Picked up a LG OLED55B6V

Well just had my B6 calibrated. Vincent who runs www.hdtvtest.co.uk did it.

The whole process took around 1h 30. It was really interesting to sit watching him calibrate it, and he was explaining everything along the way. I mentioned I had use the settings of AV forums as starting point and then tweaked them.

The first thing he did was take readings of my settings, more out of interest than anything else. On the CalMan software, it was pretty clear to see just how out of whack my settings were. To much green, to much red.

He then took the dark room setting that I didnt use and reset it to factory. Then took measurements of that. These were quite a bit out as well, but in a very different way to my settings. He then went about making lots of little changes to get the gray scale be spot on. It was really interesting to see how all the adjustments effected the CalMan software in realtime to get the error rating down to pretty much nothing.

One bit that really through me for a bit was not only did he turn all the processing off completely which I also did, he turned the shaping down to 0 as well. But then with what I would class as the main settings everyone plays with, ie the backlight, colour, brightness etc. He left all at factory settings. The logic being if you fix the way colours are displayed you shouldn't really need to change anything. And even after all had been calibrated, I think there is brightness on 51 on colour on 49 so it's all pretty standard. But the deep dive setting changes he made, some were huge.

After the TV had been calibrated he deliberately kept my old setting on there so we could flick between the 2 on various content. It was truly fascinating to see the difference to what I thought was a good picture, against what was now a technically near perfect picture. My settings just looked wrong compared to how they are now. Skin tones are far more realistic, colours bright but not overly so. The detail I can see in shadows is amazing now. Overall the calibrated image just has so much more depth to it. Ive kept my old settings and ill try and get some decent pictures to try and show the difference.

Yes it was expensive, but so was the TV. But the results are very impressive.
 
Interesting - Did he do a daylight, pitch-black and maybe low light calibration(indirect 2.7K or 4K light say) ?
(having recently installed higher K bulbs in living room that changes 'perception')

Also some HDR related tuning ?
 
Interesting - Did he do a daylight, pitch-black and maybe low light calibration(indirect 2.7K or 4K light say) ?
(having recently installed higher K bulbs in living room that changes 'perception')

Also some HDR related tuning ?

The B6 only has 2 advanced profiles you can calibrate. 'Bright Room' and 'Dark Room'.
 
Hi kidloco, interesting read.
now i have an issue i just purchased a B6v 65" oled but problem i have is i live in the channel islands in jersey and we dont have anyone here who does calibration.
so my Question is should i use the Avforums recommended settings?
or is there any advise you can give me how i can try to improve my picture
as i have no real clue what to do
and i cant even pay someone to calibrate it locally. :)
so just looking for some help getting my picture a little better
or tips tricks processing settings to turn on or off?
any help appreciated or other b6 owners :)
thanks.
 
Looks likely I'll be ordering from John Lewis this weekend, I'll go for a demo in there Milton Keynes store and if I like how it looks the order will be placed.
 
Hi kidloco, interesting read.
now i have an issue i just purchased a B6v 65" oled but problem i have is i live in the channel islands in jersey and we dont have anyone here who does calibration.
so my Question is should i use the Avforums recommended settings?
or is there any advise you can give me how i can try to improve my picture
as i have no real clue what to do
and i cant even pay someone to calibrate it locally. :)
so just looking for some help getting my picture a little better
or tips tricks processing settings to turn on or off?
any help appreciated or other b6 owners :)
thanks.

It cant hurt to try it, you can always put things back to standard if it goes wrong.

The guy who did mine said it's not uncommon for TV manufacturers to tweak them before they get sent out for review.

Im happy to share the settings he changed on mine, im just waiting for the PDF doc to drop in my inbox. Although every panel will be slightly different.

My setting were done using the more complex 20 point changes where the AV Forums uses the 2 point.

With regards to picture processing, just turn the lot off. Everyone advises that for good reason, they all introduce some fakery to the picture. Edge enhancing, film smoothing, all that rubbish, turn it off.
 
