You enjoy that week off, Caleb. You deserve it!

@5:00 it’s not only the pixel refresh rate but the brightness of HDR. I recently watched the new mission impossible in a Dolby theater and I still noticed a lot of stuttering in slow panning shots consisting of bright objects on dark backgrounds. So optimal motion smoothness for 24p = dim picture + slow response and all new TVs are the opposite.

For question 2 I would use black frame insertion. It dims the picture a bit, but it fixes films. You don’t get any soap opera effect.

Such a relief to see Caleb back on the channel 😮‍💨

Just had to pause the video and applaud Caleb for correcting himself when pronoucing "niche". Well done Sir. Also, thank you for what you do. Always love watching your videos. Keep up the good work. Enjoy your week off!

I know the Sharp Mini LED didn’t have a great showing at the shootout, but I hope you still plan on reviewing. I’d really like to hear your opinion of it.

For those that may be unaware, Sharp is also releasing 2 OLED displays: FS-1/FQ-1. 'The FS1 is based on Samsung's QD-OLED panels, while the FQ1 uses LGD's WOLED panels. The FS1 uses Sharp's Medalist S4X AI image processing engine, 11 speakers 85W sound system (ARSS+), Dolby Atmos and Google TV platform. The FQ1 offers similar specification but is based on the Medalist S4 AI image processor.'-OLED Info.

ooo! I love this topic. I already have my main TVs for the next couple years (C1 and C2). But secondary rooms and such is my interest now....

👍👍 honest video, using 2013-14 Sharp Aquas 90” still looks great sitting at 8-12 foot when given good 1080p or higher video input, gaming with PS5 still good too, really enjoy the size only been to theatre once since getting it

I'm excited to hear more about aquos coming back to the US, sharp was huge on color accuracy back in the day im looking forward to their comeback.

I'm still using a Pioneer plasma 6020 in bedroom. Love it, but it's time to part. I'm going with TCL QM8 75

I'm hanging onto my Kuro too mate, dreading the day it comes to replace it. Nothing comes close, fantastic with everything & it doesn't matter whether it's a dark or light room.

Thanks Caleb, interesting as always, cheers from Australia (Where the TV picture always seems to be upside down?)

I owned several Sharp LCDs from the early 2000s and they were excellent long lasting TVs. I hope they do come back to the forefront and look forward to your reviews.

Nice video! Hope you are having a restful and fun break!💖

I worked at Pioneer back in the early 2000s when they owned everything plasma! Those were the day…

I have an LG OLED65C7P when it just came out, I have my eye on the Hisense 65 U8k, would I see a leap forward in picture quality or should I just wait until my TV goes out and my wife let's me get another OLED? I always wondered your thoughts about the Vizio OLED tv.

I have had bad experiences with burn in on all my OLED TV's. What do you suggest I start using?

Caleb, Have you seen any issues with LG C3 having issues with sound from Apple TV 4K (newest) and Marantz Cinema 70S? I can route sound via eARC just fine when Apple TV is connected to to one HDMI ports on the AVR. When connected to HDMI1 port on the TV (while Marantz is on HDMI2 - EARC) I get no sound on Apple TV. This behavior was not occuring on LG C2.

I have a 4K 65 inch RCA with HDR10, but recently I have very small fruit fly get caught in the higher part of the tv, do i need to replace it? Of will the fly go away (dry up), tvs here in costa rica are buko expensive so just buying another id not an option. For example for this tv i paid about a $1000 about 2 years ago.

Hi Caleb! I want to buy a 75 inch mid range TV. I will mostly watch movies in a not too bright and mostly dark room. I know OLEDs will be too expensive for me, so I am thinking of Sony X90L as a good mid range led TV. I know you would suggest Hisense or TCL but I have no experience nor trust in those brands honestly. So are there any other good options from Samsung or LG for the same price?

Will you review any of the Hisense sound bars/sound systems? Particularly the U5120G or the AX3125H. Earlier this year I purchased a Hisense U8H after reviewing some of your videos, and am very impressed! The sound quality is good, but certainly great. I'd like to see how Hisense's new sound systems match up!

I've got a Sharp Aquos 52" in the den since 2008 and it still looks awesome. For what these things cost 15+ years ago, I want to get my moneys worth.

