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We Bought the CHEAPEST OLED TV… How Bad Could It Be?

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If you could get a 55" OLED display for hundreds of dollars cheaper than usual, would you buy one? Should you buy one? We took the plunge for you and bought the Skyworth 55XC9000, come check out the results!

 

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Better question: How good are skyworth compared to TCL? 

 

There's also an interesting thing I once heard on bilibili: export models tend to be slightly better than local models because of less bloatware.

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Its alway crazy that price fixing MAP policies are legal in the USA. Consumers have it so bad.

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Before i watch it: Cant be that bad?

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I dont understand the story. How did retailer 1 cut the price if they product the product for the original manufacturer price? Surely they have a contract which specifies how much the retailer is paying?

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Dont buy one of these as your 1st foray into OLEDs.

 

Maybe if you already have a LG C9, CX, or C1 and u want a secondary OLED for another room, and u have a calibrator at hand, sure. But dont buy one of these as your primary display. Its got terrible factory calibration and horrible input latency (anything over 25ms is bad).

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Curious what's that sci-fi content playing at 9:52? I want to watch it.

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I’d be interested in a eye strain comparison or thoughts behind using an OLED versus an LCD. I can’t find much at all regarding if the OLED hurts more or less than an LCD. 

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I honestly like the "business tips" part of this video, even if it stalls away the actual content promised by the title.

 

Like I could watch a video of just the business tip part alone.

 

Likewise is it interesting to see a look at less well known brands, and it is honestly here that I 90% of the time find myself asking, "is this worth buying or even good?"  a well established manufacturer is a fairly safe bet. A less well known brand is usually a bigger gamble.

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Hey LTT

As a hifi enthusiast, i have to point out something that hurts a little, every time i see your video's about TV's (fx also in 

)

In the mini LED video linus said that standard colour temperature looked more natural, and there is a case for the argument that the viewers perception is the most important thing about a TV, but the correct color temprature is 6500k, and the setting that is closest to that is warm 2, or custom (if the tv has one of those). 

Then we come to the video in this thread. 

In the video you show a colorchecker sheet, that is way off. If the measurements are measured while the tv color temp was standard, you should expect the colors to be way off.

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as shown here the actual is a cooler (blue) color then the target, and from my experience this look like standard, and therefore the measurements are worthless, because if you set it to the preset that the tv manufacture have tried to get it, as close as possible to the target (usually movie, cinema or a custom preset) you would get much better readings.

So my point is

Either the video is about linus perception, which clearly favours the cooler colors, or you can make it technical, but then you should make measurements of all the presets, and take the best (It will be better then this). 

I will also suggest linus to set his lg tv to expert (Dark Room) and then set the Oled Light to his surroundings, and watch it there for an hour. Many people is use to watch TV in really bad settings because manufactures are setting the standard presset, to be way to cool, so the tv attract more attention in the store, but that is a easy habit to get the eyes out off 🙂  and warm colors are better for the eyes as well :)    


 

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On 11/6/2021 at 4:08 PM, Luscious said:

Curious what's that sci-fi content playing at 9:52? I want to watch it.

Blade Runner 2049, highly recommended, especially if you've seen and liked the original Blade Runner.

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