Got My LG 55" OLED B6V yesterday and installed OHHH WOW

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With trying out a lot of tv sets and having to return them including LG`s latest 2016 LCD SHD
950V set i have problems with them all from banding to haloing to back light bleeding to all sorts of issues

then i ended up going right up to OLED well what can i say the quality of the picture is outstanding

no banding in sight, blacks as deep as when the tv is off brights as high as to blind you lol
no issues at all

im overly impressed just thought i would share that info with some people if there interested in there next tv purchase.

FYI the led dimming system in the lcd 2016 model that lg sells 950v is utter crap and the haloing issues i had when ever there was anything bright on a dark background the hole vertical bright line would appear from the backlight.....

none off these issues at all with this set i have, i think i have been very lucking in the panel lotto with OLED.... but like all issues i have encountered i haven't encountered them with oled tech...
 
I take it you had the LG UF950v? It's confusing as the model is close to the EF950v OLED.

I have the 65EF950v and its brilliant, my room is pitch black and on a fully black screen the TV totally disappears.

Have you considered having it calibrated? I had mine done a few weeks ago and it made a nice difference, it's nice knowing that what I'm looking at is accurate and I'm seeing movies just as the director intended.
 
nah mate you have last years OLED EF950 i was talking about the 2016 UF950V LED SUHD tv that i would consider a great picture PQ but very poor blacks with haloing and flashlighing from the corners of the screen.... and 2 distinctive vertical bands just right of the center and further right of that.....

but this 2016 latest model LG OLED is in another league of its own and has none of the LED tech issues i had with previous sets.
 
Congrats. Can't wait to get an OLED set, I'm holding out as long as I can for improvements.

Does the TV have Bluetooth audio support?
 
How is input lag for gaming? Watched one video and it seemed pretty terrible.

I 10000% will be going OLED when it reaches the under £1000 mark, maybe thats 3 or 4 years
 
Just one thing I have noticed some very slight momentary image retention going between certain menu's in Plex and the like. Only lasts a moment, but I suppose that's why it has such an aggressive screen dimmer / saver
 
I haven't gamed to be honest but reviews seem to put input lag quite high but not terrible. Hoping here that LG might tweak this with firmware but not holding out to much hope.
 
yeah guys its great ;D

though i just found a issue, not sure if its the panel or my graphics card...
trying to setup the pc on the tv with deep colour off everything is fine....
but with deep colour on i get artifacting and loosing signal saying invalid format lol
 
I have this TV, and I have a few general things to say after coming from a Samsung 55 F8000 from a few years ago.

1. The picture quality of my old TV was good, this OLED blows it out of the water. I think if I put my old TV back instead I would be disappointed after being spoilt by the OLED picture quality. Watching films like Interstellar you can get lost in the blacks it's so good.

2. Viewing angles are nuts on this thing. You can almost watch it practically horizontally.

3. The OLED is not quite perfect, it can go very dark, it can go very light, but it does lose some shadow detail in the process. If you up the brightness you will find that you may lose the inky blacks or introduce noise you may not otherwise see. I leave it at around 50 brightness and suffer a few lost shadow details. A minor thing really.

4. Image retention is a known issue, they all do it, it's similar to plasma in this regard. It should not cause any permanent damage though, just treat it a bit like a plasma with respects to not leaving it showing the same thing on screen for too long.

5. It will show up flaws in content very easily, so the better the source the better the picture. If you notice bad gradients or noise, the chances are that the source also has these. Crap in --> Crap out to be honest.

6. ISF Dark/ISF Bright should be used for general content viewing, especially without access to good calibration tools. In addition Real Cinema should be enabled and TruMotion disabled for 24hz viewing. I get no motion issues as long as Real Cinema is used. I'd also disable all motion processing, noise reduction etc. Warm2 is what I use for colour temp. Black level on low. The ISF modes may not have the "punch" of the standard ones, but they look a hell of a lot more realistic!

