I'm afraid the whole thing immediately falls down for credibility. It' not independently done.
As for the taping up (very badly done) there's enough of a reveal of bezel in the corner of at least one TV.
In the case of sudden amnesia taking place over night you would only have to look down at the stands which were Vesa wheel based.
Calibration stage.....
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Judging stage.....
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A bit of fun on a Sunday morning amongst friends perhaps it might have been. An independent review unfortunately it is most certainly not.
Now regards the Philips event.....
Session 1 was the Calibrated & Filmmaker mode and that is of the most pertinent interest to most as a truer independent test I would say.
Independent Calibrators (who did not judge) and AVForum members who judged.
So the
results of the Calibrated and Filmmaker Mode section in SDR and HDR were as follows
- Set D - 4% of the vote
- Set C - 18% of the vote
- Set A - 24% of the vote
- Set B - 26% of the vote
- No Preference - 28% of the vote
So the winner was No Preference, 2nd LG, 3rd Panasonic, 4th Philips, 5th Sony.
Given that all the TV's were calibrated and presented equally that largely comes across in the results. It would be very hard to tell the difference and it was. It's what you would expect anyway.
The manufacturer who sponsored the event, well their set came in 4th in that session.
None of the 4 sets were bad, 3 were very close to each other.