so in order to help keep you from being frustrated with your new TV they want you to steer clear of LCD based technology and all of that makes a lot of sense I can't say that I disagree with that logic however some LCD TVs are extremely impressive and you're going from a non HDR TV to an HDR TV which is in and of itself a massive upgrade so long as it's a HDR TV also some of the best LCD based TVs have local dimming systems that are so good I mean they do a good job of approaching OLED black levels and they manage to minimize blooming to a great degree so I think that a really great LCD based TV like the Sony x90l or the high sense u8k or TCL qm8 as examples would probably feel like a huge upgrade to your Plasma in many if not most respects it really depends on how sensitive you are and what strikes you when you're looking at a good picture I will caution though that the high sense u8k in Germany is not necessarily the same as the high sense u8k that we have here and Rave about in the US so I'm not sure that model is the one you should necessarily be looking at that brings up an entirely different discussion but

Jeremiah says I have an LG G1 Apple TV 4K PS5 Sonos Arc and sub for any current 4K HDR content that I consume it's via iTunes movie purchases and streaming via Apple TV Mac Netflix Disney Plus Hulu and Prime I saw the 4K Blu-ray release from Criterion of Wall-E if I were to play that 4K Blu-ray via my PS5 Blu-ray Drive would I notice a dramatic difference in picture and audio Fidelity to the 4K Dolby Vision Dolby Atmos version that I own via iTunes and the version on Disney plus

Jeremiah I'm going to use your question to have a discussion about the best movie streaming service options and how streaming versus 4K Blu-ray Compares while also trying to answer your question first off I don't know how to quantify dramatic to you in terms of the difference between a 4K Blu-ray playback versus streaming what I can say is that I can clearly see the difference mostly in Big Color areas where I'll see banding on the streaming version and no banding on the disc version fine detail is also better on the disc and there's less noise that's because the disc has so much more information coming at you the disc also has lossless audio which many folks report offers a clearly audible improvement over the lossy streaming version of the same soundtrack for me dis based playback is definitely Superior to streaming in almost all cases not everybody is as sensitive though now as a Blu-ray player the PS5 is it's okay hey it's definitely better than the Xbox series X still for the best Blu-ray playback and I promise I'm not just trying to get you to spend more money here for the best Blu-ray experience you might want to consider a dedicated player it's not necessary but because you clearly care about getting the best quality you might want to consider a standalone player you don't have to shoot for the moon with a player a solid Sony or Panasonic will do fine

everybody who's seen the magnetar unboxing might think that I I require a ridiculous over-the-top player and that's just not true for streaming playback though consider getting movies anywhere this is not an ad no sponsor here Movies Anywhere takes all the digital movie purchases that you've made including from iTunes and puts them all in one place which is convenient but the real benefit is that Movies Anywhere has shown to offer the highest bit rate compared to other streaming services like iTunes Voodoo and Amazon Prime video If you have a bandwidth cap on your your internet connection that could be an issue so keep that in mind but also discs don't touch your internet so if you do have a bandwidth cap there's another reason to get the disc also with the disc you own that movie for real nobody can take it away from you unless you get burglarized and I really hope you don't anyway

I cant say that you truly own the digital version for what that's worth thanks as always for watching everyone what did you think of this week's questions let me know down in the comments so I can pick the best questions each week your feedback is hugely helpful while you're down there consider liking this video and subscribing if you don't want to miss the next videos we put out I'll see you on the next one and until then here's two other videos I think you might like

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enon today's episode of you asked is no Dolby Vision just a nogo should you even try for Dolby Atmos if you have funky ceilings is OLED the best replacement for an aging plasma TV and streaming versus 4K Blu-ray which is better and why welcome back everyone I'm Caleb Dennison and this is you ask the show where I answer questions that you asked in hopes that I can help you and others who have the same Tech questions if you've got a question you'd like to see answered on the show please send it to you asked digitaltrends.com and I'll do my best to get it answered all right let's get into it ZM KNX says I've been shopping for an OLED TV and here in the US that means I only really have three brand options Samsung LG and if I want to open my wallet further than I really want to Sony but I hesitate to go for a Samsung TV because of their lack of Dolby Vision support it seems like most Services still offer only Dolby vision and not hdr10 plus content does it seem