I was quoted $475 to repair my 64" F8500. Is that even worth it? They have to replace the main Board. I've had it since 2013. I had been looking into LG CX/GX and or a Sony OLED. I know many people say you shouldn't go LCD after a plasma. OLED is the natural progression. Would the Sony 900H even come close if I went LED from the 64" Plasma?
I'd probably have it repaired if it were me. But you do have to consider that something else might go out next. It's a bit of a dice roll either way.
Back in early 2019 I sold my 64" F8500 locally (through a "Local pickup only" eBay listing) for about $750. That's more than $475.
(The sad story of not keeping it is that it quit working in late 2018. I had a 5 year warranty from Best Buy, and they gave me a store credit for 80% of what I paid for it in Jan. 2014, and let me keep it. I suspected the three capacitors on the Y-Sustain board, but I bought an LG 65C8 with the store credit so we would have something to watch while I worked through the mechanics of trying to fix the board, planning to return the OLED if I was able to fix the board and keep the OLED otherwise. I was able to fix the board, and it worked great again. But my wife would not hear of returning the new TV, and was stuck on me selling the 64F8500, so away it went).
You will find OLED to be a mixed bag. It has perfect blacks and infinite contrast, and I can see that clearly. It has great off-angle viewing. It has modern features and user interface and smart apps if you care about that sort of thing.
All OLED TVs have clearly visible motion handling problems, which are inherent in the sample-and-hold technology that all OLED panels use (
Why Do Some OLEDs Have Motion Blur?). How that is perceived differs from person to person. Some people are not bothered by it, or adjust to it eventually. I am one of those who hate it. It's obvious in things like football and camera pans in baseball. It RUINS the Tokyo car chase scene in The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, when played in 4K Blu Ray on my Oppo-203 player; that sequence is a blurry mess.
OLED has a picture quality that does not have the film-like quality of plasma. It has been described as "video-ish". I can also see that, and while I prefer the film-like presentation of plasma, this OLED characteristic does not bother me too much.
OLED has ongoing issues with panel uniformity, due to the manufacturing process. It is still a "panel lottery" as to whether you get one that is acceptable on regular content. I was lucky, my first one had visible grey-scale uniformity problems with a 5% grey test screen and visible color uniformity problems with a 100% white test screen. But they are invisible to me with normal content, so I am quite happy with it. However, some people are still going through three, and I have even read of four, panels before getting an acceptable one.
See this thread, including the more recent, up-to-date posts:
OLED Screen Uniformity Discussion-Banding and Vignetting
For example, this post from this month:
OLED Screen Uniformity Discussion-Banding and Vignetting
If you like plasma, there is a high chance that you will not like LED. Black level issues, off-axis viewing issues, picture uniformity and quality issues, etc. Even with a FALD set, you still have a finite number of zones, versus the pixel-by-pixel white level control of plasma and OLED.