The Samsung Q9 was a complete JOKE!!!! The Q9 was doing the Skittle Vomit deal the Q7 does. Let me be specific. The Samsung Q9’s strongest feature is the amazing color volume, which is fascinating since it allows the Q9 to basically create much more contrast using color, instead of gamma, per se. This is very cool and genuinely innovative. The challenge with Samsung is they have ALWAYS oversaturated colors, so they look super fake. With the advent of the Q9, with its amazing color volume, they don’t need to do this anymore, but on both the Q7 and Q9 Samsung 2017, they completely oversaturate the colors, which makes everything look super-fake and cartoonish at best.
This is a stupid shame as it defeats the advantage of having the much higher color volume. There are some scenes in the Samsung demo video of Planet Earth II, and they look ridiculous. Specifically, there is a scene with red lobsters running on a beach, and it looks like somebody spray painted their legs with fluorescent red paint. Same with all the jungle scenes from Planet Earth II, the jungle looks like somebody went through and spray painted all the leaves florescent green. [I attached a photo at the bottom of this post that shows the scene from Planet Earth that looks like somebody spray painted the leaves in the jungle Fluorescent green, so you can see exactly what I am talking about].
Also, Off angle viewing on the SAMSUNG Q9 was terrible!!!! Ironically, they had a 75 inch Q7 next to a 65 inch Q9, and when I was standing in front of the Q7, it looked better than the Q9, right next to it. I have heard so many people bash Samsung recently, without even seeing the QLED TVs in person, which I thought was premature, but now that I have seen them and studied them for myself, I think they are a complete joke!!! I think Samsung is really losing it, and their pricing is beyond insulting.
Next I spent considerable time comparing the 65" Sony AE1 OLED, 65" Q7 Samsung, as well as a 65 and 77 inch LG OLED, to the 75 inch Sony Z9, and here are my findings:
The Sony AE1 is another complete joke. The image is so dark, that out of all the TVs mentioned above, it by far and away had the worst image quality. Even the Samsung curved Q7 blew it away. I seriously think Sony made a mistake even making a rebranded LG OLED.
The one place the AE1 excels over the LG OLED is with its motion handling, which is much better due to the X1 Extreme. How bad did I think the Sony AE1 was? If somebody offered to sell it to me for $1000, but told me I could not resell it and had to watch it, I would not buy it. Even for $1000.
The salesman at BB played all kinds of different sources on ALL The TVs mentioned above, including 1080P Blue Ray, and 4k HDR, and no matter what the source,
the Z9 destroyed every other TV. It made the 77inch LG look like a fuzzy, dark joke. For anybody reading this, I don’t yet own any of these TVs, and I have no horse in this race. I am just interested in the best TV, and from EVERYTHING I have seen to date, I would say Sony has finally lived up to its now vintage slogan of “Sony. The One And Only.”