reasonable to cross Samsung off my list of options due to their lack of Dolby Vision support is this actually an issue in practice okay so I'm going to partially answer your question here because I've yet to make an up-to-date realworld Dolby Vision versus hdr10 plus video that I can point you to so for now I'll say this first off I am as frustrated if not maybe a little more so as many of you that Samsung refuses to do business with Dolby on Dolby Vision Samsung May argue that Dolby vision is not necessary to provide a notable benefit it may argue that hdr10 plus the standard it helped develop by the way is just as good and that it doesn't want to pass the cost of implementing Dolby Vision on to its customers and you might be surprised to learn that I agree with at least some of its public facing rationale but here's my take I would not write off a Samsung OLED TV just because it doesn't support Dolby Vision some of you may be surprised to hear about that because I do like Dolby Vision quite a bit but the number of times I've seen Dolby Vision content look significantly better than even just hdr10 content it's been pretty minimal and in fact there are times when the Dolby Vision version did not look as good as the standard HDR version I hope to show everyone this soon but so far that's my experience the thing about Dolby vision is that it is not being used to its full potential by creators it could be much better than it is right now it's not bad it just has so much more potential but if it were being used to its full potential then it would be a no-brainer you'd really be missing out by not having Dolby Vision but as it stands now I'm not convinced that that's the case and it's really hard to say when Dolby Vision will finally become the musthave HDR format because it's so de demonstrably better so as far as Dolby Vision being a need versus want I still think it's definitely in the want category however I can't side with the idea that Samsung doesn't want to pass the cost on to its customers I think if that were actual rationale it' be more like Samsung doesn't want to absorb the cost and therefore make less money because I don't think Samsung wants to go above market rate with its TV prices like Sony does also every other major brand is supporting it this whole push back on Dolby Vision has real strong OLED is inferior Vibes and we see where Samsung came down on that eventually look there is just so much more to picture quality than just the HDR format that's being used don't Rite off a TV like the s90c or the s95 C those TVs are gorgeous if you want QD OLED and you don't want to spend Sony money get the Samsung and for anyone else who is waffling between a Samsung qled and a competing qled TV my message is about the same cutl asks my question is about the Dolby Atmos effect in a vaulted or sloped ceiling room our living room at the lower end has a height of roughly 9.5 ft while the higher part of the ceiling reaches up to almost 18 ft as you've already explained in your other videos upfiring drivers rely upon the reflection of the sound from the ceiling having such a sloped ceiling is going to affect these intended Reflections so I assume that creating a will be atos effect within this room which we've got a picture of it right here is not realistic unfortunately this person can't install any kind of reflector or insulator type board since their girlfriend didn't like how they looked and they go on to ask is it possible to create such an Atmos effect in this room and they also acknowledge they can't install uh in seiling speakers either I've considered the Samsung 990c and the Sony ht9 so far should I just give up on that and consider a more budget friendly sound system do you have any advice I have all kinds of advice but let's start with this it is true that upfiring Atmos speakers do attempt to use reflection points to help with some of the localized Dolby Atmos effects and that the nature of your ceiling from how it's shaped to the texture to the height of the ceiling itself can have an impact on the effectiveness of some Dolby Atmos effects however as I've learned from trying various Atmos systems in various different rooms with wildly varying ceiling conditions there's almost always some benefit to the presence of upfiring at most speakers the intensity of that difference varies but I've always gotten something out of it from our old Studio where we had dropped down uh acoustic tiles meant to absorb sound to this studio where we've got super high ceilings with some uh anti-reflection uh panels up on the ceiling to another portion of this studio where I have very very low ceilings and I think think that the reason I'm still getting some Atmos effect in varying degrees is because those Atmos speakers aren't just using reflectivity there is some directionality to the upfiring speakers too so you're going to hear them in one fashion or another and depending on the system you get processing may be used to play with the phase of the signal in order to achieve that Dome of sound effect that we're looking for so while it may not sound as if you could point to the airplane as it flies over you because you don't have very localized reflective sound you will get a sense that the plane is going over you and not just around you my advice would be to try the Sony ht9 which does some rather clever