Hi Caleb, I have this aging gear. TV: LG 55UK6300PUE (Circa 2018 does 4K, but no eARC) AVR Yamaha RXV471 (Circa 2011 Adequate power, but no eARC or 4K, crude equalizer) SPEAKERS: Infinity Reference Five (stereo Circa 1993) Klipsch RC42 (center Circa 2022) I would like to improve the cinema sound performance, but the lack of eARC on the TV & AVR and the lack of surround speakers (because no easy way to wire them in) means that I should probably switch to a soundbar w/wireless surround. I can’t upgrade everything at once, so I’m thinking I will replace the AVR & speakers first, then the TV later. 1st. Get a Samsung Q910C (9.1.2=$1K) or Q990C (11.1.4=$1.9K). The Q910C is at least $900 less expensive, and probably more than adequate for our small media room (11x14). 2nd Replace the LG TV with either a TCL QM8 or Samsung Q80C. The Samsung is probably better technically and has QSymphony, but is it worth the extra $500 (or more) since both do eARC (for Dolby Atmos). Color accuracy is irrelevant since I am color blind. Probably a lot of people in this decision tree, and wonder what your thoughts are here.

I'm seriously waiting for sony A95L

My Samsung 4k TV from 2014 i think? just went out in the exact same way. One day I turned it on to find audio but no backlight.

Thanks Caleb, enjoy your time off. Will we see the Hisense U7K review soon?

I still have a Panasonic 55” plasma 3d vt50 I think. I got a a80k Sony 65” the step up it’s great but the Panasonic still looks amazing, not very bright though.

Watching from Philippines, hoping that you can review Sharp TV's. Not only that Sharp is very popular brand here but also they're the few brand that manufacturered here.

Hi Caleb, I’m Mike.I’m writing to you again about my situation. I have ALS and bedridden, therefore I watch tv all day and night. So roughly the tv is on 17-19 hrs/day. I watch Direct Tv stream via one of their boxes. I stream all other platforms through the new Apple 4k TV. My room is somewhat bright but hasn’t been an issue with my current 2016 Q8 series, which is going out. I watch a lot of sports. Given these conditions, which tv would you recommend? I’m considering the TCL QM8, LG C3, or the Samsung S90C. Your advice would be much appreciated. Thank you!

Is the B3 worth it? Not worried about gaming I use a monitor for that, just for regular tv use

Hello, i have a Sony SXRD KDS-55A300 and 50A3000. Had them for almost 20 years with 120hz refresh rate. They both look great in the dark on vivid and the refresh rate to mee is smooth and movies and shows look great. I have a "Great room" with 3 Bay style windows and large glass sliding door. OLEDS look great but NOT in BRIGHT rooms. i want to avoid the glare on the tv and the lower light oleds would give off. i chose my home because of the bright rooms and how it faces the sun. what is the best QLED with 120hz refresh rate in your opinion? willing to spend upto $2,000 i can wait for a sale since all my tvs still work without problems

Still waiting for your review of the Hisense 65u7k..which I bought to replace an 8 year old LG plasma..

My F8500 will be 10 years old in February. Not sure I want OLED based on banner/logo burnin experience. Differing ageing rates between blue and other color pixels make me wonder how the beautiful picture you get at purchase will look 10 years down the road. I only notice the burn on the F8500 in certain scenes.

Good for you have a great week.

I'm patiently waiting for micro-QLED before I upgrade my X95G. That's the endgame for the foreseeable future, isn't it?

Are you going to review the Sony a95L any time soon?

The QN90C is more expensive than the LG B3 in my country. Now which is better?

Yeah man enjoy the vacation time! 🎉

It's taken me 10 months to get my A95K to look like my old Kuro colour wise. The plasma never looked off always spot on with movies.

Could you please do a comparison video between Sony X93L and X90L?

Hey Caleb, love the vids and have poured over so many looking to upgrade my old..ish Sony. I have a question please....why do most manufacturers continue to only put 2 HDMI 2.1 slots with one of them being the eArc. If we're looking for a TV to play gaming on, then a lot of us have BOTH the consoles they're making the TV's for. So if you also want to have your soundbar, then one of the consoles needs to go to a "lesser" port and it makes no sense to me. Thanks for your time mate and keep up the great work 😊

Just came to Brazil a toshiba oled tv. Is it good?

I'm also very interesting to Sharp and Toshiba. Toshiba have new oled TVs with and without google TV also ...that is also very interesting.

Should i buy Sony X74L or hisence U7K

Hi Caleb, looking to replace my Vizio E75-E3 and am torn between a 77" LG OLED (OLED77B3PUA) and an 85" Sony LED (KD85X85K). Fairly comparable price-wise, but am curious about your thoughts between going bigger with LED v sharper with OLED. Viewing room is 15x18x10 wfiw. Thanks in advance!!!

