There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
QLED is a marketing term more than anything else - the Samsung is still at heart an LED TV with an array of backlights. I will say that if you do a lot of FPS gaming the Samsung is probably the better choice; Samsung LED TVs have been best-in-class for gamers for a number of years. LG has made strides with a big firmware update for my 2016 TV and I'm sure the 2018 models have even more improvements, but it definitely isn't as good as an experience as on a Samsung LED TV.
Both are good choices, but the fact that the Q9FN doesn't support Dolby Vision would be a huge deal-breaker for me at that price point. The HDR format wars are just heating up, but the Dolby name has a whole lot of weight behind it and is being wholeheartedly embraced by studios, Netflix, etc. and I can't fathom spending $2700 for a TV that doesn't have this feature.