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Originally Posted by Geoff D
Whatever floats people's boats but I'm not going anywhere near a new TV for a while yet. If we get this fabled micro LED successor to LCD, or an OLED that can hit 1000 nits that has decent tone mapping and ABL that doesn't kill the brightness stone dead in the next few years then I'll take a look. Until then I'll continue to enjoy one of the best HDR TVs on the market.
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Yep, the combination of my wife's aggression mixed with the sobering reality check of a Z9F review made me realize there isn't really any point in upgrading for a while - no matter how much I lust for the next great thing.
Everything now or in the foreseeable future is either going to be a very incremental upgrade or a trade off in one way or another.
I don't think MicroLED will be consumer any time soon and I think OLED is going to have a real struggle hitting brightness numbers in the near future, at least with any sort of color volume high brightness levels deserve.
I'm thinking the next step is really going to be some sort of MiniLED with a few thousand zones and a wide angle solution similar to the Z9F. OLED looks fantastic in certain scenarios, but really has quite a ways to go in terms of brightness, color volume, and most importantly uniformity - which is downright atrocious as it stands now. Once you notice skies turning pink or football fields turning orange from color tinting or sharp gashes/bands in low IRE scenes it's difficult to accept OLED in its current state.
Maybe the Blue OLED + quantum dot color filter tech is the answer, but I don't see that coming until at least a couple of years from now so no point really getting excited about it just yet.