Hi thanks kidloco,
I would feel rude asking for all your settings after you paid for calibration.
But anything you can share would be really appreciated.
I have just downloaded the revenant in uhd frim sky q.
And even on factory setting the picture is amazing :)
I love my oled tv. :)
 
Well just had my B6 calibrated. Vincent who runs www.hdtvtest.co.uk did it.

The whole process took around 1h 30. It was really interesting to sit watching him calibrate it, and he was explaining everything along the way. I mentioned I had use the settings of AV forums as starting point and then tweaked them.

The first thing he did was take readings of my settings, more out of interest than anything else. On the CalMan software, it was pretty clear to see just how out of whack my settings were. To much green, to much red.

He then took the dark room setting that I didnt use and reset it to factory. Then took measurements of that. These were quite a bit out as well, but in a very different way to my settings. He then went about making lots of little changes to get the gray scale be spot on. It was really interesting to see how all the adjustments effected the CalMan software in realtime to get the error rating down to pretty much nothing.

One bit that really through me for a bit was not only did he turn all the processing off completely which I also did, he turned the shaping down to 0 as well. But then with what I would class as the main settings everyone plays with, ie the backlight, colour, brightness etc. He left all at factory settings. The logic being if you fix the way colours are displayed you shouldn't really need to change anything. And even after all had been calibrated, I think there is brightness on 51 on colour on 49 so it's all pretty standard. But the deep dive setting changes he made, some were huge.

After the TV had been calibrated he deliberately kept my old setting on there so we could flick between the 2 on various content. It was truly fascinating to see the difference to what I thought was a good picture, against what was now a technically near perfect picture. My settings just looked wrong compared to how they are now. Skin tones are far more realistic, colours bright but not overly so. The detail I can see in shadows is amazing now. Overall the calibrated image just has so much more depth to it. Ive kept my old settings and ill try and get some decent pictures to try and show the difference.

Yes it was expensive, but so was the TV. But the results are very impressive.

So it only took 1hr 30 to calibrate ?seems very quick to me ,when I had my old ZT done it took at least 4 hrs to do ,and most guys over on AVF are saying there OLED,S take around 5/6 hours to do
 
Would love to see the UK lag HDR game mode firmware released this weekend but i know its not going to happen :( :(

i just hope to go that its released before resident evil 7 24th jan date lol or i will be even more annoyed...
 
I Was just about to post about the HDR game mode update.
and what is the software version number ?
my tv is set to auto updates and i have not got this HDR game mode but seems it is all over you tube so us seems to have it already.
hope it is worth the wait. :)
On another note i got chance to watch my first UHD movie
i downloaded the revenant and it was awesome the picture was amazing
and i still have not changed any of the factory settings yet.
love my new B6 Oled tv :)
 
Americans have it

It hasn't been released for other territories yet.

Resident Evil is actually fairly playable (the demo at least) with HDR enabled as it's not a twitch game but I have a few PS4 games that I haven't started because I was waiting for the HDR firmware.
 
Was in Richer Sound last night to look at a new TV for the apartment and when my housemates and I saw this particular model, we were blown away by the quality of it!

Stunning piece of kit albeit expensive for 3 students to pay for :D

Ended up with the Hisense 50M3300 and are rather happy with it.

But damn, we couldn't stop talking about the OLED even after setting the Hisense up.
 
Was in Richer Sound last night to look at a new TV for the apartment and when my housemates and I saw this particular model, we were blown away by the quality of it!

Stunning piece of kit albeit expensive for 3 students to pay for :D

Ended up with the Hisense 50M3300 and are rather happy with it.

But damn, we couldn't stop talking about the OLED even after setting the Hisense up.

How are you getting on with the M3300? I was so close to buying one, they look like a great TV for the price. As I have the 55B6V downstairs, I wanted a cheap TV for the bedroom as I knew I was not going to be blown away with any TV. I was set on picking the M3300 until I decided to get the 49UH770V as I really love the WebOS and the magic remote.
 
It's everyone's first smart tv and we're quite pleased with it.
It's not as smooth as the B6 instore but for the price, it's decent.
Picture quality is great after using the setings someone posted on AVF.
Menu is great to navigate through, just gotta get used to the layout, very minimal lag.

For £420, we're all impressed.
 
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