processing and see what you think you can return it if it doesn't work out for you if you're not darn impressed I'd be surprised also the Samsung 990c is an extremely impressive system as well and I don't think you'd be disappointed with that either I just think the A9 is so good at processing that it could help overcome some of the characteristics of your room that may not seem so Atmos friendly next Sasha has a question about DTS and their particular setup the setup would be uh an LG C2 an LG SC 9s Soundbar and the PlayStation 5 and they propose the following connection PS5 to LG C2 via HDMI and then audio from the LG C2 to the Soundbar via HDMI e and the question is is that connection method the way to go so it is possible you could send DTS to the TV maybe I'm not sure if the TV would accept it uh but even if it took it in what came out from the TV would not be DTS but anyway your question is how to get DTS to the Soundbar so in that case what you want to do is connect the PS5 directly to the Soundbar and then run a signal that passes the video and audio as well to the LG uh C2 OLED from the Soundbars HDMI output so PS5 to Soundbar and then soundbar to the LG C2 that's if you wanted DTS for a very specific reason thing is that Soundbar is a Dolby Atmos Soundbar and unless you have some very specific dtsx material that you want to listen to I would think you'd want to stick with Dolby Atmos your PS5 does support Dolby Atmos whether the streaming app that you're using does or doesn't is another question but frankly I would just run with your original proposed connection where you go from the PS5 to the LG C2 and then out to the Soundbar and just go with Dolby Atmos audio and forget about DTS in this case but like I said if you have something specific you're going for with DTS going to the Soundbar first then to the TV with the PS5 signal is the way to go hey Caleb and crew I currently have an old Sony plasma TV and I finally want to upgrade to 4K HDMI 2.1 and all the good things the last 10 years of TV development have brought us in several forums I read that the only sensible way to upgrade from a plasma would be an OLED TV since I would be underwhelmed with the picture quality of an LCD in comparison to my old plasma do you agree with this statement or would for example a high sense u8k or similar TV also be a significant and reasonable upgrade not only from a technical but also from a picture quality standpoint I mostly watch movies and TV shows via streaming apps YouTube and I play on my PS5 thanks in advanc and best wishes from Germany Garrett that Germany part is relevant so I left that in anyway Garrett I am neither going to agree or disagree with those Forum folks because I don't want to draw the eye of the Forum folks anyone Whoever has drawn the ire of forum folks knows what I'm talking about it ain't pretty and it definitely ain't helpful but I will say that I think I understand why they're saying what they're saying they are probably thinking that you're used to perfect black levels and no bloom zooming and that the only TV tech that can do that is OLED which is pretty much true so in order to help keep you from being frustrated with your new TV they want you to steer clear of LCD based technology and all of that makes a lot of sense I can't say that I disagree with that logic however some LCD TVs are extremely impressive and you're going from a non HDR TV to an HDR TV which is in and of itself a massive upgrade so long as it's a HDR TV also some of the best LCD based TVs have local dimming systems that are so good I mean they do a good job of approaching OLED black levels and they manage to minimize blooming to a great degree so I think that a really great LCD based TV like the Sony x90l or the high sense u8k or TCL qm8 as examples would probably feel like a huge upgrade to your Plasma in many if not most respects it really depends on how sensitive you are and what strikes you when you're looking at a good picture I will caution though that the high sense u8k in Germany is not necessarily the same as the high sense u8k that we have here and Rave about in the US so I'm not sure that model is the one you should necessarily be looking at that brings up an entirely different discussion but I'm going to have to stop there for now Jeremiah says I have an LG G1 Apple TV 4K PS5 Sonos Arc and sub for any current 4K HDR content that I consume it's via iTunes movie purchases and streaming via Apple TV Mac Netflix Disney Plus Hulu and Prime I saw the 4K Blu-ray release from Criterion of Wall-E if I were to play that 4K Blu-ray via my PS5 Blu-ray Drive would I notice a dramatic difference in picture and audio Fidelity to the 4K Dolby Vision Dolby Atmos version that I own via iTunes and the version on Disney plus so Jeremiah I'm going to to use your question to have a discussion about the best movie streaming service options and how streaming versus 4K Blu-ray Compares while also trying to answer your question first off I don't know how to quantify dramatic to you in terms of the difference between a 4K Blu-ray playback versus streaming what I can say is that I can clearly see the difference mostly in Big Color areas where I'll see banding on the streaming version and no banding on the disc version fine detail is also better on the disc and there's less noise that's because the disc has so