New reduced price today - been tracking this for a while.
New model (C6, £3k) due soon but this looks like this is the cheapest I've seen with 5yr warranty (though still mighty expensive so not to everyone's taste). Reviews are great but would value others' thoughts.
Review from techradar... http://www.techradar.com/reviews/audio-visual/televisions/plasma-and-lcd-tvs/lg-55eg960v-1297946/review
Top comments
stevej1976
21 Jun 1612#45
I saved up for nearly 2 years to buy my Panasonic VT65 65" and that was £3600, im not rich and yes it's a lot of money, but I bet there is a lot of people who will smoke and drink through that in 2 years easily and not blink an eye because it's a few quid here and a few quid there. And that's their choice..
I saved them few quids and bought a telly,
Watching movies is my passion, each to their own I guess. :smiley:
Heat OP, when I save a few quid I'll be having a 4K Oled too.
Tomfoolery to soapyd
20 Jun 1610#17
Thanks for your valuable input
AsianDiscount
20 Jun 165#15
For once in my life I'll be going for a flat one instead of the curved variety.
nictry
20 Jun 165#11
A picture uploaded by a user showing the banding in full finery!
Will be far better than you Samsung, can tell you that without testing.
Daytrader
16 Jul 16#92
Would love to know what PC would be like on it, i play my pc on a old 40" samsung and its good, will you try using it as a monitor one day.
ro53ben
16 Jul 16#91
Firestick isn't 4K - aside from Kodi, the LG internal apps are better than that.
ro53ben
16 Jul 16#90
I've played Mario Kart 8 from the Wii U which is 1080p/60 - looks amazing and didn't really notice any lag at all. I do most of my gaming on PC 1t 144Hz though so I'm used to consoles feeling laggy.
saintade2001
16 Jul 16#89
Good post, love it. What I dont like is the bit about having to change settings to watch sport/ non sport.
I have a Firestick on its way today, heard can put kodi on them and stream all the goodies from that.
Daytrader
16 Jul 16#88
Thx for that review, i reckon you aint played games on it yet, or would have mentioned it, but just in case, did you try console or PC games on it ? how bad is the input lag/motion.
ro53ben
16 Jul 16#87
OK, had this TV for a few weeks now. Some feedback:
- The picture quality from a good source is amazing. 4k Netflix/Prime look beautiful. 1080p blu-ray looks clearer than it has every looked. Black levels are amazing.
- There are MANY picture options along with some presets for sports, movie etc. This isn't a "one setting fits all TV" - you will need to change modes depending what you are watching. For example, the ball and indeed players on the pitch will flicker when watching football if you don't engage some of the anti-judder/anti-blur functions. With them on, however, studio stuff can look odd.
- On lower quality sources, e.g. broadcast TV from our HDMI connected Humax box, sometimes the picture judders without explanation. This TV is entirely unforgiving and will show up even the slightest imperfection in the source.
- On higher quality sources, this is the best picture I have ever seen, bar none.
- The curve looks amazing with the TV off and with the TV on it improves viewing from the sides. You don't notice the curve after 15-20mins of viewing, your brain adjusts to it.
- The 3D functions have surprised me and work very well. I thought it was a gimmick but have bought 3D blu-ray discs just to get more of it. With 3D 1080p on a 4K panel, there are enough horizontal picture lines to display left eye and right eye on adjacent lines without reducing resolution.
- There is no YouTube app. None at all. You can, however, open YouTube.com in the built in browser and use it there. It will even allow you to engage 4k full screen. It buffers a lot though, badly. I bought an Amazon Fire TV 4k instead, much easier to use a real app.
- The included "Magic Remote" works well, but I'm using a Harmony instead.
- With tweaks in the service menu, the TV will output pass-thru 5.1 to external sound bar devices.
- I've not found a Flickr app, but expect flickr.com will work well in the built in browser.
Any more questions?
saintade2001
13 Jul 16#86
Looking to buy an OLED TV this weekend. Looking to spend up to £2000, so this looks the bees knees to me, but I am no TV guru.
