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Could I get a good tv for gaming for £500 tops? only have a standard tv at the moment and don't have much money to upgrade, looking for 40" - 50", any recommendations please?
 
Yungstar 2006 said:
I'm using an LG 49UH850V.
It's the first time I've used a TV that has had a very noticeable picture quality improvement over previous TV's.
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That is because it's an IPS panel with a glass front. It's also HDR equipped. Glass front is basically going back to plasma days, just gives a quality finish so long as direct lighting in front isn't too bright. I angle my tv away from the main light in the room to get around this or just dim/turn it off.

LG really are the sets to go for. Substantially cheaper than Samsung too if you buy equivalent LCD models.

If you want to pay brand tax then samsung are the ones to go for if you cannot afford an LG OLED.

OLED's display HDR better because better colours, brightness is 1 part of the picture, OLED has better colours, better contrast, better blacks. Overall better PQ.

Rtings is also the number 1 review site in America. I believe AVS forums use it a lot which is different from the UK AVforums which have their own reviews which also state OLED to be the best for PQ including HDR. Another alternative is HDTV test. So that is 3 sites not 1 and all those 3 sites come with top recommendations from the top AV forums.
 
Weird that Psycho Sonny, because the person who calibrated my Tv is the founder of HDTV Test.... Who stated that currently The Sony ZD9 and Pana DX902 are the best Tv's on the market for HDR. Everything else OLED has the edge but not HDR.

And then you are also comparing a £6000 Tv against a sub £3000! OLED currently is in the wrong companies hands, LG are no where near as good as Pana and Sony. These are two companies that produce and set movie standards who then apply this to their Tv's.

The edge that OLED currntly have is individual pixel lighting, the issue you have is turn the brightness up will pretty much lead to shorter life span as its organic. I have had the B6 and the DX902 and everytime HDR shows off better on the DX902. You are also missing a key element out when it comes to Tv's, their ability to track Rec 709 (SDR/HD) and Rec 2020. The tracking of this colour is what movie studio's use and the DX902 has the most accurate tracking there is, the Sony has the best HDR tracking way and above any OLED. OLED is the future but for now with HDR it's not the best out there.
 
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Psycho Sonny said:
That is because it's an IPS panel with a glass front. It's also HDR equipped. Glass front is basically going back to plasma days, just gives a quality finish so long as direct lighting in front isn't too bright. I angle my tv away from the main light in the room to get around this or just dim/turn it off.

LG really are the sets to go for. Substantially cheaper than Samsung too if you buy equivalent LCD models.

If you want to pay brand tax then samsung are the ones to go for if you cannot afford an LG OLED.

OLED's display HDR better because better colours, brightness is 1 part of the picture, OLED has better colours, better contrast, better blacks. Overall better PQ.

Rtings is also the number 1 review site in America. I believe AVS forums use it a lot which is different from the UK AVforums which have their own reviews which also state OLED to be the best for PQ including HDR. Another alternative is HDTV test. So that is 3 sites not 1 and all those 3 sites come with top recommendations from the top AV forums.
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Does that make them heavy?

I remember my Panasonic PV500 plasma weighing a ton.

I like my TV's as light as possible now as I wall mount them.
 
Nobody here is disputing that OLED is amazing, and I do like Rtings.

But there's no getting around the fact that the way HDR works currently favours a good LED panel.

OLED has many many other advantages, but HDR isn't their best feature

From AV FORUMS review of the B6V

The situation with High Dynamic Range wasn't as clear cut as it was with standard dynamic range content. As with previous OLEDs we've tested, the B6 was able to deliver the specular highlights of HDR with exceptional precision. A scene of helicopters at night in the Ultra HD Blu-ray of Lone Survivor was particularly impressive, with moonlight glinting off metal looking particularly impressive. The same was true of the wider colour gamut and the increased resolution, with The Revenant appearing both detailed and realistic. However as with other OLEDs, the lower peak brightness does sometimes rob the HDR images of some of their impact. The B6 also failed to properly tone map HDR10 content graded at more than 1,000nits, resulting in clipping in scenes like arriving in Neverland on the Pan Ultra HD Blu-ray.
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https://www.avforums.com/review/lg-b6-oled55b6v-uhd-4k-hdr-oled-tv-review.13023
 
Nobody here is disputing that OLED is amazing
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Agreed, not once said it's crap. OLED will be even better when the likes of Panasonic/Sony get their hands of them. They are the future and best for SDR and Bluray no doubt about it. The issue is cost and HDR right now.
 
I think my Samsung 7000 was good value for money you cannot get anything LG for similar cost and spec so not really a premium.

As mentioned I'm not a fan of OLED and I think higher end LCD's setup well offer better value for money.
 
MOOGLEYS said:
I think my Samsung 7000 was good value for money you cannot get anything LG for similar cost and spec so not really a premium.

As mentioned I'm not a fan of OLED and I think higher end LCD's setup well offer better value for money.
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Unless you want FALD then I do think that your Samsung has been voted as one of the best Value for money HDR sets on the market.
 
LED's have pretty much peaked in terms of what you can get out of them. I might jump on the OLED bandwagon next year, depending on many many factors (Quality, price and input lag)

External factors being my finances, Brexit, pound dropping and therefore tech more expensive etc :D

£3500+ for a 65" is too much.
 
GHazy said:
Agreed, not once said it's crap. OLED will be even better when the likes of Panasonic/Sony get their hands of them. They are the future and best for SDR and Bluray no doubt about it. The issue is cost and HDR right now.
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Panasonic have already built an OLED TV (with an LG panel admittedly) but they are highly unlikely to build their own fab plant

Im not sure Sony will ever do OLED as it is now, but they may get the performance gap down with some of the electronics behind LCD

(im ignoring professional monitors here which are around 20" in size and Sony have been doing these for a while with no signs of going further).


I currently use one of these (supplied by OCUK also) for gaming and really happy with it

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/iiya...z-widescreen-led-monitor-black-mo-130-iy.html
 
What is this HDR nonsense anyway? The only thing that comes to mind are those utterly awful photographs that people take where the image is overlaid two or three times and makes everything look like the result of a child messing about in Photoshop. :p
 
beachBOYken said:
Does that make them heavy?

I remember my Panasonic PV500 plasma weighing a ton.

I like my TV's as light as possible now as I wall mount them.
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Weight Information With stand: 15.4kg. Without stand: 13.4kg

http://www.johnlewis.com/lg-49uh770...=2&gclid=CPmCzPWlhdACFYnHGQod6uIPUQ&gclsrc=ds

I wouldn't call 13.4KG heavy samsungs without the glass front are heavier

http://www.johnlewis.com/samsung-ue...n-now-branch-feet-design-uhd-premium/p2695300

so no they aren't heavy IMO, mine is wall mounted no issues i think the bracket can hold 4-5 times that much
 
Well until OLED becomes cheaper to make then it seems LG are the only ones getting behind the Tech which is a shame but fingers crossed this will change.

High Dynamic Range pretty much increases the amount of colours visible (think of the rainbow with 1000's more different gradients of colours) on the screen and increases peak brightness. HD is around 200 nits where HDR is 1000+ nits of brightness.
 
I can't play properly unless I'm a few feet from whatever screen I'm using, so I just use a 23" monitor for comfort.

And it's better for FPS games IMO. Less eye/head movement and all the action is focused on the most sensitive part of your vision.
 
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