[boosted330]

My x940e does a much better job than I honestly thought it would. Coming from an OLED I was scared blooming would be obvious or the black bars would be grey. Blooming rarely shows up in HDR and never in SDR. The black bars can light up a hair at times during HDR but if Im watching the movie instead of focusing on the bars I never notice. Only time I see anything is when I am watching for it instead of the content on the screen. Well worth the trade off of zero burn in and brighter screen for me.

 

[cbdickens]

I have an edgelit LCD and in a dark room my black bars are a really dark blue/grey. My next TV will be FALD or whatever beats OLED.

 

[enricoclaudio]

Totally black bars on my Sony Z9D. The only set that can bet it is an OLED.

 

[pbz06]

On my Z9D, the black bars are inky black and in general the picture exhibits the most negligible amount of blooming on torture scenes. It's amazing to see near OLED black levels mixed with 1,800 nits.

 

[Blackman]

My x940e does a much better job than I honestly thought it would. Coming from an OLED I was scared blooming would be obvious or the black bars would be grey. Blooming rarely shows up in HDR and never in SDR. The black bars can light up a hair at times during HDR but if Im watching the movie instead of focusing on the bars I never notice. Only time I see anything is when I am watching for it instead of the content on the screen. Well worth the trade off of zero burn in and brighter screen for me.

Yes our 75 inch 9400E (US X940E). I watch only 4k Movies in a totally 100% dark room sometime upscaled 2k movies and I have to imagine my letterbox to have BLOOMING because I rarely ever see this and Never on a 1080P movie even if its upscaled to 2160p. The other thing is different with our set up I have a 360 deg LED backlight that is dimmer-able. I wont buy anything in LCD until its proven to be the same or better than the 9400E. Now that's what I would like to see is a 75 inch TV that has the same blacks as the 9400E and has a peak brightness of over 2000 nits, Yeah!!!

 

[ray0414]

what do YOU think Mark?

Do you think THIS is acceptable for a $6000 flagship TV? 82Q90R. this tv was returned so hopefully the replacement is alot better than this garbage.

75Q9FN*55C8oled* Oppo 203/UB820*S10+*DenonX4200

 

[Blackman]

That Bad and your room is not totally dark. My 75 inch 9400E the room is so dark you cannot see the wall behind the wall mounted Sony for the full length of the room (8m) and yet the letterbox bars are black and never see movement in them. What wrong with TV Manufactures today. No doubt they don't care about us on this forum and what we all say about the black level and letterbox bars.

 

[imagic]

what do YOU think Mark?

Do you think THIS is acceptable for a $6000 flagship TV? 82Q90R. this tv was returned so hopefully the replacement is alot better than this garbage.

75Q9FN*55C8oled* Oppo 203/UB820*S10+*DenonX4200

I think I don't comment on blown-out cell pics! Lol.

 

[Cam1977]

That Bad and your room is not totally dark. My 75 inch 9400E the room is so dark you cannot see the wall behind the wall mounted Sony for the full length of the room (8m) and yet the letterbox bars are black and never see movement in them. What wrong with TV Manufactures today. No doubt they don't care about us on this forum and what we all say about the black level and letterbox bars.

LCD tvs have no known defects

 

[ray0414]

I think I don't comment on blown-out cell pics! Lol.

had to raise the exposure to capture it other wise my camera crushed the bars. Absolutely rediculous widescreen bar performance, especially coming from a 75Q9FN with top level widescreen BARS. You know this type of performance is not acceptable on a 2019 flagship lol I'd hate to see the 82Q80 with 400 less zones.

 

[Cam1977]

^isnt your set defective??? Didnt you already exchange it multiple times due to shipping damage???

 

[ray0414]

^isnt your set defective??? Didnt you already exchange it multiple times due to shipping damage???

waiting on a 4th Unit this week. Im "hoping" the widescreen bar performance was due to a defective dimming panel. Will hopefully find out later this week.

 

[Blackman]

LCD tvs have no known defects

Yes they have but the defects on our 9400E dont effect us like I dont play games on the Tv and the interpolation is averages but its a 2017 Tv and considering I watch movies and High bit rate Satellite Feeds only it the best for us other I would have purchased another tv by now. I got rid of a 86 inch LG (IPS) because it was impossible to watch a HDR movies and it was worst by a mile than the photo above.

 

[Cam1977]

waiting on a 4th Unit this week. Im "hoping" the widescreen bar performance was due to a defective dimming panel. Will hopefully find out later this week.

If it were that bad I think you would know by now from other 82inch owners...doubt those bars are that bad on a functional set.

 

[Cam1977]

Yes they have but the defects on our 9400E dont effect us like I dont play games on the Tv and the interpolation is averages but its a 2017 Tv and considering I watch movies and High bit rate Satellite Feeds only it the best for us other I would have purchased another tv by now. I got rid of a 86 inch LG (IPS) because it was impossible to watch a HDR movies and it was worst by a mile than the photo above.

Lol i was being a bit sarcastic

 

[ray0414]

If it were that bad I think you would know by now from other 82inch owners...doubt those bars are that bad on a functional set.

The other owners are split. some say really bad and others say they are much better than the pictures I've posted. I got the TV for cheap enough that I'm at least willing to give a functional unit a chance. Though it seems 2020 will likely be a bigger year for advancements.

 

[Cam1977]

Here is a photo of my 75Q8FN, black bars are good...not completely black, but close.

 

[Blackman]

Lol i was being a bit sarcastic

I have been Damage mentally buy this as we paid $13,850 for this rubbish and I had it replaced as LG said it was not acceptable and the second unit was WORSE!!! Would you pay close to $14,000 for this washed out picture rubbish. The same movie, the same scene the letterbox bars are black as a ace of spades with the Sony 9400E

 

[Cam1977]

The other owners are split. some say really bad and others say they are much better than the pictures I've posted. I got the TV for cheap enough that I'm at least willing to give a functional unit a chance. Though it seems 2020 will likely be a bigger year for advancements.

Well you can always fall back on the q9 if you wanna wait till next year. Could be the 82's were not ready for the wide viewing angle tech...of course just my speculation.