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HDR is about… well… lets make blacks look blacker.. and colours look brighter…. OK. it's just crap marketing. LEDs could never get their blacks / colours as good as plasma, so they have resorted to this HDR stuff. Who's really going to buy into - especially when consumers are still buying DVDs ??
OLED / ULED / Super LED are all just marketing to get consumers confused - with each manufacturer trying desperately to get a sale … oh… and you forgot Dolby Vision.. another 'enhancement'……..
… who watches TV / Movies these days … it's all about the 'colour enhancement' and pictures looking ultra crystal clear :)
You're mainly right, except OLED is a major technology shift.
Your description of HDR is a bit off but your overall message is right that these are generally marketing terms for incremental improvements rather than shifts in twchnology.
Er HDR is about changes in contrast and the main thing being able to display either a billion colours or twelve billion colours and higher peak brightness. So it's not actually crap. I have a Sony x8000 and it's very noticeable when you watch a HDR movie versus normal one. It's not as gut punching as an OLED panel but it's still very noticeable
Look at ratings.com which have great articles explaining what HDR is. Also has great reviews on video quality of a lot of these big name brand TVs
I want to know what is so super about curved TVs ?
I've seen it few times in Costco and JB Hi-Fi but still can't understand the whole curve thing. Maybe I'm old school but why do people need to hug thier TVs ?
I'm not sure how much it would cost to straighten it
One a whole the gimmick of the curve is slowly going away. I think both LG and Samsung aren't offering curved versions of their top of the range models.
It was another reason for people to justify an upgrade to their existing set, to feel like they have the latest gadget to show off, and ultimately so companies can sell more units.
The reason why you might want one though technically, is that there is a benefit for immersion depending on where you are seated. If you're directly in front of it then I think it looks better than flat screen.
I have the Samsung ks8500 from last year which is curved. I wasn't going to buy a curved one, but was offered it at the same price as the flat version, after standing in the store for ages going back and forth between curved/flat I settled on curved. Based on my setup for it, there's only one or two people watching it with the seats directly on front of it mainly for movies and gaming. I guess it does look a bit better… And, hey, at least I can say "I have a curved TV" and feel better than my non-curved friends, and isn't that the real goal here? ;)
Summary : Curve is better.. That's what he said
Does yours curve to the left or to the right?
I'm another 1 for curved, for a small lounge room sitting close to a large tv. Curved is definitely the way to go.
I have 65KS8500 too and can't agree more. :)
They just did it because they could, not because they should.
Yeah think it's going to go the way of 3D TVs where the market dictated it was a gimmick
The main benefit for those who don't know is: the same sized curved screen (as flat screen) fills more of your field-of-view when your eyes are the same distance from the centre of that screen. So others are right in that it is a more immersive experience provided you are directly in front of the screen. It works best for computer screens and people with no friends.
In fact the most immersive experience (outside of VR, and 8k VR - oh oh oh - when it finally arrives) would be a large satellite dish-shaped screen positioned such that it fills the entire (approx) 120 x 120 degree human field of view. But in order to achieve life-like realism at that scale the pixel count would need to be huge. 8k on both the horizontal and vertical axes as an absolute minimum but preferably 16k x 16k. And if that sounds like a lot, for actual VR you would need that times 2 (one for each eye) at a good refresh rate. The graphic processing required, esp for gaming, is mind boggling…like dozens of 1080ti GPU's.
I predict we'll be there in about 10 years….record my words.
I am interested in buying a new TV . 65 -> 75 " .. how does this compare to the Hisense Uled N7 model link= https://www.jbhifi.com.au/tv-home-entertainment/hd-televisio…
Thanks :)
If you're considering the hisense, buy it on ebay with videopro for an additional 20% off
Samsung is better than Hisense but also more expansive:D
Can someone explain HDR to me?
I know it when I see it my dad's hisense 7000 series has it, and after I have him my 4k player (wasted on my series 6700 philips cause its crap) and some her 4k tv's I can see its amazing, incredibly vibrant but is HDR basically a poor man's OLED?
Also whats ULED and super led or whatever.
Thanks guys looking to buy a new tv.