WattsvilleBlues posted:

I'm in the UK, so is this is the TV I should be considering for TV/movies/games at 55 inch?

I'll not be buying til near the end of the year at the earliest, so is there another generation coming I could wait out for? That TV is £1599, which is kinda where my budget tops out.

Also, there seems to be fairly little 4K content, much less HDR. I have Amazon Prime and Netflix, both of which have some of their own stuff in 4K but is there anywhere else that serves up 4K and HDR content? I'm not willing to get Sky or anything like that but I could consider streaming services.

TomR posted:

The 2017 LG OLED TVs are coming out now. You can already buy some of them, but they cost a whole lot more as they are brand new and the old ones are discounted. I don't think they enough better to be worth the price premium, but by the end of the year I'd expect all the 2016 models to be sold already. I could be wrong though. I'm trying to convince myself I need the 55" B6 as a computer monitor while they are on sale and available.

bull3964 posted:

The services don't support pre-downloading of 4k content.

Incessant Excess posted:

I don't think Burn-In is much of a real life issue with OLEDs, I've certainly not noticed any on mine yet but one reason you might wanna go with the Q9F is that Samsung has updated it to support Freesync which is a really neat feature but I'm unsure how many games on the Bone X support it, you might wanna look into it.

Cobalt Viper posted:

That's not how burn in works.

KS posted:

This year's 8 series innovation (for C8 and up, not B8) is supposed to be a much better motion processing chip to bring it equal to the Sony OLEDs.

You're right that the B7 and C7 are virtually the same.

bull3964 posted:

It will make a big difference in tv watching because standards suck.

weaaddar posted:

There is no difference on this latency wise. However, game mode HDR is improved on the C8. The C8 can do dynamic tone mapping in game mode, and the 7 series oleds cannot.

For the 7 series, there is compromise to get the low latency unfortunately. Game mode, and PC-Input mode both get you 21ms of latency but they are both broken. SDR Game mode is stuck in wide color gamut, and PC input mode HDR is truncated at 8bits. There is no easy way to switch modes (far too involving to make a macro out of), so you either live with over saturated colors or you're stuck with broken hdr. I'm unaware if the situation is improved for the 8 series.

Butterfly Valley posted:

I wouldn't buy any LG tv that's not from their OLED range - they use IPS panels which have terrible blacks for better viewing angles.

Butterfly Valley posted:

They don’t and they aren’t. You can’t get the same local dimming features that’s in the USA goon recommended model over here in Europe.

Wattsville, if you’re mainly gaming you don’t want any motion processing anyway as it adds noticeable input lag, and this is based on me actually trying it rather than some numbers on a spreadsheet. Are you bound to a 43 inch model? Because for under £450 you can get a decent 49 inch Samsung. I read 4K resolution is undetectable under a certain size anyway, so you can justify it to yourself like that if you need an excuse. The particular model I linked has a game setting that turns all the image processing off and gives extremely quick response times. The HDR isn’t great but for the price I don’t think there’s better options in the UK - I just bought a tv a couple months ago and did quite a lot of research into it. That said it looks great and I’m happy with it, just don’t spend too much time staring at OLEDs in shops or you’ll get tv dick envy.

Check rtings.com if you want to fall down a rabbit hole of extremely thorough reviews and information you don’t fully understand. Warning: model numbers sometimes don’t match up between regions, so it can be difficult to make comparisons as most review sites are American. I found the information that the TCL screens sold here don’t have the same features as the ones in the USA buried in the amazon questions section of one of their models.

Butterfly Valley posted:

Yep that’s the same model as what I have but just smaller. If you want to read up on it it’s the nu7100 on rtings.com, which also has an optimal image settings guide should you buy it. Also unless you’re intentionally avoiding amazon it’s £16 cheaper on there. They do make a 43 inch model but it’s unavailable everywhere apparently. If you’re willing to spend a bit more but still within your budget, this tv is the next step up, with slightly better colours, 43 inches and includes their nice remote control.

punchbuggy posted:

You guys are awesome! Thank you ❤️

Taima posted:

The C9 is extremely good for gaming, but that price premium is insane. Get the C8 for 1185, and it's not even close.

Bob Socko posted:

Got a new TV, drat thing is a pickup artist.

Texibus posted:

$1,300 for a 55 inch LG C9 OLED a good deal? It is neweggs flash deal right now.

OneSizeFitsAll posted:

OneSizeFitsAll posted:

Someone asked me to post my thoughts on my Samsung Q90R.

OneSizeFitsAll posted:

I should have mentioned this as it's a known feature of the TV. The set is masterful at reflecting ambient light. It's like a black hole compared to any other TV I've seen. It's in my living room which is conjoined with a kitchen, hallway and, behind where the TV sits, a conservatory; I can close off the hall and kitchen but not the conservatory, so I was keen on this ability. Supposedly this technology also means that the contrast ratio is inferior to last year's Q9FN, but having seen both I can't discern much of a difference (albeit they were at different locations with a fair gap in between). Black levels on this and the Q9FN are the best I have seen outside of OLED/plasma for sure.

EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:

Without good, reliable, well-wired fiber to the house they won't even usually stream 4K content and stay stable.

EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:

Yes, and it goes away. It's rather jarring when it jumps between the two, unfortunately.