Upgrading from 65’’ Sony XBR AF8A 2018 model year to Sony A80L 77’’. Seems not much love for the A80L $2,666.00 vs $4,999.00 for the new Sony A95L

Hey Caleb I bought the lg c3. I was so excited. However it had very very bad Color banding so lg sent guys to repair. They replaced panel and board. I think the guys either put in wrong parts or panel as the hdr didn’t work after they left . So back they came. after lots of arguing. They did something with the board. and hdr works better now. However the picture quality is no where near what it was before. It now has like a film grain look to the picture or picture looks noisy. That’s the best way I can describe it. This has been brutal I am stuck with this tv now as lg just gives me the run around because they think I’m being to picky. I just wanted to share this with you to see if you have ever heard of such nonsense. I am so frustrated. Now every time I turn on my 2000 dollar tv I am so disappointed. And so so frustrated with lg. 😢

Who still rockin their oled 77” A80CJ or A80J ?

Hi, I was wondering if Roku, Apple TV, fire stick have any separation for picture and color to the tv’s or does some work better with some brands then others? Do you have a preference due to picture and color only?

Hey can u review vu masterpiece tv or toshiba tv which is launched in india??

I have a Hisense uhd 4K tv is 60 fps how I Khow I have 4k on my tv

As someone who went from a Pioneer 151FD to an LG G1, 24fps pans did look pretty bad. But the lowest “cinematic motion” setting or whatever it is pretty much eliminated the issue for me without ruining the look of films. Very happy with that since I think that option was new to LG sets that year.

Hi Caleb :) Hope you had a good week off! Curious: 95K or 93L? 93K or 90L? All 85. Thanks!

Will you be reviewing the new Vizio quantum pro?

Are you making a side by side comparison of the X90L vs QM8? I would love to see the differences in colors and clarity.

I watch ALL your videos ,even if it’s something I’m not EVEN interested in 🎉❤❤❤

I have a Panasonic LCD that is 10 years old and it is still firm and strong, the image is very good compared to the current ones.

lol I like that we explained his wardrobe

Panasonic also pulled out of Australia also. I still contend that Panasonic has/had the best OLED screens.

My tcl 5 series has 24p mode, looks darn good!

Similar thing happened to my 55" LG B8. Just dimmed, went dark and that was it with the picture. The sound is still okay though. They said the TV is dead. Very sad indeed. Now, I'm thinking about buying a TLC TV.

i hear about plasma TVs alot but never researched about them, in your opinion what is a plasma TV? and you mentioned the TV i have in this video thats cool i guess.

Hey Caleb, I've got a question regarding picture modes, so if I am gaming on my ps5 and I want the absolute best picture quality possible without caring atall about response time, VRR etc. what is the best picture mode? Should I just go with Movie/Cinema or does game mode actually do something for the picture as well (like some magic with recognizing tone mapping from the console etc... I'm just guessing because I'm pretty clueless). I've had bad experiences in the past with Samsung's game mode which essentially transforms the picture into something you'd think is vivid mode.

I am looking for a 80”+ Sony tv, I am trying to decide between the a80l in 83” vs the x95l 85”. I currently have a80j 77” and the room is semi bright from time to time. Help me make the best decision.

Best 32 inch for my tv or wait until next year

I happily replaced 1 plasma and two LCD’s with 3 LG OLED’s. Interestingly, all of my OLED’s were less expensive than what I paid for my older TV’s. Much higher value today vs a decade ago in terms of size, performance, and price.

77” LG B3 for $1999 worth the buy?

Cheap 4k TV vs premium 1080 tvs which is better

Should I waste my $330 on an 65' Element Xumo TV? It is direct lit and does have DolbyVision

LG B3 OLED or Sony X95L Mini- LED ?

Im just figuring if sony x90l is good or not... People are scaring me saying you'll see blooming etc. Now what do i do ? I don't have a budget for sony a80l but i have budget for sony x90l... Now what to do ?

Dynaco stack on the shelf? Nice!!

Thanks for sharing

The issue seems to be that plasma and other technologies better compensate for the technical limitations of the cinematic low frame rates by its own technical limitation allowing smearing to take place creating a motion blur. The problem really is the source and not the display, the better the display the more oblivious the problem with the source will be.

