LG OLED 2024 thread - A4, B4, C4, G4

Irish_Tom said:
I finally pulled the trigger on the 55" G4. :D

My indecisiveness means I've missed the offer for the free soundbar, but it's not the end of the world as I wasn't going to keep it.

Should take delivery on Tuesday. Can't wait!
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I stared lovingly at ours at work today. I wish I could take it home :P
 
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Irish_Tom said:
I finally pulled the trigger on the 55" G4. :D

My indecisiveness means I've missed the offer for the free soundbar, but it's not the end of the world as I wasn't going to keep it.

Should take delivery on Tuesday. Can't wait!
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You will love it! The soundbar was ok, I wanted to see what it could do, but the plan was always to sell it... which I did :)

I kinda felt bad not 'upgrading' to a 65", BUT ive seen a 65" Sony a95l in a friends house and its just tooooo big! Or at least it would be in my living room, sometimes I still feel 55" is too large!
 
Tee Hee Johnson said:
You will love it! The soundbar was ok, I wanted to see what it could do, but the plan was always to sell it... which I did :)

I kinda felt bad not 'upgrading' to a 65", BUT ive seen a 65" Sony a95l in a friends house and its just tooooo big! Or at least it would be in my living room, sometimes I still feel 55" is too large!
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I'm going to be curtain-peeping all day tomorrow waiting for the delivery driver. :D

A while ago I bought a 55" B7 (or something) off Marketplace for £100 thinking it would scratch the OLED itch. Needless to say, it had horrendous burn-in and colour shift, and it was an unmitigated disaster. I managed to recoup most of my money by putting it back on Marketplace but then I started seriously saving for a proper one.

However, that little debacle did help my wife get used a bigger screen. Our current 15-year old Sony is a 37" screen in a 42" surround, so the size increase was noticeable in our living room. I think 65" would fit but she put her foot down saying "nothing bigger than that stupid thing you bought a few months ago". :p

So I went for the 55" G4 instead of the 65" C4. :cry:
 
Tee Hee Johnson said:
You will love it! The soundbar was ok, I wanted to see what it could do, but the plan was always to sell it... which I did :)

I kinda felt bad not 'upgrading' to a 65", BUT ive seen a 65" Sony a95l in a friends house and its just tooooo big! Or at least it would be in my living room, sometimes I still feel 55" is too large!
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Not once you watch a 2:35 movie it isn't. I have a 65" worth getting biggest possible in your space.

Can't quite fit 77" also issue with finding suitable stand, plus a bit too expensive.
 
hornetstinger said:
It really isn't. Middle right image


Plus if you watch non anamorphic DVD, some old movies that are even higher ratio (like the epics from 1960) even larger borders.
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You're saying TV size choice is objective? Despite living rooms being different sizes, shapes, viewing distances, furniture, choice of content... Taste?

What's the point of the diagram? Never seen a 4:3 or a 21:9 TV over 40"...
 
After my LG OLED55B6V after ~7 years would only turn on and off via the remote I decided to upgrade. I'm sure it was an easy fix, but I had been considering upgrading, so in February I had an OLED77B42LA delivered. There's not a lot different other than the size, but it's certainly a lot easier to watch at a distance of around 5m away, especially given that there does seem to recently be a lot more 4K content available.

I wouldn't say that the sound quality is particularly great, but I only use the TV speakers for watching TV, for films I use an assortment of Linn Active speakers, Tag McLaren power amps and an 11.2 Marantz pre-amp.
 
I'm trying to decide between the 48" and 55" C4 for putting at the end of my bed for watching movies and playing games in bed. Current TV is an old Sony 42" 1080p that seems a bit small. The 48 seems the sensible choice size wise for 9 foot away, but I don't like the sound of the 48 having lower brightness than the larger TVs in the range.
 
Mark A said:
I'm trying to decide between the 48" and 55" C4 for putting at the end of my bed for watching movies and playing games in bed. Current TV is an old Sony 42" 1080p that seems a bit small. The 48 seems the sensible choice size wise for 9 foot away, but I don't like the sound of the 48 having lower brightness than the larger TVs in the range.
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Have you found brightness to be an issue though? IMO the OLED brightness issue is an old one, and people comparing numbers now are forgetting to sit and look at their TVs.

