LG 42-inch OLED
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True that, I've read about the aggressive auto dimming. Now that will be on my list too. But the chance is very slim I'll go for sony because they sucks. I've had very bad experiences with them.
Panasonic is a big no too because indeed, the prices... The 48JZW984 is €1699 and 1004 is €1799. Wow, just wow. And what are the differences exactly? I don't know.
It is knows Panasonic got the best picture but what about gaming? There are no reviews abouth the 48" Panasonic but they are very very expensive.
Unfortunately no 42"...
Not an option for people like me because they are not flickerfree certified. I had two times JOLED monitors and both have been returned within 2 days and 1 day because health issues appeared like fatiguing headache, problems with vision and head being fatigue in certain spots. It was serious. The first was the Asus PQ22UC. Asus with their horrible QC...that unit had blacks that were like dark purple black when display is supposed to be black. But nope, it had a very ugly dark purple smearing. And blue tints started to appear after two days when there is a lot of white like winter sceneries in games or movies. It was not like that on the first. The second monitor was the Eizo Foris Nova. Now that was the BEST OLED monitor I ever had! Zero input lags and yet the best picture and black was truely black! Unfortunately...no flicker-free. If it was flicker-free, I would kept it and it was €1299 instead of €4999!!!
Yeah jumped the gun its an 48" C2, but its gonna still be similar and show us if its any better then CX/C1, shouldn't be too long now.
JL got 48 C2 in stock, Richer got there 42 C2 price tag changed at £1.3k and due next monday so we should start seeing stock and proper comparisons any day now.
Its nice that VT mentioned the menu is more faster and better, must be due to LGs new powerful processor and chipset, will be interesting if they can match Sonys Processing and Ai performance.
JL got 48 C2 in stock, Richer got there 42 C2 price tag changed at £1.3k and due next monday so we should start seeing stock and proper comparisons any day now.
Its nice that VT mentioned the menu is more faster and better, must be due to LGs new powerful processor and chipset, will be interesting if they can match Sonys Processing and Ai performance.
Not fully 100% sure, but Panasonic do really fine tune and calibrate their high end OLED sets so its got the correct whites, blacks and colours as close as it can get to what the movie industry wanted, so yeah out the box its even more accurate and better then say Sonys or LG oleds. Gaming wise it probably won't match LGs or Sonys.
So today one web/store got the 42C2 on pre-order in the Netherlands. Well, not really pre-order because this store doesn't do that, it says "Soon available" at price of €1599.
Tried to search it again on youtube just a few moment and only Vincent Teoh has reviewed the 48" Panasonic OLED. Yeah no, not gonna put my money on it.
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What are the benefit of that UW on/off toggle with the C2?
I mean, dont we pc gamers, still have to use custom UW resolution?
So how can this help?
I mean, dont we pc gamers, still have to use custom UW resolution?
So how can this help?
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I wondered this too and I'm hoping it somehow automatically bypasses the OS / game setting.
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Yeah that would be great. I acually see another asked in HW forum, and sugested himself - if it just takes the EDID. Well seem likely so we dont need to mess around, switching in NVCP etc. Must be so, or else this wouldent help us at all - I guess
they only changed it since they didn't want to deal with 1000s of price promise request
Probably will get it in next week, Mr Richer stock is apparently due this coming Monday.
I can see it being 999 by August.
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Yeah which is what it should have been really. They can afford some early adopter premium though, especially as it's unique on the market. I'm paying the extra for one and I think demand will be high.
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I wonder what does this mean for the European EUR if the prices in GBP have been adjusted to 1299. The price of the 42C2 is still €1599, atleast better than 1650 lol
I just hope FOMO won't kick in... I already have a 55" OLED since September 2018 so I know how the picture is so yeah.
5 year insurance is €129 here from a webstore I'd like to order from.
I just hope FOMO won't kick in... I already have a 55" OLED since September 2018 so I know how the picture is so yeah.
5 year insurance is €129 here from a webstore I'd like to order from.
Could still drop, I tried to haggle and moan a bit to my main retailer and they didnt budge till a 2nd top retailer with in their local area also dropped the price by £100.
Maybe see if you got other retailers or big online companies in your country that are cheaper and haggle/complain a bit.
I am still debating if I should get the insurance or not, it really was a paper weight I felt but sure its a risk to not have it and its not like this TV is cheap either.
By the way Mr Richer sounds does the 42 C2 for £1249 if you use the Promo code : TV50
Might be worth doing a price match once RS and your retailer gets them in stock next week.
I believe that is the cheapest currently in the UK, guess that tells us LG can get this down to 1K eventually maybe black friday or early next year.
Might be worth doing a price match once RS and your retailer gets them in stock next week.
I believe that is the cheapest currently in the UK, guess that tells us LG can get this down to 1K eventually maybe black friday or early next year.
I know, I'll be waiting one or a few months. Retailers knows damn very well the 42" is very popular so they indeed won't budge lol
What are the prices on the UK LG website btw?
Unfortunately there are some stores here that are complete jackasses so I have to be careful from which store I'll buy from.
And good point, I intend to add insurance if I'm ordering something expensive.
Not exactly a fair comparison as it was gimped compared to the bigger versions but the Samsung 43QN90A dropped fairly quickly after release last year.
People want value for money more than ever so the 42C2 might not be as popular as we think. Sure there is a lot of interest on forums like this but is the mass market willing to pay over £1k for a 42"? Guess we'll find out soon enough
People want value for money more than ever so the 42C2 might not be as popular as we think. Sure there is a lot of interest on forums like this but is the mass market willing to pay over £1k for a 42"? Guess we'll find out soon enough
Yeah understanding retailers and LG will give you a migraine, LG UK got the pre-order prices up but only 55" and above, but some are more pricey then the normal uk retailers and some cheaper prices so its very odd. One good thing is they have an 5% discount if its your first LG purpose but not sure if it makes it cheaper since no 42/48 prices up.
https://www.lg.com/uk/tvs/lg-oled55c24la
Another odd thing is the color of the backplate. The 42C24LA got the black back and the LB got the white:
https://www.lg.com/nl/televisies/lg-oled42c24la
https://www.lg.com/nl/televisies/lg-oled42c26lb
The 5% seems to be present too but not really worth it I think because of hassles with return policies.
Anyway, we'll soon find it out!