Rain2 said:
It depends on how sensitive you are to that kind of thing I guess. The TV I was talking about is 4K and I don’t notice any artifacts. I know some people notice that type of thing moreso than others tho. Mine is also an LG & according to reviews, Sony TV’s tend to have superior upscaling so it should be alright. I can’t say from experience on that. All I know is, I truly believe the size is more important for everything but maybe movies. Watching a movie with the lights off will showcase the OLED more due to true blacks & fantastic color. For watching TV during the day and playing games however, the size difference will be the more noticeable upgrade. |
The compression artifacts are not from the tv, it's from the poor HD cable service we have here. Not much the tv can do about. To give an extreme example, low bandwidth mpeg-2 can't handle strobe lights / confetti at all. This is what the AGT finale looked like here when the winner gets announced:
This is called HD cable :)
This is an over exposed photo of what's wrong with it currently, you can see the repetitive digital noise
Adding some nice texture to 'HD' cable, yet definitely don't want to watch blu-ray on that anymore.
I'm used to watching movies on my 1080p projector so also for those bigger is better. 65" OLED might get me to ditch the projector for movie watching. Projectors are a lot cheaper though.
Johnw1104 said:
Yeah, the differences were more obvious in the store with the footage that is designed to show the improvements, but most of the time it's only minor. For context, I'm actually someone who does spend money on needlessly expensive electronics, including the recent Titan X (so as to run 4K and VR smoothly) and a gaming laptop, and even I find the OLED screen to be too much money for what is only a slightly enhanced experience. It should be cheaper in the near future, so I think patience is best. I might recommend looking into input lag ahead of time as well for games, that's what lead me to my Samsung 4K as it was very low on the list. |
Next to VR I have been playing Infinifactory through ps4 remote play on my laptop with 100ms input lag while watching tv. My laptop still runs that a lot more smoothly than the Steam version :/ I'm not too worried about input lag for 2D gaming.
Since my gaming is mostly psvr I guess I'll wait for a good price to come up. As long as the tv doesn't get worse it's still watchable. I guess you do change over time, 10 years ago I would have bought the Z9D no problem. Heck when plasma just came out I was seriously considering to buy one for 20k instead of making a downpayment on a house... I made the better choice luckily :) The most expesive single item I've bought was the Yamaha DSP AX1, flagship receiver for 7000 euros at the time. Guess what it's worth now sitting in the basement lol. I also still have the first consumer mini DV camera JVC GR-DV1. It turns out digital movies on tape degrade a lot faster than s-vhs doh!
It was fun buying every new thing as soon as it came out, early pc dvd drive with Tex Murphy Overseer for example, yet I guess having responsibilities taught me about the value of money lol. I used to spend $500 a month on Laserdiscs, now I;m looking at planet earth 2 CAD 54 for 4K, CAD 24 for blu-ray, eh nvm the 4k. Anyway if you already find OLED too much for value, I'm sure I'll get buyer's remorse after spending 4k on one.
