I'm okay with a decent VA panel as long as I can sit head-on to it. 3000:1 at 150 nits in a dimmed room and even if the blacks aren't completely black, they're good enough that IDGAF. My requirement for a 21:9 movie on my TV is that the black bars at the top and bottom aren't visible in a dark room.
But yeah, OLED is the only true black and that's why I hate poorly-mastered HDR. When you're viewing a grey black on an OLED screen, you know that someone, somewhere, screwed up and ruined the entire point of HDR in the first place.
Sure, but VA has its drawbacks too, in other areas like pixel response where OLED is better too. But we agree, its the best of inferior stuff (or obtanium
), at least for gaming.
I would argue LG OLED tv's do HDR fairly well without damaging eyes, of course they are meant for dim lit rooms to begin with.
That's right they do, because they don't need the higher peak brightness to achieve a stellar static contrast ratio. 0.01cd black point less than a competitor is a massive jump in potential contrast, because all the steps above it can be toned down a notch too. The whole image becomes more pleasing to the eyes that way. But if you need to achieve contrast (steps) by brightness, you need to make everything brighter or surrounding stuff darker - less balance in the image; that is where the over- or undersaturated, or over/underexposed shitty HDR implementations come from. Nobody ever evolved humans to keep looking straight into light sources. We're supposed to be blinded that way, especially if the peak brightness is much higher than its surroundings. Not being / doing so, is our brains keeping an image bearable - it has nothing to do with good image reproduction to present brighter lights.
Another giveaway on that fact is how everyone recommends you play games in a well lit room - it reduces the contrast between image and surroundings. Its a misconception that you need to game in a dim lit room, although it may be experienced as pleasant (I like it too), turning on a light or two is much more relaxing on the eyes. Its also not true that LG's OLED is optimized for a dim lit room. They just (or some) have lower peak brightness than other TVs, but all you really don't want is sunlight falling in on it. In a well lit / evening/regular lit room you have zero issues with brightness at its lower range.
