Finally a TV For Gaming? - LG Nano Cell
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,285 words · ~6 min read
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so during the filming of the last season of scrapyard wars jays not to be confused
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with the rapper jay-z mentioned that lg had a tv coming that
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they said was good for gaming and i was like
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what the hell lg i've been bitching about the input lag
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on your tvs since we met
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why wasn't i told about this and they were like oh yeah so we have this nano
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cell tv that's coming out and it has less processing delay so i was like
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hook me up so i can make a video and they did
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so i did
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the Corsair one features a compact form factor that is fast quiet and you
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guessed it compact check it out through amazon or newegg at the links below
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first impressions of the lg 55sj8500
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it looks pretty damn good the bezels are thin and the metal along the outside
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looks sharp i mean it's hard to explain exactly what makes a tv aesthetic
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work but this design got the job done for us
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and you know what else looks good anything you toss up on the screen the
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grand tour in 4k with HDR on amazon
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prime video looks awesome car stuff you can already tell alex
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worked on this video and the speakers are reasonably loud and clear
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now to be clear our nano cell tv had the
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misfortune of being set up side by side
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with lg's w7 OLED wallpaper tv and
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it's not as good as that the black
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levels available on the OLED tv are simply stunning and it is physically
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impossible for any modern lcd screen to
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achieve perfect black levels like that
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but at half the price of lg's least
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expensive OLED it's a pretty compelling picture
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lg's biggest claim for their nano cell tech which seems to be basically their
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branding for quantum dot is accurate colors from any viewing
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angle up to 60 degrees which from our testing actually holds up pretty well
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what they didn't mention though is that the contrast isn't quite as good from a
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wider angle from straight on blacks are
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well black but as you go to the side
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black areas of the scene look more gray and less detailed you won't encounter
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this on an OLED anyway back to the original question though is there any
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credence to the claims that it's good for gaming
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well the picture looks significantly less processed in game mode suggesting
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that well there might be less processing going on
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but i still find this claim confusing
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as far as pure technology goes the OLED
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pixels should switch much faster nearly instantaneously
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so why would it be then that a more expensive tv would be slower than in any
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way is it possible that these OLED pixels are harder to drive or
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there's more processing left on in game mode meaning that the lcd nano cell tv
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might be able to edge out a win well we fired up cs go to try them side
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by side and see if we could eyeball out
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a clear victor and from this completely non-scientific
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test it did seem that the nano cell was
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offering a smoother gaming experience movements felt quicker than the OLED
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which sort of felt jelly-like in comparison
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so to confirm we pulled out the 240fps
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camera alright so firing off around we
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wait the OLED is faster
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we checked this over and over but side by side the OLED was about eight
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milliseconds faster even stranger the nano cell tv
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and our benchmark for true haste the ASUS rog swift 258q at 60 hertz for
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fairness were near to identical to each other as
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well this seemed a bit strange so we decided
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to get pure input lag numbers using the makey makey for this test when the two
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leads are touched together the led on the board lights up and sends a mouse
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click to the computer so we can measure the delay between a click and an action
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on screen after consulting our footage we determined that our OLED delay is
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about 32 milliseconds and the nano cell
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was about 40. this actually maybe makes
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sense given the approximately eight millisecond pixel response times of good
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lcds compared to near instant for OLED
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but that doesn't mean that like a gaming
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monitor for example can't perform any better than a tv our rog monitor managed
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a mere 16 millisecond delay once we turned it up to 240 hertz
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not to mention the extra frames that it displays man that animation looks good
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the point of that though isn't to take away from the result of the nano cell tv
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i mean sure professional cs go players won't be using one anytime soon but i've
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used tvs before with over a hundred milliseconds of input lag that are
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straight up nauseating and 40 milliseconds is comparable to a 60
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hertz gaming monitor we're not quite done with this video yet though
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why did we initially think that the lcd was faster than the OLED
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well it turns out that the crazy pixel
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response time on the OLED can feel like a disadvantage when you don't have
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vertical sync on the divisions between the partial frames getting sent to the
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display are very obvious and it makes
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for a clear line where the GPU was spitting out the frame at that instant
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whereas the slower pixels on the lcd
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make it a little bit blurrier and less obvious
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so then the solution hey lg consult our recent we designed the
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perfect tv video and put freaking g-sync
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on the OLED display then you can have your cake and eat it too but until then
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tldr the lg nanocell tv is great for
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