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there is a gaping hole in my family room wall and a matching tv size budget

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burning a hole in my wallet why haven't i spent the budget to fill the hole

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well because i've fallen into the same trap i'm always warning you guys about

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in my search for the perfect tv we already reviewed two of the hottest sets

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on the market samsung's s95b qd OLED and

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lg's g2w OLED but i couldn't bring

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myself to pull the trigger because i knew there was something better around the

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corner fortunately the corner

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is this one this is it

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for a whopping thousand dollars more the

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a95k from sony features the best of all

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worlds at least on paper a qd OLED panel sony's

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outstanding image processing dolby vision and a special cooling layer to

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push it beyond the performance of its south korean competitors will this be

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the one that ends up in my family room i really hope so because it's getting

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harder and harder to convince my sponsors to keep buying me new tvs

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sponsors like grid studio using the art

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between our last two contenders the lg g2 and samsung s95b i'm leaning toward

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the s95b and it's all about samsung's qd

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OLED panel technology it is super bright

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color accurate out of the box has top-notch viewing angles and we suspect

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that it won't suffer from permanent image retention or burn in to nearly the

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same degree as earlier oleds yes the lack of polarization does mean

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that in a brightly lit room it doesn't look as inky black as lg's w OLED but

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when you've got two scenes side by side that aren't super dark it just plain

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wins or at least it did let's take a look at our

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newcomer for 4 grand for a 65 inch this

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better blow me away there's a good

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chance it will it's you know we're still using cutie OLED panels and just like

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with the samsung but it's got an extra twist like lg's g2 it's got that big

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thermal layer on the back so it should dissipate heat a bit better but they're

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not using it the way you might think lg seems to be using the thermal

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dissipation layer to boost brightness without cooking their oleds

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sony seems to be more focused on reducing image retention because it's

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not any brighter than the vanilla samsung version yeah there's more though

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compared to samsung it has dolby vision to go along with its dolby atmos and its

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bravia which means this or something else from sony's lineup is the only way

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you'll get dolby vision in your ps5 on my ps5 or ps5 your ps5 can't say i'm a

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fan of this kind of ecosystem walled gardening and also i don't have a

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playstation 5. yeah well anyway it has

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HDR 10 and hlg but not HDR 10 plus

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why can't they just have all of them yeah i mean i guess it's a lot of work

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but that's another swing and a miss to me i thought you said i was going to like this thing you are you are double

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vision's pretty good the good news is i'm expecting those supported HDR modes

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to look really good on here and we measured around 960 nits in HDR with

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full field white hitting about 210 nits but the big thing is almost 320 nits in

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sdr really yeah which is really good for an OLED wow okay this already looks

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great with the studio lights in my eyes

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i know and as long as the g2 isn't that right there yeah it still looks black it

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still looks black like it's you know it's a pretty minor difference it's a

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funny thing because the issue with the black bars on an ips is that they glow

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yeah so in the night they bother you because they're glowing they're

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distracting from the immersion in the content

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but on these tvs they only look gray they don't actually

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emit light they just have kind of a gray look compared to the inky blacks of a wo

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lead yeah and the fire looks so good like even his pant leg there it looks

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like his legs are actually on fire like they are they filmed it on fire probably

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with like a fire resistant pants or whatever but but without over juicing

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anything yeah no it doesn't look cartoonish all the grass looks as green

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as it should and it's like the yellow patches there like it looks like you're

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staring at an actual field i hate the term it looks like i'm looking through a

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window but like that's as close as it's gonna get i

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think we haven't talked about reflections that was a big advantage on

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the samsung compared to the lg and it's pretty solid here when it's

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full black i can see myself yeah but otherwise like even here it's kind of

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dark and i can kind of see us a little bit but it's not that distracting and

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we are lit by studio lighting right now this is totally unfair yeah this is an

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unfair situation and when we look at the numbers that makes sense

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sony boasts nearly 90 coverage of the bt

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2020 color space and straight out of the

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box we got a delta e average of 1.85 in

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sdr technically that is a slight loss to

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the s95b but that's only after using

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samsung's onboard calibration and a difference of 0.16 is an insignificant

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price to pay for our 75 nits of extra

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brightness as for HDR we measured both imax

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enhanced and cinema modes and ladies and gentlemen we figured out where most of

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that thousand extra dollars is going sony's processing

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not ltcstore.com where they could have picked up a sweet man hoodie or a swag

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even after using samsung's calibration app the a95k

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crushes the s95b in HDR without

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luminance errors we are getting a delta e average of 3.6 with a max of 6.5 like

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it's not even close the sony also

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handles reds significantly better skin tones look so

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natural like that looks like a fire lit face it doesn't look like a yellow light

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on a face and while some of the other colors are slightly more accurate on the

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samsung that lower maximum deviation is

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more important here it wasn't easy getting to this state

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though while we didn't dig into the 10-point white balance and color

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adjustment on the bravia we did have to tinker with some of the other settings

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and it comes with some trade-offs to get the most color accurate image in both

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sdr and HDR you can't use the same

