Am I crazy to not care about TVs with HDR?
- Thread starter Towen7
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Tom I couldn't resist and finally broke down and just bought the Samsung 8500 curved 65" 4K with HDR and quantum Dot Technology. Amazon has it for 1,598.00 and Michelle said she'd pay half so with a three year warranty it came to 1,778.00 with tax. Michelle gave me 900.00 so it cost me 900.00 gonna give my beloved Pioneer Elite RPTV 58" to my twin sister and brother in law who have lusted after my tv for years. I was debating between the Vizio 60" P-series and the Samsung for awhile but on Black Friday it was 500.00 cheaper for the the Samsung and bigger picture and I was blown away with the Quantum Dot technology and HDR in action. Gets delivered next Saturday.
That is a great price on a gorgeous display. If you are anything like me, you will be geeking out for months. I am STILL blown away by how native UHD HDR programming looks and I've only seen the streamed stuff. You are in for a fun ride.
Oh, and by the way, you suck!
Oh, and by the way, you suck!
He's gonna put the tv on some curved mid-bass drivers!
I have to say last night I finally got a chance to use HDR. Seems my Samsung has a setting to use HDR plus on non HDR content. With the Samsung it's kind of a semi hidden menu but when you find it you can apply it to 1080i or 720p and even 1080p sources. I applied it last night and what I thought was an awesome picture already really got so much better. Even Michelle was impressed and she doesn't care about any of this but even she was like Wow. The best way to describe it was it was like super charging the pixel colors and making the blacks more black and the whites brighter (actually it was too bright I had to turn down the brightness about 20 points it got that much brighter. I tested this last night with regular Directv on TNT watching of all things the dumbest movie ever "Transformers 4 with Marky Mark" but I sat there for an hour last night just mouth open at how the colors really popped after turning on HDR plus.