We watch netflix a lot, youtube, view photos/videos via flickr, so presume this TV does all that ?
smiler594
11 Jul 16#85
Haha fair play !
ro53ben
10 Jul 16#84
Get the OLED and go on holiday too. Sorted.
soapyd
10 Jul 16#83
No problem
Raajas
6 Jul 16#82
Is this worth for £1800? your comments pls
smiler594
3 Jul 16#81
Ok, so not thAt I'm jealous or anything but if you could get yourself a UE65JS9000 for £899, why not go on a holiday with the rest of the money?
ro53ben
28 Jun 16#80
Typo...another branch of Curry's.
BestHotDeals
28 Jun 16#79
HDMI 2.0 isn't necessarily a requirement for 3D Vision, but it definitely is a necessity for '4K' (meaning Full HD for) 3D.
It's a bit complicated, but generally, you can use 3D on a TV via 3DTV Play, and it's terrible as Nvidia never bothered to update 3DTV Play software to support even 1080p, and that software costs $40 or so, but anyway don't bother with 3DTV.
What you should do is a simple 'hack' which lets you override the EDID of the TV, and that 'fools' Nvidia's drivers to think you're using a 3D vision monitor, and not a TV. Once done, then through a simple trick you can play games at Full HD 3D on your brilliant TV with no need of the 3DTV software at all.
The process is not complex as far as I am aware, but I suggest you head over 3D Vision blog to search and ask around, there's also Helixmod blog which's where all the incompatible 3D games gets patched to be 3D Vision Ready by the community.
Oh and if you just want to try out 3D without much hassle, I think you should give the new Rise of the Tomb Raider a go as it has an in-game 3D compatibility, meaning it shouldn't need Nvidia or AMD driver support to work, so give it a go to see the incredibly underappreciated bliss of 3D gaming.
Ruby555
27 Jun 16#78
Which brand did you drive to?
ro53ben
27 Jun 16#77
You just made me realise this. I have a 980Ti already but have never been able to try 3D before now. Guessing I need an HDMI 2.0 cable?
ro53ben
27 Jun 16#76
Hadn't seen this thread but popped into Curry's for a mouse mat at the weekend and whilst browsing a salesman told me about this deal. He didn't have any in stock, only to order, so I drove to another branch. Saw a ZA on the shelf and got them to check stock room but they told me they only had ZA in there. Spent a long time deciding what to do and, in the end, decided that it was an offer I couldn't refuse...even for a ZA.
Paid for the TV and when the warehouse man brought it out to the car, the box was labelled ZD. I win!
Really nice set, replaced an 8 year old 46PZ85 Panasonic Viera Plasma. Great viewing area, almost not existent frame compared to the old TV - the new 55" is only two inches bigger on the diagonal than the old 46" - madness!
Couple of niggles so far, both audio related:
1) Sonos PLAYBAR DTS limitation is a total ball ache and causing problems with audio from most Blu-ray discs again.
2) The built in 4K supporting Netflix app has a massive lipsync fault when using external digital audit. Just fine on Plex/Prime/iPlayer etc, just Netflix broken. Annoying.
Other than those two things, superb TV with a plasma killing image quality.
jasonarrow
24 Jun 16#75
Ordered from John Lewis and received today. Can confirm, with much relief, that my TV was produced Feb 2016 and is a ZD model.
CondoRice
22 Jun 16#74
In a word (or two), yes, SD is bad. Part of the problemis the fact that HD is so incredibly good (for 4K, I have no word that can do it justice) that when you switch to an SD programme is nigh on unwatchable. Yes, you can tweak the settings but, really, it just isn't good enough. Fortunately most channels have HD version so not a big deal for most people.
Oh, and another thing: If you are a 3D sceptic (as I was until getting this), you will be instantly converted. 3D is absolutely awesome.
Masteryates
22 Jun 16#73
I'd also like to know about the SD quality. A few weeks ago I had an LG LED and the SD was unwatchable out of the box. I turned off every processing setting except super resolution which I put to high and got an SD picture that was within 90% of my Plasma. (I never expected to get so close.) I cant help but wonder if the bad SD on this set is due to settings?
FireBIade200
22 Jun 16#72
Just had a call back from John Lewis, they are still saying ZA and ZD models are different power requirements due to different markets. ZA being the UK model and ZD being a European model.
