with the pace of modern technology it's bound to happen to all of us at some
point or another where we upgrade at exactly the wrong time and when i did my
video where i changed out my OLED tv and my media center here for this ASUS big
format gaming display 4k 120hz
in between me filming it and me releasing the video
lg released a firmware update that took
their 2019 models both their c series and their b series
and added both g-sync support and
support for 4k resolution at up to 120
hertz over HDMI 2.1
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oh i cannot wait to open this first though i'm gonna walk you guys
through what i'm replacing with it so to be clear there's nothing wrong with a
bfgd it's a great gaming experience 4k up to 144 hertz actually if you're
willing to deal with some chroma sub sampling fringing around text movies
look great thanks to its 384 zone local dimming thousand nit peak brightness but
when you're paying five thousand dollars for a display it's not about is it
really great it's about is it the best and there have been some inconveniences
that have kind of driven me nuts with this thing some of them are minor so
there is some halo effect around bright objects but it's really not that
noticeable unless you're moving a cursor around on the screen or you're looking
at it off axis there's a cooling fan in it that i can actually hear during quiet
parts of a movie that kind of ground my gears the ui sucks and the remote is
even worse not to mention that ASUS still hasn't addressed compatibility
with logitech's harmony universal remotes so i can't tie it all into the
rest of my setup and have everything start up with one button and finally is
that because it uses displayport to achieve its high refresh rates there is
no way to get high definition audio off
of my pc because with HDMI you would pass through
your receiver which would send it out to your speakers and then that would go to
your tv but displayport doesn't have an audio return channel and you can't go
through the receiver to it it's like so they just kind of i guess just didn't
think of it i guess
so on paper anyway this is the absolute
ultimate it's OLED so you've got individual pixel dimming no halos
infinite contrast all that good stuff because it can actually turn off every
single pixel on the display it's 4k which is a great resolution for this
size it's huge it's got built-in google
assistant and of course for me the big thing is that even from a gaming
standpoint it looks at least on the surface like basically
zero compromise 120 hertz 4k
that's a big deal but more important than that
is that it also boasts extremely
low input leg thanks to a technique lg is using where they're using a line
buffer rather than a frame buffer to boast input leg as low as 6.6
milliseconds and then the cherry on top
is that lg has implemented HDMI 2.1 on this thing giving us enhanced audio
return channel come on baby you got this there we go
auto low latency mode so you plug in a device like an xbox and it'll turn off
any unnecessary processing give you that nice low latency and of course
variable refresh rate this is the first tv
outside of NVIDIA's own partner offerings like their bfgds that is
g-sync compatible and the coolest thing
about it is that normally you'd have to get a
g-sync ultimate display in order to have both g-sync and HDR here you've got a
regular old g-sync compatible display
but because it happens to have flippin awesome HDR support
you get both and there's no g-sync module uh
sweetheart no
no no means not hide it means no it means go now i just got to get this
on here and Yvonne went to a parent teacher
conference so i'll be doing it myself if i drop it make sure you catch it on
camera all right all right all right
okay okay
can i even get this on here i don't even know it's gonna be really close well
there's only one way to do this the brute force way
okay you know i think it is actually lighter than the other one okay
you know people told me that you could have a tv that's too big for a space and
i never really bought it before i think i'm converted
you think it's never too big that doesn't look ridiculous here we go
hey just like that oh thank goodness
there it is ark yes well it took a while
but we're hooked up now now all you need to see is 1440p 120
hertz g-sync
is it gonna work i don't see a g-sync option in here
ah that ain't a great sign i also don't see 1442 what is going on
here uh i just want to play with that
so while our HDR game is installing i actually grabbed this is called a time
sleuth and what it is is it's an input leg measurer i've never actually used it
before but theoretically all we got to do is flip over to HDMI 4
and then pop this bad boy on here so we've got a
couple of interesting things to report here most of the movie viewing picture
modes have around 100 milliseconds of input delay
whereas game mode boom we're down at around 32
milliseconds remember guys that the time sleuth here is outputting a 60 hertz
signal so that is pretty darn good for that considering that you're going to
have up to a 16 millisecond delay just from the delay of only drawing one
frame every 16.66 milliseconds
wait did that just drop down to 12. now lg said that they could achieve less
than one frame with their line buffer instead of
frame buffer but that is that is less than 60 milliseconds here i
was explaining it away i mean the rest of them are not
particularly impressive and what i was a little bit disappointed to find out is
that even in something like you know an isf expert mode you can't just go into
the additional settings and configure i mean instant game responses
on but that doesn't seem to actually decrease
the input lag in this mode um
so there you go well our game's not done yet but that's okay i can work with that
why don't we just fire up the shield and have a look at some HDR movies then man
that is a gorgeous image you know what though this is the first
time that i've been like that is 4k enough resolution this is a
big tv mind you i'm standing like this close to it if i'm sitting at a more
reasonable distance yeah that's pretty sharp
man that looks good i mean the bfgd was good but the the
sharpness that you get when there's no dimming zones
that's unreal like you know when the sun is glinting off of individual hairs you
know it's it's different now one compromise here
is that in order to run at 120 hertz we do have to run at 1440p until NVIDIA
releases an HDMI 2.1 graphics card
but i'm going to sit at a reasonable distance and see if that's a problem
even at 77 inches here honestly guys input lag feels easily as good as a
high-end gaming monitor it managed to kick itself over into game mode
automatically which is pretty sweet and when you're running around like this
the odds of noticing something like a slight reduction in resolution
seems pretty slim you know what's up bro oh i missed wow i suck i'm
so bad how did i do that
oh thank goodness that's more like it
wow
that is outstanding really makes a difference to the way
that the light looks when you've got these direct rays that
bounce off the ground so bright like that
that is freaking awesome you ever seen this look this good andy
and that's it i've seen everything i need to see this
is my end game tv and i'm having a hard
time imagining what would be a huge upgrade over it at this time when
i got my first OLED i was like the picture's amazing but this is not great
for gaming lg has fixed the input lag issues
and they cranked it to 120 hertz but the craziest thing about today's
video is not all of that it's that unlike most of the time that i'm like
yeah this one's the best the pricing for this isn't even that
outlandish the 77 inch is the same price
as bfgd's were at their launch a couple short months ago
and the 65-inch visits the same size as the bfge is actually about the same
price and it's better in almost every way it looks so
good now there are a couple of advantages for a bfgd you can go to 120
hertz 4k or even 144 today instead of
waiting for an HDMI 2.1 graphics card and it's got that full g-sync range
whereas the window only goes from 40 to 60 or 40 to 120 depending on what
refresh rate you're running at here but personally i would take those
minor trade-offs any day of the week for a picture that looks like this why hope
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