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it's a play we've seen many times over the years your competitor catches you

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completely by surprise with a vastly superior product there's no time to

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develop something new so you reach for the nearest heatsink slap it on the back

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and overclock the snot out of it that's essentially what lg's done here by

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adding an aluminum heatsink layer to the second gen OLED panel technology we saw

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them introduced last year they claim they've managed to boost up peak

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brightness by up to 30 percent it's actually not a bad move OLED's biggest

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problem is it's low brightness but is it enough to win a place in the

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family room of my new house i guess it doesn't really matter unless i can pay

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description the brighter you run an OLED panel the better the HDR experience but

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this also comes with a downside heat and

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the hotter the panel gets the faster the diodes burn out so lg is under pressure

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from two sides they have to push brightness up in order to compete but if

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they fly too close to the sun they're going to get burned in get it because

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customers are going to return their tvs if they burn in the brightness booster

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heatsink as lg is calling it appears to be an attempt to manage this heat in

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direct response to samsung's much brighter qd OLED tvs and from our

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initial tests it seems to work as expected we weren't able to measure some

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of the 1000 plus nit claims that we've seen from other reviewers but after

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finding and disabling the buried energy saving feature we did manage to hit a

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respectable 930 nits in luminance

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stability testing despite only hitting 880 nits in a 1 to 10 window the problem

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though is that while it's a good idea it's not exactly a new idea sony's a90j

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OLED from last year features a similar approach and also still gets wamped by

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samsung's new qd OLED lineup which has a couple of other key advantages much

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better color saturation from not needing a white sub pixel and much better

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efficiency thanks to using quantum dots rather than color filters oh and if

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you've been paying attention you might already realize that better efficiency

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means that you can boost your oleds higher without them heating up as much

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reducing the risk of burning we'll talk a bit more about that later but first

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let's see how much lg has managed to improve over last year's flagship

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unfortunately it's pretty obvious which one is which because the bezel is so

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much skinnier on the wow it's also a lot brighter right huh okay even well i

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guess especially in a lit room with all the studio lighting that's very

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noticeable both of them support all the latest bells and whistles g-sync auto low

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latency mode variable refresh rate HDMI 2.1 actually the g2 has two e-arc ports

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which is kind of cool if you have multiple audio setups for whatever

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reason but the main difference is immediately apparent sitting in front of

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them the g2 is noticeably brighter similar color accuracy out of the box

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but the brighter you go the more vibrant colors are perceived to be

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at least all other things being equal are they both in filmmaker mode yeah

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they should be uh well when they go to this they're in like a

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theater home or something the brightness does make a

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difference though oh first yeah sure like it's

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it makes it feel less like he's standing in a gray space and more like he's

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standing in overcast with the sun shining through the clouds it really is

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really is a very noticeable difference oh wow it's huge you can see a ton of

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detail on this that just gets kind of lost here like if you pause it

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oh yeah yeah for sure yeah night and day

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but compared to the cutie OLED this is brown it should be like yellow and red

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like it's hard cause the glare from the studio lights and it doesn't have

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trouble hitting the highlights either the highlights are brighter

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and the blacks are deeper and they're both dolby vision capable lg

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has i mean it might not be elegant but lg has

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certainly improved over last gen i do wonder if part of this is lg just

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improving the color profile and then maybe doing it for the old one maybe

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that's really overcooked in terms of the blues

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it doesn't change the end result whether it's software or hardware it looks much

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better on the new set as for out of the box color accuracy our

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g2 and filmmaker mode got a respectable delta e average of 3.6 in sdr and 7.2 in

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HDR without luminance errors that's pretty good for a display that we

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got off the shelf at the local visions and that doesn't come with a calibration

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report in the box with that said the s95b qdo led from

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samsung that we just reviewed beat it handily both with and without their

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calibration app that only requires a newish smartphone to get a shockingly

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accurate picture oh and it comes in at 200 less than the

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g2 sounds like you should just get the samsung then right

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well that's what we thought but when we took delivery of our g2 the visions rep

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mentioned that they've actually avoided putting the two models next to each

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other on the show floor because apparently compared to lg the samsung's

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blacks look downright gray but i haven't

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had a chance to look at them and confirm that is

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until now oh wow i see it already the gray holy crap it's

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gray yeah and when you turn off the lights it looks black

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but side by side it does look super grey by

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comparison right yeah yeah yeah honestly i don't even think it looks as good as

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is it just an anti-glare coating i don't know because because

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so if you get the perfect blacks in the blackness yeah

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and less glare i wouldn't say it's a disadvantage see

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what i thought when the visions rep said oh it looks gray by comparison was that

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the pixels were not turning off oh yeah yeah but that's not what this is yeah

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this is what i think it is is a light

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reflecting and scattering anti-glare layer turn the lights off

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now now they're almost identical it looks black on the bottom

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you know what else is almost identical the performance of these two tvs to my

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bare eyes yeah if you told me

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that these are the same model of tv i would believe that this was simply uh a

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batch to batch variant yeah now that particular movie we're using

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the same HDR grade between the two right

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what if we pick something that supports dolby vision does the lg have an

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advantage it might to the extent that

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dolby vision will give you a wider range technically until HDR 10 plus is

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improved the problem is we can't really do that

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with our stuff with our splitter you know i wonder if lg is juicing their

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greens a little bit it looks greener on this right just a tiny to compensate for

