So, I have to be honest I didn't go back and read through all 26250 previous posts in this thread, but I wanted to drop in and say that I picked up an LG OLED 55" B7A last Friday. I had a great weekend setting it up and getting the display dialed in. I know this might seems odd, but it was a perfect drop in replacement to the home theater I set up in 2003, and fit perfectly on the stand that has held my beast of a 34" JVC CRT Flat Screen 16:9 CRT for the past 15 years. It's the first display that I've seen in person that made me want to give up the true blacks of my CRT.

Streaming 4k HDR and Dolby Vision content from built in Nextflix and YouTube apps is amazing. I find that the video and audio seem to stream better from my hardware FireTV (Gen2) box than from the internal Amazon app. A Samsung UHD Bluray player and some UHD discs will be arriving from Amazon this evening, so I can't wait to see what playback of local 4K HDR media looks like.

The added bonus is with all the HDMI ports on the LG OLED I can run all my equipment straight to it and then feed the optical audio out from the LG OLED to my old Sony AVR to do the surround decoding to my 7.2 speaker setup. It eliminated my HDMI switch that used to collect all my HDMI components and strip out the audio to my AVR via optical and the video out via DVI to the CRT.

Fifteen years may seem like an eternity to wait to upgrade a display, but I think it was worth it.

-mals

I only own Thor Ragnarok via streaming (Vudu UHD). I get 100Mbs and it looked incredible. I can't imagine the disc looks better than the built-in app but I'm sure to some it does. #ignoranceisbliss

Just don't hold your breath waiting for it to be gone. The fact DVDs are still around says a lot about how long physical media will be here... in addition to the declining but still astronomical sales numbers.

I'm sure ISPs are licking their chops though waiting for physical media to be gone so they can jack up internet rates with data caps.

Wow! CRT to OLED! Most of us are upgrading from plasmas. My first HDTV was a behemoth 40" Sony KV-40XBR700. It weighed 300+ lbs!



You gotta admit, that was one sexy design for a monster 4:3 CRT!

I only waited about 7 years to upgrade my plasma. Welcome to the club.

Don't need to hold my breath, I cannot recall the last time I used physical media. My computers don't have optical drives (although I do have a USB optical drive just in case, but it has gathered dust for quite some time), and I don't have an optical player (CD/DVD, BD) connected to my TV.

My TV content is via Direct TV, or streamed via Roku Ultra, or ATV4K. I don't collect content such as movies, etc, and I'm not a gamer. Once I've seen something, as a rule, I don't care to see it again, so I rent content instead of buying it.

Streaming is getting better, and I have a fast connection, so I don't have need for physical media, aside from backup drives and the memory cards in my cameras. It's liberating! YMMV

I rip all of my own physical media for streaming delivery via Plex. 25TB of data so far.

Cool story bro! Streaming is perfect for watch something once people like yourself! You're good to go!

Except it suffers from high input lag that matters in more than just fps games. I would never be able to do the same platform if with that much lag in a game like Mario odyssey. The question was about game mode and it won’t be changed to be brighter like standard. Or how it was before the update changed it.

For penny pinchers though (me).... the cost to rent via streaming is far too high imo. When I rent a UHD, I would rather go to family video and rent it for half the cost to rent on vudu. Saying all that makes me feel old but hey... it's cheaper and better quality. Sounds like a win-win. Streaming rentals is about 50% higher than it should be imo.

I agree.

I remember visiting a movie gallery store about 10 years ago and paying $3 for rentals... streaming rental costs are a bit high IMO. I just saw a few on VUDU and $5.99 for 1080p and $7.99 for UHD is just as ridiculous as the digital movies on iTunes. At least with buying the disc I get the digital copy.

I've rented a couple from VUDU so far... my .99 intro rental and got a email the other day for a $1.99 rental that I used last night on I, Tonya which was an amazing movie. I'm ok with $3-$4 rentals but not much beyond that.

