Optical doesn’t have the same issues with lip sync as hdmi because it doesn’t have the same processing involved. Whenever a sonos soundbar has such issues they always suggest using optical as a solution till they fix it.
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Just purchased my first OLED Panasonic TV coming from a 13 year old Panasonic LED and i have to say the quality of image is absolutely superb. Things have come a long way.
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Congrats on your purchase Stephen.
Yes, I agree. I purchased an LG C3 OLED 3 months ago. It replaced my 8 year old LED Panasonic.
The image quality difference is night and day!
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I’m rocking a Sony Masters Series A90J 55-inch OLED. Amazing TV for the last 2 years but lately the Google TV Updates are not the best. I moved to have everything on my Apple TV 4K and rarely use the native Sony Apps.
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gotta force us forward!
The circle of purchasers still buying into 4K and UHD is drying up, (less growth) and so they need to resell to qualified customers… people who actually think they want/need the bleeding edge.
It is amazing how many firmware updates and ‘updates’ have made majority of my tech purchases in the last seven years useless, or effectively useless (family members lost capabilities that were’easy’)
From soundbars to wireless noise cancelling headphones, from all the big brands, and the planned obsolescence thing is ‘really ramped up’ presently.
Of course bluray players and ‘streamers’ require internet, so it is easy to slip an update out that breaks kit.
eg my Panasonic OLED being made ‘End of Life’ by Disney updates… (literally hid a TV firmware ‘bomb’ as a ‘Disney app’ update; my TV now does the long OLED refresh cycle daily (and will no longer pass PCM audio from the fibre optic output etc…) )
Apps being made ‘end of life’ on older platforms is purely ‘by choice’ majority of the time.
Whilst my house used to have FOUR subscription services for multimedia, we now have NONE.
If the companies think they can force my hand, and want to actually break my tech and invalidate it at a stupidly fast rate- that is ON THEM.
I call them out for it.
and watching blurays of my favourite shows from Deadwood and Justified, to Xfiles and Rick & Morty, the Blurays have VASTLY better picture, ‘fake film grain’ that no longer trips up ‘upscalers’ and softens ‘internet compression’, and the audio is just SOOOO much better.
UHD discs provide actual use of HDR10(+), and ‘vs the disney equivalents’; shows HDR streaming for what it is worth… (fibre optic with Fibre to the Premises, TV networks just will not push the bandwidth… )
I understand why Netflix et al limited bandwidth in recent years, and the top tier subscription, whilst escalating in cost, actually gave ‘less and less’.
After several complaints with Netflix that their bandwidth never climbed to 20mbit, like it had done for yonks, and now seemed to never go above 12mbit, was effectively ‘not worth the pay upgrade for premium’.
most users don’t know or care…
but; physical media and ‘supporting artists’ really does seem to hold benefits.
with regards to picture (and sound) quality- a nicer bluray player and full bitrate video files really does give much better colour and contrast. (resolution can go ‘jump off a cliff’)
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not a OLED tv but a Nintendo Switch OLED model i have it one year to play at my place in hand mode i have no tv or at trips planes,cruise ships, trains or my moms apartment switched on her samsung curved TVi think its 50 inches or a sony 44
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These days. you don’t have to avoid OLED because of burn-in. Thanks to some smart enhancements on the software side of things, OLED burn-in has become much rarer than before
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I had a Panasonic plasma for 10 years, my son was playing with a console on it, I gave it to my daughter 4 years ago, so the plasma at 14 years old today and no burn in, it works perfectly! I had replaced it with a Panasonic OLED, it works perfectly well too…
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