Are you going to be doing a Vizio Quantum Pro Review? Or is it not even worth it; I'm getting a new TV this Holiday season and I was pretty sure I would end up with a Hisense 65" U7K but still want to see your review on it. I'm open to suggestions on other brands; I'm upgrading from a 50" Vizio V505-g9 (entry-level 4k TV 2017) looking for the best Price to performance 65" 4kTV under $1000.

Could you please review the Hisense u7k

Enjoy the week!

Are you going to review the s90c?

32:9 ultrawide vs 80+ inch oled 💪💪💪

Off topic but...who sells that sweater you're wearing? 👀

most questions come down to frame rate/panning. each manufacturer should make one purely cinema mid range tv for the movie philes. all these gamer specs are killing the film quality.

Caleb I find interesting that you still had a plasma!

Really like today's vlog Caleb. I also have a 50 inch Pioneer Elite Kuro Plasma and I just recently bought a house that I just completely gutted out to the studs and going to completely renovate inside and outside. I'm looking into OLED because my eyes are use to already watching on a high-end TV and oh yes my Pioneer is professionally calibrated too. My question to ask you is it worth just to buy the 77 inch Sony A95L or I'm willing to wait for the 88 inch 8K OLED from LG either the Z2 or the new Z3 the reason is that I'm working on designing my own media room downstairs. I have just ordered Macintosh Amplifiers and their new mx 180 processor and they will be powering in wall speakers from Bowers and Wilkins and they are the cinema series. Anyways Caleb I just wanted your opinion on this matter because I always watch your channel and vlogs because I wanted to say that your really smart guy at the things you do and I have a pretty good knowledge about electronics too. So Caleb if you could please let me know what you think. Thanks again 😊

Where do you stand on Ultra Short Throw Projectors TVs?

Hi Caleb, is the HISENSE UX worth $5,000

My 7 year old Samsung 4K led tv has just started to do this black screen with audio thing🤦🏻‍♂️

Cheap OLED vs. LCD thought: Get yourself an HDMI splitter and get a TV from somewhere with a return window such as Best Buy. I just bought the LG A2 (48 inch) on sale for $600 to compare to my LG NanoCell85, which has an IPS panel. I have an odd shaped room where a wider viewing angle is needed. The A2 was by far better off angle. My advice is to perform head to head comparisons for your particular needs.

3:45 "Cinephile" $600 price maximum. LOL Your X80K recommendation is an odd one as it's a 60Hz low-quality panel which will struggle with 3:2 pulldown. 60Hz is invariably inferior to 120Hz for 24Hz content. With 120hz, 24FPS can just display each frame 5 times vs trying to figure out how to evenly pace 24 frames 60 times per second. The poor quality of the panel is largely due to its poor contrast, limited backlighting tech with no local dimming. Indeed, Rtings gives the X80K a 5.8/10 (LOL) for HDR movies. (They don't seem to rate "Movies" as a separate category anymore.) Straight from their review: Low native contrast ratio. Poor low-quality content smoothing. And they rate it 5.6 for 24p judder. It's also limited in judder reduction to 24p-native content (i.e. Blu Ray Players that support that feature) and has no detection for frame-matching built in. I'd struggle to imagine a *worse* recommendation for movie watching.

The shudder of my Oled tv is so bad with movies that I have the use picture clarity mode to stop it. It t hurts my eyes without it on

How did we become sooo obsessed with tvs and their specs 🙄🤦‍♂️ This is the cinephile and audiophile age

The reason new TVs look bad with older resolutions like sports is fish and cable are making most 720p go up to 1080p, because of this they streamline the bitstream data and causes it to look pixelated

Hey Caleb... I hope you DISMISS what you saw of the Sharp XLED at the shootout and still do your own review of it. I've heard the 'after shootout' talks with the calibraters and some judges saying the XLED just sucked azz. But, I've seen YT reviews from around the world and the few Brian did (especially the individual review), and NONE of them looked like what was seen at the shootout. It HAS to be better than that. Then if it DOES look good, do a comparison between the XLED and QN95C...and maybe even the X95L. That would be awesome! I would love to be able to see the XLED in person but unfortunately the ONLY two places that actually have one in store are thousands of miles away from me. Hopefully the big box stores will get it soon but until then I can only go by the reviews. Thanks

News flash............... Quantum Dot developers and production technique developers won the Nobel prize in Physics last month for 2023. 3 guys, 2 in USA and one in Europe.

