The Grand Tour - Discussion thread

[bam_bam]

So I bought a new TV and it arrived on Friday but we spent the weekend in the Isle of Wight. I set it up last night (a 55KS8000 if case you were wondering), and I couldn't find any UHD content on Netflix so I logged onto Amazon and The Grand Tour winked at me. It started and my jaw was on the ground until it finished. The TV picked up the HDR source and it proceeded to knock my eyeballs out, the colour detail was insane, the resolution was immense, I could see every crag, open pore and hair follicle on the three Stooges but it was the car porn that wow'd! Can't really remember the show format, I'll have to watch it again, the picture actually looked reference quality. I'm sold, I'll keep watching it.

[MikeFish]

Might be time for a new telly then. How much UHD content is out there now?

[Shoppinit]

Not much. And the problem is that it's still horribly overcompressed. I've watched stuff in UHD and HDR and gone back to watching the 1080P version because it just better and people look less like clowns. If you watch 4k blurays then that's a different story. 1080P blurays look much better than 4K streamed stuff. As always, it depends on the encoding, compression and the implementation. I will check out TGT, though. Maybe Amazon have dialed down the compression for it.

All my equipment is 4K capable but I just don't bother with it any more.

[MikeFish]

Ok so not really worth it yet.

Sorry for going off topic.

[MrHilario]

Quality show, Clarkson was a bit overly-false at times but I guess he'll tone it down a bit.

The question is, what one would you have!? The porsche looks too boring for me, I'm torn between the P1 and the Ferrari, but I think the Ferrari looked awesome round the track.

[bam_bam]

I'd have the Porker, it makes the most sense on the road and that's where it'd spend all of its time. You can pop the roof off too.

@ Shop - I could see zero artifacts, no compression and I was completely surprised as I'd set it up quickly on WiFi. That said, it is less than 2ft from the AP. You got the latest firmware/OS on your telly?

[Shoppinit]

Yeah, I'm wired, 200+Mbs, latest everything. Possibly Amazon have upped the bit rate on their star show. Try Bosch in 4K (excellent series, BTW). You will see the artefacts in dark scenes. Or Badlands: Rain / fight scene in the first episode. Having said that, my TV particularly shows up poor quality content, especially dark scene compression artefacts. Probably harder to spot on LCD TVs.

[bam_bam]

I was expecting to see artefacts in the letterboxing but I saw nothing and I was sat 4 foot away, pure black, it's very impressive. I'll look at the Bosh stuff (watched it all on the old TV) and I'll report back innit. Boy_bam was watching HD content on Amazon this morning, again, no compression in the black areas, however, it was an animation but it was startlingly freaky to look at. I get the feeling that this TV has upped the game though, all of the reviews I'd read sold it in a very good light. I really only bought it for PS4Pro and I wanted a 10bit panel in a decent budget, I'm pretty sure all of my downloaded content will look ropey though, looking at adding an Nvidia Shield into the mix now.
Did you end up getting an OLED or a Plasma in the end, Shop?

[pule333]

You guys derailed this thread with your TV talk lol

[Shoppinit]

Sorry. I'll butt out until I've seen the actual program.

@bam: 4k OLED innit. TVs are so hit or miss, even the well reviewed ones. Glad yours is good.

[bam_bam]

You guys derailed this thread with your TV talk lol

The name of this section is off-topic chat.

[TechNick]

I'd have the Porker... You can pop the roof off too.

Didn't really have you down as the hairdresser type... although, in fairness you didn't technically admit *you'd* have the roof off...

[bam_bam]

I think it'd come down to who your passenger was. I'm not into younger girls myself, I prefer a luxurious MILF so I could safely have the roof off and not look like an early mid-life crisis unfolding in real-time. Oh and I still have my own hair. I think these should be considered for the rules of modern life.

[Golfather]

4k OLED innit.

Which 4K OLED you got Shop?

Im still stuck in the Pana plasma generation until something comes along to surpass it.
OLED is the way forward and got my eye on the Pana TX65CZ952B but the fekkers curved, they also have a new gen coming out next year so Im tempted to wait:
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/138701- ... -a-stunner

[Shoppinit]

I've got an 920V. It's awesome for lots of things, but it's still an LG. I wish Sony did OLED.

The Panas are supposed to be good. Still an LG panel but probably better processing. I haven't seen one IRL.

I am totally the same as you when it comes to curved screens. Completely retarded idea. Still, as you probably know, the 920V is curved but the LG OLEDs are so slightly curved that I have never once noticed it. I guess I'm saying that I hate curved TVs but the 920V does not bug me in the slightest.

Don't know what the Panasonic is like in terms of curve.

One thing about OLEDs is that they are unforgiving when it comes to poor quality content. LCD will hide a lot of artefacts but OLEDs will show it up and it'll be right in your face. At least the LG ones.