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Panasonic is another £1000, fair enough if you play games with qled
LG c9 OLED
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I have a 65''panasonic 902b on one room, 65'' c9 in the other.
C9 is in a completely different class. I have to baby it and accept there might come a day I get burn in and have to argue with LG but oh my god its so god damn beautiful.
i think part of owning an OLED is accepting you might get burnt but in return you get best in class image quality.
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I'd stick to LCD if you're going to be doing a significant amount of gaming on it. Oleds should only be bought if your viewing habits are suitable really. Otherwise you are risking burn in.
Long gaming sessions with static hud's or watching news channels with scrolling banners / static channel logo's and you're asking for trouble.
But for movies and TV series watching, they just cannot be beaten.
Long gaming sessions with static hud's or watching news channels with scrolling banners / static channel logo's and you're asking for trouble.
But for movies and TV series watching, they just cannot be beaten.
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They're not worse I wouldn't say but they are different with regards to burn-in. Plasma burn in occurred very differently and wasn't to do with lifespan, so I wouldn't say OLED & Plasma burn in are the same thing in any way except perceptually. For OLEDs you can understand burn in as individual pixel lifespan. Now obviously every product has a lifespan but compared to LCDs OLEDs can suffer from an almost premature death. The reason I say that is because while the LCD can fail it usually does so totally (backlight etc), while OLEDs do it on a per-pixel basis (aka burn-in) so you could have the TV still working "fine" except for the areas burned in. I call it premature death because let's be real, no one's paying top dollar for premium IQ and then accepts watching the TV while it has a **** smear the size of greenland seared into the display. And of course, it's easier to get an LCD replaced when it fails within warranty than to get a replacement for burn in (region depending etc).
I think definitely an under-reported issue with OLEDs is how heat sensitive they are and how little anyone gives a damn to cool them properly (except now Panasonic). Sad thing is this is probably by design so that people can't keep their TVs for 5+ years because proper cooling costs pennies at most. I mean in a way we already knew it for the face of the TV, that's why they recommend you keep it well away from sunlight, but it's also the backboard which isn't adequately cooled. Plus, let's be honest, as nice as it is that Panasonic offers the option it's so outrageously priced that you're better of just getting the LG and banking the change for the next upgrade.
I'd be curious if anyone would be brave enough to try and cool their OLEDs themselves and mod it. Maybe we should send the idea over to Linus for a video.
still nice sets
902b day-light viewing ? c9 darkened ?
oled run hot (consume power), versus lcd, hence one of the reasons they are not, so much, in laptops,
Panasonic oled's hdr is brighter because they have custom heat sinks, so they go brighter without impacting 'burn in' ...
to me, it is unclear at what point EU power regulations are responsible for the ABL automatic brightness level, versus, burn-in concerns.
£989 in Costco.
£989 in Costco - let me know if you would like a screen shot so you can ask them to match it.
Sorry you're right, my bad. The C9 is £1189 - still better than £1300.
Yes but not as good as the £1129 Richer Sounds are currently selling for anyway by price matching PRC
I would only go with the CX over the C9 if I was going to use the black frame insertion at 120hz, it seems pretty pointless for a screen of this size though as BFI is more for competitive first person shooters and can't be used in conjunction with gsync/freesync/vrr. There are a couple of monitors that can do both at the same time but it's unlikely LG will have included something like ELMB-SYNC that the ASUS monitors have.
Thank you - As I don't game, the C9 sounds to be the better option.
I have an OLED TV for nearly 5 years now. It's used mainly for gaming and movies. Picture is still amazing.
I remember people warning me against buying a plasma, due to image retention and burn-in, or that it wouldn't be good in bright rooms etc. In the 7 years I had the telly, I ended up with some burn-in which was only visible in very dark scenes, as we used to have subtitles so the black bars remained.
Same warnings before I bought my C9. So much so that I was worried about the performance in my extremely bright south facing living room w/ patio doors next to the TV. As soon as I got the C9 I had to lower the brightness, it was that bright. My gf told me 'Why were you concerned, even in the mornings with the curtains drawn back it's fine'.
I appreciate early technology might have been problematic, but I think the issues are blown out of proportion due to how popular these sets are.
Same warnings before I bought my C9. So much so that I was worried about the performance in my extremely bright south facing living room w/ patio doors next to the TV. As soon as I got the C9 I had to lower the brightness, it was that bright. My gf told me 'Why were you concerned, even in the mornings with the curtains drawn back it's fine'.
I appreciate early technology might have been problematic, but I think the issues are blown out of proportion due to how popular these sets are.
Same here. Had an LG 65EF960V not long after it was launched. All i do is watch tv and blurays though. Had it calibrated by Vincent Teoh after i had had for 3 months and have just been gobsmacked with it ever since. No sign of any burn in either, maybe having it properly calibrated has something to do with that.
Far too many peeps prepared to dump £3K+ on a telly and then not prepared to have it properly calibrated, thinking "they know better" and use some settings they got off of the net.