I understand the excitement about upcoming Bravia 7 and 9 reviews, but PLEASE don't leave out a review of the Bravia 8 OLED. Love your review and "You Asked" videos. Thanks for all of your hard work!
My Sony x900e broke after four years in warranty Sony replaced it with x90J, so the warranty you get can be more important, I do however believe the direct sunlight on one half of the screen caused the issue in the first place
I had a CRT TV from Sony, lasted almost 10 years in my house with 9 years of constant house leaks during 4 months of indian monsoon. It's a legit monster
I am one of many that realy want that Sony Bravia 7 review asap ! The Bravia 9 is just way to big and expensive for me. Re full peak brightness on the whole screen would way exceed what the power supply is capable of and would be like staring at the sun causing eye damage very quickly. Re 21:9 screens, i have a motorised screen and side curtains for my projector so i can set them to fit any ratio. For my Plasma i feed it through a high grade upscaler that also allows me to adjust the image to fit a 16:9 screen with no black bars but it does crop some of the image
@@user-oq6sc1qm4j The TCL QM8 2024 models are yet released here in the UK. Hisense use the Vidaa OS for UK models and it is a disaster, i rejected a U7K due to HDMI issues that were caused by the Vidaa, Hisense were unable to correct it with firmare upgrades so i opted for a refund. Only Sony sell the same spec sets in both the USA and UK, but at a price ! These Chinese brands are catching up, but it will take a few more years before they overtake Sony on performance.
B7 here. About the same amount of hours as Barry. Mainly gaming age it’s still glorious. Only burn in I’ve noticed is the YT logo. Getting a g4 end of this year.
I have an LG OLED 55E6P that I bought in 2017 and it has 22800 hours on it and it is still going VERY good. The only mistake that I made was having an Apple Mac Mini hooked up to it where I didn’t always have full screen on and I have burn in from the dock on the bottom of the TV. It only shows though if you see a screen that has solid red, orange, pink or a shades like that. That is minimal though.
Yes!! Please I need the bravia 7 review ASAP. The bravia 9 is a little out of my price range for what I'm willing to pay for a tv. Even the bravia 7 is a little more than I normally would spend. But I'm hoping it's worth it.
Great episode!! Especially glad you answered the question about the 21x9 aspect ratio! I had that question too. It sounds like you are super busy with all those TVs to review!
I personally think comparisons between similarly priced Sony LCD’s and equally priced OLED’s would be great. A lot of us came from terrible TV’s to decently priced LCD’s, and the possible move to OLED turns some of us away, because on paper they’re less bright. I can get a C4 for the same price as a Bravia 7, and they trade blows in so many different areas.
The Bravia 7 reflection handling is so poor it’s the C4 that will actually appear brighter with mid to low APL scenes in a bright room and in a dark room you have the pixel level 3D dimensionality of an OLED. Perhaps give the S90C a look, it’ll be brighter in every situation except for very high APL scenes. BTW, you can get a 77C3 for the price of a 65C4 and those additional inches will have much more of an impact than any improvements from the C3 to C4.
They really don't trade blows if you actually see both of them. The Bravia 7 looks washed out in comparison and it's only advantage is full screen brightness. Sony didn't reinvent the wheel with the LCDs this year.
22k hours on my LG GX 65". It has a few dead pixels along the top edge, and the top and bottom edges give a "burnt paper edge" look. But it isn't noticeable when watching or playing games. Plus, during movies this edge is blocked by the black bars. Overall I've been extremely happy with it, so I just bought a G4 to replace it. It hung on the same wall mount as the GX.
Same here. C9 with over 11,000 hours, also forgot to turn it off a few times, have been using it as a PC monitor for a few years, and still 0 burn in. They’ve got really good at extending OLED lifespan.
I just put our Bravia 8 up. I’ll just tell you it’s beautiful. It’s not just a great panel, with a slight boost in brightness but it’s actually really pretty. The body and design is to die for.
