For the last few years, OLED TVs have been the best in the business, receiving rave reviews and high praise from consumers and reviewers alike. But with HDR—also known as High Dynamic Range—now entering the market, traditional LED TVs are benefiting from supercharged performance that threatens OLED’s reign at the top.
How do I know? I recently got the chance to be a guest presenter at the 12th annual “Value Electronics TV Shootout.” There we put four of the top TVs on the market through a punishing series of tests in front of an unflinching panel of experts with the goal of crowning one winner.
This year, the HDR-compatible LG G6 series won pretty handily, with its OLED panel taking the top spot in almost every category. But while that would seem to suggest that OLED dominated the proceedings, with HDR content the gap was closer than it’s ever been.
The Competitors
This year’s shootout put four flagship TVs from LG, Samsung, Sony, and Vizio head-to-head. Robert also set up his old Kuro Elite—regarded by many videophiles as the best consumer television ever produced—as a reference screen, as well as a way to show off just how far TV tech has come with regard to new High Dynamic Range standards.
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