Need your help GAF...
I'm in the process of buying a house. The builder of the house wired 2x HDMI (1.4) behind the wall - since the TV will be above a gas fireplace (this is where the TV is staying) - and the only way to get at them is to open the wall. The electrician is doing a walk through soon, and I was thinking about asking him to open the wall up to rewire, replacing the 2x 1.4s with 3x 2.0s.
Do I really need HDMI 2.0?
Is there any reason to expect a major revision above 2.0 in the next 3-4 years?
That's a tough question, but I do expect a revision to 2.0 soon. That being said, I think the current HDMI 2.0 cable should be able to handle the added bandwidth of dynamic metadata.
You need 2.0 to reliably get 4K/60hz, like what the Pro puts out.
That being said, you can also come across high quality 1.4 cables at shorter lengths that can handle current 2.0 bandwidths.
Now, when HDMI 2.0 gets revved, I expect the main changes to come from the input/output ports, and hopefully in most cases can be updated with a firmware revision.
I would probably put some new certified (or tested by you) cables back there. He may be able to just replace without ripping the wall out by stringing it thru.
I accidentally stumbled upon a revelation recalibrating my OLED55C6P, but I didn't realize the yellowy whites people complain about with a Warm2 color temperature could be because Red tends to be overly saturated in the high end. And when you typically track the out of box performance of Warm2 for any TV, the grayscale will show this. Warm1 and cooler color temperatures is part marketing and partly because it's a cheaper, inaccurate way to present whites as white without spending the necessary R&D costs like what Panasonic did for its Kuros to maintaining a low avg (very low) dE of 1 instead of 3-5 right out of the box. People don't realize how good budget TVs are nowadays when you have something like the Sony X800D and the Samsung KS8000 access 2 and 10 point white balance user controls without using the service menus.
True but no CMS or multi-point gamma control on the Sony
My 3 year old $1200 projector has all this.