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settings in both modes

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we found that the best results in HDR were with gradation preferred HDR tone

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mapping advanced contrast enhancer set to medium and live color set to high

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conversely sdr wants ace and live color

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off if you keep the sdr settings you end up

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with less accuracy and more luminance errors in HDR when you keep the HDR

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settings color accuracy plummets in HDR

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and i just wish we didn't have to make this trade-off though realistically an

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average delta ef4 is still really good for the average viewer so what i would

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probably do is leave it dialed in for HDR and then take that hit in sdr

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of course we need more than just great color performance what about the

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features it runs it up to 4k 120hz refresh rate

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we will talk about gaming shortly integrates with every relevant voice

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assistant through the mic in the remote and has sony's cool behind the screen

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speakers these can either be used as better than average integrated sound or

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this is really cool as a stealthy center channel in a surround config like the

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one we set up in this sponsored video on the a9ht speakers it's even got a

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freaking webcam this wow that's kind of weird looking this

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definitely merits a closer look those

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flashes are so crisp yeah and fast

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normally i don't care about pixel response time while i'm consuming

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passive entertainment sure right like when i'm gaming when i'm controlling the

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action i do but wow it's

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on and off yeah yeah and so there's this difference between

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the display not being fast and there being kind of an after effect to a

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bright flash like that and your eyes

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being what causes the the after effect of seeing something bright yeah but this

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is just boop and then it's gone that's

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cool do you like the remote you've only used it for like 20 seconds

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i haven't had any complaints right because it just feels correct look at

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that it has buttons you need like a dedicated input button oh dedicated

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bravia core button i certainly plan to use that i don't

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think it has like disney plus no it does it does netflix

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but why would i want those if i have braviacore i could watch such wonderful

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movies as spiderman and other more different spiderman

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it just makes the atmosphere so much more immersive

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the glitter on the light fury and

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it's glitter it's not just a white spot you know what

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i mean yeah yeah look at it look at them

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yeah yeah sparkle that's over and you can only do that with individually lit

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pixels just

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now you said we got 100 megabit in one of the other files but is the tv

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actually limited to 100 megabits i tried speed test

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and i got 100 megabit up and down yeah put gigabit controllers on these things

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you guys they cost nothing and here this feels like sun behind

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clouds yes it looks like an overcast gray sky yeah

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i just love this scene in HDR man the thing is

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HDR is not about a brighter image or

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even making out more details in the dark parts of the scene it's about

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light and materials and them behaving on

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screen in a way that's like what we'd expect in the real world it's about immersion

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it's about having a high dynamic range yes thank you

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it is kind of right in the name finally it's time to talk gaming we

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gamed on all three displays with an rtx 3080ti and a core i9 12 900k we're gonna

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have our tvs and our test bench parts listed below by the way if you want to

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check them out surprise surprise because they're all OLED they're all

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freaking great actually panel latency testing was done using a

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new tool from our friend andrew over at tech team gb

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speaking of tests we just went around trying to find out who's the fastest

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typer at LMG and you can only check that video out on Floatplane so go get

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subscribed andrew developed the os rtt or open

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source response time tool it's a device that is similar to NVIDIA's ldap but

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it's open source obviously and it runs its own unreal engine 4 program in the

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background to simulate flashes and light changes we got pretty similar results

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from each display with the lg and the sony hitting about 8.4 milliseconds

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going from zero to 153 so black is zero

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and 153 is gray and the samsung marginally beat them at 7.9 milliseconds

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in the same test putting all three of them in the upper echelon of living room

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gaming displays now while the g2 is the only one with proper NVIDIA g-sync

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compatibility all three displays have variable refresh rate and automatic low

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latency mode so i'm not expecting that to be a big differentiating factor now

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to dive deeper into qdo led versus w

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OLED and whether or not it has the same lightning fast pixel response time we've

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ordered a new sensor for our oscilloscope so make sure to get

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subscribed for all the Labs content that we have in store

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but to the eye all three of them are

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definitely fine which leads us to the conclusion

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despite the higher price tag i think i'm gonna go with the sony bravia a95k

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it might not get quite as bright as the samsung and HDR but it's sturdier our

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s95b has actually started to warp just from unboxing and re-boxing it a few

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times and we're not the only ones seeing the problem it's more color accurate in

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HDR brighter in sdr and dolby vision is

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just too good to pass up even if we think sony's being kind of butt heads

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about dolby vision the thing though is that my budget isn't exactly limited i

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actually bought two of the three tvs

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rather than wait for review units so that i could get an answer quicker and

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get my family room built out so it's important to give a more grounded

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perspective for almost anyone else saving a thousand

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dollars is a no-brainer for the still

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very outstanding picture that you're gonna get from either the lg g2 or

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samsung s95b really i think the main takeaway here is that if you've got the

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budget for a flagship tv it is pretty tough to pick the wrong one

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for a change and if you don't mind waiting a year or two

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there are going to be some amazing home

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make sure to check out the other two videos dedicated to the s95b and the lg

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g2 both of them are really nice even if

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i did choose this one instead