According to what I have seen so far the bravia 8 and A80L is pretty much the same the bravia 8 is a bit brighter but not enough for you to notice it and the A80L is dirt cheap on sale now.
I have had the 75" Bravia 9 for a few weeks now, and I absolutely love it. It's the best TV I've ever had, and I've had a lot of OLEDs including the A95L. I just prefer the look of the Bravia 9 over OLED. It's like having OLED as far as the contrast goes but a LOT brighter. Much more impactful, colorful picture. Buy one and thank me later!!
My 55 C9 has over 17000 hours still looks beautiful I haven’t noticed any burn in I watch cable tv M-F cable sports Netflix and streaming movies it’s been an awesome tv knock on wood..
My LG e6 OLED has over 17,000 hours on it. Unfortunately, it's been burning in for a while now. But then, 2016 anti-burning technology is not as good as it is today.
Do you know when the burn in started? And after it started, did it got worse quicklly? My TV didnt get 17,000 hours yet, but it is from an older generation too.
There are people on AVS forum who have measured plasma TVs with over 40,000 hours of usage versus the same model with under 5,000 hours of usage. The loss of brightness is minuscule, visually they look exactly the same and you would need a meter to establish the minute difference. OLED will likely never achieve this kind of longevity. In the plasma TVs case, last gen models were rated to have a half-life of 100,000 hours but that was actually an underestimation. New panels have improved in a lot of ways but have also nose dived when it comes to build quality and longevity.
We'll have to keep an eye on the longevity test from rtings. They're now up to 9600 hours with the oldest oleds they're testing. None of them have decreased in brightness as of yet, though the CX does suffer from severe burn in. Tbf, they've been showing CNN for all of those 9600 hours. Of course the CNN banner is going to burn in
Love your work, especially the Q&A stuff, but am really looking forward to the Bravis 9 review, please hurry before I explode!! Now for question...I am thinking about buying the B9 from Value Electronics. They offer a Q/C and calibration service, kinda pricey. I live in fear of a calibration on a B9 minimizing or even ruining, what to me is the magic of a top line Sony TV picture. Am I overthinking this a straying into goofy world? Will a calibration dim it down? I have two uncalibrated Sonys and would not want to over tweak what is usually an excellent picture , to me anyway. For the money for a B9 I really want the very best picture, and I understand the subjectiveness of "best". Thanks again for all you do!!
I have an LG 65EG9600 with 19,615 and counting hours on it. Manufactured May 2015 used as display television at Magnolia store inside Best Buy. Purchased as an open box in December 2015. It’s still going strong and only has color issues in the 4 corners. Contemplating 77” C3 or sticking with 65” and going with G3. Viewing distance would accommodate 77” just fine, only would have to raise current wall mount a few inches.
21:9 format is the best I've ever had. One in particular was the Philips 58PFL9955 👌Philips was the 21:9 innovater/leader at the time. I would trade in any OLED or Min-LED in 2024 for a new 21:9 aspect ratio TV. I hope🙏 there are manufacturers considering these TVs again, I will be the first to place an order! 😍
Still using it as my main TV, active from 2012. Everything has its pro and cons, if look at the swimmers in an olympic swimming pool at the outside lanes at the left or right borders of the screen, you see some very strange things happening 😅
It's not just you, Vincent is not getting the reviews out too for his HDTVTest Channel. Kinda long overdue, but I'm looking forward to seeing the actual reviews from the nicest review channels out there for TVs. Cheers and good work :D
Bravia 8!!’Caleb, I’d love to see your thoughts on that OLED. I just saw it in Best Buy and thought it was fire 🔥! (And a big jump from the A80L. IMO; you mentioned in a earlier episode the 8 would be a small upgrade, but I think it is visibly better and now closer to the A95L, but at a better price).
It's the same panel all they did was tweak the processing which was already very good and has xr clear last year. Hence why Caleb says it's a small change.
