I was able to purchase this model on steep discount which skews my value of the purchase but doesn't change the facts. The panel is incredible. I use this tv to primarily game, so a bright, colorful, and fast panel is required. This TV hits the mark in all of these, especially brightness.
MiniLED has me sold on fixing the brightness problem of traditional panels, There have been times where the scene literally feels like I'm looking at a bright summer day and has convinced me of HDR.
The problem here with this TV was though, is how it handles the “glow” problem of white objects on a black background.
Don't get me wrong, the blacks are putting up a good fight against OLED, but when say white text is in the black bars like subtitles, you get this horrendous block, solid rectangle of light encasing the whole text like a box rather than a glow. It is genuinely distracting and sad to see on such an expensive product. If you happen across this for well over half of MSRP, I would say it is a solid buy, but even then, I am considering paying a few hundred extra for the OLED simply because of this issue. For example, my Samsung NU8000 that this replaces is well over 5 years old and besides it's inferior brightness actually seems to handle the glow issue better.