LG 48CX OLED - 4K 120 Hz

[Greebo]

It's the world first LG's 31.5-inch 32EP950 OLED monitor @60hz panel aimed at professionals working with photos, video and graphics, but at a premium price. IMHO if LG was to make a 32inch OLED monitor just to game on they will still need to keep at premium price @£899 so not to lose the flagship Gaming CX/C1 TV's on the market today,

As soon as LG releases a 32" 4k OLED 144hz with G sync ultimate for under £1500 they will have my order. I dont need or expect it to be £899.

 

[AORUS]

@Stretlow

Frames per second is meaningless unless we are speaking about motion. Detecting motion is not the same as detecting light, Just because you clam to see the difference, it doesn’t mean you can be better in the games.

I recently got a 3080fe and have been mainly playing cyberpunk, ive been switching between 4k and 1440p (neither will run at 120fps on this)

So the 3080fe must be a budget GPU then if it can't handle Cyberpunk

 

[AORUS]

As soon as LG releases a 32" 4k OLED 144hz with G sync ultimate for under £1500 they will have my order. I dont need or expect it to be £899.

I didn't know the price that is why I said @899 near the cost of an OLED 55C1 @£1198 premium price if it's £1500 it's way OTT they can keep it, it's cheap to buy an 55inch OLED to game on

 

[Greebo]

I didn't know the price that is why I said near the cost of an OLED 55C1 @£1198 if it's £1500 they can keep it, it's cheap to buy an 48 OLED

Except that its difficult to live with a 48" screen as a monitor, find for kicking back and gaming from 4 foot away.

There are many, many, many monitors which all cost much more than a 48" oled tv and yet people keep buying them...............

 

[AORUS]

Except that its difficult to live with a 48" screen as a monitor, find for kicking back and gaming from 4 foot away. There are many, many, many monitors which all cost much more than a 48" oled tv and yet people keep buying them...............

I understand, I used to game on a LCD 32inch sitting close isn't a good idea for the eyes when you're older and too much UI on some games makes the screen smaller, but now jump to the biggest size I can fit in my room 55CX OLED sitting far back to enjoy my games/streaming, in a dark room, everyone to there own preferences in screen size One reason is that monitors are a tiny market compared to TVs today

 

[chaparral]

One reason is that monitors are a tiny market compared to TVs today

Yes that is most likely true for High end & gaming monitors

But am guessing there must be close to as many low end normal office type monitors out there as there are TV's

 

[AORUS]

I am talk about the gaming market not businesses

 

[Stretlow]

@Stretlow

Frames per second is meaningless unless we are speaking about motion. Detecting motion is not the same as detecting light, Just because you clam to see the difference, it doesn’t mean you can be better in the games.

Again, youre having a conversation with yourself you fruitloop, ive not mentioned anything about being better. All im asking is do people in general accept a lower resolution to achieve higher frame rates or is the 4k res at 60fps preferred.

So the 3080fe must be a budget GPU then if it can't handle Cyberpunk

Theres a full thread on these very boards about Cyberpunks performance... the fastest gaming gpu (3090) struggles with it. Whether that makes them "budget" or not is up for debate

 

[stooeh]

The input lag seems pretty bad in Cyberpunk to me and worse at lower frame rates. I would rather play at 90fps with reduced visuals than 60fps with increased visuals.

 

[FoxEye]

Don't use wallpaper, desktop icons, and hide taskbar + bin leave the screen black also the rule is mix your content with games and streaming don't play the same game every day mix your games turn the OLED light to 40/50 if you don't follow the rules then you will get a burn-in/Image Retention within a year or so

LG OLED TV ANTI-BURN-IN TECHNIQUES

OLED Image Retention or Burn-In: Burn-in and image retention are possible on virtually any display. However, with an LG OLED TV, any risk of burn-in or image retention have been addressed through the use of technology that not only helps protect against damage to the screen, but features self-healing properties so that any short-term image retention that may occur is quickly rectified. It is rare for an average TV consumer to create an environment that could result in burn-in. Most cases of burn-in in televisions is a result of static images or on-screen elements displaying on the screen uninterrupted for many hours or days at a time – with brightness typically at peak levels. So, it is possible to create image retention in almost any display if one really tries hard enough. And even if image retention does occur from extreme usage, it can usually be mitigated within a short period of time by turning the display off for a while, and watching a few hours of varying content (such as your standard TV watching and channel-surfing).

Additionally, LG OLED TVs come with special features and settings to preserve image quality and prevent burn in and image retention. First, there is a Screen Saver feature that will turn on automatically if the TV detects that a static image is displayed on screen after approximately two minutes. There are also three options (available in Menu setting > Picture settings > OLED panel settings) that can be used to preserve image quality. The first of these is the Clear Panel Noise feature that preserves the quality of the image on the display panel by resetting the TV so that it clears the pixels. This feature can be turned on when needed within the settings mentioned above. The second feature that can be employed is the Screen Shift feature which, moves the screen slightly at regular intervals to preserve image quality. A third option is the Logo Luminance Adjustment, which can detect static logos on the screen and reduce brightness to help decrease permanent image retention.

