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Grats to both of you. It’s a really great TV and I think you will find the stuff you watch…visually stunning.
What console? It will look good, but don’t get your hopes up about HDR. At least when I got my CX I thought it looked better without it on (they screwed the implementation up somehow, on the PS4 Pro, anyway).
Yeah. There’s always that hesitation- but it’s last years model!!!. But then I realize I’ve never owned a bleeding-edge-tech TV, anyway, and this will certainly be awesome.
Well, fingers crossed that HDR looks better for you than it did for me on PS4.
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If not on that, it’ll rock on flight simulator and streamed tv, right?
Two things re: RDR2 and HDR:
- Upon launch, R* had a faulty implementation of HDR that has since been fixed in an update. “Cinematic” HDR was the old method that uses what technical people described as (I believe) incorrect tonemapping, and “Game” HDR is considered the more accurate use of the full luminance range of your TV.
- Even with the update, R* is going for a more naturalistic look, while people tend to expect “vivid” when they use HDR. People who are looking for a vivid look generally view a naturalistic style like RDR2 as muted, flat or drab.
Just set the thing up, temporarily. I’ll do a proper wallmount in the weekend.
First impressions: whoa. So bright, so black. So huge.
I had some difficulties getting the xbox and smart tv functionality going. Took a newer, shorter hdmi cable and the boxx worked. Rdr2 and flight sim look fantabulous. As does netflix.
Still having some problems with the network functionality. It seems it has a very tight timeout set on some of its net functionality.
Yeah LG uses about the best of the various smart TV operating systems (the old Palm webOS), but the OS portion of the hardware and software stack are still kind of garbage compared to the more competent smart TV boxes. We’ve had B and C series LGs and find that they have mediocre wireless NICs that are slow, buggy, and fall off the network fairly frequently. I’d connect it via Ethernet if you really want to use the native functionality.
Personally I opt out of all the licenses, turn off as much of the smart stuff as I can, and use a different box instead. I would keep your TV firmware up to date regardless because they do find / fix picture affecting bugs here & there.
New WebOS as of the C1 and C2 is garbage, actually. AndroidTV or Roku would have been vastly better. Doesn’t matter to me as I use a ShieldTV anyway.
Welp, at least the screen is very very good for the price.
For sure they are still great TVs (and I’d buy one again)!
Just that the smart TV stuff in almost everything is crap because the incentives of the makers do not align with those of the buyers.
WebOS was pretty good in 2020 and earlier, my brother has a C8 and it’s excellent.
TVs with built-in AndroidTV, FireTV, and Roku are all generally fine, although FireTV in particular has a ton of advertisements. It’s the proprietary stuff like WebOS and Tizen that tends to suck balls.
WebOS on my parent’s LG still works great, from 2016 or so. It still downloads the latest version of Netflix and such.
Yeah I liked WebOS in the older models & it was better than what the others had been doing at the time. But they’ve since rearranged everything in dumb ways in new units and then piled on the spyware & crapware (so negating their previous advantages).
Roku has been “fine” more / less & the FireTV stuff is usable but so loaded with ads that I feel as though Amazon should pay you to take them.
…. which is all why I keep paying too much for AppleTV boxes when new generations arrive (and probably why you do the same with NVidia Shield).
We tried using the android os in my Hisense and it was just a mess. We use an Roku Ultra and that almost never gives us problems.
I actually have both a ShieldTV and a 2021 ATV 4k on my LG C1. I use the ATV for refresh rate and HDR matching, it’s much better at that, and the ShieldTV primarily for watching YouTube with SmartTubeNext.
Welp, I got the national tv’s app (npo plus) installed to my LG C1, so now it streams all things I need streaming natively. The chromecast can go gather dust now. xXboXx works gloriously as well, it just didnt like the old six meter HDMI cable. Today I will be putting it up on the wall. Home cinema indeed.
My C1 from Amazon came today- two days earlier than they initially said. So now it’s all set up and looking glorious.
It apparently doesn’t play as nicely with the XSX as my old Samsung did- folks report that you can either use the remote to control menus/apps OR have the it turn on/off with the console (and have the console turn it on/off), but not both. I chose the former. It isn’t so annoying as I thought it’d be- the framed paintings they have set as the screensaver look goddamn amazing.
I fired up Thor: Ragnarok on D+ to try it out. That movie is so damn epic.
What size did you get?
I have put it up on the wall and wired it up. With a wired internet connection, all webOS problems shrank away.
Except that I can’t cut certain things from the home screen. Meh. I’m so used to be able to tweak things my way from being a PC and Android user, that this hardcoded sports bullshit is… Ugly.
