For your reference, here is the VE shootout list of winners going back to 2011.

Just to bring this thread full circle Sony took the crown yet again with the A90J. Absolutely no surprise here at all.

Clearly that’s been an ace strategy for The Winds of Winter.

UDC does indeed own some of the patents that LG utilizes so fair enough on that point.

LG OLED’s were winning the annual shootout up until 2017 when Sony got in the OLED game. 2018 was won by Sony with the A9F, the first modern consumer grade OLED that Sony brought to market. 2019 was also won by Sony with the A9G. 2020's shootout was cancelled for obvious reasons.

It is an LG panel, but that doesn’t make the Sony and LG the same TV with different badges. The software inside is every bit as important as the panel itself.

I’ve been hoping for this for the last several years. Almost all of the franchises I’ve been wanting to see updated have been done at this point so my wish list is pretty small, but DS currently tops it.

I greatly prefer physical games media for it’s permanence, but despite having both a Series X and PS5 disc edition I also haven’t purchased a single physical game for either and don’t expect that I will in the future. It’s just a pain in the ass having to swap discs all the time.

No one is obligated to say good things. No one is obligated to say bad things.

They can’t stop someone from buying the game but they can definitely make it financially painful, particularly on console as they can simply block your XBL or PSN account from the servers.

I’ll get right on this then. SotC and Demon Souls do indeed look better than the originals.

This will get the job done but only supports 2 displays and 2 audio systems. I imagine that you can further use splitters for more displays (when they become widely available, assuming that all displays have the same resolution/capabilities).

That is exactly the type of setup I’m currently working on. Gear is in a ventilated 36U server rack in my office (which is independently climate controlled from the rest of the house). The gaming PC currently feeds a 48" OLED and Onkyo surround receiver in the same room. The Series X, PS5, and all the rest of the A/V…

I completely agree. I’ll soon have the ability to route any signal to either display, but for the time being the 48" is for PC gaming and the 85" is reserved for the consoles.

It depends on the application. On my desk in my office I have a 48" and it is plenty big. In my theater I have an 85" which is already pushing the limits of the space yet I’m already plotting how I can go even larger.

That’s awesome but my point is that those of us who would pay those kinds of prices (at that screen size) are in the minority.

You want visual quality and advanced features, and frankly so do I...but are you prepared to pay for it when that 42" TV costs $1000 (if not more)?

No OLED is what convinced me to skip this. The increased resolution and FOV would be appreciated but I’m not willing to sacrifice contrast to get it.

Your claim that these aren’t ads is dubious at best, but OK I’ll roll with it for now.