u/koikahin

TLDR: if you're not comparing TVs side by side, or measuring for review purposes, will you notice that the PQ of mid-tier is any inferior to the top-tier?

The thing with TV review sites is that they are either using highly technical measurements (makes sense) or comparing against reference monitors and determining how much off these TVs are compared to what the creator intended. Then there are TV vs TV comparisons highlighting pros and cons of one versus the other. 

In these comparisons you can notice the difference between TVs and might find one TV better than the other. Same with going to a shop like BestBuy and checking them out - you might like one over the other when you're comparing that way. 

What I want to understand is, for someone watching TV at home, how much will it matter to the person watching the TV when they are neither measuring with tools nor comparing with another TV side-by-side?

E.g. yes the peak 2%, 10% window brightness etc. for the top tier models are numerically much larger than the mid-tier models, but will you notice it subjectively when not comparing? For most content mastered at 1000 nits, you probably won't. But what about content mastered at 4000 nits? If you were to compare the mid-tier with the top-tier side by side you probably will notice the difference, but at your home with nothing else to compare to, won't the challenging scenes look pretty much similar subjectively if you had the mid-tier _or_ if you had the top-tier one? Same logic goes to viewing angles in these segment of TVs, color volume, or raised black levels when used in a non-light controlled room etc. 

I'm guessing that I won't notice the difference one way or another so I should just save money and get the mid-tier one. But I don't upgrade TVs for 10 years generally, so if my viewing experience will differ if I were to choose the high-tier one, I don't mind getting it. 

I know, they are in different segments. But at the prices they are today, I can afford either. The LG is roughly $500 more than the S90F at this point. I've been consuming everything I can find about these two TVs and they are pretty neck and neck in terms of features, image quality etc. I don't want to list every single pros and cons - of which there are many - of these two TVs here, and none of them affect me much. The primary thing I wonder though is does G5's higher peak brightness win over the S90F's higher color volume in bright areas of a scene?

Usage:

- no gaming.

- mostly movies tv shows from streaming services/rips.

- rarely cable.

- country: US

- room: living room. There's a big french window with blinds that I can close when I want to watch something immersively but of course there will be some amount of ambient light bleed through the blinds during the day time. There are a couple of lamp-posts that I can move if their reflection is a problem.

TIA!

I know, they are in different segments. But at the prices they are today, I can afford either. The LG is roughly $500 more than the S90F at this point. I've been consuming everything I can find about these two TVs and they are pretty neck and neck in terms of features, image quality etc. I don't want to list every single pros and cons - of which there are many - of these two TVs here, and none of them affect me much. The primary thing I wonder though is does G5's higher peak brightness win over the S90F's higher color volume in bright areas of a scene?

Usage:

- no gaming.

- mostly movies tv shows from streaming services/rips.

- rarely cable.

- country: US

- room: living room. There's a big french window with blinds that I can close when I want to watch something immersively but of course there will be some amount of ambient light bleed through the blinds during the day time. There are a couple of lamp-posts that I can move if their reflection is a problem.

TIA!