Looking into a 4K TV, any recommendations?

[SvennoJ]

KBG29 said:
Best
-Sony Z9D

Next Best
-Sony X930/940E
-Sony A1E

Runners Up
-LG W7P
-LG G7P

Getting By
-Sony X900E
-Sony X850E
-LG E7P
-LG C7P
-Samsung Q9F
-Samsung Q7F

That is my take on current TVs. I wouldn't go any lower than the Getting By list. Worth it to save and wait to get a TV that can do proper HDR.

I personally prefer Full Array Local Dimming over OLED, because the peak brightness is much higher in a good TV, and the black levels are still very impressive.

I choose the Z9D over the A1E or the W7P/G7P. For me the unmatched peak brightness and true white, with near perfect blacks, was a bigger draw than perfect blacks, with underwhelming peak brightness, and yellow looking whites.

Your Z9D must be blazingly bright! I find the 900E very bright already and that's less than half the peak brightness of the Z9D.

I'm used to watching movies on my projector set to 15fl open gate brightness for home theater, which is 51 nits, 7.5% of what the Z9D produces in sustained open gate (full screen white) Amazing how tech advances! Projectors are really outdated now, no great black level and woefully unsuited to HDR, yet I love the size. Still feels like sitting in the cinema.