Chris Townsend wrote:

Cheers I will.

 

 

With reference to plasma, I only believe there was an UHD plasma built purely as a technology demonstrator. I couldn't see plasma being able to achieve HDR capabilities thoug, considering even its top models still suffered from screen burn when playing SD and HD material.

 

 

1,000 nits! No chance

I've had plasmas for over ten years, one panel is 10+ years old, and I have never had burn in issues. Of course, I never played video games on one, or left up a channel that had a bright logo on the bottom of the screen, but IMO the burn in issue is overrated. I still think UHD is very overrated, it's a solution to a non existent problem, designed to churn the market not make anyone's lives or experiences better. A 4k, 46 inch, LCD panel with bad contrast will be a loser compared to even a cheap HD plasma in the performance areas that matter. HDR, great potential, will depend on implementation and how black the panel will be able to do.

Jeff wrote:

HDR, great potential, will depend on implementation and how black the panel will be able to do.

...and on the available source material.

MM

Jeff wrote:

I've had plasmas for over ten years, one panel is 10+ years old, and I have never had burn in issues. Of course, I never played video games on one, or left up a channel that had a bright logo on the bottom of the screen, but IMO the burn in issue is overrated. I still think UHD is very overrated, it's a solution to a non existent problem, designed to churn the market not make anyone's lives or experiences better. A 4k, 46 inch, LCD panel with bad contrast will be a loser compared to even a cheap HD plasma in the performance areas that matter. HDR, great potential, will depend on implementation and how black the panel will be able to do.

Jeff

Beovirus victim, it's gotten to be too much to list!

I wonder how stunning HDR will actually look when it finally gets here, or will it be a disappointment as so many hyped technologies wind up being? Certainly 3D never lived up to the hype. And 4k pixels doesn't.

I usually watch TV in the evening when I can control light levels, not pitch dark but not daylight bright either, so my VT plasma looks just stunning, incredible black levels and detail in dark scenes. If I do watch in daylight, the THX Bright Room setting does OK, but if it's really bright it's not perfect, perhaps where HDR and brighter white level might make the most difference.

I was not overly impressed with the pictures on the Avants I've seen, either the 55 or the 85 inch one. The 85 does have an impressive picture if only because of its size and seeing things you don't see on smaller screens just due to the size of the image. But ultimately I came home, looked at my plasma, and felt absolutely no need to upgrade. I used Blade Runner to demo it, something that stresses the black level performance of a TV. Granted not a 4k disc but resolution wasn't the thing I thought lacking.

All this talk about 4K and 8K.. The largest cable provider in Belgium (Telenet) is still delivering content in 720P (or 1080i)... Really wonder how long it will take to get broadcasters on the 4K train.. It's been taking almost almost 2 decades to have the picture format in 16:9 

In the meantime Loewe releases an OLED television with HDR and a well-known speaker solution, the Bild 7:

http://www.hifi-journal.de/news/24-lcd-fernseher/128-loewe-bild-7-im-hands-on-video

Regarding B&O OLED.

To our knowledge it will be LG tech packed in a Bang & Olufsen design

Display and video-technology solely from LG, , with sound and control coming from a soundbar that B&O delivers to the project.

link (danish) or