it's a play we've seen many times over the years your competitor catches you
completely by surprise with a vastly superior product there's no time to
develop something new so you reach for the nearest heatsink slap it on the back
and overclock the snot out of it that's essentially what lg's done here by
adding an aluminum heatsink layer to the second gen OLED panel technology we saw
them introduced last year they claim they've managed to boost up peak
brightness by up to 30 percent it's actually not a bad move OLED's biggest
problem is it's low brightness but is it enough to win a place in the
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description the brighter you run an OLED panel the better the HDR experience but
this also comes with a downside heat and
the hotter the panel gets the faster the diodes burn out so lg is under pressure
from two sides they have to push brightness up in order to compete but if
they fly too close to the sun they're going to get burned in get it because
customers are going to return their tvs if they burn in the brightness booster
heatsink as lg is calling it appears to be an attempt to manage this heat in
direct response to samsung's much brighter qd OLED tvs and from our
initial tests it seems to work as expected we weren't able to measure some
of the 1000 plus nit claims that we've seen from other reviewers but after
finding and disabling the buried energy saving feature we did manage to hit a
respectable 930 nits in luminance
stability testing despite only hitting 880 nits in a 1 to 10 window the problem
though is that while it's a good idea it's not exactly a new idea sony's a90j
OLED from last year features a similar approach and also still gets wamped by
samsung's new qd OLED lineup which has a couple of other key advantages much
better color saturation from not needing a white sub pixel and much better
efficiency thanks to using quantum dots rather than color filters oh and if
you've been paying attention you might already realize that better efficiency
means that you can boost your oleds higher without them heating up as much
reducing the risk of burning we'll talk a bit more about that later but first
let's see how much lg has managed to improve over last year's flagship
unfortunately it's pretty obvious which one is which because the bezel is so
much skinnier on the wow it's also a lot brighter right huh okay even well i
guess especially in a lit room with all the studio lighting that's very
noticeable both of them support all the latest bells and whistles g-sync auto low
latency mode variable refresh rate HDMI 2.1 actually the g2 has two e-arc ports
which is kind of cool if you have multiple audio setups for whatever
reason but the main difference is immediately apparent sitting in front of
them the g2 is noticeably brighter similar color accuracy out of the box
but the brighter you go the more vibrant colors are perceived to be
at least all other things being equal are they both in filmmaker mode yeah
they should be uh well when they go to this they're in like a
theater home or something the brightness does make a
difference though oh first yeah sure like it's
it makes it feel less like he's standing in a gray space and more like he's
standing in overcast with the sun shining through the clouds it really is
really is a very noticeable difference oh wow it's huge you can see a ton of
detail on this that just gets kind of lost here like if you pause it
oh yeah yeah for sure yeah night and day
but compared to the cutie OLED this is brown it should be like yellow and red
like it's hard cause the glare from the studio lights and it doesn't have
trouble hitting the highlights either the highlights are brighter
and the blacks are deeper and they're both dolby vision capable lg
has i mean it might not be elegant but lg has
certainly improved over last gen i do wonder if part of this is lg just
improving the color profile and then maybe doing it for the old one maybe
that's really overcooked in terms of the blues
it doesn't change the end result whether it's software or hardware it looks much
better on the new set as for out of the box color accuracy our
g2 and filmmaker mode got a respectable delta e average of 3.6 in sdr and 7.2 in
HDR without luminance errors that's pretty good for a display that we
got off the shelf at the local visions and that doesn't come with a calibration
report in the box with that said the s95b qdo led from
samsung that we just reviewed beat it handily both with and without their
calibration app that only requires a newish smartphone to get a shockingly
accurate picture oh and it comes in at 200 less than the
g2 sounds like you should just get the samsung then right
well that's what we thought but when we took delivery of our g2 the visions rep
mentioned that they've actually avoided putting the two models next to each
other on the show floor because apparently compared to lg the samsung's
blacks look downright gray but i haven't
had a chance to look at them and confirm that is
until now oh wow i see it already the gray holy crap it's
gray yeah and when you turn off the lights it looks black
but side by side it does look super grey by
comparison right yeah yeah yeah honestly i don't even think it looks as good as
samsung's latest like quantum dot mini leds
is it just an anti-glare coating i don't know because because
the glare is much less
so if you get the perfect blacks in the blackness yeah
and less glare i wouldn't say it's a disadvantage see
what i thought when the visions rep said oh it looks gray by comparison was that
the pixels were not turning off oh yeah yeah but that's not what this is yeah
this is what i think it is is a light
reflecting and scattering anti-glare layer turn the lights off
now now they're almost identical it looks black on the bottom
you know what else is almost identical the performance of these two tvs to my
bare eyes yeah if you told me
that these are the same model of tv i would believe that this was simply uh a
batch to batch variant yeah now that particular movie we're using
the same HDR grade between the two right
what if we pick something that supports dolby vision does the lg have an
advantage it might to the extent that
dolby vision will give you a wider range technically until HDR 10 plus is
improved the problem is we can't really do that
with our stuff with our splitter you know i wonder if lg is juicing their
greens a little bit it looks greener on this right just a tiny to compensate for
