Modern OLEDs won't burn in that easily, unless you like to stare at a static screen for 24 hours everyday. If that's your TV watching habit, I think you should not get a TV, but get help instead.

Dead pixels can occur to any display, doesn't matter if it's OLED or LCD. My 3 year old C9 has zero burn-in but close to about 100 dead pixels at the edges of the screen, which is normal.

I'll always go for OLED because I can't stand blooming, which the QN95B still exhibits despite moving to mini LED backlight. Dolby Vision is whatever, if you're just relying on DV from streaming services they aren't real DV anyways. Who cares.

My C9 is 77", I sit 7.5ft away from the screen. I can only notice the dead pixels on a full white screen, even then I have to squint to see it. 12ft? Whoever tells you they can see a dead pixel that far is lying through his ass cheeks.

It depends how you use your TV at the end of the day. If you're in a room with no control of light, then the LCD is better because it is brighter and backlight bleed is much more difficult to notice. If you're in a dark room, blooming is simply unavoidable, it's impossible to not notice it.

They trade blows. There are some things the A80J does better, some the C9 is still superior.

A80J has a more refined handling of above black (5% IRE) handling, meaning a little bit better detail and less flashing artifacts in dark shadow areas. But you trade that off for slightly lower HDR peak brightness, slightly higher input latency, and DV being useless on Sony TVs until today.

Why do you want to upgrade from your C9 though? Still a fine TV.

QD OLED is very promising, unfortunately the S95B and A95k at this moment only come in 55 and 65 inches. Not my cup of tea, perhaps this year when Samsung also launches a 77" then I may look at it deeper.

My biggest concern at this moment with QD OLED is color fringing and areas just above blacks being a little too grey. Samsung says they're going to improve that this year, so let's hope they hold true to their word.


1000 in what? Full field? 50%? 10%?

It's important to specify brightness based on content, because nits as a round number doesn't mean jack shit.

Good luck finding one in another multiverse maybe. No OLED TV will ever have 1000 nits at a 50% window.

Recent OLEDs as far back as 2018 are certainly good for HDR. Whoever said it wasn't either have their TV in a room where sunlight in glaring off the screen or they're talking shit through a donkey's ass.

NEO QLED isn't a TV, it's just a moniker Samsung came up with for their LCD TVs. It doesn't mean anything without context. Their highest end "QLED" TV which are usually the Q9xx series employs the latest LED backlight tech today which is mini LED. They're not bad but as I've explained above, but still cannot eradicate blooming issues so personally I rule them out from my list since I watch movies in a pitch black room.

The A80k is a good TV indeed - for movies.

But if you game, be aware that Sony OLEDs have this aggressive AF ASBL whenenver static content is on screen (HUDs, life bars, etc. in a game). Screen will dim, go back up in brightness, then dim again like an annoying prick. Of course you can disable ASBL in the factory menu, but most people aren't comfortable or know how to do it.

You're right, I stand corrected. There is no way to disable ASBL on Sony TVs. In that case that basically means a big NO if you're gaming a lot.

Disabling ASBL was a life saver on my C9. No more pointless and dumb screen dimming in movies where there are extended dark or lowly lit scenes. Prior to disabling ASBL, shows like Midnight Mass, Ozark, and DARK was unwatchable.


Who told you mini LED has perfect HDR?

Personally I'll always choose OLED. I've used OLEDs since 2017, never once have I encountered burn-in. Seriously hate the propaganda about fear mongering towards burn-in.