| Soundwave said: People underestimate how much of a difference a 100 foot screen makes because they don't have a direct compartive when they sit down at the theater, as in if you put the best OLED display next to a good projector side by side, sure the OLED will have nicer picture quality, but I'd bet most people would prefer to watch the (way) larger image. It's far more cinematic. I have a pretty high end projector in my home and it's set to 150 inches, but I'd much rather watch movies on that than my 65 inch OLED, the screen size difference is just massive even at 150 inches, you're not going to get a television that size for a reasonable price anytime probably even in a decade. And it makes the movie watching experience feel much more like what I assume the director intended. Movies are created for the big screen. Modern projectors are pretty great too, the image quality is very nice. |
Have you seen laser projectors in action? Those things are amazing, and it looks so clean with the framing an all. I got a demo on one a couple of years back, at a high-end audio/video store - it was head & shoulders above any projector I ever saw before or after. We used to have a projector at work, their biggest drawback is the highly specific environment required to get the most of it, when it comes to walls, furniture, and ambient lighting. When it really works though, it's by far the most cinematic home-experience there is for movies, especially when paired with great a sound-setup!
As for OLED, they beat everything on contrast and black uniformity, but lack punch in the upper end of brightness, especially in rooms with more ambient lighting (such as my living-room). I saw a Bravia 8 and Bravia 9 side-by-side, and certain high peak-brightness scenes with Atmos HDR (I think it was the latest Mad-Max movie and Dune 1, both on 4K blu-ray) showed less shadow detail on the OLED due to simply lacking peak-brightness capacity. The Bravia 8 is an insane TV, but I found the 9 to suit my needs and use-case better, all in all.
