Studio Lighting/ Home Theater
Congratulations to LG for taking the Studio Lighting/Home Theater prize with its E7 OLED, which is most akin to the “King of TVs” award from years past. Historically, emissive displays have won the shootout far more often than transmissive models, and 2017 continued the trend with OLED.
Wide viewing angles, accurate colors, and excellent contrast combined to give the E7 an edge over its OLED competitor, the Sony A1E. However, the Sony was given an honorable mention award for coming close to the LG.
HDR
Even with HDR, where LCDs enjoy an advantage in peak luminance, the judges and audience found more to like in the performance of the OLEDs. The LG E7 eked out another win here, thanks to a greater contrast ratio as compared to the Sony. Once again, OLED technology is the winner.
Streaming Performance
Streaming performance relies on image processing technologies like noise reduction that are typically not used on pristine source material. Here, the the LG E7 OLED won again, beating out the Sony A1E.