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I have a feeling that youtube link will serve you well. Happy shopping!

Excited for you.

P.S. I know your room. Holy Blanks Batman.

I thought i heard someone sneaking around late last night.

Someone needs to develop a way to mash four 55" OLED panels into a single, unified 110" 8K OLED. I think you could pull that off for under $10k (you can get a 55" C9 OLED for $2,200 CAD right now).

Wow, he moves pretty fast with those reviews. About 1/3 of the time he was moving on as my mind raced to comprehend what he said. Also, I'm pretty sophisticated with this stuff and I had to guess on a few things he was talking about.

Yeah. He’s kind of a savant with TVs.

Really solid content.

Anyone heard anything about OLED asymmetric degradation or is this only a theoretical concept that may not be realistic within the expected lifetime span of an OLED tv?
I read about this in a computer monitor article (just bought a new monitor this week so it came up in my researching). I haven't seen much of anything on it with a quick online search though.

Anyone else hear about this?

Don't know much about asymmetric degradation ...
I can tell you that OLEDs degrade over time. LG give's it's OLED about 100,000 hours till they are half as bright as they were when new. I imagine if you don't run your tv at full brightness, and for a reasonable number of hours a day, it will give you a lifetime of use.

That said, this brings us to a few questions I have yet to answer: if you run an OLED at 1/2 brightness do you loose color resolution and would HDR require you to raise the brightness again ... one may find that the 100,000 hour mark is really 25,000. Lastly ,.. on degradation ...

I do know that exposing an OLED tv to direct sunlight will ruin it ... UV rays degrade them quickly ... which brings us to the old saying:

hang it where the sun doesn't shine

If you are worried Chess the QLED sets are very well regarded too. Just check the off axis performance if that is a concern.

In a dark room setup the differences will come dow to how well you can tune the settings. Nowadays calibration settings are online for most sets.

The only other consideration is if you use onboard streaming apps like netflix. Make sure the TV will stream Atmos out over hdmi. Even if you dont use Atmos, you will want to ensure compatability long term since it looks like you hold onto TVs for a good bit.

Check out Vincent yet? Tons of head to heads on there.

I doubt i'll be doing Atmos even in 15 years. I can't see myself mounting 10+ speakers around our room. I think a 7.2 setup is as far as i'll go. I have 5.1 now, moving to 7.1 this year, maybe 7.2 if i feel ballsy.

I'm not certain that Atmos is worth it at the moment given the number of films which really take advantage of it. The main reason IMO to at least wire for it is future proofing.

That said, I'm in the process of building a HT with Atmos ... but I imagine the room we will use the most will still be the 5.1 family room.