This week on You Requested: The place are the Sony Bravia 7 & 9 opinions? What’s the distinction between displaying 16:9 content material on a 21:9 gadget? Full display screen vs HDR brightness? Which TV ought to I improve to after placing 18,000 hours on an OLED TV?
The place are the Sony Bravia 7 & 9 opinions?
I’m going to start out this week with what is likely to be the most-asked query over the previous week from the YouTube feedback part. That might be some variation or one other of: “When is the Bravia 7 evaluation or The place’s the Bravia 9 evaluation?” My private favourite, although, must be Jogo8261, who wrote: “Why are you guys stalling on the Bravia 7 and Bravia 9 reviews?”
At first, I used to be going to say that perhaps it was only a poor alternative of phrases. “Stalling” suggests deliberate delay, and I haven’t intentionally delayed something. However then I remembered that, really, I did stall the Bravia 7 evaluation. Sony supplied it to ship it to me at a number of weeks in the past. However the way in which the timing would have labored, the TV would have proven up both proper as I used to be leaving — or, worse, whereas I used to be on trip. So, whereas it pained me to take action, I advised Sony “maintain onto that Bravia 7 for a bit and let’s work it out once I get again.”
Effectively, I’m again. So I’ve obtained a Bravia 9 and a theater quad on the way in which, and I intend to get that Bravia 7 shortly thereafter.
Within the meantime – there’s 115-inches of TCL QM8 taking over a large quantity of house within the studio. I’ll be working that TV till the Sony stuff reveals. After which there’s the Roku Professional, the Hisense U9N, the U7N, The LG C3, the Samsung S90D – and all of the versus movies that might want to occur after these opinions are carried out.
Phew … good factor I obtained that trip in. I’m not getting one other one for some time.
Apple TV 4K help for 21:9
Shaun B writes: Hello Caleb. Apple simply introduced Apple TV 4K help for “21:9 projectors.” The one ultrawide shows I’ve seen are gaming screens, which don’t have as excessive a decision as 4K shows. I do know that a lot of motion pictures have letterbox bars on my 16:9 TV, which signifies their facet ratio is wider, but it surely works simply advantageous. Appears supported to me. What’s the massive distinction with displaying 16:9 content material on a 21:9 gadget? (Apart: why are there no 21:9 TVs available on the market?)
I like the query! I talked somewhat bit about this announcement in a recent Nit Nerds News — which, if y’all aren’t tuning in for that, please think about doing so! I might all the time use your suggestions!
First issues first: What Apple is doing right here is making the Apple TV 4K a little more friendly to devoted home-theater setups that use projectors and 21:9 cinema screens. The Apple TV 4K will at the moment current any 21:9 content material in a 16:9 format, with each letterboxes and pillarboxes on the highest, backside, and sides. That’s clearly irritating for anybody who has a display screen large sufficient to point out all of a 21:9 picture — to be pressured to have such a small picture on their greater display screen. Finest they’ll do is enlarge that picture, however then you definately minimize down the efficient decision, and it’ll look fairly unhealthy. So, now that gained’t be an issue.
As for why there aren’t any 21:9 shopper TVs? Effectively, it’s not prefer it wasn’t tried. Samsung and LG each made massive 21:9 TVs at one level — they even tried curved and flat. Nonetheless, these had been tremendous speciality TVs, very costly, and didn’t promote.
See, 21:9 TVs will all the time be a specialty as a result of a lot of the content material people watch is, at 16:9. Dwell TV, sports activities, sitcoms, TV dramas — it’s all 16:9. Though now that you’ve Netflix, Max, Disney+ and different video-on-demand providers doing extra cinematic-style capturing for serialized, episodic content material? Possibly we might see 21:9 facet TVs promote somewhat higher, if somebody tried making and promoting them once more.
However, frankly, whereas letterboxing is extra simply tolerated now than it as soon as was, pillarboxing appears to be the kiss of demise for anybody with out a fully large display screen.
Full display screen vs HDR brightness
Oliver C writes: I’ve a query relating to HDR highlights. Are you able to clarify why some TVs just like the TCL QM8 can hit very excessive brightness measurements on small HDR home windows, like a 2% window, however when the 100% window (complete display screen) is measured, the nits drop? For a miniLED TV it looks as if the TV can be brighter with all LEDs maxed out versus only a few in a small space. I’m certain my understanding is flawed right here however hoping you possibly can clarify this.
I like this query, too! So, really, your understanding will not be off. It’s true that if all of the mini-LED backlights in a TV had been pushed to their max, as they clearly are in smaller check home windows, then the TV can be manner brighter. There are two points with that, although. One is energy administration. It could take an incredible quantity of energy to drag off, say, 4,000 nits full-screen white. Might it’s carried out? Sure. However do you’ve gotten any concept what 4,000 nits of full-screen brightness would do to your eyes, even in a daylight soaked room, and even at about 65-inches display screen measurement? It’s lots, even from a smaller, 10 % window. And likewise take into consideration what occurs in case your common image stage is that top. You may have raised the roof on HDR highlights. How brilliant would these highlights must be to face out at that time? Effectively past what TVs are able to proper now. So, for quite a few causes, that’s not an awesome concept.
18,000 Hours on an OLED TV!
I’m going to summarize Barry Mayhew’s feedback and questions for brevity, and it goes like this: Barry has been utilizing a 2016 LG C6 OLED for the previous eight years. It’s obtained 17,909 hours on it. That’s unbelievable. If you happen to do the maths, that’s about 6 hours of use each single day for a complete eight years. And Barry is simply now beginning to discover the TV is carrying out, as you possibly can see in Barry’s images. Barry continues to say he’s cherished his OLED and is ready to pony up for an LG G4. However, he goes on to ask if I feel he ought to think about a non-OLED TV since this would be the predominant TV in the home and it’s gonna get plenty of use.
To which I reply: Barry, why!?!?!? You used your C6 OLED for a mean of 6 hours each day for 8 years and it’s simply now carrying out. You bought nice use out of that TV. I do know people are used to the concept of protecting their TVs for 10-plus years, however … that’s an more and more uncommon life-span for a TV lately, it doesn’t matter what show expertise the TV makes use of.
Barry, you’ve gotten been on crew OLED for 8 years, and I personally suppose it is best to keep on crew OLED to your subsequent TV. The LG G4 is superior. You’ll love how a lot brighter it’s than your C6, it seems nice for SDR in addition to HDR, and the processing is considerably higher. The G4 will really feel like an enormous improve. The one cause I wouldn’t suggest OLED is if you’re in search of an enormous improve in display screen measurement. These greater OLEDs get costly in a rush. You didn’t point out that in your e-mail. But when that’s the case, then you definately may wish to take a look at a great high quality mini-LED set.
In any other case, get that G4. You’re gonna find it irresistible. It comes with a 5-year guarantee. It has extra measures to guard the display screen in-built. Simply looks as if that may be your best option for you.