@@paulcox2447 Hey, Paul, I may have misunderstood what the Sony rep told me at Best Buy when I saw the Bravia 8, but I thought he told me there was a difference in the panels. Regardless, it looks significantly better than last year’s. He also put it beside the Bravia 7, and played the same scene from gran turismo and on the 8 the gold in the Lamborghini has a brightness and luster that looked awesome
To me, I feel like the purpose of really high nits will be to support strobing tech like BFI. BFI can (if done properly) reduce effective/visible brightness by 50%. That's a really dim picture even on a 1000 nits display. But on a 3000+ nits display? That's not bad at all, especially for colors other than white and might also be necessary to avoid black crush from over dimming during BFI.
As someone who loves their 21:9 gaming monitor, I would absolutely buy a 21:9 tv, assuming it was affordable and NOT curved and if 21:9 content was displayed properly.
I don't know chief... the 21:9 for tv is just too wide and even for home theater TV. You loose much on the actual verticality of the display. You can get more display field of view with 16:9 then with 21:9 and plus you get to lose all the massive imax details when they're shown on 4k UHD blu ray.
Lucky you, I have an LG OLED 65B7P and have replaced two panels on them. Watching CNBC burned the panels. The technology overtime degrades it's it's inherent nature. I like oled picture quality, but I will never own another Oled. They don't last.
Yes you should do a full review on the Klipsh 200 sound bar , rear, and subwoofer system. Please include some CRF music and movie demos with your review Caleb. Thanks.
Hi Caleb, what makes most sense for my next Sony OLED in your opinion (normal use, bright room, not a nit nerd)... 2024 Bravia 8, 2023 A95L OLED, or 2022 A90K OLED?
What is the Apple TV actually doing with 21:9? Is it detecting 21:9 content and filling a 21:9 screen with it? Does it therefore put black bars automatically on the left and right of 16:9 content to display it full height on a 21:9 screen? Does it handle variable aspect ratio content ok? How does it handle odd aspect ratios on a 21:9 screen such as those sometimes used by Netflix? If it's actually doing all that that's something home theater enthusiasts usually spend a fortune on with mads video processors. Although if it is doing that that would make it an amazing piece of kit for those with wide-screens which makes it even more frustrating it still doesn't do full uncompressed audio pass through.
21:9 (2.33:1) is kind of an odd aspect ratio to go with there on that for a display as it is not quite as wide as Cinemascope 2.35:1 or anamorphic Cinemascope 2.39:1. So, if you watch either of those two formats of film on your 21:9 TV/monitor you are still going to have some small black bars at the top and bottom of your screen (letterboxing) as the image would have to be shrunk down just slightly for you see the entire frame of the film.
Hi Caleb. A few years after the introduction of flat tv’s Philps Netherlands allready introduced a 21 to 9 flat screen. Problem was that 16:9 pictures had to fit. This could only be done stretching the picture. This did not sell
Over 5,307 hours and counting for my LG C2 42" TV. Got this TV in middle of last year and I love it. However, I'm hoping to get a 32" 4K curved monitor so I can do some gaming. The reason why I prefer curved is so I can see the sides of the screen easily. I have my 42" TV about a couple of inches from me by using an arm mount which mounts to my desk. I understand that many people don't like curved screens and I get that. But if a curve screen can help me see better without having to move on close to the sides while gaming, that would be great.
With more brightness, comes more heat. Heat is something quite bad for electronic components, especially in terms of longevity. Hence, we will be looking at decreasing life span for TVs. To my knowledge, consumer TVs rely on passive cooling, i.e., do not have a fan to cool components down. An advice I learned the hard way is to verify the operational temperature and humidity of your TV. Some TVs work up to 35ºC (~95ºF), which is somewhat low in some parts of the Globe.
So, with those comments on the Flexus Core 200 and Sub 100 (BTW Klipsch did confirm with me that a Sub 200 is in the makes after I noticed it in the manual). Your initial set up and first listen seemed positive. You also mentioned another person you knew had good things to say. With that said yes I think you should try to get the complete review out ASAP.
