Looking for 4K TV Recommendations with HEVC, VVC (requirement) & Dolby Vision Support

[RARY]

No one is making stereoscopic 3D TVs anymore, so any MV-HEVC playback would just be single view anyway.


I'm very happy with both the Sony A95L and LG G5 for OLED Dolby Vision supporting TVs. I've heard great things about the Bravia 8 Mark II, but haven't evaluated it with my own eyeballs yet. It only goes up to 65" though. A95L goes up to 77" and the G5 to 98" (at an astronomical price).

Samsung is also making great TVs, but they don't support Dolby Vision.

I couldn’t find any mention of VVC support in the official specs for A95L or G5.
Are there any consumer 4K TVs that currently support native hardware decoding of VVC (H.266)?
Or is that still limited to software playback ?

please do share!

[benwaggoner]

I couldn’t find any mention of VVC support in the official specs for A95L or G5.
Are there any consumer 4K TVs that currently support native hardware decoding of VVC (H.266)?
Or is that still limited to software playback ?
I am unaware of any that support VVC as a feature. The SoCs that most TVs use don't currently have VVC support.

The licensing mess is a big factor as it's not clear how much one may need to pay retroactively after shipping a VVC decoder.

[RanmaCanada]

There are apparently only 11 chipsets that support it, and 10 of them are SOC and 9 of those are decoders. It will be quite some time before it makes it into a TV set even though meditek claims they had them in tv's since 2021 with their Pentonic line of SOC. You'd be best to just get a "normal" 4k TV and get a box that supports it (something with an S905x5 maybe?). Will be superior in every way.