Myasinax
22 Jun 161#71
Yes the B6!is bottom tier but shares the same panel as the higer end models and does indeed exclude 3D. Bear in mind a number of other manufacturers have dropped 3D this year as there is no UHD 3D on the current horizon, though you can still enjoy 1080p 3D. I never liked wearing glasses for what I found a very gimmicky feature, especially on a tv. I believe the Sky 3D service has also died, but if 3D is important to you then the C6, E6 or G6 from the new range or go with this model.
BestHotDeals
21 Jun 16#70
Thanks for the information.
I have an Acer X34 (IPS / 4ms) for twitch or online gaming, for games like Witcher 3, Tomb Raider, Hitman, etc, there's no perceptible difference.
Don't believe everything you read on the internet!
sagem
21 Jun 16#69
Just a bit of advice if you don't mind... As you have this bit of kit.
When you say don't watch in sd? Is it not that good a picture on sd?
Basically I watch a lot of tv.. Some Hd some Sd, like to watch blurays and have Netflicks. Do you think it's worth me buying this tv watching the above? Cheers
Daytrader
21 Jun 16#68
These screens are ok for watching movies on and tv, but not sure what PC gaming would be with a responce time of like 50ms
FireBIade200
21 Jun 161#67
AVForums mention that there are 2 models a ZA and a ZD, the latter has HDMI2.0A ports. LG are also entertaining the idea of upgrading ZA owners to a ZD motherboard but it's a case by case basis I think.
Wait, isn't the B6 considered as the lowest tier of this year's OLED releases? If so then it doesn't have 3D, which means one of the biggest reason to own an OLED (to me at least) is completely gone.
These sets have the pinnacle of stereoscopic 3Ds with almost zero crosstalk and very bright, Full HD images. This is a godsend to PC gamers like me who want to use the EDID override hack in order to play the plethora of 3D vision games... Games like Witcher 3, GTA V, Rise of the Tomb Raider, etc all in 3D... I need me one of these LGs alongside a 1080 Ti for my life to be complete (for a year only, of course!).
BestHotDeals
21 Jun 16#65
I am also really curious about this as I read on the US Amazon's top review that the flat EF950 is superior because the EG one does not support HDR through HDMI, which practically means it's not really HDR as the functionality becomes useless to someone who relies on PC for 4K HDR contents.
Could any of the owners here please confirm (or refute) this tidbit? Thanks in advance!
Myasinax
21 Jun 16#64
The new 55 was on offer at Costco for £2399 so £700 more and yes, the improvements made on this model, which I also had before upgrading, are worth the outlay. The improvements are across the board from the Web OS to the motion handling and of course some element of future-proofing.
BestHotDeals
21 Jun 16#63
If you think that's madness, then what about my Acer X34, a curved 34 inch monitor for around 900 quid? Insanity maybe?
But really, as stevej1976 eloquently put, some people tend to carelessly spend lots of money daily on not only insignificant stuff, but actually sometimes harmful to our biological body. Drinking, which has become a habit and part of the culture, is incredibly costly with no benefit. Many are smoking (cigarettes/weeds), or 'vaping' nowadays... I save money by doing none of these.
Yes I am not known to be fun at the parties, and that's brilliant, cause I don't exactly care about parties! :wink:
CondoRice
21 Jun 16#62
The 2016 model (LG OLED55B6V) currently retails at £2800. Do you seriously believe the said added functionality justifies a £1000 premium on this? Each to their own but, personally, I don't think so.
This TV is genuinely stunning in every way. If you have the money, go get it. (Yes, I have the TV and No, I've never experienced any banding in the six months I have had it and yes, the quality of HD and 4K is truly stunning but even when switched off this is a piece of electronic furniture that's a work of art. Just one piece of advice. Don't use it to watch SD)
sagem
21 Jun 16#61
Ha ha I unfortunately do know what a fiat 500 Abarth is! It's just making me chuckle... It's a jumped up fiat 500.
loadsavmoney
21 Jun 16#60
i'm pretty sure we need 2.0 if we want 4k @ 60fps as well
Edit: (4k over 30fps)
Myasinax
21 Jun 16#59
Bluray does not have HDR encoded information. Currently, there are two standards of HDR type material........HDR10 which is found on UHD discs and Dolby Vision which is encoded in content such as Netflix etc. The new 2016 sets B6, C6, E6 and G6 all can facilitate both on all inputs which are HDMI 2.0A compliant. I believe they are issuing firmware updates to allow this model to accept HDR but not Dolby Vision. It is all the more reason to stump up a little more and get the new models. More detail regarding the old vs new LG OLEDs can be found on AVForums.
