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I have an LG B7 OLED purchased in Jan 2018. It's the best picture I'd seen up until then and still impresses me. The plasma it replaced (a Fujitsu panel, which was industry-leading at the time) had been professionally calibrated for colour accuracy (costing me $400!) but I find the LG doesn't need it (against the same tests). The range of display modes is very good, e.g. Game vs ISF expert (light or dark room) vs user-definable, etc.
OLED TVs are all 4K or higher resolution and very responsive. The black levels are superb (which was always the shortcoming of LCD and, to a lesser extent, plasma). With the old plasma, I'd got used to there being enough bleed-through of light to see the outline of furniture in the lounge, to be able to get up and turn on the lights during the closing credits of a movie, but the first time I watched one on the LG OLED (with the closing credits of Blade Runner 2049 - pale orange text on black background), the room was so dark I had to feel my way to the wall - it was pitch bloody black.
I have no issues with brightness - I don't know under what circumstamces someone would as it's a bright display - I have no problems seeing a clear picture with sunlight streaming in through the window.
Sony's OLED TVs use panels manufactured by LG, so you may as well buy LG.
After 4 years, picture quality is still outstanding and I'm a happy camper.
One word of caution: image burn in. OLEDs (a bit like plasma before them) are susceptible to image retention. There are built-in mechansims to reduce it and delay onset, but it remains a risk. I had been using Mute a lot, which displays a bright pinky-red symbol on the screen's right-hand-side. A few months ago, I noticed some visible retention of the Mute symbol (visible when the background is bright orange/red/pink - you have to look fairly hard to see it, but it's definitely there). So, my advice is don't use Mute (turn the volume down instead, like I now do) and avoid leaving any other static images on the screen.
About the only thing I would/am considering beyond my OLED TV (or like-for-like replacement when the time comes) is a projector and screen for a more immersive home cinema experience, but that is fairly expensive for quality equipment, so I may forego it.
There are plenty of on-line resources if you want to research particular models before purchase. AVSforum.com is a good one (or at least used to be).
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