will have it at this point. But I'm sure we'll see more with the VRR feature like the Samsung this year.
Your never shy with your money Smokey, pick up a set of nuraphones.
Awesome sound for movies, music and games, all without annoying the neighbours.
I don't have the proper space for a true Atmos setup. When I get a house and a media room though, which should happen in the next few years, I'm going to go crazy.
I've...never heard of these actually. I fully admit the audio aode is where I'm a bit behind. I've never really had the space to do it how I've wanted. I've started reading up on it more and more as of late though.
Coincidentally, I woke up at ~4AM today and couldn't sleep, saw the post, flipped over to the night theme and almost went blind.
Idc all that much about the layout, but the DarkEra color scheme is perfect as is. Super readable and works really. Idk why they'd change that part.
"Night" themes are tailored to be easy on the eyes...not blinding.
That, and the fact that Dark utilizes 90% of the screen while night utilizes 2/3 means it's broken as is. I'm sure they'll fix it.
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Been meaning to ask you since you're an audio guy...any headphones you'd recommend for daily use?
I use Astro A50s. They have been really, really solid. Good battery life, good quality sound, some customization options, and their wireless (most important thing for me).
There's plenty that sound better (for hundreds or thousands of dollars more) but wireless is my number one requirement, and that significantly narrows the playing field, esp if you want to use them for games and in conjunction w/ a surround sound system.
https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/astro/a50-wireless
P.s. the xbox ones have a real G4M3R look to them, which is dislike (mine are gen 2s and weren't so bad, but they're on gen 3 now and the xbox ones are gaudy) but the PS4 ones are pretty much just black with a bit of blue, which i find to be much more understated.
I used my A50s as my only sound for 14 months when i was in an apartment. They aren't perfect, but for the price and the features I thought they were great.
I think D nice measured 21 as well. Rtings must have a bad measurement.
Thanks! I more meant for travel but your Rtings link helped a TON. I forgot they did headphones reviews.
Ohhhhhhhhh, yeah that's another scenario where you can go nuts. I honestly have a $99 pair of bose in ears (https://www.amazon.com/Bose-SoundSport-ear-headphones-Charcoal/dp/B0117RFOEG) and i love them. I've bought the various iterations of those earbuds for the last ten years. They fit really, really well and sound great.
those are my daily drivers tho, probably use them anywhere from 2 to 10 hours a day.
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Today is the day!
Great to see input lag remains the same in 4k HDR, bummed that peak HDR on the 77 inch appears less than on the smaller models? Hoping for no stuck pixels
Not sure why RTINGs and HDTVtest got different input lag measurements in 4k HDR?
Headphones are one of those subjective things.... Definitely worth buying somewhere that you can return/exchange if you don't like them. e.g. I initially bought the $129 bose ones, but the way the noise isolation tips fit in my ear would hurt my ear after an hour or two, so i exchanged em for the cheaper ones. The best advice I can give is listen to music that you've heard a million times. Makes it easiest to compare headphones, since you're familiar with how the songs "sound." (that's a best practice for buying any new speakers also).
Get it while you can. Fun fact: The change in LGD's manufacturing process next year to the 10.5G panel lines means this could be the last year we see a 77" OLED. The way the glass is cut will likely lead to that becoming a 75" model instead.
I have these https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATH-PRO500MK2-Monitor-Headphones/dp/B005W2EXKO , which are good, but they just take up too much space. I have a few pairs of shitty in-ears but they kill my ears after 2-3 hours on a flight.
Didn't I read that the new process may result in 88" OLEDs? O.O
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