Hootwo
21 Jun 16#58
You've driven an Abarth 500 then? Thought not, it's a lot of fun and you're spouting ...
sancheez
21 Jun 16#57
I didn't actually slate LG. I said Panasonic do it better. Which they do.
And if you don't know the difference between a standard Fiat and an Abarth, then I'm done wasting my time with your replies ....
sagem
21 Jun 16#56
Then don't slate LG if Panasonic can't even produce there own panel!
As for the fiat 500.... Well that speaks for itself!! Ha ha
FireBIade200
21 Jun 16#55
This set doesn't have HDMI 2.0A ports so it cannot accept the new HDR standard from say a Blu-ray source but only stream it. Is this still the case?
it would be nice if they made a proper OLED TV, instead of using WRGB (white with a filter) tech they should've stuck with RGB (Direct emission, no filter)
hcc27
21 Jun 161#53
Course they do, together with the anti-curved glasses of course:
Wow that's incredible. Thanks for sharing, had no idea it could be that bad!
Myasinax
21 Jun 16#51
If you are thinking of getting this you would be much better off saving up the additional £700-£800 and get the new 55" B6 OLED (not curved). I have the 65" and it addressses most if not all the issues with this model. The LGs are by far the best TVs currently available.
sancheez
21 Jun 16#50
*facepalm*
There is a LOT more to a TV than simply the panel. They have the same core, but chassis, controller boards and, most importantly, the firmware & software that drives it can vary, and thus improve or degrade performance, massively.
Panasonic are better at that side of it than LG. Always have been. Which is why their best TV's have always been better than LG's.
My car is an Abarth 500. Do you think they just slapped a badge on a standard Fiat 500 and thus they're the same?
sagem
21 Jun 16#49
Lg makes/supplies the Oled panels for Panasonic! Then Panasonic sell it at a ridiculous price!
sagem
21 Jun 16#48
Lg makes/supplies the Oled panels for Panasonic! Then Panasonic sell it at a ridiculous price!
treb
21 Jun 16#47
I'll get an OLED once they sort all these issues out. Also I don't want to view anything at 60hz especially 4k.
umirza85
21 Jun 161#46
Guilty.
stevej1976
21 Jun 1612#45
I saved up for nearly 2 years to buy my Panasonic VT65 65" and that was £3600, im not rich and yes it's a lot of money, but I bet there is a lot of people who will smoke and drink through that in 2 years easily and not blink an eye because it's a few quid here and a few quid there. And that's their choice..
I saved them few quids and bought a telly,
Watching movies is my passion, each to their own I guess. :smiley:
Heat OP, when I save a few quid I'll be having a 4K Oled too.
Mentos
21 Jun 161#44
Still not managed to see one.
But going by AVForums you may as well grab a 2016 LG as its at least on par if not better (plus covers HDR). Or save some money and grab a 2015, where it is as good most of the time.
sancheez
21 Jun 16#43
Yup.
I'm running a calibrated VT65. And won't be replacing it any time soon.
LCD based Panasonic? 100% agreed. I was thinking more along the lines of the CZ952. (Which I believe use LG sourced panels, but Panasonic do a much better job of driving them.)
But it's curved. (No. Just .... no.)
It's still too expensive. (£3k is my bite point.)
It's still an early generation model, as good as it is. I expect they'll produce even better before I buy.
Masteryates
21 Jun 16#42
I'm still rocking my LG PX990 plasma. Still creams the LED/LCD's. Seriously tempted by the price of this but concerned about SD.
ashmac
21 Jun 16#41
I still rocking My st60 50" plasma ,pic still amazes me ..until 4k oled Panasonic screens dropped to 2k I'm in
ashmac
21 Jun 162#40
people who live in lighthouses
ashmac
21 Jun 16#39
how do you rate the Panasonic oled hdr sets
nictry
21 Jun 16#38
Old plasmas I would agree (being as I own a VT model) but the latest attempt DX902 hmmmm not sure owners would agree with you that Panasonic are making anything currently that would beat this?!?!?! Same issues and some worse by all accounts
bhayward
21 Jun 16#37
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spongebob1913
21 Jun 162#36
no you don't.
sancheez
21 Jun 164#35
Not big enough.
