My current tv is a Panasonic plasma (TX-P55VT50B). Picture quality is fairly nice but I'm looking to upgrade to 4k HDR and a larger size. I've loved the concept of OLED since they were first released and so I'm likely to go down that route.
For normal tv viewing the sofa is about 16ft from the tv. The room is fairly bright during the day but I don't consider daytime tv to be critical viewing and so THX bright mode has sufficed. I have self calibrated profiles (i1 display pro, hcfr) for evening viewing. Larger size and HDR are therefore likely to be the main benefits for normal tv (4k res will be wasted).
For gaming I sit about 1ft away from the screen! 4k will benefit here and I'm also hoping for sharper detail in motion (no trails behind moving objects and hopefully 4k 120Hz VRR - I'll be buying a PS5 when available).
For movie watching (which is the aspect of performance I care about most) I have the option of placing chairs about 8ft from the screen and fully darkening the room. (Though WAF will only allow this infrequently)! I mostly play blurays via a media pc.
Image problems that bother me most are near black handling (current plasma seems good for this), banding and posterisation, judder, unrealistic colors, horizontal artifacts near bright features i.e. credits (I'm fairly picky on image quality).
Models that I'm considering so far are Sony A90J 65", LG 65" G1 (although I'd need a stand as wall mounting is not possible), and I'm eagerly awaiting news on Panasonic JZ1500 65". Perhaps a 77" like Sony A80J could be better in my use case although I've been holding out for 4K 120Hz for a while now and I'd probably prefer one of the newer pro panels with a heatsink really.
Any recommendations or opinions?
Edit: Forgot to say I have a surround sound system so don't care about the tv sound performance at all.
For normal tv viewing the sofa is about 16ft from the tv. The room is fairly bright during the day but I don't consider daytime tv to be critical viewing and so THX bright mode has sufficed. I have self calibrated profiles (i1 display pro, hcfr) for evening viewing. Larger size and HDR are therefore likely to be the main benefits for normal tv (4k res will be wasted).
For gaming I sit about 1ft away from the screen! 4k will benefit here and I'm also hoping for sharper detail in motion (no trails behind moving objects and hopefully 4k 120Hz VRR - I'll be buying a PS5 when available).
For movie watching (which is the aspect of performance I care about most) I have the option of placing chairs about 8ft from the screen and fully darkening the room. (Though WAF will only allow this infrequently)! I mostly play blurays via a media pc.
Image problems that bother me most are near black handling (current plasma seems good for this), banding and posterisation, judder, unrealistic colors, horizontal artifacts near bright features i.e. credits (I'm fairly picky on image quality).
Models that I'm considering so far are Sony A90J 65", LG 65" G1 (although I'd need a stand as wall mounting is not possible), and I'm eagerly awaiting news on Panasonic JZ1500 65". Perhaps a 77" like Sony A80J could be better in my use case although I've been holding out for 4K 120Hz for a while now and I'd probably prefer one of the newer pro panels with a heatsink really.
Any recommendations or opinions?
Edit: Forgot to say I have a surround sound system so don't care about the tv sound performance at all.
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