Do all those new fancy pancy high technology TV have some kind of builtin "madVR" renderer features to improve image quality?
You know, internal dithering for de-blocking and such most typical MPEG and h264 artefacts as well as chroma- and luma-upsampling and advanced shit like dat?
You really want your TV to do all that? Just connect a small PC there (you have one, no?) and use madVR. Just make sure your GPU has HDMI 2.0a/b output.
The LG has noise reduction as well as MPEG noise reduction, but it leads to detail loss, which is not recommended. Just get a better source.
Non-4K Netflix is a big shite. They have lowered the bitrate very low. The 1080p web rips on the internets are from the 4K stream because that one is not as much starved, so I suggest you use that. If you have a 4K, I suggest paying for the 4K tier, sadly. I upgraded today to see the difference, and it's really there. 4K is starved too, but not as much.
Took the xe900 back and got the xf900, found an amazing deal at Emag, only 100e more than the xe. Total was around 1150 euros. Should be a nice upgrade in nits plus dolby vision support.
Ok this one is way better for HDR and for only 100e more wow.
Tried dolby vision netflix shows and omfg, even better than normal hdr10. Too bad it doesnt support dv over hdmi and usb, then again dv content doesnt seem to be able to be ripped.
Main PC : I7 12700, MSI Ventus RTX 4090 24gb, Alienware AW3423DW QD-OLED
Laptop : I5 4200H @ 3400mhz boost, GTX 850m 2gb Vram DDR3, 4gb RAM DDR3
Derpsole : Playstation 5 disc edition, Ninty Switcherino
TV+audio: LG CX 65" / Sonos ARC + SL ones + Sonos sub 3
VR Headset: Meta quest 2 airlinked
So,bought the b8 as well. Was decently priced (55inch - 1200euros ) and i wanted to try out oled as well. After having the xf900 and ks8500 to compare to, there is nothing to compare to. Sure, the xf might be able to go brighter overall but because of the incredible contrast with the lg the latter will ‘seem’ brighter and look better. The colors will be pure ( no white contamination ).Been comparing them for the last 3 days... only downside is ofc because of burnin i gotta go back to working at the desk instead of the couch but whatevs. I’m gonna game/watch movies on it,whilel SO besides the movies will most likely watch tv shows ( thankfully the 2 channels have transparent white logos, so should be ...’ok’ compared to some cnn red ones, told her about the issues but dont want to make her feel uncomfortable using the tv.
Anyway just thought this might help some people decide between oled and led from someone who was scared of oled burnin, then again even if it ‘goes bad’ in a year or two imo its worth it. All content was HDR10 btw as well as dolby vision (netflix)
Main PC : I7 12700, MSI Ventus RTX 4090 24gb, Alienware AW3423DW QD-OLED
Laptop : I5 4200H @ 3400mhz boost, GTX 850m 2gb Vram DDR3, 4gb RAM DDR3
Derpsole : Playstation 5 disc edition, Ninty Switcherino
TV+audio: LG CX 65" / Sonos ARC + SL ones + Sonos sub 3
VR Headset: Meta quest 2 airlinked
told her about the issues but dont want to make her feel uncomfortable using the tv.
I explained burn in to my family the very first day but they didn't get it. They are constantly leaving static images on the screen. I decided to enable the power saving feature which lower the brightness and I only turn that setting off when I'm watching something I want the full experience with.
They can't even tell the power saving feature is on. I recommend you try using it that way for a few weeks and see how it goes.
Any ideas how important HDMI 2.1 will be in the upcoming years? The biggest benefit seems to be for gaming, but I doubt even the next gen of consoles will make full use of it (except VRR maybe). I assume 4K at 120fps won't be a target for the next gen consoles.
Any use in investing ~500 euros more for a newer model OLED (C8 vs. C9)? I use a TV for about 5-6 years.
If you use a TV for 5-6 years, wouldn't you agree that 500 euros is not that much in the grand scheme of things? I think the benefits here are worth it; dynamic HDR metadata, inmediate switch between modes (DV -> SDR -> HDR10 -> DV), variable refresh rate, etc.
Quick googling reveals that they appear to have further tweaked the sub pixel structure, meaning larger areas, which makes them more efficient and or brighter and should reduce burn in risk. If differences with the latter are significant is almost impossible to tell, but hey
I use a 2018 panel as my sole PC monitor, btw. Very dark settings though.
If you use a TV for 5-6 years, wouldn't you agree that 500 euros is not that much in the grand scheme of things? I think the benefits here are worth it; dynamic HDR metadata, inmediate switch between modes (DV -> SDR -> HDR10 -> DV), variable refresh rate, etc.
Dynamic HDR metadata is not available with current HDMI bandwidth?
As far as im concerned its totally random if people understand control schemes or not, so good luck. Maybe replace their phones while you're at it so you dont get called if things dont work out
I ordered the LG 65C9, the new CX doesn't seem to offer much more except some software tweaks and I'd have to pay 400 euros more for it (600-200 rebate). I have a question regarding playing HDR x265 files on this TV. Is it as simple as buy a NAS (probably Synology DS218+), download a x265 4K HDR movie, open mkv with internal media player and enjoy? I assume I have to use Plex? I know something like a Shield is very good, but I don't want any other devices really.
Are x265 rips of UHD bluray discs good? They seem to vary between 20-40 gigs, seems tiny. I know it's new and sexy compared to ancient x264, but are the files not compressed to shit?
The 2020 LG OLED TV's don't even have a passthrough option for DTS btw, weird. I understand no license is no DTS, but I didn't know you can't even touch the bits without a license.
Cant answer directly, but my experience at least hints towards a good possibility that HDR could be easy.
I'm using MPC-BE with madVR as the video render with an Nvidia RTX with a panasonic OLED (also LGD screen) and I had to do nothing for HDR to work. It actually caught me off guard, because when HDR mode of the TV is engaged SDR content is distorted to hell and back with regards to colour . When I close the player everything switches back automatically as well.
@Mister_s you can use the internal player (it even supports subtitles) or the webos Plex app. I have Plex media server running on my PC and I'm streaming 4k hdr without any issues
Thanks guys. Is Whathifi a reliable tv review site? According to them there's a clear difference between C9 and GX in PQ. Now I'm thinking of cancelling the order
Glanced at two TV reviews by them and see no measurements. Then found this in the LG review
Quote:
Having calibrated both the GX and C9 using a THX Optimizer disc ,[...]
No, i don't think they are reliable. That isn't a calibration. That is eyeballing using a pattern. Since we have much better tools to evaluate screens objectively, a review needs to use them, otherwise we venture into a very subjective territory where almost any outcome of a review is possible.
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. When I close the player everything switches back automatically as well.