much more information coming at you the disc also has lossless audio which many folks report offers a clearly audible improvement over the lossy streaming version of the same soundtrack for me dis based playback is definitely Superior to streaming in almost all cases not everybody is as sensitive though now as a Blu-ray player the PS5 is it's okay hey it's definitely better than the Xbox series X still for the best Blu-ray playback and I promise I'm not just trying to get you to spend more money here for the best Blu-ray experience you might want to consider a dedicated player it's not necessary but because you clearly care about getting the best quality you might want to consider a standalone player you don't have to shoot for the moon with a player a solid Sony or Panasonic will do fine everybody who's seen the magnetar unboxing might think that I I require a ridiculous over-the-top player and that's just not true for streaming playback though consider getting movies anywhere this is not an ad no sponsor here Movies Anywhere takes all the digital movie purchases that you've made including from iTunes and puts them all in one place which is convenient but the real benefit is that Movies Anywhere has shown to offer the highest bit rate compared to other streaming services like iTunes Voodoo and Amazon Prime video If you have a bandwidth cap on your your internet connection that could be an issue so keep that in mind but also discs don't touch your internet so if you do have a bandwidth cap there's another reason to get the disc also with the disc you own that movie for real nobody can take it away from you unless you get burglarized and I really hope you don't anyway I can't say that you truly own the digital version for what that's worth thanks as always for watching everyone what did you think of this week's questions let me know down in the comments so I can pick the best questions each week your feedback is hugely helpful while you're down there consider liking this video and subscribing if you don't want to miss the next videos we put out I'll see you on the next one and until then here's two other videos I think you might like no I got it I'm just I need to be less dumbon today's episode of you asked is no Dolby Vision just a nogo should you even try for Dolby Atmos if you have funky ceilings is OLED the best replacement for an aging plasma TV and streaming versus 4K Blu-ray which is better and why welcome back everyone I'm Caleb Dennison and this is you ask the show where I answer questions that you asked in hopes that I can help you and others who have the same Tech questions if you've got a question you'd like to see answered on the show please send it to you asked digitaltrends.com and I'll do my best to get it answered all right let's get into it ZM KNX says I've been shopping for an OLED TV and here in the US that means I only really have three brand options Samsung LG and if I want to open my wallet further than I really want to Sony but I hesitate to go for a Samsung TV because of their lack of Dolby Vision support it seems like most Services still offer only Dolby vision and not hdr10 plus content does it seem reasonable to cross Samsung off my list of options due to their lack of Dolby Vision support is this actually an issue in practice okay so I'm going to partially answer your question here because I've yet to make an up-to-date realworld Dolby Vision versus hdr10 plus video that I can point you to so for now I'll say this first off I am as frustrated if not maybe a little more so as many of you that Samsung refuses to do business with Dolby on Dolby Vision Samsung May argue that Dolby vision is not necessary to provide a notable benefit it may argue that hdr10 plus the standard it helped develop by the way is just as good and that it doesn't want to pass the cost of implementing Dolby Vision on to its customers and you might be surprised to learn that I agree with at least some of its public facing rationale but here's my take I would not write off a Samsung OLED TV just because it doesn't support Dolby Vision some of you may be surprised to hear about that because I do like Dolby Vision quite a bit but the number of times I've seen Dolby Vision content look significantly better than even just hdr10 content it's been pretty minimal and in fact there are times when the Dolby Vision version did not look as good as the standard HDR version I hope to show everyone this soon but so far that's my experience the thing about Dolby vision is that it is not being used to its full potential by creators it could be much better than it is right now it's not bad it just has so much more potential but if it were being used to its full potential then it would be a no-brainer you'd really be missing out by not having Dolby Vision but as it stands now I'm not convinced that that's the case and it's really hard to say when Dolby Vision will finally become the musthave HDR format because it's so de demonstrably better so as far as Dolby Vision being a need versus want I still think it's definitely in the want category however I can't side with the idea that Samsung doesn't want to pass the cost on to its customers I think if that were actual rationale it' be more like Samsung doesn't want to absorb the cost and therefore make less money because I don't think Samsung wants to go above market rate