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wo lead because it does seem like a bit of an unnatural green yeah the

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lg looks just a little bit more costly but it's not necessarily a bad thing

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right like it looks good good if i didn't see this next to it i wouldn't

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pick it out as yeah oh they've just got the vibrancy cranked yeah vivid mode you

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know it's not like that no but in testing i mean

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this did do significantly better we're talking really minor amounts like if i

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looked at a 3.7 delta e average and then i looked at a 2.7 delta e average i'm

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probably not going to be able to tell the difference and a lot of these differences could

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easily come down to filmmaker creative vision

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as opposed to just this one is definitely more true to

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life because films are not necessarily graded in such a way that they are true

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to life anyway but if this was the mood they were going for this is a different

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mood totally yeah this is more colorful joyful and it's 1917 it's a war movie so

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you kind of think that the samsung with this like

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not muted but somber yeah looks a lot more accurate or correct i still like

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the samsung more but they are almost identical

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i see why visions didn't want them next to each other right

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and it's not in like a deceptive bad way

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in a being fair to the samsung way

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interesting all other things being equal choosing between these two is going to be really

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tough the speakers are decidedly better on the s95b but the remote and interface

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is as much better on the g2 while both of them have very similar input lag in

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the neighborhood of 18 to 18 and a half milliseconds

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there are some other bigger factors to consider though when choosing between

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OLED and led color fringing on text and burnin

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let's start with text because of the pentile layout of the subpixels on

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samsung's new flagships if you look closely enough you can see some small

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amounts of color fringing when hard edges meet samsung actually responded to

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similar complaints when the aw 3423 dw

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qd OLED gaming monitor launched back in march they said that this issue can also

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be found in lcds and OLED using RGB stripe on the right and left sides of

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high contrasting hard edges but they said because qdl lead has such a wide

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color gamut and superior contrast ratio

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and a pentel layout it's easier to spot

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they went on to say that this layout was chosen to optimize color gamut

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brightness and durability which brings us back to our image retention

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discussion the panel type that lg has been marketing as OLED is actually w OLED or

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white OLED it works by taking a blue emitter and coating it in a yellow

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phosphor to produce white light that light is then punched through a

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color filter to produce the final image with the filter absorbing any unwanted

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light reducing the brightness of the entire display in the process

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the harder you drive the pixels the more light can get through that filter but

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the faster the panel will die because the organic material you know the o and

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OLED well it decays to increase perceived brightness while

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avoiding overdriving their color pixels lg uses a white sub pixel alongside the

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RGB but it's not a perfect solution

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regularly watching tv or even playing video games is unlikely to damage your

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panel thanks to technology like pixel shift and automatic static or screen

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brightness limiter or asbl for short the former shifts the image around by a

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few pixels every so often while the latter limits brightness on static

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elements so anything stationary doesn't get driven as hard leaving a little

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outline for you however i have personally experienced

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temporary image retention using a 48 inch lg c10 as my office monitor and

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wendell from level 1 techs has experienced permanent burn-in on his

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with qdo led however this may become a non-issue

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samsung's tv only has a basic warranty of one year but dell seems confident

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enough to give a three year warranty to this technology as we saw on the

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aw3423dw this is thanks to samsung's use of a

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blue self-emitting layer and quantum dots since there's no color filter to

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pass through we don't need a white sub pixel in order to boost brightness and

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bright colors are now achievable without driving the panel so hard quantum dots

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are crazy efficient when it comes to converting light from one color to

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another samsung is also able to monitor each of

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the three layers in a cutie OLED display red green and blue and adjust the output

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accordingly to ensure that one layer doesn't wear out faster than the others

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is it perfect and is burn-in a thing of the past

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probably not organic leds in fact any

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leds really do degrade over time it's just that at least on paper it should be

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much less noticeable now especially since qd OLED is also taking advantage

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of pixel shift and pixel refresher technology like what we've got in the g2

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now that the lab is gearing up we're excited to bring you guys long-term

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burn-in testing on OLED cutie OLED and all different kinds of panels but it's

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still going to be a little while so in the meantime pick up a wan hoodie and get subscribed on Floatplane for a ton

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back to these panels though if in regular tv use each of them is unlikely

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to end up with burn-in which one do you buy or more accurately which one should

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i buy i actually bought both of them so it's more like which one should i return

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and which one goes into my living room i might end up returning both

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lg's last gen g1 is nearly a thousand

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dollars less than either of these and if you have any semblance of light control

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in your room it gets pretty darn bright furthermore the next step down from the

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g2 in their current lineup the c2 is only a few hundred bucks more than that

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last gen g1 and is supposedly so similar in performance to the g2 that lg only

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differentiates them by the onboard speakers on their website i suspect

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there are other differences if you want an even better bargain and

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you don't need that many knits in your mom's basement at the time of filming a

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65-inch c1 is just 1600

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with the c-series also coming in a much wider range of sizes that 42-incher is

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looking mighty tempting and i'll be checking it out for myself soon we're

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gonna have links to where to buy all of these down below to be clear even budget OLED tvs are

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very expensive compared to a tcl lcd but

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thanks to competition from samsung and soon others it seems like in the not too

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distant future we will all be able to afford to move on from lcd

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as for me i've got one more that i've got my eyes on before i can make a final

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decision sony's qd OLED the a95k

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then i'll be ready to make my move

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doesn't have a tv in it it's just a blank wall