I've been binging all of your videos recently as I'm currently in buy mode. I'm a filmmaker and really love watching movies, I have an LG CX but I'm thinking about making that my monitor for editing and buying a larger TV for movie nightstand game nights in our apartment (daylight/night/blackout curtains). I just finished a pretty decent gig for the first time in a while and would love to buy just an absolute banger of a TV, ideally 77-85". I'm not Mr. Moneybags, I wouuuuuld prefer to keep it as cheap as possible but I'm also thinking of saying screw it, get the best. So I'm tossed between an expensive boi, like the X95K/X93L or an A80L, one being mini-LED the other OLED, but currently the same price. Or say "nah I don't need to buy THAT much TV, get the QM8, it's half the price." But I'm really lusting after Sony's image processing. Any advice? Thank you!

About the plasma, same boat. First of all, with Netflix I did an A/B with Chrome which is locked to 720p 1Mbps and IE which used Dolby Vision 4k 16Mbps. I played the same shows and windows has the ability to Alt-Tab giving you instantaneous A/B. I made it blind because my browser themes are all black for an OLED to reduce burn-in. I could not tell the difference except when I paused and in Planet Earth I saw more foliage. Other than that, it was near impossible to detect the difference. Now, at one point I started celebrating because I could see so much difference but Chrome had dropped to 330Kbps (1/3rd the bitrate) and it was awful. Why did it drop when my connection to that laptop is 500Mbps, and literally 1,500 times higher than Netflix needed, I don't know.😁 As for your TV, that same OLED on the laptop, I took it and placed it on my lap and did a lot of comparisons with my old 2014 Sony LED TV (IPS, Quantum Dot, 1080p) same window size (OLED on bottom, Sony on top). I expected the OLED to massacre my TV. At first the OLED was super bright compared to it but I turned off the light sensor on the Sony and pushed brightness to max. The OLED is not a regualr OLED TV because it's 15 inches and it can hit any brightness it wants full screen so it can do 1,000 nits all day long (but it will burn in). Again, I expected the OLED to crush the LED even in brightness. I compared a lot of stuff - Casino Royale is great because it has 3 scenes in the intro - one the colorful cards with inky blacks, then a bathroom black and white almost scene and the office scene (super dark). I also did Venice Carnival in 4K HDR 60P by Jacob + Katie Schwartz because the highlights are blinding even in SDR and OLEDs would normally die there except for this laptop. Well, let me say that the 2014 IPS during the day matched the Super OLED and was pushing bright highlights in SDR that are hard to explain. When it came to blacks even in the Casino Royale scenes, the Sony IPS looked identical. I think our eyes see blacks as perfect when there's a certain threshold of light - I don't what number that is but it's probably around 100 lux or so meaning one light bulb will turn the IPS into an OLED tv from our eyes' perspectives. Using equipment, you will see the difference and perhaps cats can also see the difference but most, if not all, humans cannot which explains why IPS monitors and phones represent the most manufactured panels. Yesterday, I was at Costco and I was marveling at how beautiful the A80L and C3 looked on their own. Then I walked to the side-by-side section and saw the Samsung S90C and Sony X90L side-by-side. I expected the S90C to give the X90L a huge beating which it did from an angle but looking at them straight, I could actually see the S90C struggle for brightness in the Costco promotional videos. The S90C seemed to have brighter reds but not blues so skies and water seemed to look better on the X90L. If brightness and color was the same, I might have picked the X90L in a blind test and I suspect most people would have. I walked around and found a larger S90C and X90L and they had the same behavior so it wasn't a setting or a panel. I took pictures and videos to remind myself that I saw what I saw and can go back and look at it. About the plasma, set brightness to max and watch some bright content (use the flamethrower or explosions in IGN's Call Of Duty Vanguard single player campaign review on youtube), then measure the brightness. If it hits close to 900 nits in SDR, the image is dynamic enough to present a vivid, contrasting image no matter what. For instance, the content I mentioned looks flat on the standard iPad despite its crazy 500 nit brightness because it cannot elevate the brightness to 900 nits in the explosions. The reason I say that is the blacks are amazing and almost perfect on the Kuro but the brightness may not be there. I use my light sensor on my Sony but in explosions it still hits 400-500 nits at night with a bit of bias lighting.

Just the video I asked for

I agree with local dimming a high or even mid tier LCD would come close to OLED but the Cheap OLED would be nowhere near the brightness level of the LCD.. Would be something like 50% less brightness

My 8th gen 60" KURO bought in 2008 still a winner in 2023. I'll keep it til' either it or me dies...

I still think in some ways my Samsung Plasmas have better picture quality than the newer LED/LCD TVs. I am still using both and also have a Sony X900H which is very good but with Standard TV the Plasmas blow away the Sony.