Have you actually viewed 4K content from a good source? It is a big difference
I have seen a couple of nice 4K sets and I have a 4K screen in my kitchen actually. I haven't seen a lot of HDR content though, what I have seen is cool even though I think the brightness is overrated. Honestly for me the biggest "wow" factor of 4K tvs is that GUIs (say Netflixs or Kodi) have really sharp text. I mean a clearer picture during a movie is nice, but when the set lacks the pop and lack of motion blur I have gotten used to with plasmas all the clarity in the world during a still shot doesn't matter.
I have 20/15 vision and I will still take a lower black level over 4K clarity any day of the week. I mean at best 4K is four times as good as 1080p. The black level of OLEDs are MAGNITUDES better than LED tvs. You give a little and get a lot. Edge lit LEDs are complete garbage technology, and no one can afford enough dimming zones in a FALD set to really compete with OLED (or even plasma). It would take thousands of dimming zones, which with today's technology would cost more than OLED.
there is plenty of 4K content already that I have found if you know where to look.
I am about as unscrupulous about attaining content as you can get and what is out on 4K is a drop in the bucket compared to 1080p. I have like 80-ish 4K videos vs over 2000 1080p movies. It will take years for 4K to match the content depth of 1080p and by that point maybe 4K OLED is cheap enough to sneak into this budget range.
That isn't even accounting for the fact that old content really doesn't benefit from 4K like modern content does. Or the fact that with newer content CGI that is believable at 1080p goes right into the uncanny valley at 4K.
Plus I would not want to invest in 1080p and not be able to use UHD disks if I were buying a new tv today.
It we are talking a tv that is over $3K I certainly agree, no reason to not be futureproof especially because they make 4K OLEDs.
If we are talking someone who is buying a sub $2k Tv then they probably don't have the budget for a $2000 PC to play games at 4K, or heck just afford the $35 4K Blu Rays the first couple of years they will be on sale. By the time we see a generation of consoles that can play 4K, or even just get to a point where 4K Blu Rays numbers in the thousands and can be had for $15 normal price like Blu Rays, it will be time to replace a sub-$2k tv probably.
OLED still has growing pains too, it's not perfect. Rtings.com has noted that their LG OLED sets have things like poor uniformity judder in 24p sources etc.
Sure sure. It kinda sucks that only LG makes them because their video processing is garbage and always has been. Firmware updates have helped the uniformity issue though on the top model. Their OLED sets aren't perfect, and if I had one I would jump through hoops with MadVR to get around the limitations. If Panasonic made an OLED for our market I would be much happier.
But jeez, they are just SO much better on the one metric that matters more than any for video content (contrast ratio) I couldn't even consider spending any money on the inferior technology that is LED. A dark movie like Gravity or Star Wars is a whole nother ballgame on those beauties.
It is like if Intel came out with a CPU that was the equivalent of whatever 2020's i7 will be, but you can only use it to play games (not even web browsing) and it's twice as much. Many gamers would sign up for that in a heartbeat. That is the kind of gap we are talking about. This isn't VHS vs Betamax, this is Betamax vs a Blu Ray.
I get that you are more of a gamer though, and you obviously are willing to throw the hardware at the screen needed to play in 4k. In your shoes I would probably have a 4K LED as well. People have different priorities in life. I am videophile myself.
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