today's topic is a big one one so big
that it actually doesn't fit on the set with me yes friends LG sent me both a 65
in 65 EG 9600 UHD curved OLED TV and an
ano receiver to go with it to hook up and give my thoughts on the movie and
gaming experience so this isn't a review
per se since I don't have much to compare it against but rather my
Impressions on the experience of moving from a 1080p flat LED backlit LCD to a
bigger curvier sexier OLED model so here
we
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some specs and physical observations about the 65 eg9600 the first thing
you'll notice pulling it out of the box is that the screen is curved this was
the big thing at CES this year but even
as someone who has been using a curved display as my daily driver on my work PC
for the better part of a year now I'm just not sold on it in the living room I
mean to be clear it's not bad in fact an
unexpected side effect was that I get less notice not able glare off of the
display than I did with my old flat one so right on there but I'm just not
convinced that until we're putting 120in
TVs in our living rooms that the curve affects immersiveness in any meaningful
way and I basically forgot about it 30 seconds into whatever content I was
enjoying the next thing you'll notice about this TV is that it is wayfer thin
both in terms of the thickness of the panel a fairly meaningless ego measuring
contest that all the TV makers and no one else seem to care about since your
attempt to mount the thing flush against the wall will be limited by the thicker
lower half that contains all the power delivery processing and inputs
anyway and in terms of the bezel size
which is a completely different story and combined with the clear acrylic
stand that didn't really impress me on the 3495 monitor but makes a ton of
sense here makes this TV feel more like a floating piece of technology science
fiction and then just another TV but no
one tunes into to lonus Tech tips for my style tips so let's move on to the next
thing you'll notice when you turn it on the screen this OLED panel is absolutely
mind-blowing I mean I'm a pretty techsavvy guy I was already aware of the
fact that oleds do not emit light at all when they receive a black signal but
seeing it in person in your living room
white text or bright objects on dark or black backgrounds look so crisp thanks
to the 4K panel and sextastic infinite
contrast between the pierced white and deepest black making it an absolute
sight to behold rounding out our tour of
the TV it features one each of RF component and composite Legacy inputs a
digital audio pass through three USB ports a landan port for if your Wi-Fi
sucks and 4 HDMI 2.0 ports with hdcp 2.2
compliance making this one of the first Ultra HD TVs that's suitable for both
movie enthusiasts who want support for 4K Blu-ray discs when those start
showing up and Gamers who want their PC
to be able to Output at 3840 by 2160 60
htz for a less According to some people
who unfortunately don't seem to know any better cinematic but objectively way
better gaming experience thanks to the higher refresh rate which leads us
pretty well to the gaming experience at 60 milliseconds of display leg even in
game mode you're behind by about four frames at 60 HZ as a best case scenario
this number would be considered quite poor for a Competitive Gaming monitor
but I should probably put it in the appropriate context playing games like
Super Meat Boy while slightly trickier timing wise than on a 144 HZ gaming
monitor wasn't just possible but actually still fun and for games that
are less reliant on Pixel perfect timing like arcade Racers or 3 person action
games the vast majority of people won't
even notice and the crisp moving images like seriously motion blur not a thing
helped it feel more responsive to me than it ended up actually being when I
objectively measured it with my Leo Bodner leg tester so overall I had a
blast playing games on this TV with the Highlight being the Battlefront beta
with my nerdy Tech couch Master with pretty much the only thing that could
make this scene better being some Doritos and some Mountain Dew
let's move on to movies now though the first movie I watched on this TV
actually after I watched my Faulty Towers uh remastered collection which
obviously being standard definition didn't look that great the first HD
movie I watched on this TV blew my mind
just for the sake of thoroughness I ordered a 3D Blu-ray of How to Train
Your Dragon even though I'm not that into 3D to watch with my son for the
first 15 to 20 minutes I had that pressure sensation that I get in the
front of my brain even in the theater then actually after that it was gone the
passive alternating horizontal line stereo 3D approach that LG has taken
with this TV works like a charm image
Clarity is only noticeably reduced on small background objects and I got none
of the headaches that I typically experience due to slow pixel response
times on LCDs with active shter glasses
and even my wife reported having a positive 3D experience for the first
time ever thanks to the lightweight polarized glasses and clipons and
outstanding stereo separation it's a fantastic 3D movie watching experience
which I guess leads us back to gaming again where things were not quite as
rosy I grabbed the trial of NVIDIA's 3D TV play software package that allows you
to use your TV's glasses and game in 3D
and once again stereo separation fcking
awesome but because interleaved passive
3D requires the signal to use frame packing you're limited to AV resolutions
and refresh rates so while try 2 was a
sight to behold in glorious 3D having to choose between 4K in 2D at 60 HZ 1080p
in 3D at 24 htz or
720p in 3D at 60 HZ I opted for 4K not
necessarily because it makes a huge difference in sharpness from couch
distance compared to 1080p but because compared to 720p since I'm not going to
play at 24 Herz it is much much better
so I'll go for gold there which brings us back to movie watching I guess so
let's talk about the benefits of 4K many of the evaluations of 4K TVs center
around the 4K content that's available to us right now so unless you bought
that asinine Sony 4K player we're basically talking about stream content
from the likes of Netflix or YouTube and I've seen reviewers compare the jump
from 1080p to 4K to lifting a blurry
Veil off the screen the issue here is that they're comparing web 1080p to web
4K and as we explained in our does 4K
matter on the web video which you can check out here the reason that 4K
YouTube videos look better than 1080p is
nothing to do with the higher resolution and everything to do with the higher bit
rate or or dat rate that YouTube is allowing for Content that identifies as
4K so for the sake of thoroughness I
decided to confirm that our YouTube findings were also applicable to Netflix
by purchasing House of Cards season 1 on Blu-ray and running that on my PC then
streaming it in 4k on my NVIDIA Shield console and switching between them
impressively the Netflix stream was difficult to distinguish from the
Blu-ray experience in brightly scenes and pretty much impossible from a normal
viewing distance but getting close and
peeping at the pixels you can tell that the Blu-ray copy is just playing better
in spite of being 1080p which doesn't
mean I'm poo pooing 4K content in
general it just means that the little 4K
icon in the bottom of the screen is not
ample justification for a 4K TV purchase
and for me if that's what it's about for you native 4K content then you might as
well wait until 4K Blu-ray arrives which
I guess brings us nicely into our conclusion I'm not saying that a 4K TV
particularly in OLED is a terrible investment at this point early 4K TV
buyers sorry y'all got hosed you paid a
fortune you're stuck with 30 HZ maximum refresh rates and you're rocking a panel
that by the time any content arrives to actually legitimately make use of the
extra pixels will have been absolutely crushed by even a 1080p OLED panel that
delivers a more vibrant picture with stunning contrast which in my mind is
more important than sheer resolution but
based on my experience with this model folks shopping for a premium 4K TV in
late 2015 don't really have to worry
about any game-changing technology shifts before they can properly take
advantage of it I mean 4K Blu-ray is almost here the 3D experience is refined
to the point where I would call it excellent we've gotten to the point
where the size of your TV is limited more by your living room than by what
you can afford the choice of curved versus non-curved is totally up to you
with plenty of options out there panels are thinner than will ever matter and
while I wasn't that impressed with outof the-box color accuracy on this
particular TV after a little bit of color calibration something you should
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