What is the best non OLED alternative? So far I am figuring either the Samsung Q90T/Q95T or Sony XH9505. I know that they are not going to be as good picture wise though.
I've just jumped ship from 5 years of oleds to a sony 85" XH9505.
LED has come on a long way it really has, some content looks better on oled but more is looking better on this sony then on my 65" C9.
On the up side its massive it's a proper home cinema at 85"
Even if I could find a large oled pannel with no banding at 29k for 88"
The better blacks are not worth 26k lol.
Sonys picture processing, upscaling and motion is noticeably better.
Black's are better then I expected them to be and I little bias led back lighting it looks very good.
HDR is much better than on the oled due to 1100 nits peek and 700 nit full screen brightness , abl distorys oled hdr.
Dark HDR content does cause the black bars to wash out, i've not found it be distracting at all, I think this is down to the size of my set.
Its that big I don't notice the black bars when focusing on what I watching in the centre of the screen, I have to look away from the program to look at the black bars to see any blooming in the bars.
The HDR picture between the bars is sublime its the best HDR I've ever seen.
I wanted to upgrade in size, I looked at 77"oled first but the pannels are absolute trash with branding at that size.
So I then looked at the samsung q90t 85" but the pannels on them are as bad as the 77" oleds as they have terrible dse and you can even see back lighting gride on panning shots.
It amazes me that the q90t gets such great reviews when it has terrible pannels, just read the owners threads ha.
So I was left with an LG led or the Sony xh9505.
The nano LG led are shocking with ips pannels the don't do black just a not so dark grey lol.
So the Sony was the one for me and I have to say it's been the very pleasurable experience, I brought it, set it up and run some test slides and was unable to fault it.
No dse or any other screen defects, after 5 years oled I'm not used to buying a TV and not having to return 5 or 6 some times 10 TVs
to get a good one lol.
All in all I've been watching it for 2 weeks and I cannot fault it.
SDR content just cannot be faulted on this set, there is no blooming in black bars at all, just a really solid contrasty picture.
I watched a lot of films on sky like the matrix, preditor and terminator, they looked that good it could of been on blu ray.
Perminate image retention was never a big concern of mine with oled as I had only experienced it once due to HDR gaming, which I must add I did catch early and cleared with pixel refresh but this would of definitely becoming permanent if I had continued to play that game.
Also my other half has gmb on every morning for 3 hours a morning and this would also of caused permanent damage at some point.
Note she did do that on my lg55c7 for 18 befor I upgraded that and it cause no damage to that point but know it would in time for sure.