Congrats, I am sure you will love it.......

Really ?
I never had any problem with any of my PS4 Pro games, even with fast paced games.

On the other side of that, there's the convenience factor of streaming, plus the part concerning the expense of retrieving and returning the media. I love my OLED, but, I'm not looking for the last 5% of PQ. Not only that, and this admission could get me banned, I don't have to see new content when it's first released.

Indeed, I'm perfectly comfortable waiting for most content to come via Netflix, etc.

Whatever floats your boat if you've got all the time in the world to wait. I can't say I'm that way though... and it's because Netflix doesn't get every new release... and the movies they do have changes on a monthly basis.

I've been a Netflix subscriber since they first went to streaming many years ago... and yes, it's convenient but I most certainly would not look to Netflix for all the latest releases.

Either way... $15 a month is chump change to stream whatever they have currently available.

It really isn’t an issue. The difference in lag is incredibly small. Any gains in game mode are basically a placebo effect.

I agree.
And when you see the gains picture wise of the cinema mode, it is a no brainer which to choose.

this weekend, I bought the newest Star Wars off of iTunes
So convenient!
Movie was meh though

UHD? What'd you pay?

True, but I'm not interested in every new release. For content that can't be found on Netflix or Amazon, etc, if it interests me in the first place, I can usually rent it, an admitted last resort. However, I am curious about your remark about "having all the time in the world to wait" So what happens if you don't see content immediately, or within what I would term an arbitrary time period? I have to admit that I've not seen any ill effects from doing that for nearly 80 years. But then different strokes for different folks.

yes, $19.99, although I had $10 in iTunes gift cards

Yeah it just feels off to me. I guess cause I’m so used to low lag.

It’s 1.5frames of lag or almost 3. That’s a very big delay difference.

I was just talking about the fact that some titles will never appear on Netflix... so hopefully that isn't your go to source.

I don't have that problem because if I want a new release disc I'll just buy it from Amazon or BB. I'm not all in on streaming only yet though. I've got nearly 350 digital movies and all have come from discs... either the code I got with purchase or ripping/encoding via MakeMKV/Handbrake my own blue rays into a digital file. I've got a 4TB storage drive on my PC that I stream movies from via iTunes. When I want to watch on the OLED... I load the disc. When I want to watch on the iPad Pro or plasma while laying in bed... I stream from my digital library.


Nothing wrong with that... it's definitely convenient. For me though I find it more convenient (in the case of this movie) to pay the extra $5 and get the UHD disc, 1080p disc, and digital copy. With some movies the digital cost vs the disc costs are the same... so it makes even more sense to get all for the same price.

To each their own. I never shop in store... I have Amazon or BB ship to my door. Very convenient.

I find that to be the case far too often nowadays. It grates on me to support less than good content, in fact it just guarantees more of the same.

If you wanna talk about ripoffs, look at the cost of going to a theater! Its used to be that you got 2 movies, a cartoon, a newsreel, and maybe a serial or other short for your money. That was a better value then what is offered today.

Hahah.. no kidding! I'll never go to a theater again.

It's a much better experience to wait for the disc and watch at home. Cheaper too.

All this renting talk made me reminisce some. Gosh im old.
We sure have come a long way.

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Agreed. Yet from time to time its nice to get away from life or the the kids in this case, head to the big screen and suck down some theater popcorn. Wife and i did that just yesterday and saw Tomb Raider. Great movie. After it was done I said wow this gonna look great on the OLED. I immediately got that why do you need to see it again look. The pressure is real....

I miss BB. I used to go there with my girlfriend, arguing for which movie to pick up and then getting ice cream and M&M's. And sometimes talking about movies with other couples around. Really missing it.

Haha yep... I'm surprised family video is still open to be honest. It's on my way home from work and they have UHD's for much cheaper than streaming though! It's a no brainer for me... especially considering I have an Atmos set up and typically the sound for streaming leaves me wanting more.