Value Electronics, an A/V retailer located just outside New York City, has been conducting an annual ‘TV Shootout’ for nearly two decades. The Shootout traditionally gathers a panel of TV testing experts and puts them in front of the çêtirîn TV 4K to decide which one is the absolute best – an honor that Sony earned this year for its A95K QD-OLED cins.
With the rise of 8K TVs, the Value Electronics test has expanded in 2022 to include a separate test for that category, with LG’s Z2 OLED model taking the 8K crown at this year’s Shootout.
4K TVs competing in the 2022 TV Shootout:
LG G2 Gallery Series OLED
Samsung QN95B Quantum Dot mini-LED
Samsung S95B QD-OLED
Sony XR-A95K QD-OLED (serketî)
Sony XR-X95K mini-LED
8K TVs competing in the 2022 TV Shootout:
LG Z2 OLED (serketî)
Samsung QN900B Quantum Dot mini-LED
Sony XR-Z9K mini-LED TV
To create an even playing field for the evaluation, each TV is first adjusted by a professional TV calibrator. The sets are then arrayed side by side along with a 32-inch Sony professional broadcast reference monitor, and fed test patterns and regular movie scenes over a video distribution network. This arrangement allows for the expert participants to evaluate the TVs simultaneously, with their votes tabulated to determine the winner in each category.