1080p HD and 4K SDR >
LED lit LCD displays actually have an
inferior LED light spectrum ,color volume and color palette to OLED and WCG HDR TV .
Today 2015 -2017 Wide Color Gamut 10 bit panel 4K *genuine
HDR LED/LCD TV’s like my 55" 2015 4K HDR Sony XBR in here and OLED 4K HDR are the cure .
Conventional LED panels vis a vis blue lamp yellow phosphor LED lamps don't make saturated red or green and push blue like a big dog and the color isn't really accurate they can't make coca cola red ,stop sign red ,good cyan ,Red or Green and so on and the blue and color banding and color gradations could be better .
IOW with a few exceptions like spendy Sony XBR 1080p and 4K SDR Triluminos TV’s and Samsung Q dot's pre dating HDR wide color gamut most
LED /LCD owners including yours truly got totally
LED/LCD hosed color wise before wide color gamut 4K HDR.
Blue LED/LCD TV
without Wide color gamut QDOT,QLED or Triluminos can't touch the 64x color potential of a WCG HDR TV even below HDR or my HDTV 1080p Samsung 64f8500 Plasma any decent plasma or an HDR OLED which implies at least 10 bit color like HDR LCD anyway .
The
Plasma and OLED TV owners and
WCG HDR LCD TV owners know what I mean.
Wide color gamut 4K HDR makes 64X the color of 4K SDR /HDTV and a lot of that of that below HDR from 480i on up of you set it up to bt2020 or DCI and so on .
The long and short of all this is this 2015 4K HDR Triluminos Sony X850C was the first of 4 LCD TV in here since 2010 that didn't give me the jones for a
better TV in a month or less or the 2013 Samsung Plasma out front noting a similar Samsung 4K HDR LED/LCD TV probably would have been just fine also .
I been buying Sony XBR mostly since 1993 including a 2004 Sony LCoS SXRD Grand Wega I got rid of before the light engine blew up ?
HDR is low minimum black video levels ,high contrast and high sustained brightness and
elevated peak small window bright and significantly more elevated pinpoint bright highlight ranges it can be stunning so can 4K SDR at high bit rates they have 4X the albeit smaller RGB
chroma pixels in a given size and you can't find decent and bright 1080p LCD TV anymore anyway,
The Samsung 6290/6300 4K SDR ain't bad IMO ,Samung always gives up more color saturation and they get plenty OK bright unlike the 4K SDR competition so they don't look bad as LCD goes if you can hang with the 60Hz panel motion and 3:2 pulldown/telecine at 24p and so on .
10 -12 bit DCI and BT 2020 color and 4K (2160p) pixels are all other things but
HDR TV and
HDR content implies all three .
The Sony Triluminos 4K WCG HDR TV can tone /color map
BT 709 to something near a
very competent DCI .. Samsung can also maye not Vizio they only have one maybe half azzed Wide color HDR TV Vizio P model I read has broken CMS anyway the rest neuter HDR to SDR and are just the usual Blue LED rubbish .
A good
wide color gamut HDR TV fixes that 4K
SDR /HDTV LED lamp color volume issue at HDR and below that on everything
All that HDR TV wide color tone /color remaining from bt709 works well as long as you mind your color saturation but it's set and forget most of the time here unless it's uncommonly real poor content or poor 16mm telecine color and you may want to raise it now and then . .
OTOH they are even significantly better inside BT709 boundaries
Some enthusiasts and calibration pros may or may not like that Sony recommended BT2020 or DCI setting tone/color mapping below HDR but that would be no surprise we all like things differently and then there are the TV set to set and lighting variations .
we can see ~14 bit color and 20,000 NITS so HDR TV ain't there yet anyway.
I use a 65K ambient back light kit behind the TV at dusk nite and dawn , or dark overcast
The old
CCFL panels had a much better white light spectrum for the
LCD cell color pixels and color volume so they fall somewhere in between and SDR
LED and
HDR *wide color gamut LED panel .
I buy Sony XBR 4K HDR in here now. I'm SRSLY thinking maybe Sony Z1C OLED next in here if the spendy price shakes down some or a 2018 LG or Sony OLED with the new 2018 OLED panels or the 2019 LGD RGBW OLED panels with new
TADF emitters that should run off of about half the power consumption as a current OLED TV .
AFAIK The
LGD 2019 OLED TADF emitters will work better with higher resolutions ,they have a smaller sub-pixel area.which
RGBW OLED can probably use anyway to claw back some effective RGB pixel resolution with the better
TADF emitter color saturation also . They can be used with vacuum evaporation panels or inkjet panels. they will produce more color pop, more vibrant colors, with more color accuracy.better RGB primaries and colors and better blues, The OLED current blue emitters are the weak link like Blue LED .
If Sony doesn't cost scale
CLEDIS and Samsung doesn't come out with
Pixel by Pixel full QLED better than OLED The 2019
LGD OLED TADF emitter panels may be the new "IT" HDR hires color TV at Sony and LG TV
2017 Sony X930E /X940E and Z1C OLED will have the 2016 Sony Z9D megawatt FALD LCD 14 bit color dual database object oriented
Sony X1 Extreme processing that should make superlative tone mapping and color gradation and low noise on HDTV , 4K HDR and 4K SDR ,BD and 480i and so on. and an X930E may be here if it shakes out that way .
OTOH I'm interested in the 2019 LGD OLED panel with TADF emitters without an incremental upgrade so we will see and I can afford it.it could be a Sony or LG but I lean to Sony as a rule and pay the usual Sony tax .
TV sets here are the tier one brands ,Sony ,Samsung and LG . I don't buy Vizio and so on although some folks like them .
Lastly a *decent tier one brand (wide color gamut) 4K HDR TV ( LCD or OLED) is worth it for the color volume alone IMO ,again folks that own plasma and OLED probably know what what I'm saying .
Some of the Hisense HDR are maybe looking up they are coming for us
