On a random note, HDR has been a gamechanger for me. I was playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider on the Series X on a LG CX and man that intro with a lot of dark scenes just looks amazing. Overall the list of games with well done HDR is rapidly increasing and even some auto-HDR games on the Xbox look competent.
Unfortunately (probably) the majority of HDR labeled screens aren't good at it. Many HDR marketed screens are barely HDR, even a lot of expensive gaming monitors. They really need to set a marketing standard of 600-700 nits minimum and a minimum degree of local dimming/blackness levels or something.
There actually is an industry standard for HDR, at least in the Home Theater market. 1000 nits is a minimum for screen brightness to deliver true HDR. However TV's (and monitors) are allowed to be marketed as HDR capable with as little as 400 nits brightness. The HDR experience will be pretty poor with anything less than about 800 nits.
And that doesn't even get into the industry standards for Local Dimming, Image Processing, Color Gamut, Contrast, Black Levels, etc etc.
If you want to go with the best for HDR in a TV, go with the LG G1 series or C1 series. Or the Sony A90J series, it's still an LG OLED panel, but Sony's build quality, color accuracy, and image processing is far superior.
Ah did not know. Never heard of that.
I am good with the CX though. I know it is below 800 nits but I watch in a dark room and the HDR looks great to my eyes and there often is a huge difference with and without, for both film and games
I have briefly landed on a Samsung q90t, which was the first tv I purchased. That tv was way brighter, but it had too many caveats for my purposes. It was the messy game mode in particular. (In VRR mode there were scanning lines all over the screen, the ghosting in games was super obvious to me. As well as a dimming bug where the tv would suddenly become very dim after like 7 minutes. There was a huge thread on Samsung support forums on these problems).
I ultimately landed on the CX because two of my friends have one and I had seen the TV there. Ticked all my boxes. I would not use an LG CX in a broad daylight livingroom though, but mine is set up elsewhere.
And in a few years hopefully some of the new techniques will be as affordable, because they sound enticing.
I'm looking at Mini LED for my next TV. 95% of the benefits of OLED, with none of the drawbacks. Namely, image retention and burn-in. Problem is my Panasonic *Kuro* Plasma refuses to die. Even at only 1080p is still looks better than 75% of new 4k TV's out there. Which is a sad commentary on the state of the majority of TV manufacturers. Granted the Kuro plasma technology was the absolute best when they were still being made.
1080p is still good. I see people stating on the internet that it looks blurry and all, but nah, it looks a bit softer and you can see less clearly in the distance, but I play plenty of 1080p content on my 55" and can't say it is detrimental, unless I am sitting really close.
And yeah, Plasma's were/are awesome.
I know nothing about mini LEDs, as they were simply not an option when I needed a tv. One of the underrated qualities of OLED screens for me (and plasma / crt in the past) is the near instant pixel response time, which makes gaming at 60 or 120 fps look so much sharper than on a (Q)LED or LCD. For me it is quite noticable in gaming.
But to be honest, for films, most modern 1000 dollar and higher tv's look fantastic to my eyes these days. My parents never game and for them a QLED works wonders, for example. There is better tech out there for sure, but most content I have seen at their place looks ace. Gaming mode, however, is where things start to heavily deviate. Local dimming zones on last years Samsung tv's worked well to my eyes. But not in gaming mode. It was super obvious that the algorithm's were downgraded in order to bring the input lag down, as well as general image quality (even with all post processing things turned off when compared). And my first purchase, the Samsung, made me seriously doubt how much effort tv reviewers put into testing gaming modes (talking about sites like RTINGS, CNET and whatnot).
I don't really recommend OLED's to most people, because uneven pixel wear is indeed a real problem. I decided my usage was close to ideal. My content consumption is varied, gaming mostly one and done singleplayer stuff (and HUDless when possible), no traditional tv with logos and all etc. And I consume media on low brightness in a dark room (on most other screens as well).