Not flat enough.
Not made by Panasonic enough. (They're showing LG how these panels SHOULD be used)
Getting there. But the plasma stays for now.
Don_Mega
21 Jun 16#34
Just a quick question for OWNERS... what's it like for console gaming? People talk about lag etc. but does it make a difference using an xbox one with it?
beechus
21 Jun 16#33
I paid £2,500 for this in Feb. amazing tele, great price. Have some heat!
Horrorwood
21 Jun 164#32
Have you ever considered becoming a star wars pod racer?
jaheermk
21 Jun 16#31
Are you legit saying you would "serious gaming" on a 55inch?
....also you cant complain about ms when you play on a size this big, even if it was 2ms you cant react fast enough with that much area to cover.
pukenukem
21 Jun 16#30
My dad has the 1080p version of this tv, it's curved but you really don't notice it when watching. However, I agree, it is totally needless and can't work out why. But it didn't detract from the viewing pleasure in use I found.
a2next
21 Jun 16#29
Are people still buying curved tv's?!?
What for?!?
wenx
21 Jun 161#28
Hot product. After spending this kind of money I can foresee my future, selling BIGISSUE:confused:
Elevation
20 Jun 161#27
I never remember that happening in San Andreas I just ran around shooting people and stuff.
Guy H
20 Jun 161#26
Screen burn by definition is permenant however image retention is what you may be referring to and is a non issue on LG OLED's. If you do ever see any then it is cleared during the compensation cycle when the TV is in standby.
fishmaster
20 Jun 162#25
OLED also has screen burn in issues, they don't appear to be permanent though.
I remember Mitsubishi LaserVue from a few years ago. Using laser light to display the picture. A 4K version would waste OLED. OLED is good for now, but Laser is better.
If you feed OLED crap it will make that crap look even worse. Sky/netflix bitrate on hd is **** and variable so you will have some very very differing opinions on quality. A perfect test is sky thrones versus hbo thrones. We are being seirously short changed in the UK. Feed this tv bluray and christ....OLED is the only option.
SD watcher? Don't bother.
MaJiiK
20 Jun 161#23
Elevation
20 Jun 164#22
They released a patch for that though. Some still think it was better than GTA IV.
Mentos
20 Jun 161#21
There have been reports of banding near black, not on par with LED/LCD though.
Also there have been reports of artefacts near black. Some seem to be down to the ability of OLED to display poorly compressed source material (a lot of compression artefacts near black that other sets wouldn't have the ability to show up). Others appear to be due to poor processing near black, there was talk of 7 bit processing near black.
No reports of Halos, OLED is emissive, so unlike LED (even FALD) you won't see Halo's.
The LG OLED's use sample and hold, which of course can result in motion blur on some material due to retina retention. BFI/Pulse has its own issues (DFC/Flicker) as does frame interpolation (soap opera effect). The issue is the low frame rate of source material and any implementation will involve one compromise or another :/ As such one should choose whichever side effect troubles them least, in my case I can look past them all fortunately :smiley:
Overall even the most ardent complainer on the 2015 OLED threads has admitted the problems present a very small proportion of the time and the rest of the viewing is stunning.
Sharpharp
20 Jun 16#20
No OLED thread is complete unless I've chimed in to rate it.
In this case, I can only say "Ha Ha, which mugs gone and bought this 1st generation garbage with more faults than San Andreas"
soapyd
20 Jun 162#16
1800 quid for a telly? Madness. Some people have too much money.
Tomfoolery to soapyd
20 Jun 1610#17
Thanks for your valuable input
nictry to soapyd
20 Jun 16#19
Not at all some people like to buy nice things which happen to be more expensive than you would like to spend, doesn't mean they are mad just make different choices to you!
andyc1976
20 Jun 16#18
I have the 55EF950V (Flat version) and cannot recommend it enough. 4K HDR images are like looking through a window.
