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okay ready one two three up we go oh wow

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hardly weighs anything 77 inch tv and it's what 12 kilos

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27 freedom units watch as we're going around this corner here

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being seven millimeters thick does come with some drawbacks

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all right so see back here you've got uh the hook

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there that goes on these little knobby screws

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that we've got the kind of washer things

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it's kind of tough to get it aligned here because you can't so tight to the

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wall you can't really see um i think i'm kind of in the right spot

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just got to kind of oh no i missed

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i'm on let's go up yeah i think you got it

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we good okay check this out so the rest of it just clips on with magnets

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so that's it the w8

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this is the best tv lg makes

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you should get one you know just uh 15 grand

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15 grand yeah i know right it's a good thing lg sent

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this thing ready to fire it up

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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

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on 4k blu-ray as predicted

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it is stunning you got 4k

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all sorts of HDR support pretty much everything that you'd expect for 15

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grand to the point that you guys probably aren't even looking at me right

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now you're probably looking at that so that's it and a video right

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this tv is great ah well no because it has some problems

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it's also out of reach for almost

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all of us but the good news is you don't actually have

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to spend that much in order to get the same picture quality dropping down 12

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inches to the 65 inch model cuts the price more than 50 percent to a mere 7

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grand which okay is still getting dangerously close

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to a year of college tuition but if you don't need the wallpaper thinness this

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exact same panel is used across lg's

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entire OLED lineup and the only thing that differentiates the various price

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points is how fancy of a body style you want except for the very cheapest one

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the b8 which uses a lower tier processor

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but is that a big deal anyway like the other 2018 models the b8 still has

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support for google assistant and a relatively obscure but appreciated black

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frame insertion feature to help reduce judder which means that all it lacks are

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the benefits of lg's flagship alpha 9 processor its quad pass image processing

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to reduce banding its ai object recognition to help increase depth and

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sharpness and its frame interpolation technique to simulate 120 hertz refresh

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rate not necessarily things that matter to everyone though if they matter to you

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i mean it's 200 bucks more to bump up to the alpha 9 equipped c8 man these guys

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love their letters and numbers don't they speaking of an extra 200

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if you're a real stickler for accurate color then be prepared to shell out some

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more to have your screen professionally calibrated because out of the box

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even with the technicolor expert mode turned on our particular panel didn't

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have great color accuracy particularly with the primary pigment cyan magenta

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and yellow it's actually quite a bit worse than what we measured on lg's own

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2400 lcd tv just a couple of weeks ago

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we're not saying it's terrible i mean the average best buy shopper

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wouldn't notice but it's pretty bothersome to me that at

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this price you still need to toss an extra 250 bucks to geek squad to get it

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calibrated now the good news is that we measured

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almost 94 coverage of the dci p3 color

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space so exceptional color reproduction

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is achievable on these tvs now comparing

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the w8 to samsung's q9f the nicest tv

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that they make you can see that they're both amazing

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displays but even with full array local dimming

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the quantum dot lcd display just cannot achieve the sharp contrast of an

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OLED check out the halo around the white letters

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but when you make a super high-end product you inevitably open yourself up

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to some scrutiny and there are still some gripes some of which were present

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in the w7 and still persist with this year's model

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mostly having to do with the tv's mandatory sound bar the reason this tv

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is so thin other than the fact that it's OLED and therefore doesn't have a fat

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backlight shining through the pixels is because the tv's drive circuitry power

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supply and io are not housed in the main

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chassis but are instead contained in this 28 pound dolby atmos sound bar

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now to be clear it's a pretty awesome sound bar it's 4.2 channel and 60 watts

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so it goes pretty loud and usually manages to sound clear at high volumes

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unless you're listening to metal or something and the way the speakers

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emerge and then hide when you turn the tv off

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is really slick but if you're the type of person who spends

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fifteen thousand dollars on a tv we don't think it's that much of a

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stretch to say that you probably have a better audio solution than what they're

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including here a fact that is demonstrated by the number of wallpaper

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tv owners who have opted to hide their sound bars under a table or in a wall

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behind the screen wouldn't it be easier more aesthetic and

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even cheaper for everyone involved if lg simply offered a more compact variant

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that didn't include any speakers at all i mean it's the kind of thing that's so

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obvious that it makes you kind of mad because it's like it feels like they're

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saying hey i mean these high-end clients are already paying so much what's an extra

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few hundred bucks to cover the cost of the sound bar not to mention the

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shipping but even if they do make the sound bar easier to hide the umbilical

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cord is still kind of a drag even though it is relatively discreet and includes

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an extension it's just not nearly as flexible as samsung's oneconnect

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solution and it doesn't have the requisite fire rating to be run inside a

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wall so depending on your local laws you might need one of these sold separately

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in-wall cable kits and finally what about OLED's arch nemesis

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not being as bright as quantum dot and burnin

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well it's still not as bright but i think we're far past the point where we

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left off with plasma where they were considered only suitable for use in a

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dimmed room i personally didn't find that it was an issue with the w8 at all

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as for burn in while mitigation strategies like screenshift which moves

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the whole picture over a few pixels periodically the automatic screensaver

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and the pixel refresher routines that run to help prevent image retention

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exist burn-in continues to be an issue

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on modern oleds one that will especially affect people like gamers which is kind

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of why we didn't really mention its awful input leg

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and my grandma who leaves local news and the weather channel on 24 hours a day i

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mean i've been using mine for two years and i haven't experienced it yet so

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there's no doubt in my mind that with proper care which by the way for me

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includes nagging my wife and kids to make sure that they have youtube and

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netflix in full screen mode so i don't end up with a stupid Windows start icon

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in the bottom left lg's 2018 lineup of oleds will drop the jaw of pretty much

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anyone within ishot for years to come though that doesn't mean that you should

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necessarily buy this particular one i mean if you got a

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billion dollars in the bank yeah duh why not buy buy nine you know buy some

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quadro gpus and run the whole thing as a giant video wall who cares it's one of

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the coolest tvs on the planet but if i was a more normal person i would first

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make sure that i have a secondary display for those extra innings ball

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games then i'd probably look elsewhere in lg's

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OLED lineup or if virtual assistant integration and

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fancy processing aren't significant value adds for you then a discounted w7

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from last year might also be a good bet since the panel quality will be

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