The good news is that Sony and Panasonic OLEDs will now support HDMI 2.1, and Sony are switching to display-led Dolby vision rather than player-led.
Unfortunately though, Panasonic are still only releasing OLEDs in 55″/65″ sizes, and the high-end ones have a non-removable Atmos sound bar built in.
Sony are adding an 83″ model, but have not announced an updated 48″ model with HDMI 2.1 support.
LG Display's bendable 48″ OLED prototype remains just that. LG Electronics have not announced a TV with that feature.
And neither company has the same warranty support as LG.
It's in LG's interests to replace the panel if it burns, to avoid tanking their OLED panels' reputation. Sony/Panasonic will not.
I'm always cautious when people continually post things like: "X company's support is so good!" though, because I'd rather have a product which does not require me to contact customer support at all.
I was hoping for smaller 8K TVs from Samsung, but it looks like they may have actually dropped 8K support at 55″ this year.
4K at 48″ is only 92 pixels per inch, which is quite a low pixel density for a computer monitor. Even the new 43″ OLED panel (not a TV) would only be 103 PPI.
why would you get it over the LG
Sony and Panasonic have better image quality than LG.
Panasonic have the best, with them having eliminated the near-black posterization present to varying degrees on all other OLEDs.
But Sony have the best color, motion, and detail enhancements for lower-quality sources. They do the best job of removing compression artifacts like color banding.
Aren't all Sony OLEDs sourced from LG anyways?
That said I'd still go with Sony due to their image processing and native GoogleTV
The panels are. Everything which makes it a television, including important aspects of image quality, is developed by Sony.
LG Electronics operate the same way too - they buy the OLED panels from LG Display and then produce the television themselves.
It's a risk on basically all modern displays, the issue is realistically what you're going to run into and how that varies on the type of display. But also because that's such the perception, there's plenty of analyses you can look up on YouTube about how extreme your viewing habits would have to be for there to be any noticeable burn in. Are you the type to play something like a sports game where there's an opaque static graphic on the screen for 20 hours every single day for a year straight? Avoid an OLED I guess.
It's only a risk for OLED.
LCD displays 'reset' any wear when you switch them off and the crystals return to their rest state.
Technically, locally-dimmed backlights
could show uneven wear, but I've had one for over 10 years with no signs of that. The inorganic LEDs used for backlights are significantly more resilient than OLED.
The C9/CX are too new to say whether they will have long-term burn-in problems.
People say the panels are improved, but that might only buy another 12 months before they start looking like the older panels do.
With Samsung Electronics all in on microled and Samsung Display making quantam dot OLEDs, it'll be interesting to see what happens. Samsung Electronics is desperately trying to avoid using OLED panels while the Display division is in the process of making OLEDs that would be brighter than anything LG can currently do with no burn in since it's just a blue OLED panel with a QD sheet on top.
Blue OLED material has the shortest lifespan of all of them - especially when they are intending on having blue be a pass-through rather than using a blue QD color filter, which means shorter-life materials than other blues (this is why LG uses a cyan material).
It is far from a given that they will have "no burn in".
LG has been replacing panels with burn in for a while now in many territories. The burn in scare should belong to the past.
A one-time courtesy replacement for displays which are only 2–3 years old, in some regions.
It's not officially written in the warrant conditions, and I intend on keeping my TV for longer than 6 years (it's not like the replaced panels won't also burn).
I can buy a third-party warranty to cover it, but that's an additional expense and only lasts five years.
On the one-hand, it is tempting to just buy an OLED for the superior image quality, and get it replaced if it burns within that warranty period.
Even with screen burn, it would arguably look better than most LCD displays if you can overlook it.
On the other-hand, I'd rather not deal with/think about it, as much as I'd prefer to not get another LCD - especially not a VA-type LCD.
Been waiting years for Real Mini LED and it is finally here from LG and Samsung. Samsung will be the only TV brand offering 12 bit color, Adaptive HDR10+ and AMD Free Sync pro in Mini LED so my eyes on are them first. LG's QNED Mini LED are also looking good too and even Hisense has Mini LED now. TCL's mini led has taken the next step with its OD Zero tech and 8K. Skipped over OLED for Mini LED and now they are finally here.
I think you are confusing mini LED with micro LED.
Mini LED displays are LCDs with mini LED backlighting (more dimming zones). They are not self-emissive micro LED displays (competitor to OLED).