LG OLED C9 as a PC monitor - Yes, I'm crazy, Yes time to get some burn in.

TonTom said:
It doesn’t look like the 77” C9 will be dropping to C8 price level of last year in the Uk. Maddening considering how cheap they were in Europe months ago.
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Yup. I'm just going to end up buying the CX 77'' at launch for 4999.

Might do the GX because I have a projector which im scared might hit he CX as it sticks out a bit but we'll see. dont really wanna spend an extra 1000 just for a thinner wall mount and no stand.
 
Worth pointing out that you also need the 2.1 HDMI cables (8k rated) too. The amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth my friends who bought the C9 expectation 120hz and hours of buggering about in settings that was sorted with a new cable reminded me of the early HDMI era.
 
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jubei said:
What is text like on these? As in, if i wanted to use one as my daily driver for gaming/browsing and doing some dev in visual studio etc, is the text legible?
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I use a 55" OLED for just that, sitting 90 cm from it with no scaling. I've compared it to my Acer X27 and the later looks like a TN monitor from the 90s in comparision despite being a high end IPS with FALD :)
 
I've seen some reports about the latest LG OLEDs being able to do 144 hz on FHD resolution, is this really true? Bandwidth wise I guess it could be done, but is the panel capable of more than 120 hz?
 
aoaaron said:
Yup. I'm just going to end up buying the CX 77'' at launch for 4999.

Might do the GX because I have a projector which im scared might hit he CX as it sticks out a bit but we'll see. dont really wanna spend an extra 1000 just for a thinner wall mount and no stand.
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My biting biting is still £3500. Though with what’s happening around the World I’m more inclined to wait until the dust has settled.
 
my 48 inch has been delayed from ME with no update on new arrival time - if they get the 55 inch in on time I might switch to that.
 
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Mr Carrot said:
my 48 inch has been delayed from ME with no update on new arrival time - if they get the 55 inch in on time I might switch to that.
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From reading various forums - they ( 48 inch model ) seem to be delayed till at least the beginning of september. The normal 55 and 65 seem to be on time though.
 
Azrael1 said:
From reading various forums - they ( 48 inch model ) seem to be delayed till at least the beginning of september. The normal 55 and 65 seem to be on time though.
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That's based off a single delivery quote to one EU distributor though. LG themselves said delivery start of May so Marks E may have just been a bit keen a slapped the eta up at the same time as the bigger models.

The UK specific product page went up today btw with the pc gumpf near the bottom.

https://www.lg.com/uk/tvs/lg-oled48cx6lb

ME checking with LG distributor and I will feedback.
 
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I’ve just given my C9 a go on my 2070s in Battlefront 2 @ 4k, with my Atmos soundbar and rears in the living room it felt like a completely new experience.

Going to be painful going back to a monitor in the office room with headphones :( 48CX and new cards with HDMI 2.1 can’t come quick enough.
 
Proper HDR is the main thing i'm doing this for, I am happy with consistent 60fps at 4k with excellent HDR over 120hz on Ultra wide with gsync.
 
I would love to use OLED for productivity and gaming, but I am afraid of a burn in my productivity time.
Unfortunately, my productivity is mainly Slack and several browser windows which means that the static windows would definitely burn in – sooner or later.
I was thinking how to overcome this and I have an idea which could greatly minimize burn in for productivity.
TVs usually try to avoid burn in with so called "pixel shift" (the whole picture moves few pixels up/down/left/right from time to time).

I call my idea "super pixel shift with reduced resolution".

Example:
The full 4k resolution has 3840x2160 pixels.
Run a smaller Windows desktop slightly lower resolution like 3640x1960 pixels (300 pixels less in every axis). The smaller desktop would be displayed at 100% (pixel by pixel, no scaling)

The smaller desktop slowly moves on a TV screen like an “Arkanoid ball”. If this is slow enough it would not be distracting (something like 1 pixel every 10 minutes).

Advantages:
1] A burn in would probably still happen to some degree, but it would be distributed to larger portions of a screen
2] people complain that 55” is too big for desktop – this would make desktop smaller

Disadvantages:
3] Full resolution is not used
4] Desktop moves on the screen (it would not be centered on the screen most of the time)
5] I am not aware of any tool which could do this but I think it should not be overly complicated to develop one.

Do you know someone who can help with point 5? In a perfect world a TV itself could do such thing but I think we will never force LG to implement this. Changing TV's firmware can be probably quite complicated but I believe that there is a way to force windows (drivers) to do this with relatively simple script/tool.

What do you think?
 
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