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it's been more than a month since I replaced the LG 65 eg9600

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65in curved OLED 4K TV in my living room

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with LG's brand new Signature Series OLED 65

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g6p thanks LGBT dubs the birthday cake

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was cool but this is better now last time around I was blown away by the

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massive improvements to image quality compared to my old 1080p LCD that were

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made possible by the switch to OLED pixels and four times as many of them at

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that but have we reached the point of

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diminishing returns or is the 2016

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Flagship another Quantum Leap Forward thanks to the industry's next big

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buzzword HDR let's

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discuss Corsair boasts unrivaled comfort

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and Universal compatibility on its void surround headset featuring a genuine

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Dolby 7.1 headphone USB adapter check

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out the link in the video description to learn more the G6 as I'll be calling it

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for the rest of the review cuz it's fly is gorgeous in ways that I've always

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been able to appreciate like the way the organic light emitting diodes the oleds

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are so close to the surface of their glass backing that they almost seem to

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be floating there dramatically improving resistance to glare and viewing angles

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to new ways I mean it's funny how your

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perspective changes over time there was a point in my life not long ago mind you

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that a display a monitor or a TV was all

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about the panel it could be in a cardboard box housing for all I cared as

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long as the image quality was the best that I could get for as few dollars as

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possible and yet now that I'm older I

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find it a easier to appreciate the value of a

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beautifully designed enclosure for my TV because I view it as a piece of

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furniture as much as a window to my Netflix fix and B easier to justify the

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price increase that comes with better industrial design because of how much

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the pieces surrounding it managed to cost without having a TV inside them and

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people judge you if your stuff sucks being an adult is kind of a bummer

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unless you have the sexy toys on the block though right the first thing I was

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blown away by with the G6 was its thinness feels like we're saying this

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every year doesn't it but this time it's different the protective piece of

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cardboard in the box is almost the same

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thickness as the entire display assembly

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at least that is until you get down to the somewhat blocky integrated Soundbar

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power supply and video input box stand

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thing at the bottom I mean let's face it putting all that stuff down there then

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calling your display 2.57 mm thick is a

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bit of a hack isn't it though this does

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raise the question do I care if they hack whether it's Samsung's one connect

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or LG's bulky power input base everyone

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is pulling stuff out of the TV now because it no longer physically fits in

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order for them to hit new thinness targets but I just don't

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care but if I don't care about that and

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likely neither do you did I care about

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the rest of it being thinner in the first place what kind of TV could they

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make if they didn't stress out about that I'll probably never know so I'll

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just have to live with LG's approach which isn't terrible since they did a

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lot of things right including using

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their hack to have the integrated Harmon Cardon co-branded speaker bar fired

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directly at The Listener instead of downward the next thing they did right

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is the image quality I still lack an HDR

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capable pattern generator to measure this stuff exactly so for now all I can

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really do is put it in the words of my wife with whom I did blind AB testing

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between an SDR and an HDR master of

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Sony's camping demo clip my first instinct is this one looks better

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referring to the HDR one it feels like I can see more detail even though the

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scene seems darker the colors look almost more vibrant and that's HDR in a

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nutshell it took me a while to wrap my

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brain around this but it doesn't manifest so much as a difference in

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color as it does as a difference in

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contrast that makes a dark scene with bright lights for example look less

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washed out because it's not trying to cram everything into this narrower

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contrast and color space it's more about

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how it feels more natural and more true

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to what it would be like if you were if you were sitting there though taking

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advantage of this requires that the content is mastered in HDR at all then

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beyond that that it's mastered in HDR in a way that you the viewer will find

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pleasing I was really struggling with my

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comparison between my old set and the new one watching Marco Polo on Netflix

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colors Skies landscapes skin tones were

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all clearly better on the G6 but I had

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to crank the OLED brightness even in the bright HDR preset to make out any

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details in the shadows at all well I don't know if it was the G6 firmware

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update or the Netflix app update but instead of just saying HDR in the top

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Corner partway through my time with the TV it's started telling me if it was

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hdr10 or the competing Dolby Vision

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standard the G 6 supports both and the

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Netflix app doesn't allow you to manually choose so watching hdr10 only

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content like LG's chess demo side by

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side the superiority of the newer display is obvious in the reflections

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off the king's armor and the glistening off all this Chinese stuff which means

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then that I just don't seem to like the Dolby Vision master of Marco Polo as

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much as the HDR 101 that was the problem

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thankfully unlike most manufacturers LG at least supports both of those

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standards but I would like to see them take it one step further and allow me to

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set a preferred one and or switch between them at will because other than

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that the thing looks amazing which

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doesn't mean that they didn't do anything wrong the first one is a

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relatively minor one but what the actual F moment for sure the power cord is

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permanently attached I mean I guess

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anyone who can afford an $8,000 TV can also afford a $5 extension cord but come

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on and the second one is much bigger LG

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and other TV makers too need to wake up

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to gaming there simply isn't any excuse

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anymore I don't expect anyone to give a

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rat's ass about the half dozen people other than me that are running gaming

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PCs in their living rooms but in 3 years since it launched the PlayStation 4 has

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sold over 40 million consoles stop IGN

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ignoring this maybe if everyone complains they'll deal with it next year

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that's apparently why the curve screen is gone by the way and the G6 follows

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directly in the footsteps of its predecessor astonishing image quality to

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the point where anything else just kind of looks me but if it appears that a

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conscious decision has been made by LG to say screw it to input leg in favor of

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concentrating almost entirely on image quality then it's because that's exactly

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what happened even in game mode it's slow so the bottom line then is the G6

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is a fascinating product the onboard processor is tangibly faster that same

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air mouse Magic Remote interface that I really like is still here LG's software

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isn't Android TV but it has a Plex app and a Netflix app which is pretty much

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all that I really need and while OLED burning continues to be a concern to the

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point where LG's interface even has an image quality restore routine that takes

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an hour to run my year old panel with adequate care continues to behave well

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which leaves us with the bottom line would I pay $8,000 for this TV

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no the law of diminishing returns hits pretty hard once you've crossed over

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into OLED territory at all but would I

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say it's the best viewing experience I've ever had if you simply don't care

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about money and you're willing to compromise on gaming then yes yes I

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would which isn't to say that you always have to Fork out a ton of money to get

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