so during the filming of the last season of scrapyard wars jays not to be confused
with the rapper jay-z mentioned that lg had a tv coming that
they said was good for gaming and i was like
what the hell lg i've been bitching about the input lag
on your tvs since we met
why wasn't i told about this and they were like oh yeah so we have this nano
cell tv that's coming out and it has less processing delay so i was like
hook me up so i can make a video and they did
so i did
the Corsair one features a compact form factor that is fast quiet and you
guessed it compact check it out through amazon or newegg at the links below
first impressions of the lg 55sj8500
it looks pretty damn good the bezels are thin and the metal along the outside
looks sharp i mean it's hard to explain exactly what makes a tv aesthetic
work but this design got the job done for us
and you know what else looks good anything you toss up on the screen the
grand tour in 4k with HDR on amazon
prime video looks awesome car stuff you can already tell alex
worked on this video and the speakers are reasonably loud and clear
now to be clear our nano cell tv had the
misfortune of being set up side by side
with lg's w7 OLED wallpaper tv and
it's not as good as that the black
levels available on the OLED tv are simply stunning and it is physically
impossible for any modern lcd screen to
achieve perfect black levels like that
but at half the price of lg's least
expensive OLED it's a pretty compelling picture
lg's biggest claim for their nano cell tech which seems to be basically their
branding for quantum dot is accurate colors from any viewing
angle up to 60 degrees which from our testing actually holds up pretty well
what they didn't mention though is that the contrast isn't quite as good from a
wider angle from straight on blacks are
well black but as you go to the side
black areas of the scene look more gray and less detailed you won't encounter
this on an OLED anyway back to the original question though is there any
credence to the claims that it's good for gaming
well the picture looks significantly less processed in game mode suggesting
that well there might be less processing going on
but i still find this claim confusing
as far as pure technology goes the OLED
pixels should switch much faster nearly instantaneously
so why would it be then that a more expensive tv would be slower than in any
way is it possible that these OLED pixels are harder to drive or
there's more processing left on in game mode meaning that the lcd nano cell tv
might be able to edge out a win well we fired up cs go to try them side
by side and see if we could eyeball out
a clear victor and from this completely non-scientific
test it did seem that the nano cell was
offering a smoother gaming experience movements felt quicker than the OLED
which sort of felt jelly-like in comparison
so to confirm we pulled out the 240fps
camera alright so firing off around we
wait the OLED is faster
we checked this over and over but side by side the OLED was about eight
milliseconds faster even stranger the nano cell tv
and our benchmark for true haste the ASUS rog swift 258q at 60 hertz for
fairness were near to identical to each other as
well this seemed a bit strange so we decided
to get pure input lag numbers using the makey makey for this test when the two
leads are touched together the led on the board lights up and sends a mouse
click to the computer so we can measure the delay between a click and an action
on screen after consulting our footage we determined that our OLED delay is
about 32 milliseconds and the nano cell
was about 40. this actually maybe makes
sense given the approximately eight millisecond pixel response times of good
lcds compared to near instant for OLED
but that doesn't mean that like a gaming
monitor for example can't perform any better than a tv our rog monitor managed
a mere 16 millisecond delay once we turned it up to 240 hertz
not to mention the extra frames that it displays man that animation looks good
the point of that though isn't to take away from the result of the nano cell tv
i mean sure professional cs go players won't be using one anytime soon but i've
used tvs before with over a hundred milliseconds of input lag that are
straight up nauseating and 40 milliseconds is comparable to a 60
hertz gaming monitor we're not quite done with this video yet though
why did we initially think that the lcd was faster than the OLED
well it turns out that the crazy pixel
response time on the OLED can feel like a disadvantage when you don't have
vertical sync on the divisions between the partial frames getting sent to the
display are very obvious and it makes
for a clear line where the GPU was spitting out the frame at that instant
whereas the slower pixels on the lcd
make it a little bit blurrier and less obvious
so then the solution hey lg consult our recent we designed the
perfect tv video and put freaking g-sync
on the OLED display then you can have your cake and eat it too but until then
tldr the lg nanocell tv is great for
watching tv shows and movies with the added bonus that unlike previous lg tvs
they're finally taking gaming seriously so it won't make you hurl when you boot
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