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An expensive TV is a poor investment, and people spend FAR too much on them

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MK14:

--- Quote from: Neper on February 09, 2022, 03:16:12 pm ---I still prefer radio. The picture is much better.

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But you get an even clearer picture (in your minds eye), and longer battery life   :-DD  with paper books.

tooki:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on February 09, 2022, 11:40:36 am ---
--- Quote from: bw2341 on February 08, 2022, 06:35:50 pm ---My criticism of LG's design shouldn't be considered an attack. The competition between LG's OLEDs and Samsung's LCDs is excellent for consumers as they've raised picture quality and lowered prices at the same time. Still, we have to acknowledge both the advantages and disadvantages of any new technology.

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Yeah, it is insane how good TVs picture quality became in the last few years. I would argue that a 4K LG OLED is plenty good for watching movies. Of course the new QD-OLED will be somewhat better, brighter. I think the most advancement in the next years is actually not going to come from the panels themseves, rather the upscaling methods, motion smoothing, and when streaming services will improve their quality.
And about burn-in: I've never heard of anyone who has OLED who would be worried about burn-in. Just use the damn thing.
Same about the SSD that I bough 7 years ago. Flash on it got used up and became extremely slow. So I went out and bought an equivalent size SSD for 30 EUR. After 7 years.

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”Plenty good” is a wild understatement. I recently discovered that one local cinema has (for a few years already) one of the first direct-view LED screens in the world; a high quality 4K video wall, basically. And in one of the articles I read about it, it mentioned that home TVs have been better than cinema projectors for a long time. I think people forget just how much projectors suck, and underestimate just how good typical modern LCD panels are. And OLED (and direct-view LED) are better still.

The one thing where LCDs (and certain OLEDs, like the ones in phones) still disappoint is viewing angle. While todays models are light years ahead of early LCDs, there are still subtle color shifts that I find distracting. CRTs and plasmas were excellent in this regard, and OLED TVs seem to be. Projection varies wildly, depending on the type of screen. High-gain screens have distracting reflection patterns. :/

coppice:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 09, 2022, 09:44:36 pm --- And in one of the articles I read about it, it mentioned that home TVs have been better than cinema projectors for a long time. I think people forget just how much projectors suck, and underestimate just how good typical modern LCD panels are.

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For a long time most good cinemas have used 3 channel DLP projectors, which are capable of very high quality results on a large screen.

tooki:

--- Quote from: coppice on February 09, 2022, 09:50:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on February 09, 2022, 09:44:36 pm --- And in one of the articles I read about it, it mentioned that home TVs have been better than cinema projectors for a long time. I think people forget just how much projectors suck, and underestimate just how good typical modern LCD panels are.

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For a long time most good cinemas have used 3 channel DLP projectors, which are capable of very high quality results on a large screen.

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I’m well aware. They’re not even close.

(LCD projection is essentially dead. With Sony having exited the cinema projector market, all cinema projectors are now DLP. Most non-cinema ones are too, although rarely as 3-chip types.)

For example, do you know that cinemas do not support HDR in any way? Home theater overtook cinemas in terms of picture quality years ago. (Sound is an altogether different matter.)

coppice:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 09, 2022, 09:53:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on February 09, 2022, 09:50:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on February 09, 2022, 09:44:36 pm --- And in one of the articles I read about it, it mentioned that home TVs have been better than cinema projectors for a long time. I think people forget just how much projectors suck, and underestimate just how good typical modern LCD panels are.

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For a long time most good cinemas have used 3 channel DLP projectors, which are capable of very high quality results on a large screen.

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I’m well aware. They’re not even close.

For example, do you know that cinemas do not support HDR in any way? Home theater overtook cinemas in terms of picture quality years ago. (Sound is an altogether different matter.)

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Maybe the cinemas gave up bothering. The DLP projectors themselves are capable of an extreme dynamic range.

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