with its TV prices like Sony does also every other major brand is supporting it this whole push back on Dolby Vision has real strong OLED is inferior Vibes and we see where Samsung came down on that eventually look there is just so much more to picture quality than just the HDR format that's being used don't Rite off a TV like the s90c or the s95 C those TVs are gorgeous if you want QD OLED and you don't want to spend Sony money get the Samsung and for anyone else who is waffling between a Samsung qled and a competing qled TV my message is about the same cutl asks my question is about the Dolby Atmos effect in a vaulted or sloped ceiling room our living room at the lower end has a height of roughly 9.5 ft while the higher part of the ceiling reaches up to almost 18 ft as you've already explained in your other videos upfiring drivers rely upon the reflection of the sound from the ceiling having such a sloped ceiling is going to affect these intended Reflections so I assume that creating a will be atos effect within this room which we've got a picture of it right here is not realistic unfortunately this person can't install any kind of reflector or insulator type board since their girlfriend didn't like how they looked and they go on to ask is it possible to create such an Atmos effect in this room and they also acknowledge they can't install uh in seiling speakers either I've considered the Samsung 990c and the Sony ht9 so far should I just give up on that and consider a more budget friendly sound system do you have any advice I have all kinds of advice but let's start with this it is true that upfiring Atmos speakers do attempt to use reflection points to help with some of the localized Dolby Atmos effects and that the nature of your ceiling from how it's shaped to the texture to the height of the ceiling itself can have an impact on the effectiveness of some Dolby Atmos effects however as I've learned from trying various Atmos systems in various different rooms with wildly varying ceiling conditions there's almost always some benefit to the presence of upfiring at most speakers the intensity of that difference varies but I've always gotten something out of it from our old Studio where we had dropped down uh acoustic tiles meant to absorb sound to this studio where we've got super high ceilings with some uh anti-reflection uh panels up on the ceiling to another portion of this studio where I have very very low ceilings and I think think that the reason I'm still getting some Atmos effect in varying degrees is because those Atmos speakers aren't just using reflectivity there is some directionality to the upfiring speakers too so you're going to hear them in one fashion or another and depending on the system you get processing may be used to play with the phase of the signal in order to achieve that Dome of sound effect that we're looking for so while it may not sound as if you could point to the airplane as it flies over you because you don't have very localized reflective sound you will get a sense that the plane is going over you and not just around you my advice would be to try the Sony ht9 which does some rather clever processing and see what you think you can return it if it doesn't work out for you if you're not darn impressed I'd be surprised also the Samsung 990c is an extremely impressive system as well and I don't think you'd be disappointed with that either I just think the A9 is so good at processing that it could help overcome some of the characteristics of your room that may not seem so Atmos friendly next Sasha has a question about DTS and their particular setup the setup would be uh an LG C2 an LG SC 9s Soundbar and the PlayStation 5 and they propose the following connection PS5 to LG C2 via HDMI and then audio from the LG C2 to the Soundbar via HDMI e and the question is is that connection method the way to go so it is possible you could send DTS to the TV maybe I'm not sure if the TV would accept it uh but even if it took it in what came out from the TV would not be DTS but anyway your question is how to get DTS to the Soundbar so in that case what you want to do is connect the PS5 directly to the Soundbar and then run a signal that passes the video and audio as well to the LG uh C2 OLED from the Soundbars HDMI output so PS5 to Soundbar and then soundbar to the LG C2 that's if you wanted DTS for a very specific reason thing is that Soundbar is a Dolby Atmos Soundbar and unless you have some very specific dtsx material that you want to listen to I would think you'd want to stick with Dolby Atmos your PS5 does support Dolby Atmos whether the streaming app that you're using does or doesn't is another question but frankly I would just run with your original proposed connection where you go from the PS5 to the LG C2 and then out to the Soundbar and just go with Dolby Atmos audio and forget about DTS in this case but like I said if you have something specific you're going for with DTS going to the Soundbar first then to the TV with the PS5 signal is the way to go hey Caleb and crew I currently have an old Sony plasma TV and I finally want to upgrade to 4K HDMI 2.1 and all the good things the last 10 years of TV development have brought us in several forums I read that the only sensible way to upgrade from a plasma would be an OLED TV since I would be underwhelmed with the picture