Hi Caleb, I’m curious to know what you think about the Bravia 7 semi matte coating. I was shocked to see how that coating degrades the 7’s performance in a lit showroom. The famously contentious antiglare coating of the Samsung S95D is nothing compared to that. For me this is a reminder of how important it is to see a tv live before buying.
Ratios! Just purchased 4k UHD Dune 2 Blu-ray. If the option was available on my X95L Bravia or via the disk menus i would prefer to see Dune 2 in it's IMAX original format. Or at least have the option.
Thanks for the update on the Bravia 9. I just ordered one but it wont be here until June 28. I still have time to cancel if I need to so I'm eagerly awaiting your review to make sure I made the right choice.
Welcome back buddy! 🎉 I can NOT wait for your TCL115” review but also the Sony Bravia TVs!! I really hope you get the 85” Bravia 7 and 75/85” Bravia 9 for testing!! I really think Sony is winning this year, but still waiting to see! 🎉. As for the Klipsch Bar, I had really really high hopes for this one as a “mini dragon” sound/bass wise, but your comments have me worried about the full setup!! 🎉 looking forward to what happened there! (Maybe do a comparison of the Sony theater 8/9 paired with the new Bravia 7 vs paired with the Klipsch Bar?!🎉) I don’t think anyone has ever done a comparison video of a particular matching tv/soyundbar Vs same tv but with different mfr soundbar 🎉 just a thought! Ps glad you’re back! 🎉
There are smartphones that roll out to expand the screen, it's possible (once the pricing works out) they they make TVs roll out more screen when needed.
21:9 tv's? YES PLEASE!! Not only is it best for movies.. I would use it for tv shows too. Just crop a little from the top and bottom. It also makes more sense to go wider anatomically. Your eyes are next to each other after all.
As someone with a 21:9 computer monitor, you may think you want a tv with that but you don’t. Content looks super cool when it takes advantage of it but there is so much more that doesn’t. It would be great for movies and that’s basically it. Even with PC games that “support” 21:9 the majority of them only do it during regular gameplay, when you hit a cutscene you get pillarboxes taking it down to 16:9. As great as it looks with a game like Doom Eternal, it really makes it feel like it’s not worth it when you realize you could have had a bigger screen that is used all the time rather than having black bars 1/3 to 1/2 of the time. I can’t imagine how it is for people with 32:9 monitors.
Hi Caleb, I was initially thinking of getting Sony X90L(full array led) in India which costs around $1400, however I noticed that we now have Bravia 7 available for $2350 which has 3-5x more number of dimming zones, but its still not closer to qled levels offered by other brands. I wanted an advice from you if Bravia 7 is truly a major upgrade over X90L and is it really worth the price tag, as we can have LG or even Sony A80L for $2k or less cheaper than Bravia 7. I currently have a Sony 40inch HD tv which is going to cross a decade, and I wanted to buy the next TV which is going to age well over the next 7-10yrs. My budget is around $2-2.5k.
My Samsung plasma is on for anywhere between 10-16 hours a day (some watching, some background) and it's over a decade old. I imagine I've lost some brightness over the years but it still looks pretty darn good otherwise.
I have a Sharp 70" UH30 4KTV from 2015 averaging 6 hours of use a day(Somedays more), still runs today and picture quality is the same the day I got it...I finally put it in my kids room so I got an excuse to purchase a new Sony 85" Z9K 😅...but I got no doubt LCD TV will outlast OLED still, specially if your maxing out their brightness.
Yes Caleb 21.9 Bring BK. I had a PHILIPS 21.9 I miss it had to upgrade it with 4k 65 inch but is same ways it is not Cos I was so in love inaspect ratio of my PHIlIPS 21.9 ❤
Is it just me or does being ok with a huge Tv being landfill after 8 years not sit right with them? In the Oled monitor world they last even less time, hardware unboxed has demonstrated percievable burnin with under 500 hours of use, my brain pictures a mount everest level of trash from disposable tech like this.
