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LG Unveils Its 1st QNED Mini LED TV with Up to 2500 Dimming Zones
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westrock2000
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Dolby Vision (and I would guess the Samsung equivalent) is pretty stunning.
if you buy one of the top performing models, they can get uncomfortably bright in some scenes. They can also create neon/pastel colors because of the increased brightness range.
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Yep. (hugs his Blu ray discs) Streaming just can't compare.
it would be cool if Dual LCD were possible to be cheap like miniLED. very similar in quality to OLED and it can do bright but, only at the low low price of $40,000
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The only reason dual-LCD is expensive is because they are only available as reference monitors. I don't think anybody has bothered trying to make one for the consumer space, but it would be interesting to see. Those can reach 4000 nits or higher, which is still much higher than what current mini LED can do.
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I really don't see the point in buying an 8K TV unless all you do is watch movies (Do they even make 8K Blu Ray's or Players?) Besides that, the infrastructure here in the US doesn't even support 1080P over the air much less 4 or 8K.
Nah there's a lot of cost to them. A big one is just, well, two panels. The panel is a non-trivial part of the cost of a TV/monitor and you need two of them to make a dual-LCD. Another is that they are inefficient as hell, they need a lot of light to deal with the two panels so you tend to need some big backlights which increases cost and power consumption.
They'd be cheaper if mass produced for sure, but probably not cheap like you think, they'd be decidedly high end products.
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until microled comes out who cares, it's just an LCD
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Supposedly they are going to start broadcasting 8K over the air in Japan, but that will absolutely never happen in the US. As of now there is no delivery medium, physical or otherwise, that is sufficient for 8K media. I still say that with the prevalence of USB on televisions that we should just ditch the idea of optical drives entirely and start delivering video content on USB drives. UHD Blu-ray discs are actually more expensive in bulk than 64GB USB flash drives are these days.
OLEDs also make CGI in live action movies really stick out and look bad. Still it is not possible to go back to anything else after owning a OLED. When I was at my brother's house over the holidays he got one of those cheap crappy 70" LG LCDs and made my eyes bleed.
Yea if I remember correct those reference dual lcd monitors consume something like 300w for just a 30" or something. I can't imagine how much power a 55 or big would it consume.
if you can afford $40,000 or so DUAL LCD is VERY impressive, goes toe to toe with OLED and then some.
From everything I've read, the 4K streams still aren't as good as 4K Blu-Rays in HDR (Dolby Vision, etc). I looked at a side-by-side comparison of the Star Wars Original Trilogy recently, and the streams have that grey, washed-out look. 4K HDR looked incredibly vivid and vibrant (especially in monitors that met the DisplayHDR 1000 [or better] standard, as well as OLED).
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Not really. The viewing angles are terrible, the size is super small, and the power usage is insane. It's only good as a mastering monitor which is its intended use.
I had to install an 85" Samsung into our main conference room paired with a Logitech Meetup, and it is the most beautiful TV I have ever used. I now need one for my living room and despite the wife's claims that it is too big and won't fit I assure her that it will, and she will come to like it.
