I am in LOVE..........

[NorthDave]

allnighter said:

I have the 55" 9000 and it's the best screen I have seen by far. The break out box is brilliant for all your connections. I have a 2TB hard drive connected to a USB3 in that box, and my ripped Bluray movies look brilliant and stunning. the only drawback in it being curved is that it will pick up and reflect the daylight from the lounge window if you are sitting on the opposite side so you end up seeing sod all unless you sit dead in front of the screen or on the side of where the source light is coming from. It is minor and it won't matter if you do not watch it in the day, but with lighter evenings coming.....

This is the big problem with these TVs. One of our clients insisted on them and when they were off and you walked around the room it felt like you were in a room of circus mirrors - crazy reflections. I dont find them particularly good to watch either unless in the sweet spot.

I would never specify them for my own home even if the TV is mounted in the corner. They just make no sense to me.

[jmorgan]

Just been dribbling over the LG OLED's, I think I am going to jump ship. Curved of course, just to wind people up......

[Patch1875]

jmorgan said:

Just been dribbling over the LG OLED's, I think I am going to jump ship. Curved of course, just to wind people up......

I'm probably going to go LG OLED as well to replace my trusty Pioneer plasma, the curve on the LG'S are very subtle compared to others.

[jmorgan]

Currys now have the OP choice at 2099.


Couple weeks delivery.

[Cblair246]

jmorgan said:

Currys now have the OP choice at 2099.


Couple weeks delivery.

That's the 55" not the 65" though.

[jmorgan]

Ops, yeah, forgot to mention that.

[Patch1875]

Samsung might also be an option for me, trying not to spend a fortune again on a telly.

Hoping the 4K OLED LG gets a price cut before the new ones come out early summer.

[gizlaroc]

LCD is too much of a compromise imho.
There are times it looks stunning, but it simply can't do blacks properly, never will be able to just by its very design.


They are fine for a bedroom set or smaller set, but when it comes to dropping £3k on a TV it has to be OLED now.

[gizlaroc]

Patch1875 said:

Samsung might also be an option for me, trying not to spend a fortune again on a telly.

Hoping the 4K OLED LG gets a price cut before the new ones come out early summer.

I would take 1080 OLED over 4k LED all day every day.

I remember doing a demo to a load of the avforum guys with 2 of the Panny commercial plasmas and a Pioneer 5080, all ISF'd and the biggest shock was when I told everyone that the 42" panny was only a 480p panel.

Resolution is great, but contrast ratio, colour, sharpness, lack of noise and being able to do proper blacks are all going to be noticed long before resolution.

[IATM]

Here's a silly virgin question but the Quantum dot tech in the Samsung is that not oled equivalent?

Is the lg Oled really that good?

[gizlaroc]

IATM said:

Here's a silly virgin question but the Quantum dot tech in the Samsung is that not oled equivalent?

Is the lg Oled really that good?

Quantum Dots are just different size pixels really, they change colour depending on size, this means you get more accurate colours on LCD displays as you have more range, hence why they can offer HDR, more importantly though it means you don't need a bright white backlight, which helps the overall image greatly, you don't have huge gaps around the colured pixels that can wash an image out, and means you can get the image nice and bright without a backlight.


The difference with old is it can turn every pixel off, blacks are true black, this is what gives you depth and true colours, you get that 3D effect to a picture.
Yeah they are that good.

I had a Pioneer 500M, which is still classed as the reference display, but OLED is better.

[gizlaroc]

If you really want an LCD this is the one...


https://www.avforums.com/review/panasonic-dx902-tx...

I have heard very good things about this from people I trust, however, all have said "As long as you are sitting directly in front of it" which is a real shortfall for any LCD, as you move off centre the back level drops off and the colours look washed out.

[w00tman]

OLED really is that good - the best (and most expensive, but that's by the by) AV purchase I've ever made.

[IATM]

w00tman said:

OLED really is that good - the best (and most expensive, but that's by the by) AV purchase I've ever made.

Not a huge fan of LG products after having a few fairly boring TVs from them in the past but I may need to re review this opinion.

[varsas]

IATM said:

Here's a silly virgin question but the Quantum dot tech in the Samsung is that not oled equivalent?

Is the lg Oled really that good?

Quantum dot (and similar, Sony call it triluminous) allows for a wider colur gamut (more colours), it helps allow for 'HDR'. It's a bit like the move from a CCFL to LED backlights which made the contrast better. It's a development of LCD, wheras OLED is a fundamentally different technology.

I think yes, the LG OLED is really that good, but different people want, like and notice different things. What got me is that in a showroom full of the latest LCD TVs in John Lewis at Christmas the OLED was so much better I just couldn't consider buying anything else. Spending the money on the OLED seemd better value then spending half that on a (to my eyes) much inferior LCD set. So I bought the OLED. You need to have a look for yourself, you'll either look at the OLED and never be able to go back, or it'll look the same and you won't be able to understand what the fuss is about.

[gizlaroc]

Also, LCD does well under fluorescent lighting (most shop lighting) as they tends to be bright, and this hides their shortfall which is an inability to do proper blacks and show bright and dark on screen at once. It is when you see them under normal home lighting levels that OLED (and plasma for that matter) really shows how far behind LCD is.

[jmorgan]

Clocked this review, 55" version
http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/ue55ks9000-20160324...

[gizlaroc]

Seems all the same issues with every other LCD based display, and hence why I think having an LCD based display that is HDR is pointless.

[Cblair246]

So I have the choice between the LG 55EF950V and the Samsung UE65KS8000, prices are very similar and the most obvious difference is the 65" v 55" screen. I will be sitting about 2-2.5m back from the screen. What's the thoughts is it best to go big or go with the OLED screen?

[gizlaroc]

One is simply one of the best screens ever made, the other is.....bigger?