TV spoiled. Want to get a tv and looking for Sony or LG. The questions now is it worth to paid premium to get OLED?
Thanks for all the comment and advise.
If you're using your TV to watch Movies, Stream Video Content and some console gaming, I would recommend going with an OLED. The price is identical if we compare the Sony's X90J, Sony X9500H LCD TV and the LG OLED CX. Currently, Sony's LED TV are very close to or above LG OLED CX's $2100 street price. The LG CX provides you with all the latest gaming features, 4K 120, VRR, ALLM, FreeSync and G Sync. Sony's 2020 X900H owners have been waiting since last year for VRR which hasn't arrive, even now with the new 2021 X90J, A80J and A90J, VRR is still unreleased with no clear date of arrival except for "Winter 2021". Their past promised firmware update has also not resolved 4K 120 which exhibits blur on the X900H TVs which has been revealed to be a hardware design flaw by a few sources. So there is a chance that the upcoming VRR update might end up a half baked feature as well. But if you don't game at all on the TV then this might not affect you.
Evidence:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sony-...-despite-issuing-a-firmware-fix.510926.0.html
I did not mention LG's LCD and Sony's OLED for the following reasons:
- The entire LG's LCD line up are using IPS Panels with poor contrast ratio that is incapable of producing deep blacks, dark saturated colors and a decent color volume.
- For Sony's lineup, everything above the X90 series uses VA Panels with decent contrast ratio although not OLED level. Anything below the X90 series uses IPS panels.
- Sony's OLEDs are typically priced at above 3K.
These would be the reasons why if you're considering only Sony and LG, and if you don't have a minimum budget, the starting recommendation would be at either Sony's X90 series or the LG OLEDs which hovers around the 2K range. Anything below would be IPS panels. If you consider other brands such as Samsung or TCL than you would be able to get a decent non OLED TV with a VA Panel below 2K.
As for the Sony OLED TVs they are indeed a price premium, however based on reviews circulating online by multiple youtube tv reviewers and rtings, their OLEDs commonly offers better image processing that reveals more detail especially in dark scenes when compared to the LG OLEDs.
Below is a link to a detailed comparison by rtings to give you an idea of the differences between TVs with VA Panel and TVs with OLED Panel.
LG CX and Sony X90J
https://www.rtings.com/tv/tools/compare/lg-cx-oled-vs-sony-x90j/10619/21562?usage=11&threshold=0.10
Here's another comparison between a TV with an IPS Panel and a TV with an OLED Panel:
LG CX and LG Nano 90 2020
https://www.rtings.com/tv/tools/com...9/11639?usage=11&threshold=0.10#comparison_82
