Anyone have one of those fancy-schmancy OLED TV's?
I just bit the bullet and bought an LG 55 Inch OLED Smart TV (2017)
I'm so done done with Samsung..I own 2 and they both have issues.
Samsung.
shareThose OLEDs are out of my price range at moment.I did just recently bite the bullet myself and upgraded to a 4k tv from TCL.Beautiful picture compared to my 1080p.Sound quality sucked though.I had to buy a sound bar.
shareYes, very expensive. I am going to have to be very frugal in the future. Although, I recently upgraded my cable and I'm saving money, so that should help.
shareIt’s not expensive, my friend. It’s high performance, and priced accordingly. The thing that is expensive is the thing that does not do what you want, regardless of how cheap its price. It was a waste of your time and money. You did neither with your decision!
share55” Sharp LCD HD....never again due to audio problems
32” Panasonic HD....had 2 but HDMI ports bit the dust (1 left)
32” Sony HD.....used to have 2, but home invasion took them
40” Samsung HD Smart TV
42” Panasonic Viera HD Smart TV (fantastic tv as display has depth (too bad no more panasonic tvs in U.S.)
26” Samsung HD Smart TV (for kitchen w/2 HDMI ports...difficult to find)
19” Haier HD ( on swing out arm for master bathroom)
Ironic the OP inquired about tvs at this time. I had one of the best tvs on the market which I bought in 2007....a JVC LCD. But, it was heavy thing. It had everyting on the back. So many ports, 4 HDMIs, 3 RCA port sets, composite port, computer port, etc. It also had a earphone jack which nowdays (from my research) aren’t on large tvs. Anyhow, a few days ago we had a severe thunderstorm and lost power. I ran to take care of the APC and laptop, turned off both ACs (we lost an AC years ago due to power surge). All of my electronics are connected high joule surge protectors. Well, sad to say...the power surge made it thru the surge protector and wiped out my JVC and my ROKU! Oh, the surge “protector” still powered the devices, but that’s all it did! Good thing I had the 32” Panasonic from the spare room and I had just purchased a Fire TV device. Big difference between the 32” vs the 42”....
My Samsung lost an HDMI port as well. I think I paid $120 for a surge protector for this new TV. Hoping it holds up.
shareWord of caution (I learned the hard way!) never, ever plug in or unplug an HDMI cable without turning off the power to the tv, ROKU, dvd/Blueray, game consoles, etc. I was in a hurry as I was leaving for a trip and wanted to take my ROKU. I didn’t unplug the ROKU before removing the HDMI cable from the tv...result? I lost one of the two HDMI ports on the tv therefore I could only use my dvd player. I did research and found the ports are easily destroyed if you don’t unplug the power.
BTW, I did locate the following (if you have only one HDMI port) and it worked great, but it probably got fried also.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071PFDWJK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Edit: Returned to Amazon to check out the HDMI multi switchers. More have become available. If my current one is “fried” I think I will purchase the following as it has a 5 star rating. It only has one output vs the one I currently have which has two outputs, but that’s all I need for just a tv.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078YRG8LW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=AVJ1VTE4JHH7I&psc=1
Yeah, HDMI is not meant to be hot-swapped. High density multimedia interface (HDMI), usually misrepresented as high DEFINITION multimedia interface, just as the word “nuclear” is often mispronounced as “nuc-ular”) is, like Blu-ray, a product of the fucking computer industry and not the home theater industry. Those assholes in computers don’t understand the entertainment cosumer mentality. We want to hot-swap cables. We want to WATCH the fucking movie, not watch a little circle spin that tells us how much longer it will be until the information is loaded. We do NOT want to update our firmware. We have no FUCKING IDEA if our HDMI
cables and ports are HDMI 1.4 compliant! All this crap is the polar opposite of fun for people who have real lives, don’t live in Mom’s basement, and who actually have sex with another human being.
The HDMI port expanders are an
affordable solution to dead HDMI
ports on your TV. So are outboard sound systems, like some sound bars (1 HDMI out,!multiple HDMI in), AV receivers or surround sound preamplifiers. Sound is more important than the picture. I advise my clients to spend twice on the audio what they spent on the TV. Audio is built to last, and retains its value. You’ll go through three or more TVs before you think about upgrading your sound system. Do you know how much Hollywood spends on the soundtrack for a big-budget movie? Five to 10 million dollars. The cost for producing a music album is $250,000. That’s how important the movie industry knows that sound is!
You get more HDMI inputs, you get AWSOME sound, you get more fun. Then I have done my job.
Not all surge protectors give the same level of protection. There are thunderstorms in Florida that can toast almost any surge protector. Best advice: unplug during a storm, or invest in a generator.
shareGotta question for you. Can it do 3D? If so, have you tried it and does it look good?
I seem to be in the minority when it comes to 3D home theatres. I enjoy it. Some movies -- Skull Island comes to mind, those helicopter scenes were fantastic -- are really enhanced by 3D, IMO. I also like the 2D to 3D conversion feature... it really makes vacation photos more spectacular. (My Grand Canyon pics, for example...).
My 3D HDTV is an LG which uses the passive system. Effectively the resolution of the picture is halved to produce the image for each eye. It does degrade the image quality somewhat.
