I kinda miss the four-sided Ambilight that my previous TV had on my current OLED. Sadly low input lag isn't Philip's strong suite, but I'm happy to be wrong about that for this TV.
IIRC, Kuros were the exception in plasmas with regard to image retention. The late Panny VT/ZTs and Samsungs all suffered from IR, but not the Kuro, at least the 9/9.5Gs. I don't know how the wizards at Pioneer did what all the other manufacturers couldn't. Maybe they held patents that others couldn't use. *shrug*
Ouch. Not to make you feel worse, but on the topic of price, I spoke with Magnolia and they said they would match Fry's offer of paying the sales tax. That's an extra $300-$400 off the price of the C6. Of course that applies to other displays sold by both Magnolia/Best Buy and Fry's.
Great black levels...IPS panel...hmmm, noTo answer your question, as far as I know... no
The black levels on the monitors are great, but they won't be as good as your plasmas. These monitors are designed for professional imaging and video development and have amazing color accuracy, including blacks-- Pixar, for example, will use professional monitors like these when developing HDR content for HDR TVs (ironically enough, for those of you who say these monitors are SDR (lol)-- look a few posts up).
I've used proessional IPS panels from Dell and HP for years now-- they're expensive, but I would never go back to using a consumer monitor.
Do you have an idea of how expensive the 65" E6 is in Europe lol
Still 5500
What? Really? That's awesome... and weird. We usually get the highest prices for everything lol
Yup. No brainer. Get the C6.
TRega also got other information wrong.
- VA have better native black levels than any IPS display that is simple fact of the technology. IPS just enjoys wider viewing angle & faster gray to gray response (typically). However, you lose the bigger advantage of IPS viewing angles when you move to FALD when enabled due to the way light interacts with the panel it ends up making color fading on angels a bigger issue compared to desktop displays that use very simple back light methods where IPS clearly enjoys a larger viewing angle advantage & when it came to "vanilla" panels better colour reproduction, thus it's preferred by professional desktop users.
- Sony Z9D processes 14-bit color internally and maps it to its native 10-bit panel to produce much finer gradation..not to mention that it can push 2,000 nits while playing back HDR content if required, thus beating the example he used.
- Hisense will be releasing a 8K HDR TV later this year (early next year in most markets), pointless really but the panel tech has been showed off.
- The only reference displays for HDR mastering used by Hollywood is Sony's BVM-X300 OLED & Dolby's 4,000Nit Pulsar display. No consumer LCD monitor is used for creating HDR content outside of displaying the desktop tools maybe where they work in while the reference monitor (Sony's or Dolby's) is feed the HDR content for grading & other tasks.
- Panel tech in UHD has been pushing LCD tech for a while now. Desktop displays stopped being the leaders and now are waiting for the tech to trickle down. Example Samsung Only NOW showed off a desktop LCD that supports Quantum dot process for LCD production which helps to enhance the color reproduction and offer wider colour gamut. They also can't match up nit wise & lack the advance FALD lighting methods deployed in UHD LCD TVs.
- Almost all the premium UHD panels have wider gamut than the displays he listed Rec.2020 & DCI P3 > Adobe RGB.
Sorry if this comes off as an attack TRega just trying to correct some things without offending you.
Totally fair, yet as I said, a meaningful step up in quality is 3-4x the price, so it was an easy call as I just needed a little something for blurays/Roku in the new house. I don't have a 4k bluray player and don't expect practical/common full utilization of 4k technology to be well established (available content and non-exorbitant service charges for that bandwidth) any time soon. It is coming, certainly, with OLED advancing and CLED developing, but this is by no means the hayday of the technology and future TVs will be crushing present ones for cheaper.
I guess it depends on the quality of local dimming or lack thereof.
No IPS monitor is dark. They all glow unless you employ local dimming (where portions of the back light can shut off). It's kind of a hack, though, and isn't available on monitors, I believe.
My Vizio M49-C1 does this. Its a IPS display with local dimming.
