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Podcast #1213: 2025 Value Electronics TV Shootout
On this week’s show we discuss the 2025 Value Electronics TV Shootout. We also read your emails and take a look at the week’s news.
News:
- Nielsen: Ad-supported content dominates TV viewing
- NFL sells NFL Media, including RedZone, to ESPN
- New Fox One streaming service to launch in August
Other:
- How to Increase Storage on Google Chromecast With Google TV
- Howdy Subscription | Ad-Free Streaming | The Roku Channel
For the seventh consecutive year, Sony has claimed the title of “King of TVs” at the 2025 Value Electronics TV Shootout, held at their Scarsdale, New York showroom. The winning model, the Sony Bravia 8 II OLED (K65XR80M2) $3000, emerged victorious in a fiercely competitive field of flagship OLED TVs from LG, Samsung, and Panasonic. This annual event, now in its 21st year, is a benchmark for videophiles, retailers, and manufacturers, offering a no-nonsense, side-by-side comparison of the best TVs on the market.
The Value Electronics TV Shootout
Founded in 2004 by Robert and Wendy Zohn, the Value Electronics TV Shootout has become well known for its rigorous and objective evaluation process. Each TV in the shootout is professionally calibrated and tested under identical conditions—same lighting, same content, and against professional-grade Sony BVM-HX3110 mastering monitors, which are the gold standard for video professionals.
The TVs are judged on picture quality attributes like color accuracy, contrast, motion handling, and performance in both Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) and High Dynamic Range (HDR). This year’s competition was exclusively dedicated to OLED TVs, with no separate category for LCDs, reflecting the industry’s shift toward OLED’s superior black levels and color reproduction.
The 2025 lineup featured four flagship 65-inch OLED models:
- Sony Bravia 8 II QD-OLED (K65XR80M2) $3000
- Samsung S95F QD-OLED (QN65S95F) $3300
- Panasonic Z95B WOLED (TV65Z95BP) $2000 US Model is Z95A
- LG G5 WOLED (OLED65G5WUA) $2900
A panel of ISF-certified judges, including display and film production professionals, evaluated the TVs using a mix of Blu-ray movie clips and specialized test patterns, ensuring a comprehensive assessment of their capabilities.
Sony’s Bravia 8 II QD-OLED won top honors for its exceptional SDR performance and consistency. Judges noted Sony’s superior video processing, which delivered cleaner images and better upscaling than competitors. Kevin Miller, ISFTV president and display consultant, stated, “Sony’s video processing is cleaner and handles upscaling better than Samsung’s, despite both using the same quantum dot OLED panel.” This processing edge proved decisive.
Panasonic’s Z95B OLED marked its U.S. market retu
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