barry is a amateur.. i have 29,036 hours on my lg cx and I'm a disabled veteran on bed rest It's weird because if i run any color test on RU-vid the TV shows dislocoration but never when I'm watching real content of any kind I am however interested in getting a Sony TV but seeing as how I'm changing from console gaming to pc gaming I want a TV with 240hz capability and will wait several years for it to come to fruition I'm obviously patient 😊
bought my TV sept 20, 2020 and the reason I have so many hours is I sleep with the tv on and listen to rain sounds on RU-vid every night to sleep that explains the crazy times
My LG b8 has around 30'000 hours on it and still, knock on wood, looks great. Compared it to other sets in home. I do not blast it ever its almost always on ISF dark mode and was calibrated way back and I'm sure its not as accurate as it once was.
@DigitalTrends Thats' nothing. 😂 LG B6 2016 OLED Power on time 31261 hours. I took really good care of mine, but 1 day I fell asleep with my usb joystick plugged in which stopped the 45-minute Windows screensaver from protecting the TV. Now I got the Windows Taskbar burned in. 😥
Kindly add a little bit of Multi-view video review (how many video it can display at once) and anti-glare to your Bravia 7&9 when it’s time. Some of us watch your videos to know this but you have not been covering this aspects that much. Thanks.
I just recently got a G4 after my Panasonic EZ950 oled (2017) started showing exactly what Barry's C6 pictures showed. I had about 22K hours on it. While I did get my money's worth it IS the first tv I had to replace because it wore out, instead of because I felt like upgrading, which sucks. It burned extra because I had (have) my eye on the Panasonic Z95A, but it isn't available yet... :(
Went in for a 85” Sony 90L and came out with a Bravia 7 because of fomo. I need some calibration videos to get the best out of it. So far really happy compared to my 4yr old 65” Vizio. It’s in a narrow basement so glare and viewing angles are a non issue for me. Using the tv for apps is extremely fast compared to the Vizio. Gaming at first was laggy until I messed with a few setting. Movies are great but still need to play around a little with settings.
Those calibration videos are useless. Not every panel is the same. And most all Sony tvs don't need calibration. The difference from out of the box to calibration is so miniscule the human perception would never be able to tell the difference. Save your money.
I mean oled gots deep dark colors but nothing will ever be more fascinating than a 3dtv why I say that because 3d gaming especially on the ps3 they support 3d like crazy it’s like over a 100 ps3 games that plays in 3d
Why do the Sony Bravia soundbar pictures from whatever Sony event you were at have the rear surround speakers up front like that? Why do that unless you plan to introduce front L&R speakers?
I got G2 couple years ago, working perfectly and amazing to watch HDR content. Do you recommend upgrading to G4. I have notice there is pinkish display on my G2 when I test on white background.
I just got a Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED, which supposedly has anti-burnin tech in it. Do TVs have this same feature? I'm a bit out of the loop, but hopefully mine will last! I'm still riding out my old Samsung Plasmas for main TV usage until they die, no burn in yet even after around 10 years of use.
My E6 OLED just died around two months ago after around 11K+ hours, I just replaced it with a C3 And on the subject of Sony, I have a 16 year old 40” LCD that’s serving as my main monitor in my home office and it’s only now exhibiting the occasional flicker
Hi, I’m from New Zealand and I’ve had the LG C1 for 2.5 years. Recently, I started experiencing dead pixels, so I raised the issue with LG customer care. They tried to fix it and replaced my panel three times, but they couldn’t resolve the problem. As a result, they offered me store credit. Now, I’m considering the LG G3, which is about 2,000 New Zealand dollars cheaper than the new LG G4. TVs are generally more expensive in New Zealand. Should I go for the G3? Will I miss out on anything significant by not choosing the LG G4? Thanks for your advice!
Wear are the Sharp Tv Reviews??? please do one or two on Sharp. Their Oled tv is supposed to be good. Is it or not.. Sharp apparently makes their own OLED Displays.
Hello! Question? Do any of the oled 65" / 77" tvs have muilt-view or picture in picture, mode looking to buy one. LG or Samsung. Nobody talk about this feature when doing reviews!