Yes it is expensive but it all depends how important a great TV is in your life. Personally, I can't understand why anyone would spend 30K on a new car when you can pick one up for 8K but we all value quality in different things differently.
AsianDiscount
20 Jun 165#15
For once in my life I'll be going for a flat one instead of the curved variety.
Elevation
20 Jun 16#14
Forget HDR, forget silly nano-crystals. Give us OLED from better TV makers damnit. :neutral_face: Can't help but think any of those banding issues are down to LG, not down to the technology. I mean they virtually have to give their normal LED TV's away compared to the other big brands.
thekitkatshuffler
20 Jun 161#13
I'm having to be very patient during the search for my next TV. Thankfully my Panasonic plasma is still doing me proud so I don't feel myself giving in to any of this curved bull ****.
42" is starting to feel pretty small though, so the sooner a non-distorted bargain materialises the better!
rickj
20 Jun 16#12
It comes with a JL warranty so if not happy send it back .I have the non 4k one which is curved but must say its hardly noticeable the curve is that gentle .its a stunning looking TV even when turned off!!!
nictry
20 Jun 165#11
A picture uploaded by a user showing the banding in full finery!
Banding, halos, replacement panels the list of problems are quite extensive for a £2k set
nictry
20 Jun 16#4
Make sure you view Oled before taking the plunge, motion/banding can be a problem and if you see it you wont be able to unsee it!
Tunner to nictry
20 Jun 161#9
I have had this telly since November and my set does not suffer from this. It does however suffer from a staggeringly brilliant
picture quality. I too was against curved screen, but honestly, to do not notice it and the viewing angle is exceptionally wide.
welder299
20 Jun 161#8
I have this tv and its absolutely awesome.Plasma and led cannot compare to this tv.buy you will not be let down
gordoncrawford
20 Jun 162#7
Yes and being curved makes no difference until you put on 3d and it just goes to another dimension, I don't care what anyone says but money can't buy a better TV currently
gordoncrawford
20 Jun 163#6
Thus is the same as my TV and I'm a IT Tech so I know what Im looking for in a picture and boy this is hard to beat and at this price it's a steal
steevojohno
20 Jun 161#1
looking for similar but not curved
bestbuy123 to steevojohno
20 Jun 161#2
go to curry's, got some great deals on
ashmac to steevojohno
20 Jun 161#5
same boat as you just not into curve sets if this was flat then I would be interested
LOUGHBORO GUY
20 Jun 161#3
How much is cheapest OLED 55 inch? Just want best picture for freeview hd
Opening post
New model (C6, £3k) due soon but this looks like this is the cheapest I've seen with 5yr warranty (though still mighty expensive so not to everyone's taste). Reviews are great but would value others' thoughts.
Review from techradar... http://www.techradar.com/reviews/audio-visual/televisions/plasma-and-lcd-tvs/lg-55eg960v-1297946/review
Top comments
I saved them few quids and bought a telly,
Watching movies is my passion, each to their own I guess. :smiley:
Heat OP, when I save a few quid I'll be having a 4K Oled too.
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I have a Firestick on its way today, heard can put kodi on them and stream all the goodies from that.
- The picture quality from a good source is amazing. 4k Netflix/Prime look beautiful. 1080p blu-ray looks clearer than it has every looked. Black levels are amazing.
- There are MANY picture options along with some presets for sports, movie etc. This isn't a "one setting fits all TV" - you will need to change modes depending what you are watching. For example, the ball and indeed players on the pitch will flicker when watching football if you don't engage some of the anti-judder/anti-blur functions. With them on, however, studio stuff can look odd.
- On lower quality sources, e.g. broadcast TV from our HDMI connected Humax box, sometimes the picture judders without explanation. This TV is entirely unforgiving and will show up even the slightest imperfection in the source.
- On higher quality sources, this is the best picture I have ever seen, bar none.
- The curve looks amazing with the TV off and with the TV on it improves viewing from the sides. You don't notice the curve after 15-20mins of viewing, your brain adjusts to it.
