And oh my god what a difference. Watched Fargo (1996) in 4k HDR on it and it blew me away how great it looked! I thought it would be a minor step up from an LED LCD but it was simply amazing.

Heads up too, if you’re casually in the market, I worked at Best buy for years and can say Superbowl is the best time to buy. People think it’s black Friday but that’s just when they hock cheap crap. Superbowl is when they actually mark down the quality tvs. Saved 600 bucks or so!

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    It’s so much better! Where I first saw how much better OLED was than LCD was in the opening credits of Foundation. There’s a bit where a ship passes in front of a star, and the silhouette of the ship is precise and perfect. Just be sure to get your TV calibrated, or do it yourself. Mine came with the whites set to 100%, which sunburns your eyeballs at night.

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    Until I can buy a OLED TV that isn’t plagued by “smart” features, I just simply cannot justify spending money on it.

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        Smart TVs use other open wifi to exfiltrate data from your home. Amazon has the “sidewalk” network through bluetooth, and Comcast, et-al has a public wifi network they’ve been sprawling about by using their customers APs without permission.

        “Not connected to the internet” doesn’t save you. You don’t know what internet it’s connected to.

        https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/everything-you-need-to-know-about-amazon-sidewalk

        https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659191/amazon-sidewalk-network-coverage

        They are building mass mesh networks, which will allow your devices to connect to any visible network in the area in order to pass your data along. People buying “Smart” TVs and thinking “not connecting it to the internet” is safe, is the problem.

        “Oh I just won’t own one of those devices”…isn’t a valid argument either, because the network doesn’t give a shit if it’s your devices, your neighbors devices, so long as it can see something to communicate in the vicinity. All you need is someone around you to have connected theirs to the internet and woosh, there goes your privacy.

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      No idea, but my personal research led me to an lg OLED. Samsung I heard has had an off few years, but my friend has a Sony and loves it. Don’t just trust the reviews online, go search message boards for people who have had it a few months and see what they say

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          I got the B3 65" personally from best buy. The c3 looked good, but it was for high light areas and my media room is in the basement and that seemed overkill for $300 more. I can confidently say that it is plenty bright in my basement and I don’t regret it at all.