Personally speaking, I was very fearful of Sony - I used to highly rate them, but I've heard from engineers that fix TV's, to steer well away from them; having had 4 TV's fail in the same year, 2 different brands and over a grand each, I formed a quick first name basis with the warranty repairer - who told me, that Sony's are the worst, so bad, that they don't even try to repair them due to either Sony not providing parts, or knowing that it isn't cost effective, so instead just refund you credit for the TV.
When I was younger however, I drooled over Trinitron's
They seem to be very overpriced, for the lack of features you get, versus the other brands - something that personally, really annoyed me; charging 120Hz money for basic 60Hz TV's that are edge lit, for a grand, is pretty ridiculous.
OLED wise, I'm sure they're fine, as that'll be an LG or Samsung panel, that they've paid to use, right? So at that point, I don't see why I'd pay brand tax to have it say Sony?
Hmmm, I guess it's a trade off, of which you can tollerate, be it smearing or contrast, for me smearing simply isn't acceptable, just like ghosting/motion sickness wasn't with previous generations.
I suppose, where I'm yet to experience a VA that beats an IPS in real world, first hand experience, I 'know, no better'? So I will always choose the IPS, versus the smearing of a VA?
Nice, I do want to take the plunge, but as a monitor, and all the babying/built in features to prevent burn in, put me off. I don't want the faff of all that, I want to turn it on, and use it, not run a procedure/operate it for X time at a lower brightness or whatever, nor have to do care taker duty, nor worry that I use it 8 hours straight at a time with either a HUD or icons/taskbar/toolbars etc, on screen static - it's understandably, quite the mindfield, worry wise.
Someone told me in my thread regarding monitors, how I'd have to regulate the brightness of the room if I got an OLED - something I was very shocked by, I was under the assumption that they were way brighter than non OLED panels? To the point it'd be blinding me if anything, not dim?
I suppose there's a lot of misinformation, but if I went OLED, I don't want to compromise, if it's meant to be the best - which is exactly what annoys me with VA; people are forever making excuses for it's negatives, which IMHO, are worse than any mild positives over IPS.
But i'm happy to be proven wrong in person, but I'm yet to experience anything that actually does what it claims, despite the spec sheet - just like people who make fans lie about the noise, then you use one yourself, and find that they're nowhere near 'silent' let alone 'quiet' and the peak noise is more like 50DB versus the mid 30's specified; there's definitely a lot of payoff's going on, when it comes to reviews/affiliation!
For me, in an ideal world, someone just needs to show me in person, something that actually does what it says on the tin, with no babying, that doesn't require babysitting, ala how an IPS is.
