Is LG Ditching OLED??
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,658 words · ~8 min read
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so lg would love for everyone and their
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dog to run out and buy an OLED tv because they look awesome
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oh and also high-end products usually have the best profit margins but let's
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face it hardly anyone can justify dumping 3
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4 or even up to 17
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000 into a new tv then there's the budget category i mean
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we're talking like 400 4k tvs like this
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one well it's no accident that lg has
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nothing to compete at this price stores like amazon sell a lot of these
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kinds of products but this segment often gets ignored by the premium brands
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because the margins on them are so thin that it's just not even worth the effort
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for them which puts the sweet spot where it so often is in the middle with lcd
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tvs like a samsung q-led for a little
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over two thousand dollars you see what they did there it even looks like OLED
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on the box or this one the lg 65 sk95
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super uhd which you can actually get for
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around the same price but just what is super about it and can
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it take a chunk out of samsung's dominant tv market share
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we'll find out after this message from glasswire glasswire is a firewall that
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the 65 sk95 is lg's highest end
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non-OLED tv at 2400 so no they're not
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ditching OLED yet but they're acutely aware that until
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OLED makes up a lot more than the 15
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percent of their overall tv sales that they are currently they are going to
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need other offerings as we mentioned before samsung's q-led
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tvs really have nothing to do with OLED
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but they're really impressive for lcds thanks to quantum dot technology which
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allows them to get brighter more saturated colors across a wider gamut by
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transmitting only pure red pure green and pure blue your typical lcd will emit
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a wider spectrum of light that includes in between colors like orange and lime
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leading to color desaturation and inefficiency so that is where lg's super
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uhd comes in super uhd not to be confused with
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samsung's suhd is an attempt to get
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similar performance to quantum dot but with a different approach and that's
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what this nano cell marketing that you see on the box is getting at now
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no one actually knows quite for sure but this technology appears to add a layer
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of uniformly sized particles each about one nanometer in diameter that's about a
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hundred thousand times thinner than a sheet of paper to filter out the
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unwanted color wavelengths and leave just r g and b thereby preventing color
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bleeding fading and other effects that reduce the vibrancy of the picture and
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it seems to be working the picture looks really good fiddling with the settings
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we were able to get about 89 coverage of the dci p3 color space and color
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accuracy that's good enough to edit photos using the technicolor expert
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bright mode i mean i mean if your desk had enough room to use this thing as a
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monitor and while they can't compete with OLED
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nothing can the black levels are really nice with
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smooth gradients thanks to the full array local dimming which is quickly
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going from a pricey exotic feature to a
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must-have i mean it makes enough of a difference that even though this tv is
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actually quite a bit thicker than last year's model
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i'm not even mad at all like finally
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somebody has woken up as a consumer i've been asking for this
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give me more performance instead of one
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more millimeter thinner i mean this is thin enough anyway and
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the finish on the back and the sides is nothing short of premium i'd be happy to
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see this thing in my living room and i'm really glad to see that we are finally
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coming to the end of thinner just for the sake of thinner in the mainstream
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product line at least because i'm also acutely aware that lg literally has a
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product called the wallpaper tv on the subject of more performance the full
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array local dimming is here for a good reason to support HDR this puppy has
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actual 10-bit color no frc malarkey and
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700 nit peak with 400 nits sustained
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brightness so that is a bit under the 1000 nit threshold that i would consider
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like true modern HDR but they did pull off dolby vision
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certification whose main advantage over HDR 10 is that it comes with scene by
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scene metadata for a higher degree of backlight control and speaking of dolby
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it also has a built-in dolby atmos decoder so if you're thinking of getting
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speakers on or aimed at your ceiling you
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don't need an extra atmos compatible receiver as long as the HDMI signal goes
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through the tv finally the 65 sk95
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has a refresh rate of 120 hertz or 240 if you're tasteless and
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you turn on true motion but don't get too excited about it quite yet
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even though i'm sure that lg has seen the video that we made outlining how our
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ideal tv would have DisplayPort so it
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could you could game on it high refresh rates
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this one lacks either a dp 1.4 or an
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HDMI 2.1 port so it won't be able to
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receive high frame rate 4k content from
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external sources so you would have to stream your hfr
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content not that there's a lot of that out there
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but and this is something i'm glad to see because we've been complaining about the
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gaming experience on lg tvs for quite some time at least they do allow you to
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run at 120 hertz if you connect to the tv with your pc if
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you turn the resolution down to 1080p the input leg isn't too shabby at around
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33 milliseconds so not as fast as a high-end gaming monitor
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but a significant improvement over last year and because it's not OLED you've
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got the additional benefit of not having to worry about your hud burning in and
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showing up while you're watching your favorite movies
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also new this year is voice assistant integration coming from both the google
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assistant and lg's own thin queue software you know what no i'm calling it
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think finquew is obviously not what the marketing team intended and if it is
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then shame on them anyway the tv is not
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microphone equipped so it's not always listening like a google home instead you
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actually issue commands by holding down the microphone button on the included
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remote the google assistant will handle queries like
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turn on the living room lights what's on my calendar or
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show everyone boring pictures from my last vacation while think will handle tv specific
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operations like changing the picture mode adjusting the volume or even
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turning off at the end of this program
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now of course we can't show any of that functionality because it doesn't work in
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canada just yet something about the 49th parallel just
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makes manufacturers not care about the people north of it
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but that's a whole separate conversation so then should you buy this tv
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definitely maybe it's a beautiful set that goes toe to
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toe with quantum dot both in terms of quality and price
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but then again lg has finally announced that their
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cheapest OLED for 2018 the b8 which has
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the same features and processor but of course
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that gorgeous deep black OLED picture quality
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will be just 2100 making it 300 cheaper
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than this super uhd that is if you're willing to settle for 55 instead of 65
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inches the 65-inch version is 3 grand so that's an extra 600
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my advice if you're a movie watcher and you're already spending this much OLED
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is worth the upgrade but if you're a
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gamer or someone who just watches the news all day
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then i would probably save your money and go super led
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