I would have bought the Sony ZD9 if not for the subpar input lag. It's the best display released last year. It's fucking crazy how many dimming zones it has and how good their processing is at eliminating any halo effects. I still remember how FALD looked in 2008 when I bought my Samsung A959 LCD. Their flagship at the time with I believe like 64 dimming zones. It was certainly impressive but the halo effects and high input lag were killing me. As such it's life in my home was short lived and replaced in 2010 by a Pioneer KRP-600M (to this day still the best display I have ever owned).
I was watching Pan in HDR at a friends house. I was sad when I went back home and watched it on my LG E6. Looked like some dim dull shit. OLED has a long way to go for HDR and I'm not sure they will be able to ever catch up in nits. I blame the fucking EU. If it weren't for their stupid energy labels technology would be further ahead.
Like imagine this shot from Sunshine on a Sony ZD9 if they ever remastered that movie in HDR.
You would probably need sunglasses to watch this scene at max light output.
Z9D is around 26ms input lag on a 4K source with or without HDR if I remember correctly, how does that compare to the E6? For some reason I thought the E6 had worse input lag, that was a consideration for me too as I was choosing between the same two TVs.
Haha! That's an awesome shot, I'd love to see it on the Z. The thing is though, not all of that shot would be insanely bright, only the highlights, the parts that appear white in that image.
Life of Pi has some excellent scenes to show off HDR which have similar colours to that shot. Lots of sun stuff.
I honestly can't believe that it's supposed to be that bright.
It almost seems counterintuitive to what reference PQ should be. Perhaps I have to get used to it.
Planet Earth II is due soon so I hope to give it some good non-streaming tests.
Maybe if you saw it in person you'd think differently, it's never uncomfortable to watch. But everyone is going to have a different preference / tolerance. Having that much extra brightness for the highlights just helps with HDR. If the content is being mastered at 1,000, 2,000 or 10,000 nits, how is it counter intuitive to get as close to that as possible?
Oh boy, tell me about it! I've been eagerly anticipating that 4K Blu Ray
I haven't seen the show at all yet, I'm pretty excited to check it out!