7. The TV does seem to have issues with 60hz output and 24hz video (I think this is called 3:2 pulldown). Just something to watch out for. If the output device supports frame rate switching or 24hz output I'd enable that, and then set Real Cinema on the TV to enabled to make the motion work as intended.

8. There is an outstanding issue with motion stutter in one very specific scenario, LG apparently have a firmware fix coming for it. The scenario where this occurs is UHD Bluray with HDR enabled. 4K HDR streaming is fine for me.

9. I've had a couple of HDCP hand shaking issues with my Xbox One S which caused the TV to go mental and start flashing on/off. Fixed it by disabling HDMI Deep Colour and then enabling it again. HDMI Deep Colour should not need to be on unless you plugging it into an HDR capable player like the Xbox One S. As per above post I would not enable it for the PC input I think.

10. It's never going to beat the Samsung's for gaming, but I don't game on mine really. I knew I was getting a panel that was primarily for films/tv and that is OK with me personally. People who play twitch shooters may be less impressed however.

11. ARC supports DTS and Dolby Digital back to my AV Receiver, this is good enough for me at this time. I lose the ability to do Dolby Digital+ via Netflix/Amazon, and DTS-HD for blurays via the Xbox One S, but I don't have an HDCP capable AV Receiver at the moment.

12. The TV supports both HDR and Dolby Vision, however if you are using a 3rd party device it may not work as the source device needs to support it, and it needs to plug either directly into the TV for HDCP handshaking, or into an HDCP 2.2 compatible AV Receiver. In summary I found the best apps to use to actually take advantage of HDR/Dolby Vision is the built in Netflix and Amazon applications. The WebOS 3.0 Smart function is pretty slick, the remote pointer is also very good on this TV.
 
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Yeah i really do love this tv only one problem though
you cant play HDR pc games without HDMI DEEP COLOR being enabled as i cant select YCBCR 4.4.4 or 4.2.2 modes and you also cant select 10 bit panel or 12 bit panel options in the nvidia cp...

i dont think hdr works if you dont select deep color and thats what i want but when i select 10 bit panel and 4.4.4 chroma the tv goes nuts....
 
not surprising is it that a £2300 55" tv is good?

what I have realised is that PQ across all the top tv's has minimal differences in reality but huge difference in price. Mate just got a £1300 65" Sony 4K in a big sale and it beats his £1800 65" sony he got in a big sale last year.

LG are very very good atm but OLED 4K still overpriced IMO
 
Psycho Sonny said:
not surprising is it that a £2300 55" tv is good?

what I have realised is that PQ across all the top tv's has minimal differences in reality but huge difference in price. Mate just got a £1300 65" Sony 4K in a big sale and it beats his £1800 65" sony he got in a big sale last year.

LG are very very good atm but OLED 4K still overpriced IMO
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LG have invested a huge amount of money into OLED R&D and manufacturing. The failure rate of panels during manufacture is still higher than other technologies but one would hope that'd improve over time. Selling their panels to other manufacturers will help to (Panasonic, Philips etc).

Ultimately it comes down to the ol' economies of scale...
 
kona786 said:
Oh nice!

So I take it you can pair a set of bluetooth headphones? I need this in my next TV.
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YES :) has all the options of its bigger brothers incl PQ and Features....
though its missing its bigger brothers speakers and internal subwoofer but thats not a issue if you have your own sound system .....

and the harman kardon speakers on the TV are better than most high end LCD tvs this year..
 
Fantastic set the B6 ,unfortunately mine developed a fault ,and i upgraded to the E6 ,the E6 clearly has a better picture (didn't think i could beat the B6 tbh),but its also quite a bit dearer ,pound for pound the B6 is unbeatable ,and all the 2016 sets are a major step up over the 2015,s
 
Been toying with getting this but really wanted the 65" version but at £3700 it's just beyond reach this time round.

Off to pick up the UE65KS9000 Samsung today instead for £2199. How far are you seated from your new OLED? I'm bang on 9ft for the new 65 inch which is the main reason we're going for it, think we'd strain to appreciate the 55" OLED at that distance hence the want for 65"
 
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