Spec me a new TV please

CliffyG

CliffyG

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Am getting a new Xbox on the 10th so thought i'd upgrade my TV. Looking for 65" and was thinking around £1000. Found the TX-65HX800B for £1100 but am thinking i might be willing to stretch to a but more if the right priced OLED or QLED are available. Someone mentioned the LG OLED 65CX in the Xbox thread but at £1799 it's quite a massive jump in price.
 
Its primarily for TV, a lot of football but a heavy amount of gaming too. Have a 50" 4k Panasonic at the mo which cost about £700 3 years ago or so. How much of an issue is burn in?
 
Burn in is massively exaggerated, I've got a 3 year old series 7 panel (which are worse for burn in) and no issues at all. The newer panels have all kinds of protection built in so unless you're going to run it as a PC display or watch the same TV channel all day (with a logo on screen) then you have nothing to worry about.

https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/real-life-oled-burn-in-test is worth a look for some torture tests and these are on older panels
 
Yup, no real need to mess with it in my experience, most people suggest turning off trumotion. rtings.com has some recommended settings that are worth trying, it's super easy to reset if you don't like them :)
 
The TV ships with Eco picture mode as standard, so no way you want it on that.

Change the picture mode to either isf bright/dark room, or filmmaker mode depending on your room setup (If using filmmaker, I’d recommend OLED light of 50, but it’s down to personal taste I guess.) I have mine on filmmaker these days. Though I’m getting a professional calibration after lockdown.
The settings below are based on the chap I use for calibration for my past OLED sets.

Put Sharpness to 0.
Turn off any image processing such as noise reduction.
Aspect ratio of ‘original’
Just Scan to ‘On’.
Energy Saving to ‘off’.
True motion setting is down to preference, but I turn it off otherwise I see that horrible ‘SOA’ AKA Soap Opera Effect.

That’s pretty typical settings-wise.

OLED Light is actually the TV’s version of brightness.
The brightness setting isn’t actually brightness for some reason. It’s the brightness of only the black level from what I read some time ago.

The settings are saved for each type of content. The above is mainly for standard HD. So if you watch standard HDR content, it will have a preset for that too. I’d recommend Cinema (not Cinema Home) picture mode and for Dolby Vision the same with the sharpness off for each.

Hope that helps!
Otherwise the rtings site suggested is good, though I don’t agree on some aspects they speak of.

Send me a trust if you want my exact out of the box settings. Happy to help :)
 
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I'd follow rtings settings they are usually ones generic to the model whereas more advanced settings are individual to each panel therefore should never be touched unless you have a calibration tool
 
Psycho Sonny said:
I'd follow rtings settings they are usually ones generic to the model whereas more advanced settings are individual to each panel therefore should never be touched unless you have a calibration tool
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What I’ve suggested is generic across the board. It takes like 2 mins to do.

Anything to do with CMS or White Balance systems are of course completely bespoke to each panel.
 
Converge said:
What I’ve suggested is generic across the board. It takes like 2 mins to do.

Anything to do with CMS or White Balance systems are of course completely bespoke to each panel.
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https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/lg/cx-oled/settings

Fair enough but rtings go into specifics for gaming, HDR, sdr, etc.

I'm not saying any of yours are wrong just that rtings is likely to have the best configuration of all the settings you can adjust without a tool.
 
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