Recommend me OLED experiences

[bolidemichael]

Taking delivery of our first ambilight OLED… which films or other programs can you recommend to really see what the TV can do?

[gmaz]

bolidemichael said:

Taking delivery of our first ambilight OLED… which films or other programs can you recommend to really see what the TV can do?

If it has YouTube, there are plenty of colourful 4K demos, e.g.

[toasty]

The BBC Planet Earth series is probably the best I’ve seen.

[bolidemichael]

Yes, I was thinking one of the BBC wildlife documentaries.

The youtube demos are also a nice idea, thanks — but I’m also looking for something watchable.

[TEKNOPUG]

Depends what you like watching. Anything recent in HDR10 or Dolby Vision.

All Quiet on the Western Front via Netflix.

UHD sport on SKY.

Edited by TEKNOPUG on Tuesday 14th November 07:28

[iceyfuel]

Going to throw Stranger Things into the mix. Especially when 11 goes to that strange mind place. Excellent demonstration of details in the blacks.

[bolidemichael]

Thanks for the suggestions -- yes, I'd love to experience the deeper shades of black as it is GoT that turned my attention to the inadequate processing capabilites of the current TV set up.

[dickymint]

The Rings Of Power blew me away - free with Amazon Prime and can't wait for season 2

[TEKNOPUG]

GoT is only available in 4K via discs.

[Defcon5]

TEKNOPUG said:

GoT is only available in 4K via discs.

It’s in 4k on sky now I think

[P1Fanatic]

Defcon5 said:

It’s in 4k on sky now I think

4K on Sky never looks that much better to me - apart from the F1. Upscaled bluray films look far better than anything I have watched through my Sky Q box.

[Defcon5]

Oh undoubtedly - the best picture quality is always from a disk

Some stuff on sky is ‘enhanced for UHD’ rather than proper as well

I’ve always found it is noticeably better than the HD content though

[bolidemichael]

So you guys are saying that I should watch on blu ray whenever possible, for the full fat experience?

[TEKNOPUG]

You need a 4k player and discs for the ultimate quality, as it's not limited by bandwidth like streaming services. Blu-ray isn't 4k.

SKY UHD sports like F1 and Football are good but their TV shows and films are noticeably compressed, as I suspect they are mostly upscaled HD, rather than natively shot in 4K.

iPlayer can be good with nature shows etc but won't play via SKY. Netflix and Disney are the best but I don't think SKY does Dolby Vision, so better via the TV or 3rd party streamer.

[P1Fanatic]

bolidemichael said:

So you guys are saying that I should watch on blu ray whenever possible, for the full fat experience?

For the best picture quality yes. I personally find bluray upscaled looks far better than Sky UHD. 4K blurays look better again but imho are too expensive over regular bluray. Nice to have some in your collection but again not all were actually filmed natively in 4K but later upscaled.. The Revenant was one that is and looks very good but not that great a film imho. Netflix UHD seems fairly good but again its not everything.

You will find that a lot of the demo files / Youtube clips etc are buffed to make OLEDs shine but "real" watchable content never looks that good.

[TEKNOPUG]

For 4k discs, buy them secondhand, watch them, sell them on. Rinse and repeat.

[varsas]

For things that both look good and are worth watching:

Gravity (even if just on std BluRay, it was the first thing I watched on my first OLED)
Blade Runner (original, but on 4k disc, lots of older films look fantastic and very theatrical/film like on 4k disc; Ghostbusters & Unforgiven are also some of my faves)
BBC nature docs, especially Blue Planet II (as already mentioned, they look pretty good on iPlayer, I'd need to see them back/back to notice between streaming/4k disc)
1917 or Dunkirk (on 4k disc. Dunkirk was shot on 70mm (I think) so really shows how much detail there is on 4k)
Skyfall (4k disc, I like how different parts of the film look different; London is different to Shanghi is different to Scotland etc.)

Edited by varsas on Tuesday 14th November 16:14