- The 3D functions have surprised me and work very well. I thought it was a gimmick but have bought 3D blu-ray discs just to get more of it. With 3D 1080p on a 4K panel, there are enough horizontal picture lines to display left eye and right eye on adjacent lines without reducing resolution.
- There is no YouTube app. None at all. You can, however, open YouTube.com in the built in browser and use it there. It will even allow you to engage 4k full screen. It buffers a lot though, badly. I bought an Amazon Fire TV 4k instead, much easier to use a real app.
- The included "Magic Remote" works well, but I'm using a Harmony instead.
- With tweaks in the service menu, the TV will output pass-thru 5.1 to external sound bar devices.
- I've not found a Flickr app, but expect flickr.com will work well in the built in browser.
Any more questions?
We watch netflix a lot, youtube, view photos/videos via flickr, so presume this TV does all that ?
It's a bit complicated, but generally, you can use 3D on a TV via 3DTV Play, and it's terrible as Nvidia never bothered to update 3DTV Play software to support even 1080p, and that software costs $40 or so, but anyway don't bother with 3DTV.
What you should do is a simple 'hack' which lets you override the EDID of the TV, and that 'fools' Nvidia's drivers to think you're using a 3D vision monitor, and not a TV. Once done, then through a simple trick you can play games at Full HD 3D on your brilliant TV with no need of the 3DTV software at all.
The process is not complex as far as I am aware, but I suggest you head over 3D Vision blog to search and ask around, there's also Helixmod blog which's where all the incompatible 3D games gets patched to be 3D Vision Ready by the community.
Oh and if you just want to try out 3D without much hassle, I think you should give the new Rise of the Tomb Raider a go as it has an in-game 3D compatibility, meaning it shouldn't need Nvidia or AMD driver support to work, so give it a go to see the incredibly underappreciated bliss of 3D gaming.
Paid for the TV and when the warehouse man brought it out to the car, the box was labelled ZD. I win!
Really nice set, replaced an 8 year old 46PZ85 Panasonic Viera Plasma. Great viewing area, almost not existent frame compared to the old TV - the new 55" is only two inches bigger on the diagonal than the old 46" - madness!
Couple of niggles so far, both audio related:
1) Sonos PLAYBAR DTS limitation is a total ball ache and causing problems with audio from most Blu-ray discs again.
2) The built in 4K supporting Netflix app has a massive lipsync fault when using external digital audit. Just fine on Plex/Prime/iPlayer etc, just Netflix broken. Annoying.
Other than those two things, superb TV with a plasma killing image quality.
In a word (or two), yes, SD is bad. Part of the problemis the fact that HD is so incredibly good (for 4K, I have no word that can do it justice) that when you switch to an SD programme is nigh on unwatchable. Yes, you can tweak the settings but, really, it just isn't good enough. Fortunately most channels have HD version so not a big deal for most people.
Oh, and another thing: If you are a 3D sceptic (as I was until getting this), you will be instantly converted. 3D is absolutely awesome.
I have an Acer X34 (IPS / 4ms) for twitch or online gaming, for games like Witcher 3, Tomb Raider, Hitman, etc, there's no perceptible difference.
Don't believe everything you read on the internet!
When you say don't watch in sd? Is it not that good a picture on sd?
Basically I watch a lot of tv.. Some Hd some Sd, like to watch blurays and have Netflicks. Do you think it's worth me buying this tv watching the above? Cheers
https://www.avforums.com/threads/lg-eg960v-owners-and-discussion-thread.1948687/page-276
These sets have the pinnacle of stereoscopic 3Ds with almost zero crosstalk and very bright, Full HD images. This is a godsend to PC gamers like me who want to use the EDID override hack in order to play the plethora of 3D vision games... Games like Witcher 3, GTA V, Rise of the Tomb Raider, etc all in 3D... I need me one of these LGs alongside a 1080 Ti for my life to be complete (for a year only, of course!).
Could any of the owners here please confirm (or refute) this tidbit? Thanks in advance!
But really, as stevej1976 eloquently put, some people tend to carelessly spend lots of money daily on not only insignificant stuff, but actually sometimes harmful to our biological body. Drinking, which has become a habit and part of the culture, is incredibly costly with no benefit. Many are smoking (cigarettes/weeds), or 'vaping' nowadays... I save money by doing none of these.
