What are some specs I should look for in shopping for TVs in 2017? Are OLEDs worth it?
Is there any TV designed where the pixels actually shut off or dim during dark scenes? With my current old LCD TV, if you put a solid black background on display, it's backlit and looks shitty and gray. There's gotta be a TV out there that actually turns off the individual pixels if a solid black color is displayed, right?
Alright, I thought that might be the case. Are there any other technologies along with OLED I should look for? I'm probably just going to go with a Samsung because I've always liked their picture quality over the years.
John Thompson
Also, I heard there's a new technology called QLED thats supposed to be better than OLED....the TVs seem to be very expensive though.
Josiah Adams
Shit, looks like Samsung doesn't even make OLEDs....they only make the expensive QLEDs...what are some good brand OLEDs?
Colton Nguyen
QLEDs are developed as the alternatives to OLEDs. Currently not worth buying since the blacks are still not that good.
James Carter
OP whatever you do never in your life buy Samsung or LG. Do yourself a favor and just go with Sony. The newest Bravia OLED will be a television you can't go wrong with.
Juan Long
I own 2 samsung tvs, they are great for low end. Cheap led smart tv in 4k, i like them. Not sure what the higher end models are like
Jaxson Edwards
> What are some specs I should look for in shopping for TVs in 2017 focus only on the display. all the other features are 20 bucks or less components, like receivers and wifi antennas, it's basically bullshit
Carson Rivera
Yes, they are called "LED dimming zones" Where the backlight for that are physically turns off.
The more local dimming zones the better. Most base Vizio TV's that advertise it have some like 10-16 local dimming zones.
It works OK but honestly youd need a much higher number to really have an impact on a typical picture. If like half the screen is black than even the TV with 10 local dimming zones will look stellar but that's usually not the case.
Carter Parker
My smart tv can play 4k movie from a usb 3.0 and my pc with a fx6300 and a 970 shits itself on a 7gig 4k file. But for high end you should just buy external equipment
Jose Gutierrez
Yes, this is Sup Forums tech support, how can I help?
David Russell
>fx6300 and a 970 shits itself on a 7gig 4k file windows fag
Wyatt Cruz
TVs are by default shitty consumer monitors with a tv tuner, numerious post-processing filters, simulated overscan and nowadays an insecure cloud based operating system. What you want is a proper monitor at whatever specs you want and a HTPC.
Eli Moore
Dude a monitor is just a small TV wtf you talking about lmao
Julian Morgan
LG is great, don't listen to the brand name faggot above. Go with an LG OLED TV and you'll be set.
Landon Sanchez
Hi yes my S8 won't turn on wat do?
Easton Stewart
my fx6300 and gtx760 have no problems playing 4k video
Ian Roberts
Read the whole post, child. TV's basically have a bloat problem. All the filtering and extra shit adds lag on the output, and let's not even talk about how shitty the "smart" features are.
Computer monitors do not have this problem.
Liam Miller
it should be that way but it isn't. tv's universally have low specs compared to computer monitors. They also often have components computer monitors dont have, like speakers, tv tuner cards, and "smart tv" modules, and a IR remote and IR sensors, and an array of AV hookups that aren't available on many PC's like RCA and optical jacks.
You really have to go way out of your way to buy a TV with a high refresh rate, which is in my opinion the most heinous of shortcomings of TV's
Oliver Russell
Get a sony PVM you newage scrubshit.
Jeremiah Morris
no problems here.
pretty sure he's trying to play it on vlc so it's locked to 1 core
also gpu acceleration is not always enabled on by default on codec codecs or vlc
Grayson Harris
under $500 OLED TVs/monitors when?
Brayden Evans
Okay but link me to a 55 inch "monitor" go to newegg the biggest are like 35-37", they're called TVs when they're bigger than 40 inches