In a dark room my CX hurts my eyes occasionally. It's generally OK in all but direct sunlight. I haven't been able to try the newer panels at night (have them for work) but there's been a lot of brightness improvement in 5 years.
 
LuckyBenski said:
Have you found brightness to be an issue though? IMO the OLED brightness issue is an old one, and people comparing numbers now are forgetting to sit and look at their TVs.

In a dark room my CX hurts my eyes occasionally. It's generally OK in all but direct sunlight. I haven't been able to try the newer panels at night (have them for work) but there's been a lot of brightness improvement in 5 years.
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I have the C9 and it's the HDR brightness that sometimes needs a boost beacuse of how the film was mastered. So having the headroom of something like a G4 would be ample.

I don't understand why films aren't all mastered to a certain minimum brightness level. I mean the 4k remaster of Heat was shockingly dim.

And this is me watching in a pitch black room.
 
LuckyBenski said:
Have you found brightness to be an issue though? IMO the OLED brightness issue is an old one, and people comparing numbers now are forgetting to sit and look at their TVs.

In a dark room my CX hurts my eyes occasionally. It's generally OK in all but direct sunlight. I haven't been able to try the newer panels at night (have them for work) but there's been a lot of brightness improvement in 5 years.
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I have possibly just been oneguy'd by a comment on Youtube, but he was saying to go for the 55 over the 48 due to the higher brightness. I have never owned or even seen an OLED TV, so don't have much experience of them.
 
kona786 said:
I have the C9 and it's the HDR brightness that sometimes needs a boost beacuse of how the film was mastered. So having the headroom of something like a G4 would be ample.

I don't understand why films aren't all mastered to a certain minimum brightness level. I mean the 4k remaster of Heat was shockingly dim.

And this is me watching in a pitch black room.
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I think there's definitely a need to adjust for some films TBH. It probably doesn't help that HDR colour definitions are absolute apparently, where older content was "darkest" and "lightest". Meaning once you'd set your panel up, most content would sit well within its range.
 
I ended up buying the 48" C4 as a second monitor for playing 3rd person games and wow! I noticed an immediate difference in the few games I tried, especially in the dark areas. I need to have a look into which games from my library will be best to really try it out. I'm thinking another playthrough of Nier Automata is a must and Silent Hill 2 remake will probably look great with all the dark scenes. I'm also intrigued by HDR as that was always greyed out, so it will be nice to be able to enable it now.


One question I had for any that use these for gaming on a PC: I set the screen to 144hz mode via the game optimiser menu on the TV, but in the Nvidia control panel the drop down refresh rate only goes to 60hz... Could this be the HDMI cable I am using doesn't support the refresh rate? Its an old cable, so I am not sure if it will be 2.1 or not.


Also I don't usually read the agreements, but when I was setting up the apps one of them caught my eye and sounded dodgy as hell. I think it was called ACR and said it detects media you're playing and collects the data, including from a set top box or console etc... I didn't check the box to agree to it, but thats crazy they even do that.
 
Mark A said:
One question I had for any that use these for gaming on a PC: I set the screen to 144hz mode via the game optimiser menu on the TV, but in the Nvidia control panel the drop down refresh rate only goes to 60hz... Could this be the HDMI cable I am using doesn't support the refresh rate? Its an old cable, so I am not sure if it will be 2.1 or not.
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What graphics card do you have?
 
LuckyBenski said:
Should definitely be capable of 120/144Hz over HDMI then!

How about in Windows display settings?
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Ahh thanks, I just checked windows display settings and was able to set it to 144hz and now it shows in the drop down menu in Nvidia control panel.

My latest issue is trying to register it for the 5 year warranty as the website and app doesn't recognise the model number. It only gives two options and neither match my model. Mine shows as OLED48C46LA.DEKQLJP on the TV and the app auto inputs that, but then the app complains I haven't added all the info and wants me to change the model number. I guess I'll ring them next week.
 
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