Conina said:
I really doubt that the contrast of your projector looks even better than the contrast of a cheap TV without HDR. Projectors have some advantages (screen size, better immersion due to a bigger field of view), but especially contrast is one of their weak points... worse black level combined with lower brightness (especially stretched on a big screen) than standard tvs. Which projector do you have? Which Panasonic TV do you have? |
I do not care for specs on paper, I only care for what my eyes perceive, and my projector has a much more natural looking picture, way more pleasant and doesn't tire my eyes. With many advantages, such as great view from angles, no reflections on screen, example, my TV shows reflection from the ps4 led light, no way to disable the light. But doesn't show on my projector.
It really doesn't matter, I have both, and I will never go back to TV, only use TV here in the UK because the room I rent is very small, but in my house I setup the living room specifically for projector, will never ever have a TV again even if there's a 120inch TV, I still prefer the quality of projector, much easier on the eyes and gives you the feeling of being in a cinema, image on TVs look fake, specially on Samsung and LG TVs that I've seen, very unnatural and nowhere like real life.
Actually the only issue on my projector is not being able to drop the brightness, its a bit too much, I put it on energy saving mode and its still too bright, on my TV in a dark room I drop the backlight brightness to a third.
Actually talking image quality, forgetting all specs and numbers, just real life experience, I still prefer my old Panasonic Plasma TV, image was nicer and more realistic too, these 4K HDR is all marketing to sell.
Not to mention HDR in games is still not done well, I was struggling with red dead 2 and in the end I just disable it after messing up so much with the settings, turns out the image is nicer without HDR, doesn't burn my eyes so much.
And like I said, I prefer the effect of super sampling on my projector vs upscaling which introduces artefacts on ps4 pro (1440p upscales to 2160p), upscaling will be always worse than super sampling, same as having a 360 upscaled to a 1080p TV, just doesn't look as good as on a 720p TV.
Next gen surely things will improve, but at the moment 1080p is still better than 4K on a ps4 pro.
And even at 120p the 1080p looks fantastic, no jaggies at all, so all this 4k is marketing, our eyes do not need 4k at all.
Actually, I played my launch day ps4 on my brother 720 old tv and image looked better, less jaggies due to super sampling. So playing ps4 on a 720p TV is better than 1080p TV, its like picking the AA on a PC. Unfortunately marketing is like that, numbers to sell, its like cameras, they sell megapixels but my SLR 12megapixels destroys any mobile phone at 40megapixels. Its just numbers, not real life.
In fact bluray movies looked better on my old 1080p plasma than on my current 4k Panasonic, even tough the plasma cost me around 1500dollars and the 4K cost me around 700dollars. My point is, resolution is only a very small part of the picture.
The only reason I sold my plasma was electricity costs and it heats the room too much in the summer, my plasma was using 300w, my 4K uses 65w.
Last edited by victor83fernandes - on 14 March 2020
