HDTVs

hard to place my finger on it but when not in sports mode, it seems like I’m not watching a live game. (Like a vcr tape or something) When I throw it in sports mode, it seems live, but there is a lot of jitter and the puck disappears sometimes.

Ah, thanks. A month ago I noticed the puck disappearing on the old led in the bedroom when I was doing some testing, so I turned off all the motion/judder control and the puck reappeared.

I have always watched sports on the plasma with everything disabled so I don't know the advantages/drawbacks of motion control.

After a few hours of testing, maximum de-blur/de-judder settings do clean up 100% of occasional flickering in some scenes of some shows, but add horrible artifacts in some panning shots.

I ended up shutting all that crap off on the new led because my eyes prefer raw movement and the wife doesn't care either way.

I do run samsung's digital clean view setting on auto (enabled) because it removes tons of upscaled artifacts on text and people's faces on the crappy cable channels. Night and day difference.

Sony's new flagships cumming soon:

Sony Z9F TV First Impressions

Interesting to see they went the opposite direction of Samsung's Q9FN- instead of optimizing filters for black levels they filter for better viewing angles.

Da' wife and I sit directly in front, but if we had a big family with sofas all over the room I would have been mad I didn't wait for the Sony.

So I have a 65" OLED, obviously one of the best there is, so take that with a grain of salt - but I know people who have TCL 4k HDR 55" and 65" displays and have the same opinion as me.

1) For games (If you have a PS Pro / Xbox One X - it is a HUGE difference. 4k (Whether checkerboard or dyanmic (Don't see a lot of native) while HDR is enabled is absolutely stunning. God of War, Uncharted 4, Last of us Remake, Lost Legacy, and others, are absolutely fantastic and definitely worth it in my opinion if you have those gaming devices.

2) For movies, I now find I want to view all content in lossless audio with 4k kHDR whanever I get the chance (Even if it is only HDR10). Everything pops and is crystal clear. With that said, it depends on your view distance from your display and how large your display is on how much you will notice 4k.

3) Some Caveats: If you have a home theater set up with speakers (5.1, 7.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.4 etc) and are driving your devices through a receiver, it gets tricky and can get quite expensive. Reason being is that to pass 4k/HDR your devices and receiver must have HDMI ports that are HDCP 2.2 Compliant or it will not pass. A way around this is if your receiver and display are capable or Arc, and you plug a device directly into your display and use the Audio Return Channel to get sound back through your audio system.

For my upgrade, I had to get the display, and also the new receiver. (Also some new cables with the bandwidth required to pass 4k HDR). (I then also upgraded to an Xbox one X (Mainly for the 4k / HDR player) and a PS Pro.

All in all, best investment I have ever made currently. Next up I am looking at Atmos (Still). I kick things around for 6 months... lol.

The thing about 4K TVs that I didnt realize is it upscales everything to 4K. Just got my first TCL 55 like a month back when our old 55 took a shit. Less than $500 on Amazon. Anyway, it does the whole" fill in the missing lines shit" and makes everything look like 4K. Which is pretty cool IMO. No its not true 4K blah,blah, some experts will come in here and shit on me, of course its not, but its cool nevertheless.

That too. And I like that feature as well.

I can only comment with regards to movies when viewing actual discs. The experience from a physical disc on lossless sound l, true 4K and hdr, coming from my Xbox one x (any 4K player with hdr capability works) destroys any streaming content.

Although Netflix 4K hdr does a pretty sweet job.

But there in lies another issue. I can’t find anyone that rents 4K discs. So I only purchase the best movies.

Njals said:

I'm not sure where to post this but this seemed the best place. Found a copy of the Christopher Nolan 4k set at a steal and god damn is it incredible so far. Any scene he did in Imax translates beautifully on the TV (2017 LG OLED on an Xbox X). The opening scene to Dark Knight might be the best 4k transfer I have seen so far. It's a toss up between that and Blade Runner 2049 with an edge going to Blade Runner due to the Dolby Atmos soundtrack. I used to use Planet Earth II as my go to example of 4k but this might be the replacement for pure picture clarity.

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Where’d ya find it? Sounds right up my alley. Agree with you on all your points. Blade runner is insane with an atmos setup

Threelions said:

Where’d ya find it? Sounds right up my alley. Agree with you on all your points. Blade runner is insane with an atmos setup

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Just looked on amazon and they have the most absurd prices for the collection, that can’t be right.