With improved resolutions now, I've read that 4K/3D looks awesome. Unfortunately, most manufacturers have given up on 3D. AFAIK, a few LG models still feature it... but they may abandon it too, if they haven't already.
I'm not familiar with 3D and haven't hooked up the TV yet, sorry.
shareIf it does 3D, it should come with a pair or two of passive 3D glasses, very similar to the ones you get at the theatre.
If there's none with the box it likely doesn't do 3D.
The LG OLEDs are awesome 3D displays, but the consumer demand for 3D is essentially nil. 3D was more bullshit from the TV business, the answer to a question that nobody asked Samsung stopped making 3D sets three years ago. BTW, passive glasses cannot pass a 4K signal. Active glasses can.
Fun fact, while I think of it: Samsung spends as much on advertising for their TVs as all other brands COMBINED. Much like Bose, and MonsterCable. Who pays for that advertising? You do, every time you buy one of their products. There’s a saying in my industry: If you’ve heard of the brand, it’s mass market junk. You’ve never heard of the good stuff, just as you’ve never heard of Patek-Phillipe or AMG or Dunhill. In TVs, look at LG, or JVC (which someone mentioned; it’s Japanese Victor Corporation, and I noticed long ago that my native Japanese clients have a
LOT of respect for the brand), and Panasonic, when the brand returns to the US market in showrooms, because you can shop for it online, now. In loudspeakers, if a soundbar is your choice, look at Sonos or Zvox, or, at the entry level, LG. For more traditional speakers, Polk Audio or Bowers & Wilkins. For cables and speaker wires, Audioquest; at the high end, Siltech, hand-made in Holland. There is more bullshit in the cable business than there is in the TV business! I like to put it like this: Cables are like tires. They should be matched to the performance of what you’re putting them in. If you have a Maserati or BMW, you put really good tires on it. If you have a Kia, more modest tires. I like my cables and wires to be the best part of my system, so I am getting every iota of performance from the hardware that I paid for.
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Four flat screens that work fine for now. Different makes. Different sizes.
Eventually? I'll replace them.... one by one....
Its amazing how thin the new ones are. Setting it up tomorrow.
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I'm curious about those screens that bend. Are they somehow better?
The curved screens? I think LG finally learned how to make the new OLED TV's without the curve. LG seems to be ahead of the game in this respect and hold a patent on the technology right now. I'm no expert, but R_Cane seems knowledgeable on the subject and gave some good advice at the beginning of the thread.
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Thanks. Still not sure of what makes them better.
I have all flat screens, and I like the fact that wherever I am in the room, I can see what is going on unless I'm behind the TV. I was just curious about the curved screens and if there is something about them that makes the picture somehow better. I see those in stores.
The theory behind the curved screens is that they give a more immersive experience, especially in the larger sizes, 80 inches and up, like the Cinerama movie screens did. People are definitely buying MUCH bigger screens these days, because of the higher resolutions, 4K and very soon 8K (thousand lines of horizontal resolution) which make it easy on the eyes to sit close to a gargantuan set.
The TV business is stuffed full of bullshit. I always tell folks to buy the picture that THEY like at the price THEY want to pay. Whatever you decide is the best picture, YOU’RE RIGHT! It’s YOUR eyes, it’s YOUR money. Do that, and you’ll always be happy. The TV business, by focusing on technobabble and outright bullshit, sucks all the fun out of shopping for what is, essentially, a toy. Here endeth the rant.
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Thanks! We pretty much go by your rule of thumb. We do read the reviews and look around. Our biggest TV is our 50 inch in the family room. I can't imagine 80 inches! Whew! We'd need a theater for that! I guess some people do go all out that way, so I can understand the curved screen if you are going that big.
That wasn't a rant. That was helpful!
Thank you, Margo. Now you know why my clients love me. They KNOW that I am on their side.
shareThere are already commercial OLEDs that can be applied like wall paper, molded around volume, slaved together into enormous video walls, etc. These will be in the consumer market soon enough. If you build a video wall with them, you can watch different material on each of them, or use all of them as one giant video display. It’ll be like that scene in Total Recall, where Arnie is watching several different news feeds simultaneously, then waves his hand and it all turns into one huge nature scene. They are also developing an OLED that will become transpatent when turned off. What a Wife Acceptance Factor THAT will have!
shareI'm not surprised. I haven't set it up yet, but my new LG is the thinnest TV I have ever seen.
shareSo I have the TV set up, but it is incredibly dark. Under picture mode setting, its pre set to:
Contrast
95
Brightness
50
Sharpness
25
Should I just crank them all up to 100? Can't see anything its so dark.
Use your set’s built-in Picture Wizard to help you set up the picture. It’s very easy. You will find Picture Wizard in the Picture Settings menu; or, if you have the LG voice-command remote, just say Picture Wizard into it. You might want to consult your owner’s manual to learn all that the Wizard can do. There’s also a YouTube video about how to use the Wizard.
sharePadeen, are you good with your picture, now? If you have more than one source component, you might want to run the Picture Wizard for each of them, separately, and then toggle between settings as appropriate.
shareI followed this tutorial and it helped, but the picture just isn't as sharp or clear as it should be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hlF8ByW-Rg
Not sure whats going on, but some of the reviewers on this TV mentioned the same problem. I hope I didn't make the wrong choice here. I'm still tinkering around with it, so hopefully I can figure it out.