LG Nanocell vs Samsung QLED

Wilko_Dog · 2 Sep 2020 at 21:55

Hey all, not bought a tv for ages so looking to upgrade to a 4K one, don’t really want to get oled as the mrs is definitely going to leave it paused quite a lot haha!

so I’m looking at these 2 after looking at some reviews they both review really well, not sure on the model numbers but they’re both 65” and around the £1300 mark.

has anyone had any experience with the nanocell tech from LG ? Looking at reviews it looks promising, and it has 2.1 hdmi which is going to be good for the ps5 when it releases.

Toothy1911 · 2 Sep 2020 at 22:07

I'm pretty sure burn in isn't a real issue these days for OLED. There are lots of built in features that shift frame and enable screen savers to prevent it. Pausing TV is fine. I think you'd need to worry more about something like a news logo imprinting into the screen if you had just one channel on all the time.

Kanpai · 2 Sep 2020 at 22:12

Toothy1911 said:
I'm pretty sure burn in isn't a real issue these days for OLED. There are lots of built in features that shift frame and enable screen savers to prevent it. Pausing TV is fine. I think you'd need to worry more about something like a news logo imprinting into the screen if you had just one channel on all the time.

This tbh. Had my LG oled for almost 9 months now with quite a fair bit of viewing on channels with huge logos and not experienced any issues.

If you can afford an OLED there isn’t really anything better out there.

Poneros · 2 Sep 2020 at 22:52

LG LCDs are awful. Avoid, avoid, avoid!

What's your use case & room conditions?

Toothy1911 · 3 Sep 2020 at 07:32

KoN1ch1wA said:
This tbh. Had my LG oled for almost 9 months now with quite a fair bit of viewing on channels with huge logos and not experienced any issues.

If you can afford an OLED there isn’t really anything better out there.

Good to hear. I think it would only be an issue if it was on one channel all of the time. Even then there are thing to refresh the pixels when the screen is off.

Wilko_Dog · 3 Sep 2020 at 08:04

Poneros said:
LG LCDs are awful. Avoid, avoid, avoid!

What's your use case & room conditions?

will just be going in my quite small front room when I move in, will be used quite a lot as the other half works from home, I’ll use it mainly for sports, gaming on ps5 and Netflix.

I’ve read good reviews of the new LG’s, was even looking at the 8k nanocell for future proofing. Might have to have a re-think now though

Poneros · 3 Sep 2020 at 08:54

Wilko_Dog said:
will just be going in my quite small front room when I move in, will be used quite a lot as the other half works from home, I’ll use it mainly for sports, gaming on ps5 and Netflix.

I’ve read good reviews of the new LG’s, was even looking at the 8k nanocell for future proofing. Might have to have a re-think now though

Is that a bright environment in terms of light coming? Well, doesn't so much matter as you said £1300. That really simplifies things a lot because at that price you can get the Sony XH90 for exactly £1300, and that will be better than any LG LCD (of course), and better than any Samsung in that price range (which would be the Q70T - a nice TV but has no FALD, so HDR would be crap, and the game mode for those is not good in terms of picture quality).

Luckily the Sony is king for sports too, and HDMI 2.1 will ensure great gaming features while their game mode is also not one to gimp the picture for lowest latency.

If you want a step up in terms of picture quality, the XH95 would be £1700 and it would be quite a bit brighter, it would have more processing options for PQ, and a whole host of other small improvements over the XH90 but it would not have HDMI 2.1, which means no 4K 120hz and no VRR.

edit: here is what I mean about game mode gimping (amongst other things)

M1k3H · 3 Sep 2020 at 10:02

Get an OLED; can't beat the picture quality. When something is paused, the screensaver kicks in.

Wilko_Dog · 3 Sep 2020 at 15:33

Poneros said:
Is that a bright environment in terms of light coming? Well, doesn't so much matter as you said £1300. That really simplifies things a lot because at that price you can get the Sony XH90 for exactly £1300, and that will be better than any LG LCD (of course), and better than any Samsung in that price range (which would be the Q70T - a nice TV but has no FALD, so HDR would be crap, and the game mode for those is not good in terms of picture quality).

Luckily the Sony is king for sports too, and HDMI 2.1 will ensure great gaming features while their game mode is also not one to gimp the picture for lowest latency.

If you want a step up in terms of picture quality, the XH95 would be £1700 and it would be quite a bit brighter, it would have more processing options for PQ, and a whole host of other small improvements over the XH90 but it would not have HDMI 2.1, which means no 4K 120hz and no VRR.

edit: here is what I mean about game mode gimping (amongst other things)

i like the look of that but it’s slightly bigger and where the brackets are I don’t think it’ll fit on my tv cabinet

5punk3monk3y · 3 Sep 2020 at 17:53

M1k3H said:
Get an OLED; can't beat the picture quality. When something is paused, the screensaver kicks in.

It doesn't kick in when using a HDMI source

M1k3H · 3 Sep 2020 at 17:57

5punk3monk3y said:
It doesn't kick in when using a HDMI source

Fair enough, don't use HDMI apart for my Switch, so never realised. If you know you'll be pausing often for long periods of time AND using an HDMI source (which doesn't have auto-dimming/screensaver), don't get an OLED.

5punk3monk3y · 3 Sep 2020 at 18:08

M1k3H said:
Fair enough, don't use HDMI apart for my Switch, so never realised. If you know you'll be pausing often for long periods of time AND using an HDMI source (which doesn't have auto-dimming/screensaver), don't get an OLED.

Or just ask the remote to turn the picture off, it's not.so bad with SkyQ when on pause just press back on the remote to.drop the banner and the screen will dim after a minute. Likewise if using the inbuilt Netflix app press pause then back to get rid of the title label this is especially useful for HDR content.