wo lead because it does seem like a bit of an unnatural green yeah the
lg looks just a little bit more costly but it's not necessarily a bad thing
right like it looks good good if i didn't see this next to it i wouldn't
pick it out as yeah oh they've just got the vibrancy cranked yeah vivid mode you
know it's not like that no but in testing i mean
this did do significantly better we're talking really minor amounts like if i
looked at a 3.7 delta e average and then i looked at a 2.7 delta e average i'm
probably not going to be able to tell the difference and a lot of these differences could
easily come down to filmmaker creative vision
as opposed to just this one is definitely more true to
life because films are not necessarily graded in such a way that they are true
to life anyway but if this was the mood they were going for this is a different
mood totally yeah this is more colorful joyful and it's 1917 it's a war movie so
you kind of think that the samsung with this like
not muted but somber yeah looks a lot more accurate or correct i still like
the samsung more but they are almost identical
i see why visions didn't want them next to each other right
and it's not in like a deceptive bad way
in a being fair to the samsung way
interesting all other things being equal choosing between these two is going to be really
tough the speakers are decidedly better on the s95b but the remote and interface
is as much better on the g2 while both of them have very similar input lag in
the neighborhood of 18 to 18 and a half milliseconds
there are some other bigger factors to consider though when choosing between
OLED and led color fringing on text and burnin
let's start with text because of the pentile layout of the subpixels on
samsung's new flagships if you look closely enough you can see some small
amounts of color fringing when hard edges meet samsung actually responded to
similar complaints when the aw 3423 dw
qd OLED gaming monitor launched back in march they said that this issue can also
be found in lcds and OLED using RGB stripe on the right and left sides of
high contrasting hard edges but they said because qdl lead has such a wide
color gamut and superior contrast ratio
and a pentel layout it's easier to spot
they went on to say that this layout was chosen to optimize color gamut
brightness and durability which brings us back to our image retention
discussion the panel type that lg has been marketing as OLED is actually w OLED or
white OLED it works by taking a blue emitter and coating it in a yellow
phosphor to produce white light that light is then punched through a
color filter to produce the final image with the filter absorbing any unwanted
light reducing the brightness of the entire display in the process
the harder you drive the pixels the more light can get through that filter but
the faster the panel will die because the organic material you know the o and
OLED well it decays to increase perceived brightness while
avoiding overdriving their color pixels lg uses a white sub pixel alongside the
RGB but it's not a perfect solution
regularly watching tv or even playing video games is unlikely to damage your
panel thanks to technology like pixel shift and automatic static or screen
brightness limiter or asbl for short the former shifts the image around by a
few pixels every so often while the latter limits brightness on static
elements so anything stationary doesn't get driven as hard leaving a little
outline for you however i have personally experienced
temporary image retention using a 48 inch lg c10 as my office monitor and
wendell from level 1 techs has experienced permanent burn-in on his
with qdo led however this may become a non-issue
samsung's tv only has a basic warranty of one year but dell seems confident
enough to give a three year warranty to this technology as we saw on the
aw3423dw this is thanks to samsung's use of a
blue self-emitting layer and quantum dots since there's no color filter to
pass through we don't need a white sub pixel in order to boost brightness and
bright colors are now achievable without driving the panel so hard quantum dots
are crazy efficient when it comes to converting light from one color to
another samsung is also able to monitor each of
the three layers in a cutie OLED display red green and blue and adjust the output
accordingly to ensure that one layer doesn't wear out faster than the others
is it perfect and is burn-in a thing of the past
probably not organic leds in fact any
leds really do degrade over time it's just that at least on paper it should be
much less noticeable now especially since qd OLED is also taking advantage
of pixel shift and pixel refresher technology like what we've got in the g2
now that the lab is gearing up we're excited to bring you guys long-term
burn-in testing on OLED cutie OLED and all different kinds of panels but it's
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back to these panels though if in regular tv use each of them is unlikely
to end up with burn-in which one do you buy or more accurately which one should
i buy i actually bought both of them so it's more like which one should i return
and which one goes into my living room i might end up returning both
lg's last gen g1 is nearly a thousand
dollars less than either of these and if you have any semblance of light control
in your room it gets pretty darn bright furthermore the next step down from the
g2 in their current lineup the c2 is only a few hundred bucks more than that
last gen g1 and is supposedly so similar in performance to the g2 that lg only
differentiates them by the onboard speakers on their website i suspect
there are other differences if you want an even better bargain and
you don't need that many knits in your mom's basement at the time of filming a
65-inch c1 is just 1600
with the c-series also coming in a much wider range of sizes that 42-incher is
looking mighty tempting and i'll be checking it out for myself soon we're
gonna have links to where to buy all of these down below to be clear even budget OLED tvs are
very expensive compared to a tcl lcd but
thanks to competition from samsung and soon others it seems like in the not too
distant future we will all be able to afford to move on from lcd
as for me i've got one more that i've got my eyes on before i can make a final
decision sony's qd OLED the a95k
then i'll be ready to make my move
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