this is lg's flagship tv the absolutely
stunning z10 OLED and it costs 30 000 us
dollars but why is it so expensive
it's not just because it's 8k that doesn't account for it it's not because
it's OLED either it's not even just that it's 88 inches diagonally it's because
it's all of these things at once
so let's play a game let's pretend you're in the market for a unicorn tv
like this one and you've stacked up enough bengies to afford it is it
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the lg z10 is available in two sizes but they're not identical products the
twenty thousand dollar seventy seven inch value offering sits on minimalistic
metal feet or on the wall via the vase amount but that is not the case with the
88 inch it has no wall mounts and must
be sat on this 137 pound stand so
i hope it either matches the stuff you already have or you have deep enough
pockets to just go buy new stuff to go with your new tv anecdotally i do know
of some companies that have successfully wall mounted this monstrosity but it
required some custom metal work and ripping out the power cables that lg has
routed through the stand so you would have to be prepared for that it also
means that the tv's forward firing integrated speakers will be shooting
downwards since lg relies on this dinky reflector to make their 80 watt 4.2
channel audio solutions sound its best losing that is a real deal breaker
i'm kidding although the built-in speakers actually
sound okay for flat screen tv please for the
love of all that is holy do not spend 30
000 on this thing and then not use real speakers
please on that subject let's talk about the
kind of room this tv makes sense in for most netflix and chillers 88 inches is
a pretty punkin big tv but for the home theater crowd it's
actually on the small side that market typically uses long throw projectors to
get screen sizes of 120 130 even up to
150 inches of course it's not really about the physical size of the image but
rather about how much of your field of view that the image occupies from your
seat which is why it's perfectly acceptable for a cinematic experience to
just put your phone right here i was kidding about that too
now most regular people tend to be comfortable with about a 30 degree
viewing angle but in a home theater you want more like 40 to 46 degrees occupied
by the screen for better immersiveness that would put your main viewing
position less than nine feet away from the z1088
that's pretty reasonable but if that were the case i probably
wouldn't want to be in the second row of seats that's often recommended to be
about six feet behind the front rows so people can recline without feeling uncle
beau's breath on their neck
although i did hear they have great water bottles unfortunately that second
row seat nets you a field of view that's smaller than thx's bare minimum
recommended figure of 26 degrees so why
then would anyone spend thirty thousand dollars on an OLED tv when they could
get a high-end projector and a fantastic screen
not to mention some comfortable seating for half the price well a big part of
the answer has to do with light control oleds are well known for their amazing
blacks not only is it impossible for projectors to equal the black levels of
an OLED they can't even approach them unless you have complete light control
in your theater room this means you need a windowless or perfectly draped room
and even the walls and ceiling of the room need to be painted as close to
black as your spousal unit will allow so that the light from the brightest parts
of the image doesn't reflect around the room and wash out the darker parts
and while the z10 isn't as bright as some lcds it is bright enough to use all
day long even in a white-walled sun-drenched room while also having
unrivaled picture quality but forgive us for this video not feeling as
much like a review as you might expect the fact is that there's just not much
for us to say because the OLED panel in the z10 is very similar to what we've
seen in all lgo leds going back to at least 2017 just bigger brighter and of
course 8k now you might initially dismiss the
8knis as a non-feature given that there's no ak movies or tv to watch i
mean heck even the olympics which were going to be broadcast in 8k well at
least in japan have been postponed making a huge part of this tv's cost
basically a deferred investment into the future but that's not completely the
case for starters the z10 alpha 9 gen 3
processor claims to be able to upscale any content to 8k
although i really wasn't able to see much difference and
anyway more importantly gamers should note that the rtx 3090 is ak capable
today and in my experience it's pretty sweet this is without a
doubt the highest fidelity gaming i have ever experienced just bear in mind that
i had to sit much closer to the screen than most
people would to appreciate the difference in image sharpness and the
capableness of even the fastest gaming system in the world is going to vary
