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I'm currently doubting my OLED purchase, because either I'm not able to get it working properly or the difference between SDR and HDR ist just not there.
The TV I bought is a Grundig GOB 9990 which, accoring to the internet, has a 2017 LG panel. Not the latest but the OLED tvs from two years ago are still great devices, right? Obviously the smart functionality is worse and the processing algorithms are worse than the ones from LG or Sony, but in the end its still an LG oled panel which should do decent when I feed it with an external player, at least I thought...
Currently I'm using my Windows desktop to feed video though the AVR into the TV. HDR in windows is weird, but playing a file in VLC (or Plex) looks the same as playing the file from an usbstick straight on the TV. The TV is reporting hdr signal in both cases, so I think its working.
The point is I have my notebook here with me in front of the tv, and the picture is literally the same. For example right now I'm playing guardian of the galaxy 2 on both screens, on my Notebook (Dell xps from 2015, it has a good IPS display I suppose, but cmon...) 1080p sdr blu-ray and the 4k hdr blu-ray on the tv).
I tried different videos. For livid, bright scenes the tv looks close (good I guess? just not better) to my notebook display, but for dark scenes it just looks bad (eg the witcher first episode, when Ciri is wandering through the low lid castle corridors; first I though its somehow playing the hdr content as a sdr signal, but then I played the same clip directly on the tv (again reporting hdr on both signals), just as bad...
What am I doing wrong here? First i thought its the Windows HDR output, but then again its the same playing directly on the tv. Will another external player (nvidia shield or any of the china android boxes) change anything?
Is the TV just really bad calibrated/setup? I checked every settings multiple times, turned off all these algorithms (motion smooting, dymanic contrast and so on), although I tested all the settings if they make a difference. I adjusted the brightness and contrast with test screens. The colors could be slightly off, sure, but that should just be a minor difference.... Unfortunately I couldnt really find any recommended settings in the internet, the TV isn't that popular.
Or am I just expecting too much from the TV? That would be a pitty, because the general census I got about OLED is "you will never go back". Right now I dont see an advantage on watching on my 55inch OLED from 2m compared to on my 13inch notebook from 50cm...
To be fair I'm kinda impressed by some test footage, for example the Sony-Bravia-OLED and LG-Cymatic-Jazz clips. But those are just the usual showroom show off clips, I expected more from the movies you actually watch. And GotG or the latest Avengers movies are content people recommend for decent HDR footage.
I tried to take some photos, but they are just meh, old phone + different distances and angles arent helping it (nootbook is not as geen as it appears on the picture): The greyish taint on the last picture is just...
I watched the sdr 1080p version on the OLED for comparison and it literally looks better than the hdr version (nothing grey, not washed...)
The TV I bought is a Grundig GOB 9990 which, accoring to the internet, has a 2017 LG panel. Not the latest but the OLED tvs from two years ago are still great devices, right? Obviously the smart functionality is worse and the processing algorithms are worse than the ones from LG or Sony, but in the end its still an LG oled panel which should do decent when I feed it with an external player, at least I thought...
Currently I'm using my Windows desktop to feed video though the AVR into the TV. HDR in windows is weird, but playing a file in VLC (or Plex) looks the same as playing the file from an usbstick straight on the TV. The TV is reporting hdr signal in both cases, so I think its working.
The point is I have my notebook here with me in front of the tv, and the picture is literally the same. For example right now I'm playing guardian of the galaxy 2 on both screens, on my Notebook (Dell xps from 2015, it has a good IPS display I suppose, but cmon...) 1080p sdr blu-ray and the 4k hdr blu-ray on the tv).
- Colors are pretty much the same. I would go as far and say that the colors on the TV are not as vivid (e.g. red jacket from starlord looks more like an old jacket, which lost some of its color).
- Contrast is worse on the oled, dark areas appear greyish (max brightness btw...). THIS is really bothering me, I had high hopes with the OLED contrast and now it just looks like the low quality stream of the battle of winterfell...
- Literally the only points I can give the oled is the deep black, while the notebook black is glowing (lcd, duh)
I tried different videos. For livid, bright scenes the tv looks close (good I guess? just not better) to my notebook display, but for dark scenes it just looks bad (eg the witcher first episode, when Ciri is wandering through the low lid castle corridors; first I though its somehow playing the hdr content as a sdr signal, but then I played the same clip directly on the tv (again reporting hdr on both signals), just as bad...
What am I doing wrong here? First i thought its the Windows HDR output, but then again its the same playing directly on the tv. Will another external player (nvidia shield or any of the china android boxes) change anything?
Is the TV just really bad calibrated/setup? I checked every settings multiple times, turned off all these algorithms (motion smooting, dymanic contrast and so on), although I tested all the settings if they make a difference. I adjusted the brightness and contrast with test screens. The colors could be slightly off, sure, but that should just be a minor difference.... Unfortunately I couldnt really find any recommended settings in the internet, the TV isn't that popular.
Or am I just expecting too much from the TV? That would be a pitty, because the general census I got about OLED is "you will never go back". Right now I dont see an advantage on watching on my 55inch OLED from 2m compared to on my 13inch notebook from 50cm...
To be fair I'm kinda impressed by some test footage, for example the Sony-Bravia-OLED and LG-Cymatic-Jazz clips. But those are just the usual showroom show off clips, I expected more from the movies you actually watch. And GotG or the latest Avengers movies are content people recommend for decent HDR footage.
I tried to take some photos, but they are just meh, old phone + different distances and angles arent helping it (nootbook is not as geen as it appears on the picture): The greyish taint on the last picture is just...
I watched the sdr 1080p version on the OLED for comparison and it literally looks better than the hdr version (nothing grey, not washed...)