quality of an LCD in comparison to my old plasma do you agree with this statement or would for example a high sense u8k or similar TV also be a significant and reasonable upgrade not only from a technical but also from a picture quality standpoint I mostly watch movies and TV shows via streaming apps YouTube and I play on my PS5 thanks in advanc and best wishes from Germany Garrett that Germany part is relevant so I left that in anyway Garrett I am neither going to agree or disagree with those Forum folks because I don't want to draw the eye of the Forum folks anyone Whoever has drawn the ire of forum folks knows what I'm talking about it ain't pretty and it definitely ain't helpful but I will say that I think I understand why they're saying what they're saying they are probably thinking that you're used to perfect black levels and no bloom zooming and that the only TV tech that can do that is OLED which is pretty much true so in order to help keep you from being frustrated with your new TV they want you to steer clear of LCD based technology and all of that makes a lot of sense I can't say that I disagree with that logic however some LCD TVs are extremely impressive and you're going from a non HDR TV to an HDR TV which is in and of itself a massive upgrade so long as it's a HDR TV also some of the best LCD based TVs have local dimming systems that are so good I mean they do a good job of approaching OLED black levels and they manage to minimize blooming to a great degree so I think that a really great LCD based TV like the Sony x90l or the high sense u8k or TCL qm8 as examples would probably feel like a huge upgrade to your Plasma in many if not most respects it really depends on how sensitive you are and what strikes you when you're looking at a good picture I will caution though that the high sense u8k in Germany is not necessarily the same as the high sense u8k that we have here and Rave about in the US so I'm not sure that model is the one you should necessarily be looking at that brings up an entirely different discussion but I'm going to have to stop there for now Jeremiah says I have an LG G1 Apple TV 4K PS5 Sonos Arc and sub for any current 4K HDR content that I consume it's via iTunes movie purchases and streaming via Apple TV Mac Netflix Disney Plus Hulu and Prime I saw the 4K Blu-ray release from Criterion of Wall-E if I were to play that 4K Blu-ray via my PS5 Blu-ray Drive would I notice a dramatic difference in picture and audio Fidelity to the 4K Dolby Vision Dolby Atmos version that I own via iTunes and the version on Disney plus so Jeremiah I'm going to to use your question to have a discussion about the best movie streaming service options and how streaming versus 4K Blu-ray Compares while also trying to answer your question first off I don't know how to quantify dramatic to you in terms of the difference between a 4K Blu-ray playback versus streaming what I can say is that I can clearly see the difference mostly in Big Color areas where I'll see banding on the streaming version and no banding on the disc version fine detail is also better on the disc and there's less noise that's because the disc has so much more information coming at you the disc also has lossless audio which many folks report offers a clearly audible improvement over the lossy streaming version of the same soundtrack for me dis based playback is definitely Superior to streaming in almost all cases not everybody is as sensitive though now as a Blu-ray player the PS5 is it's okay hey it's definitely better than the Xbox series X still for the best Blu-ray playback and I promise I'm not just trying to get you to spend more money here for the best Blu-ray experience you might want to consider a dedicated player it's not necessary but because you clearly care about getting the best quality you might want to consider a standalone player you don't have to shoot for the moon with a player a solid Sony or Panasonic will do fine everybody who's seen the magnetar unboxing might think that I I require a ridiculous over-the-top player and that's just not true for streaming playback though consider getting movies anywhere this is not an ad no sponsor here Movies Anywhere takes all the digital movie purchases that you've made including from iTunes and puts them all in one place which is convenient but the real benefit is that Movies Anywhere has shown to offer the highest bit rate compared to other streaming services like iTunes Voodoo and Amazon Prime video If you have a bandwidth cap on your your internet connection that could be an issue so keep that in mind but also discs don't touch your internet so if you do have a bandwidth cap there's another reason to get the disc also with the disc you own that movie for real nobody can take it away from you unless you get burglarized and I really hope you don't anyway I can't say that you truly own the digital version for what that's worth thanks as always for watching everyone what did you think of this week's questions let me know down in the comments so I can pick the best questions each week your feedback is hugely helpful while you're down there consider liking this video and subscribing if you don't want to miss the next videos we put out I'll see you on the next one and until then here's two other videos I think you might like no I got it I'm just I need to be less dumb\n"