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Scott Wilkerson (7:32)

Now the main Companies in the US that sell OLED TVs are LG, Samsung and Sony. And recently Panasonic got back into the game. As you know. Well, they have a, they used to sell plasma TVs in the US but they got out of the US market some time ago and they've only recently reemerged into the US market with some OLED TVs. So I put together a little spreadsheet that I will show you here and we can go over some of the options for OLED TVs that would be good replacements for your Panasonic plasma. And if we take a look at that, we can see I've categorized them into less than $2,000 and more than $2,000. And LG has the most models that are available. And I looked specifically at the B series and the C series in the lower, lower end they also make an A series, but the B series has 120Hz refresh rate which, which is where I'd like to start. So as you can see, and I can included the 2024 models and the 2025 models and they indicated by the last digit in the model number. So the 55B4 which was last year's model is selling on the website. And by the way, all these prices are from the manufacturer website. Sometimes they indicate a sale. You know, they say, oh, the list price is this, but our sale price is this. And I'm listing this, what they call the sale price, it's effectively the purchase price. I, I think those are relatively long term sales, shall we say. Anyway, so the B4, as you can see the 55 inch is a thousand bucks. The B5 which is current model, 1300 dollars 300 difference. If you go up to the 65 inch Bs. The B4 is 1200 and the 65 B5 is 1600. Interestingly, take a look at the Cs in, in the LG line. The C4. The 55 inch C4 from last year was not discounted. It was listed on that site as $2,000. That's like what? I, I don't get that at all. The 55 inch C5 is only 1400 dollars, 600 less than last year's model. Okay, that doesn't make a lot of sense, but that's what was on the site. So. Okay, and then the 65 inch C4, as you can see there, C4 is 1400 and C5 is 1700. Continuing in the under two thousand dollar range, Panasonic has a lower end model 65Z85A for a thousand bucks. That's pretty good for a 65 incher. Samsung has three models under two thousand dollars which you can see there. And those are all. Those are all QD OLED. The, the LGs are all what are called W OLED, which means conventional OLED. A red, green and blue subpixel and a white subpixel. Hence the name W O L E D. The Panasonic Z85A is the same. The Samsung models are what are called QD OLED or quantum. OLED. And that's a better technology, no question about it because it uses quantum dots, doesn't have that white subpixel so it maintains color saturation at brighter at higher brightness levels. And they have three models here. The 55 inch S85F, the 55 inch S90F and the 65 inch S85. The S90F does have a 65 inch version, but it's actually over $2,000. So I put it in the next category and you can see the prices there. Sony has two OLEDs under $2,000 called the Bravia 8. The 55 and 65 also woled conventional OLED. And you can see there, they're just a little bit more expensive than the Samsung's which we have come to expect from Sony. Just a little bit more expensive, but in my opinion worth the extra hundred bucks because they generally have better processing. Samsung processing is no slouch, don't get me wrong. But I will say this. The reason I normally don't recommend Samsung TVs is not because they're not good TVs. They are good TVs but they don't support Dolby Vision. High dynamic range. Samsung has chosen as a company to not support Dolby Vision in any of its TVs. And I think Dolby Vision, it's, first of all it's common, that's used a lot and it's a really good HDR format. So I want a TV that supports it. So that's why I generally don't recommend Samsung. So that's under $2,000. If you, if you have the budget to go over $2,000, you've got some options as well and they will generally be higher quality. And by the way, I will say this. When you go from one model line up to the next, say for example from LGB to C, you're going to get more brightness and better processing. That's the primary difference. They're all going to be 4k, they're all going to be HDR capable. Samsung's won't support Dolby Vision, but they do support other HDR formats. So that's basically what you're getting when you go from one product line to the next. So over $2,000 we have the LGs again, the G4 and the G5 from 2024 and 2025. And you can see the prices there. 65 and, and again the 65 inch G4, last year's model is way more expensive than the, than this year's 65 inch G5. So weird. I don't get that. The Panasonic Z95A only comes in a 65 inch. The 85A only comes in a 65 inch as well as far as I could tell. And that's 3200 bucks. That's very expensive. Very expensive. Samsung has some QD OLEDs that are over 2000 but under three that. Well the 65 inch net S95F is 3300 bucks. So that's pretty expensive. And then the Sonys, the last year's A95L is the TV I actually have in my theater and I love it. I think it is a beautiful TV and you can get the 55 incher for 2000 bucks. This year's QD OLED is the Bravia 8 Mark 2 and it also comes in 55 and 65 inch versions. And you can see there they're quite a bit more expensive than the a95L. So what I recommend, what the, the models I recommend are in green in this Spreadsheet. And so you can see, I recommend for the low end, lower end, the LG C5 and 65 inch C4.

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Scott Wilkerson (15:30)

The Sony Bravia 8. Both of those are really, really good. And these are all good. OLEDs generally are exceptionally good. Let, let me not miss that fact. They're just a much better technology in my opinion than LCD, any LCD based TV. But those, the, those LGs and the Sonys are my favorites in the under 2000 category. In the over 2000 category, I would still recommend, I would mostly recommend the sonys, either the A95L or the Bravia 8 Mark 2. Those are all QD OLEDs as well. And QD OLED is my favorite currently available TV technology. So if you're gonna replace the tv, depending on your budget, I would get one of those. It's the closest thing you're gonna get to plasma and it's gonna look great, really great. As long as you choose cinema mode, picture mode or movie picture mode or filmmaker mode, one of those modes that gets it close to being calibrated. And Sony goes a long way toward calibrating their sets on the assembly line. Another reason I really like Sony and another reason they're more expensive but worth it in my opinion. So anyway, that's what I recommend and I wish you all the best. Now if you have a question for me, please send it along to HTG and I'll answer as many as I can right here on the show. And as you know, TWIT is now offering all of its programs for free on YouTube with ads. If you want to go ad free, join the club. Go to TWIT TV Club Twit to sign up today. Until next time, geek out.

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Scott Wilkerson (18:53)

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