I am this close
🤏 to buying a 48CX since my preferred retailer
finally restocked them yesterday, after having nothing for months.
The thing which is making me hesitate is that the 48″ model has not been discounted at all: the 55″ is considerably cheaper (especially BX) and the 65″ is only a couple of hundred more. But neither of those really work at my desk.
We're only a few weeks away from CES '21 for details of the C11, but the problem is that there's no way the 48CX will still be in stock by then.
The only improvements for next year I could think off is either bigger brightness improvements and that's about it. OLED has matured enough in terms of technology, but cheaper sets should be on the forecast for 2021 once production ramps back up..
The are still a
lot of other improvements that could be made to existing OLED designs.
But I'm not convinced that any of them will start to appear until LG is facing strong competition in the market from similar technologies, as evidenced with their cost-cutting of the CX models.
The CX is still a higher quality display than the C9, but things like the lack of DTS pass-through can be frustrating.
There, the issue is not a lack of DTS(HD) support itself - that can easily be converted to LPCM.
But my understanding is that converting DTS tracks to LPCM means that you lose the metadata required for the object-based DTS:X and Auro-3D formats.
They still have issues with flickering when VRR is being used too, which is unlikely to be resolved without a hardware change.
Don't expect prices to come down due to increased competition, LG is the only manufacturer of oled panels and everyone else has to buy panels from them, they set the price for the whole market basically and they know micro led is around the corner so I see it as them squeezing out every last bit of profit until then.
Technically they are two different companies.
LG Display manufactures the panels, while LG Electronics buys them and develops televisions using them.
That means LGE should actually be competing on a level playing field with other display manufacturers - and I've certainly seen OLEDs using these panels at lower prices than the LG models. In recent sales, LG were actually some of the highest priced models here.
oh great, i never use built-in apps
apple tv or death
It should be noted that Apple TV devices cannot play Dolby Vision, TrueHD + Atmos, or DTS-HD (and thus DTS:X / Auro-3D) if you are ripping your own Blu-rays and trying to stream them.
Some apps can convert TrueHD / DTS-HD to LPCM, but that strips out the object-based metadata.
They don't support a 24Hz output either - only 23.98Hz, which causes minor stuttering in 24Hz native content.
I've also run into buffering issues when trying to stream UHD discs since the tvOS 14 update.