Yes I am not known to be fun at the parties, and that's brilliant, cause I don't exactly care about parties! :wink:
The 2016 model (LG OLED55B6V) currently retails at £2800. Do you seriously believe the said added functionality justifies a £1000 premium on this? Each to their own but, personally, I don't think so.
This TV is genuinely stunning in every way. If you have the money, go get it. (Yes, I have the TV and No, I've never experienced any banding in the six months I have had it and yes, the quality of HD and 4K is truly stunning but even when switched off this is a piece of electronic furniture that's a work of art. Just one piece of advice. Don't use it to watch SD)
Edit: (4k over 30fps)
And if you don't know the difference between a standard Fiat and an Abarth, then I'm done wasting my time with your replies ....
As for the fiat 500.... Well that speaks for itself!! Ha ha
http://www.bestavdeals.co.uk/blog/2015/10/27/55eg920v-vs-55eg960v-which-one-should-you-buy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY5ix0JxYEk
There is a LOT more to a TV than simply the panel. They have the same core, but chassis, controller boards and, most importantly, the firmware & software that drives it can vary, and thus improve or degrade performance, massively.
Panasonic are better at that side of it than LG. Always have been. Which is why their best TV's have always been better than LG's.
My car is an Abarth 500. Do you think they just slapped a badge on a standard Fiat 500 and thus they're the same?
I saved them few quids and bought a telly,
Watching movies is my passion, each to their own I guess. :smiley:
Heat OP, when I save a few quid I'll be having a 4K Oled too.
But going by AVForums you may as well grab a 2016 LG as its at least on par if not better (plus covers HDR). Or save some money and grab a 2015, where it is as good most of the time.
I'm running a calibrated VT65. And won't be replacing it any time soon.
LCD based Panasonic? 100% agreed. I was thinking more along the lines of the CZ952. (Which I believe use LG sourced panels, but Panasonic do a much better job of driving them.)
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/audio-visual/televisions/panasonic-tx-65cz952-1308888/review
But it's curved. (No. Just .... no.)
It's still too expensive. (£3k is my bite point.)
It's still an early generation model, as good as it is. I expect they'll produce even better before I buy.
Not flat enough.
Not made by Panasonic enough. (They're showing LG how these panels SHOULD be used)
Getting there. But the plasma stays for now.
....also you cant complain about ms when you play on a size this big, even if it was 2ms you cant react fast enough with that much area to cover.
What for?!?
I remember Mitsubishi LaserVue from a few years ago. Using laser light to display the picture. A 4K version would waste OLED. OLED is good for now, but Laser is better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glJyEFkmV_0
That is what we want. Laser 4K.
http://bizled.co.in/lasers-much-better-than-oled-says-expert/
SD watcher? Don't bother.
Also there have been reports of artefacts near black. Some seem to be down to the ability of OLED to display poorly compressed source material (a lot of compression artefacts near black that other sets wouldn't have the ability to show up). Others appear to be due to poor processing near black, there was talk of 7 bit processing near black.
No reports of Halos, OLED is emissive, so unlike LED (even FALD) you won't see Halo's.
The LG OLED's use sample and hold, which of course can result in motion blur on some material due to retina retention. BFI/Pulse has its own issues (DFC/Flicker) as does frame interpolation (soap opera effect). The issue is the low frame rate of source material and any implementation will involve one compromise or another :/ As such one should choose whichever side effect troubles them least, in my case I can look past them all fortunately :smiley:
Overall even the most ardent complainer on the 2015 OLED threads has admitted the problems present a very small proportion of the time and the rest of the viewing is stunning.
In this case, I can only say "Ha Ha, which mugs gone and bought this 1st generation garbage with more faults than San Andreas"
Yes it is expensive but it all depends how important a great TV is in your life. Personally, I can't understand why anyone would spend 30K on a new car when you can pick one up for 8K but we all value quality in different things differently.
42" is starting to feel pretty small though, so the sooner a non-distorted bargain materialises the better!
https://flic.kr/p/Jmzddk
Banding, halos, replacement panels the list of problems are quite extensive for a £2k set
picture quality. I too was against curved screen, but honestly, to do not notice it and the viewing angle is exceptionally wide.