it's been more than a month since I replaced the LG 65 eg9600
65in curved OLED 4K TV in my living room
with LG's brand new Signature Series OLED 65
g6p thanks LGBT dubs the birthday cake
was cool but this is better now last time around I was blown away by the
massive improvements to image quality compared to my old 1080p LCD that were
made possible by the switch to OLED pixels and four times as many of them at
that but have we reached the point of
diminishing returns or is the 2016
Flagship another Quantum Leap Forward thanks to the industry's next big
buzzword HDR let's
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out the link in the video description to learn more the G6 as I'll be calling it
for the rest of the review cuz it's fly is gorgeous in ways that I've always
been able to appreciate like the way the organic light emitting diodes the oleds
are so close to the surface of their glass backing that they almost seem to
be floating there dramatically improving resistance to glare and viewing angles
to new ways I mean it's funny how your
perspective changes over time there was a point in my life not long ago mind you
that a display a monitor or a TV was all
about the panel it could be in a cardboard box housing for all I cared as
long as the image quality was the best that I could get for as few dollars as
possible and yet now that I'm older I
find it a easier to appreciate the value of a
beautifully designed enclosure for my TV because I view it as a piece of
furniture as much as a window to my Netflix fix and B easier to justify the
price increase that comes with better industrial design because of how much
the pieces surrounding it managed to cost without having a TV inside them and
people judge you if your stuff sucks being an adult is kind of a bummer
unless you have the sexy toys on the block though right the first thing I was
blown away by with the G6 was its thinness feels like we're saying this
every year doesn't it but this time it's different the protective piece of
cardboard in the box is almost the same
thickness as the entire display assembly
at least that is until you get down to the somewhat blocky integrated Soundbar
power supply and video input box stand
thing at the bottom I mean let's face it putting all that stuff down there then
calling your display 2.57 mm thick is a
bit of a hack isn't it though this does
raise the question do I care if they hack whether it's Samsung's one connect
or LG's bulky power input base everyone
is pulling stuff out of the TV now because it no longer physically fits in
order for them to hit new thinness targets but I just don't
care but if I don't care about that and
likely neither do you did I care about
the rest of it being thinner in the first place what kind of TV could they
make if they didn't stress out about that I'll probably never know so I'll
just have to live with LG's approach which isn't terrible since they did a
lot of things right including using
their hack to have the integrated Harmon Cardon co-branded speaker bar fired
directly at The Listener instead of downward the next thing they did right
is the image quality I still lack an HDR
capable pattern generator to measure this stuff exactly so for now all I can
really do is put it in the words of my wife with whom I did blind AB testing
between an SDR and an HDR master of
Sony's camping demo clip my first instinct is this one looks better
referring to the HDR one it feels like I can see more detail even though the
scene seems darker the colors look almost more vibrant and that's HDR in a
nutshell it took me a while to wrap my
brain around this but it doesn't manifest so much as a difference in
color as it does as a difference in
contrast that makes a dark scene with bright lights for example look less
washed out because it's not trying to cram everything into this narrower
contrast and color space it's more about
how it feels more natural and more true
to what it would be like if you were if you were sitting there though taking
advantage of this requires that the content is mastered in HDR at all then
beyond that that it's mastered in HDR in a way that you the viewer will find
pleasing I was really struggling with my
comparison between my old set and the new one watching Marco Polo on Netflix
colors Skies landscapes skin tones were
all clearly better on the G6 but I had
to crank the OLED brightness even in the bright HDR preset to make out any
details in the shadows at all well I don't know if it was the G6 firmware
update or the Netflix app update but instead of just saying HDR in the top
Corner partway through my time with the TV it's started telling me if it was
hdr10 or the competing Dolby Vision
standard the G 6 supports both and the
Netflix app doesn't allow you to manually choose so watching hdr10 only
content like LG's chess demo side by
side the superiority of the newer display is obvious in the reflections
off the king's armor and the glistening off all this Chinese stuff which means
then that I just don't seem to like the Dolby Vision master of Marco Polo as
much as the HDR 101 that was the problem
thankfully unlike most manufacturers LG at least supports both of those
standards but I would like to see them take it one step further and allow me to
set a preferred one and or switch between them at will because other than
that the thing looks amazing which
doesn't mean that they didn't do anything wrong the first one is a
relatively minor one but what the actual F moment for sure the power cord is
permanently attached I mean I guess
anyone who can afford an $8,000 TV can also afford a $5 extension cord but come
on and the second one is much bigger LG
and other TV makers too need to wake up
to gaming there simply isn't any excuse
anymore I don't expect anyone to give a
rat's ass about the half dozen people other than me that are running gaming
PCs in their living rooms but in 3 years since it launched the PlayStation 4 has
sold over 40 million consoles stop IGN
ignoring this maybe if everyone complains they'll deal with it next year
that's apparently why the curve screen is gone by the way and the G6 follows
directly in the footsteps of its predecessor astonishing image quality to
the point where anything else just kind of looks me but if it appears that a
conscious decision has been made by LG to say screw it to input leg in favor of
concentrating almost entirely on image quality then it's because that's exactly
what happened even in game mode it's slow so the bottom line then is the G6
is a fascinating product the onboard processor is tangibly faster that same
air mouse Magic Remote interface that I really like is still here LG's software
isn't Android TV but it has a Plex app and a Netflix app which is pretty much
all that I really need and while OLED burning continues to be a concern to the
point where LG's interface even has an image quality restore routine that takes
an hour to run my year old panel with adequate care continues to behave well
which leaves us with the bottom line would I pay $8,000 for this TV
no the law of diminishing returns hits pretty hard once you've crossed over
into OLED territory at all but would I
say it's the best viewing experience I've ever had if you simply don't care
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