Yes tech week review says cinema best mode glad you got them I look forward to reading more about them in due course
Hi Mike – not long got back from visiting my parents and taking the other set to my brother for his part brick conservatory/tiled roof/with agood amount of windows. Whils’t I was at my parents I watched a bit of TV in the bedroom on their old set so I could compare it with the Hisense A9G Oled I got them 2-3yrs ago that sits infront of a big bay window.
Their old set was a 40″ mid range series 6 Samsung 40ES6300 3D TV from 2012/13 costing around £800. Looking up the spec’s it didn’t have local dimming as that wasn’t really in then but, it was able to turn LED’s off for better blacks. HD programs were crisp and colours were good (see below) There was some black crush and some scenes especially the background lost the vibrance, but it was pefectly viewable the vast of the time, especially with the content you watch. I won’t say much about SD conent other than it was dire to HD as expected but watchable. No TV is great with SD content anyway and there was never any SD to HD upscaler as there is today, that upscales HD to 4k UHD. The viewing angles degrade when your not looking directly infront of the TV. Overall the picture was bright. Popping in and out of the living room the Hisense A9G always gave me the wow factor in the clarity, depth, deep blacks and rich colour. It reminded me more of my current TV and Plama’s of old. Have you ever watched a Plasma TV, as that’s more akin to Oled?
The Hisense A85h was checked for damage given the other one came damaged box and TV (scratched). I droped it friday night as he was more than happy to set it up “I’m not thick” as he tells me! It replaces his 32″ Sony LED and he wanted something bigger as they live in that room. I can’t say alot more about the TV, only that he had it on standard setting and was more than happy with it when I nipped round on my way home back home today. I will ring him midweek for an update.
Mike please don’t take my thoughts the wrong way-remember we all have a different different pair of eyes, thus percieve what we see differently. That said I want the best picture for the money whether that’s paying £600 or £2k and what’s best for you is going to be different for me or anybody else. That said there won’t be a world of difference in a reduced price £600 TV than my £2k TV partly because the Hisense was £1200 when launched and there is not alot of difference in Oled panels, but there would be a bigger gap in pcture when comparing a £600 agaisn’t a £2k LED set. My LG G1 has a brighter picture than the C2 because it has a heatsink aswell as the EVO panel that makes it’s 20% brighter than the 55″ LG C2 that just has from this year the EVO panel. Under 55″ your getting a a standard brighness Oled panel purely because because the manufacturer can’t fit much more in onto of the 8bn pixels. Is mine 20% brighter not really compared to my other set it replaced.
Do you really need another TV with the content you watch given most content is now in HD anyway. On top of that do you really need to give yourself an headache of Oled vs LED- I think without looking back 4 out of 6 have Oled and the 6th person wigwam is trying Oled. Even if the result was 50/50 you are no further forward as we all see things differently and we all have different makes of TV anyway that have different picture qualities.
The good thing with Costco you have 90 days to return if you don’t like it. They also have a Samsung 50″ Q65B that is cheaper than the Hisense and could be seen as a upgrade to your current set as it’s a bufget quantum dot LED display. Likewise the Q75B/Q80B are Samsung midrange sets that cost about the same or a little more. There’s a TCL mini LED that competes and is as good as the the high end Samung S95b but it has bugs at the moment. There are others sets that more than compare to Samsungs budget-midrange that are better such as Panny Sony LED’s etc in the bufget midrange sector 🙂