drastically from game to game doom eternal happens to be both
beautiful and incredibly well optimized and of
course you'll be able to run esports titles particularly the ones that
support native 8k at 60 frames per second but anything
other than that is going to be relying on upscaling tricks like NVIDIA's dlss
just like your tv and movie content oh and of course i'd be remiss if i didn't
mention AMD's new flagship graphics card the 6900xt
it's not specifically marketed as being 8k capable but until we try it we won't
know for sure so make sure you subscribe for that it's probably pretty hard for
something to look outright bad on this tv we're just trying to say you need to
manage your expectations for how consistently it's going to blow you out
of your seat at least for the next couple of years or so while we wait for
a new generation of graphics cards or for console developers to fully leverage
the series x and the playstation 5's ability to output 8k of course if we do
get aaa games at 8k they will probably be capped at 30 FPS and of course all of
the z10's gaming features like variable refresh rate and auto low latency mode
are enabled by its HDMI 2.1 ports of which it has four
however beware they don't all have the same
bandwidth capabilities or features only one of the ports is labeled e-arc
that's normal but what's not labeled and not normal is that ports 1 and 2 support
HDMI 2.1's full 48 gigabit per second
bandwidth while ports 3 and 4
only support 40 gigabit per second now that's still a lot it's the same as
Thunderbolt 3 so you'll have no problem gaming on your new console at 4k 120
hertz with dolby vision HDR enabled and no chroma sub sampling it's going to be
glorious but it could be a limiting factor when you're gaming at 8k on the
lower bandwidth ports you're going to be limited to 8k at 30 hertz which might be
all that your GPU or console can push anyway but you'll also be limited to
8-bit color which is less than ideal for the 10-bit panel lg's oleds use and less
than the wide color gamut required for HDR alternatively you could do 8k 60
with 420 sub sampling with all the fringing that that entails but at least
at 10 bit on the 48 gigabit per second ports
though you should be able to get 8k 60
with no chroma sub sampling up to 12 bit
if NVIDIA's testing is anything to go by that's pretty darn future proof right
about now bear in mind though that at the time of writing you can't get this
configuration working on any of the z10s ports until lg issues an upcoming
firmware update that takes advantage of display stream compression which i'm
told will be amazing and if their quick response to the g-sync issues on the
rest of the z10 lineup is anything to go by makes me think that maybe lg is
finally starting to clue into the importance of tv firmware support please
keep it up you guys these shouldn't be like a one and done
so then should you buy this tv well assuming
that you're not shook by the price tag the z10 represents the absolute cutting
edge in terms of picture quality feature set and size unless you want to spend at
least five times more and get some kind of micro led installation but in terms
of solutions that arrive to your house in a box this is about as easy as it
gets you don't even have to calibrate it just set it to isf or filmmaker mode and
you're done filmmaker mode in particular is fantastic because it automatically
turns off motion interpolation and all of the advanced ai processing enabled by
the display's alpha 9 gen 3 processor which
as i mentioned already was nowhere near as good as the upscaling that NVIDIA's
shield is capable of though it should be noted that the current gen shield can
only upscale to 4k not to 8ks
okay then how about if 30 grand is maybe manageable but you know like
still closer to car money than lunch money then honestly i'd recommend buying
several 77-inch gxo leds instead g10
i hate this i hate it so much why did apple do this to the industry g10 oleds
instead and put them all over my house because the z10's inflexible mounting
and stand make it honestly more of an art piece than an actual tv and ak just
isn't going to be that important that often until we get into screen sizes
that are well more like projector screen sizes 150 inches
in fact actually while you're at it you might as well just drop down to c10s
because the only difference is the wall mount and the internal speakers which by
the way you still shouldn't use anyway that'll give you more money to buy an
NVIDIA shield since even the z10 still has a 100 megabit per second Ethernet
connection because apparently nobody at lg has ever heard of streaming 4k
blu-rays over plex as for the theater use case i think due
to its small size those folks are probably going to pass over this in
favor of continuing to roll their projectors that is unless of course they don't have
enough friends to fill a second seating row
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