Is it worth paying a premium for Anything The quality will remain when the price is forgotten. Henry RoyceIs it worth paying the premium for Sony or Panasonic variants of the LG tellies?
I have a Sony A95K. It is superb. I prefer Sony or Philips. Plus I like supporting the little guys...Is it worth paying the premium for Sony or Panasonic variants of the LG tellies?
I have a Sony A75K, so a few models down, but the picture is still superb, and so far in 18 months or so, nothing to complain about.I have a Sony A95K. It is superb. I prefer Sony or Philips. Plus I like supporting the little guys...
Gosh! Three sets of abbreviations in one para., Amber (PS5, SDR and VRR). Impressive, but I haven't a clue (about most recent media technology, it's true).Plenty of sites out there with guides and reviews, helps if you have a list of priorities, someone after the best TV to play PS5 is a totally different customer to someone watching SDR TV Show reruns on Gold who won't care about VRR.
Gosh! Three sets of abbreviations in one para., Amber (PS5, SDR and VRR). Impressive, but I haven't a clue (about most recent media technology, it's true).
And the processing makes ALL the difference.In most cases, LG supply the OLED panels to Sony and Panasonic so there is little to choose between them, other than features, price and processors.
or 625 depending on if you're in an NTSC or PAL region. UK/Europe is PAL and thus SD is 625 (though strictly 576 actual image lines).PS5 = Sony Playstation 5 video game console
VRR = Variable Refresh Rate, it lets a TV adjust refresh rate in real-time to the frame rate output by the PS5 - improves playing the games
SDR = Standard Dynamic Range, can’t show as many colours or brightness levels as High Dynamic Range
Not the same as above:
SD = Standard Definition
HD = High Definition
HD is much better than SD. HD has better video quality, often shown as 1080 or 720p. SD is 480p. Some TVs are better than others at improving SD pictures so they are closer to HD, if you watch old shows a TV that’s good at upscaling it to HD is worth searching out.
Daughter2 and partner have an LG 65” OLED and PS5.If you're in to gaming and intend to use an OLED for that, the LG seem to have better gaming modes and port speeds etc.
Almost correct."LED" sets are actually LCDs: only the backlight is LED.
"QLED" is Samsung's method of getting brighter LED backlight performance. The sets are still LCDs.
"Mini LED" is yet another LCD system, but here the backlight is divided into thousands of individually controlled areas, which improves local contrast.
"OLED" is the only thing that actually forms an image using light emitting diodes. It is the only technology that can produce a true black (no light emissions) on any pixel. This ability to produce true black means these have the best colour reproduction, and because it's emmissive, there's no viewing angle issue. The tradeoffs are that peak brightness is lower than LCDs, the sets are more expensive, and they do suffer from burn-in if misused.
Cost aside, If your viewing room is relatively dark go with OLED. If you watch with daylight coming through a nearby window, then an LCD based technology will work better for you..although a good blind would allow you to use an OLED.
Personally, I have always preferred the colour reproduction of Philips TVs, and I have a 48" OLED model. I'm not someone who has the TV on all day (some weeks it never gets switched on), so burn-in is not an issue
The problem with these is that even if you get a high end colorometer to take the measurement* Unless it's been profiled with a file created by a photospectrometer on the exact type/generation of panel (eg an MLA OLED will be different from the OLED gen before that, and that again will be different from the gen before etc etc) you're calibrating yourself, your more likely to make the TVs accuracy worse rather than better.Calman is a popular calibration tool, used by Pro’s but has consumer options these days. Newer LGs have the pattern generator built in but you still need a hardware calibration meter - Datacolor/XRite/Calibrate ColorChecker. Or you can pay an ISF bod to do it all.
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Plus he's hilarious (if you like that kind of humour of course )This chap gives proper advice: https://youtube.com/@hdtvtest?si=2BV9h03vQeTsLFnU