So, in short: Reasonable, responsible usage of an OLED TV, combined with powerful image preservation abilities should result in a seamless home entertainment experience.

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To me, "using it like a monitor" implies lots of static content.

Whether that's Visual Studio or Chrome/Edge (etc, other browsers are available ).

Monitor use in the traditional sense is productivity. You'll have lots of static UI elements dotted around.

Playing games is a very specific kind of monitor use, which also happens to be a very specific kind of TV use. I imagine few people will use a monitor just to play games and watch TV. And all the other kinds of monitor usage imply static UI elements.

I mean, nobody moves their Chrome window around the screen every 5 mins!

 

[craigmmmm]

How may people who bought the 48" to use as a monitor are still using it as a monitor.

A few months LG was sending these out Youtubers to review and use as a monitor. The Tech Chap, like others, couldn't say enough about how great the experience was, and in a later video swapped it because it was too big.

Still using mine as a monitor only after 7 months still think it was the best choice i made

 

[JeffLoq]

Still using mine as a monitor only after 7 months still think it was the best choice i made

same here still using it a a monitor for everything, and im happy with it

 

[JeffLoq]

guys wanna ask i just notice it now, my desktop seems to have change, if i use 3840x2160 my screen isnt using the full oled screen i have to set it to 4096x2160 to be able to occupy the whole oled screen, it wasnt like this before, and for some reason, in the cx picture / aspect ratio page the just scan is greyed out so i can reselect to just scan or auto or off anyone else have this?

also tested in games, i need to set resolution to 4096x2160 so i dont get black bars on the side

update: i uninstalled nvidia driver with DDU and reinstalled it now back to normal

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I've got 2 LG TVs in the same room and when I operate the other TV with it's remote it also switches on the CX48 - not good!

Is there any way I can make the CX48 only respond to the magic remote?

 

[LuckyBenski]

I've got 2 LG TVs in the same room and when I operate the other TV with it's remote it also switches on the CX48 - not good!

Is there any way I can make the CX48 only respond to the magic remote?

Sadly not with the remote - the power button is still an IR command before the magic remote features kick in. I've got 2 TVs in the room as well due to being a software tester - I have a cardboard tube taped to one remote, to direct its beam at only one receiver. I keep the testing TV turned off at the wall until needed.

You could get the mobile phone app, I believe that can turn the TV on?

Edit: just tried it, sadly no remote control while the TV is turned off

 

[Dirk Diggler]

@LuckyBenski cheers.

 

[AORUS]

I've got 2 LG TVs in the same room and when I operate the other TV with it's remote it also switches on the CX48 - not good!

Is there any way I can make the CX48 only respond to the magic remote?

This is very simple to do.
1. There is a setting under support, additional settings, set ID to switch the number of your TV so two remote don't cross talk. Change the 2nd TV to a different number

I have a cardboard tube taped to one remote, to direct its beam at only one receiver.

This is Very strange way!, when the TV I.D can be changed

 

[Dirk Diggler]

This is very simple to do.
1. There is a setting under support, additional settings, set ID to switch the number of your TV so two remote don't cross talk. Change the 2nd TV to a different number

Ooh, will try that later. Cheers.

@LuckyBenski *raspberry*

 

[AORUS]

How may people who bought the 48" to use as a monitor are still using it as a monitor. A few months LG was sending these out Youtubers to review and use as a monitor. The Tech Chap, like others, couldn't say enough about how great the experience was, and in a later video swapped it because it was too big.

I have been using my 55CX for 9 months it was the best choice I made

 

[AORUS]

To me, "using it like a monitor" implies lots of static content. Whether that's Visual Studio or Chrome/Edge (etc, other browsers are available ). Monitor use in the traditional sense is productivity. You'll have lots of static UI elements dotted around. Playing games is a very specific kind of monitor use, which also happens to be a very specific kind of TV use. I imagine few people will use a monitor just to play games and watch TV. And all the other kinds of monitor usage imply static UI elements. I mean, nobody moves their Chrome window around the screen every 5 mins!

LG design the OLED has a monitor/TV use based on one to two hours per day was more than enough to gaming on/five hours of TV use with a lifespan of 100,000 hours (11 years of use) As for static UI most modern games today can be edited in the menu, but browsers can't Sony released the first OLED back in 2007 when burn-in was a big problem and only a lifespan of 36,000 hours panel but still people bought them, 11 years later on with new features added to combat burn-in like on C8/C9/CX/C1 it's not the OLED panel fault but a user problem.

If and when Micro LED comes to the market there will still be one problem remaining the User.