So in the end I bought the Samsung one, the Neo QLED (in opposition to this entire thread that, as the title says, it’s dedicated to OLED tvs), the premium 2021 model. I am a contrarian!
And yes, I actually went to a shop to compare them in real life, as someone suggested.
My reasoning was, the LG C1 has the edge… in the typical demos done to highlight OLED panels, this is, videos of bright colored balls or confetti flying around in front of a pure black background. As you will understand, 95% of the time (if not more), in a real series or film you won’t have a scene like that, bright colors against pure black. And even if you have it, the difference with the blacks is more minor than you may think, it has 800 dimming zones, so again in real movies it super hard to notice. I can only think of a scene like a spacehip advancing against a stark black space background or something like that where you will notice the difference more.
And in exchange, it has almost twice the brightness peak of a LG C1 (and also maintain it better the brightness in a sustained way). And contrast in panel is done not only with how black is your dark areas, but both how dark are the dark parts and how bright the bright areas, contrast is the difference between the two, so if this tv has 96% the dark of an oled, and twice the brightness of an oled, the end result can be better.
It also has some minor benefits, like better stand (aesthetic wise), half as thick (the trick to get to that point is, it has the one connect box with the main board in a separate exterior box, with a single cable going to the panel), slightly better sound (not needed if you are going to use a external system, but still), and 4 hdmi 2.1 ports
And yeah, it looks great!
Except… actually I had to open a ticket with the customer service, because the tv had a very high pitch sound (my parents literally can’t hear it), pretty faint but bothersome if you are alone in the middle of the night watching tv and you have a silent scene. Doings tests I could see the sound was lower with lower brightness, so ironically the brightness that I liked was like my own blade in which I stumbled upon, lol. And I couldn’t get accustomed to it, after hours instead of my brain learning to ignore it, I would pick on it even more.
In any case, after two months, I was finally able to get the technician to repair it (full panel replacement). And even then, I guess it’s a feature of the technology itself, because I can still hear it with the new panel, but it’s half as ‘loud’ (or better said, twice as faint), so now I only pick it up in very specific cases, and even is only if my head is oriented in a specific way, so yeah, I can consider it fixed.
