okay ready one two three up we go oh wow
hardly weighs anything 77 inch tv and it's what 12 kilos
27 freedom units watch as we're going around this corner here
being seven millimeters thick does come with some drawbacks
all right so see back here you've got uh the hook
there that goes on these little knobby screws
that we've got the kind of washer things
it's kind of tough to get it aligned here because you can't so tight to the
wall you can't really see um i think i'm kind of in the right spot
just got to kind of oh no i missed
i'm on let's go up yeah i think you got it
we good okay check this out so the rest of it just clips on with magnets
so that's it the w8
this is the best tv lg makes
you should get one you know just uh 15 grand
15 grand yeah i know right it's a good thing lg sent
this thing ready to fire it up
and we're going to but not until
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to get things kicked off we hooked up our xbox one and threw in planet earth 2
on 4k blu-ray as predicted
it is stunning you got 4k
all sorts of HDR support pretty much everything that you'd expect for 15
grand to the point that you guys probably aren't even looking at me right
now you're probably looking at that so that's it and a video right
this tv is great ah well no because it has some problems
it's also out of reach for almost
all of us but the good news is you don't actually have
to spend that much in order to get the same picture quality dropping down 12
inches to the 65 inch model cuts the price more than 50 percent to a mere 7
grand which okay is still getting dangerously close
to a year of college tuition but if you don't need the wallpaper thinness this
exact same panel is used across lg's
entire OLED lineup and the only thing that differentiates the various price
points is how fancy of a body style you want except for the very cheapest one
the b8 which uses a lower tier processor
but is that a big deal anyway like the other 2018 models the b8 still has
support for google assistant and a relatively obscure but appreciated black
frame insertion feature to help reduce judder which means that all it lacks are
the benefits of lg's flagship alpha 9 processor its quad pass image processing
to reduce banding its ai object recognition to help increase depth and
sharpness and its frame interpolation technique to simulate 120 hertz refresh
rate not necessarily things that matter to everyone though if they matter to you
i mean it's 200 bucks more to bump up to the alpha 9 equipped c8 man these guys
love their letters and numbers don't they speaking of an extra 200
if you're a real stickler for accurate color then be prepared to shell out some
more to have your screen professionally calibrated because out of the box
even with the technicolor expert mode turned on our particular panel didn't
have great color accuracy particularly with the primary pigment cyan magenta
and yellow it's actually quite a bit worse than what we measured on lg's own
2400 lcd tv just a couple of weeks ago
we're not saying it's terrible i mean the average best buy shopper
wouldn't notice but it's pretty bothersome to me that at
this price you still need to toss an extra 250 bucks to geek squad to get it
calibrated now the good news is that we measured
almost 94 coverage of the dci p3 color
space so exceptional color reproduction
is achievable on these tvs now comparing
the w8 to samsung's q9f the nicest tv
that they make you can see that they're both amazing
displays but even with full array local dimming
the quantum dot lcd display just cannot achieve the sharp contrast of an
OLED check out the halo around the white letters
but when you make a super high-end product you inevitably open yourself up
to some scrutiny and there are still some gripes some of which were present
in the w7 and still persist with this year's model
mostly having to do with the tv's mandatory sound bar the reason this tv
is so thin other than the fact that it's OLED and therefore doesn't have a fat
backlight shining through the pixels is because the tv's drive circuitry power
supply and io are not housed in the main
chassis but are instead contained in this 28 pound dolby atmos sound bar
now to be clear it's a pretty awesome sound bar it's 4.2 channel and 60 watts
so it goes pretty loud and usually manages to sound clear at high volumes
unless you're listening to metal or something and the way the speakers
emerge and then hide when you turn the tv off
is really slick but if you're the type of person who spends
fifteen thousand dollars on a tv we don't think it's that much of a
stretch to say that you probably have a better audio solution than what they're
including here a fact that is demonstrated by the number of wallpaper
tv owners who have opted to hide their sound bars under a table or in a wall
behind the screen wouldn't it be easier more aesthetic and
even cheaper for everyone involved if lg simply offered a more compact variant
that didn't include any speakers at all i mean it's the kind of thing that's so
obvious that it makes you kind of mad because it's like it feels like they're
saying hey i mean these high-end clients are already paying so much what's an extra
few hundred bucks to cover the cost of the sound bar not to mention the
shipping but even if they do make the sound bar easier to hide the umbilical
cord is still kind of a drag even though it is relatively discreet and includes
an extension it's just not nearly as flexible as samsung's oneconnect
solution and it doesn't have the requisite fire rating to be run inside a
wall so depending on your local laws you might need one of these sold separately
in-wall cable kits and finally what about OLED's arch nemesis
not being as bright as quantum dot and burnin
well it's still not as bright but i think we're far past the point where we
left off with plasma where they were considered only suitable for use in a
dimmed room i personally didn't find that it was an issue with the w8 at all
as for burn in while mitigation strategies like screenshift which moves
the whole picture over a few pixels periodically the automatic screensaver
and the pixel refresher routines that run to help prevent image retention
exist burn-in continues to be an issue
on modern oleds one that will especially affect people like gamers which is kind
of why we didn't really mention its awful input leg
and my grandma who leaves local news and the weather channel on 24 hours a day i
mean i've been using mine for two years and i haven't experienced it yet so
there's no doubt in my mind that with proper care which by the way for me
includes nagging my wife and kids to make sure that they have youtube and
netflix in full screen mode so i don't end up with a stupid Windows start icon
in the bottom left lg's 2018 lineup of oleds will drop the jaw of pretty much
anyone within ishot for years to come though that doesn't mean that you should
necessarily buy this particular one i mean if you got a
billion dollars in the bank yeah duh why not buy buy nine you know buy some
quadro gpus and run the whole thing as a giant video wall who cares it's one of
the coolest tvs on the planet but if i was a more normal person i would first
make sure that i have a secondary display for those extra innings ball
games then i'd probably look elsewhere in lg's
OLED lineup or if virtual assistant integration and
fancy processing aren't significant value adds for you then a discounted w7
from last year might also be a good bet since the panel quality will be
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