Pemalite said:
Azuren said:
As a TV salesman who witnesses both of these types of TVs in action all day:
1. I would never recommend an LG TV for gaming, or at very least not one of their smart TVs. It'll ruin anything that moves by covering it with artifacts (this is something that extends to OLEDs and I would be glad to point it out). The insane input lag is great, but your eyes aren't going to be able to catch anything under 13ms, anyway. Burn in risk and bad noise algorithms are too big of a price to pay for this (not to mention sacrificing nearly all of your grayscale).
2. Panasonic's TVs this year are just absolute trash. They just don't really hold a candle to Bravias or Samsungs. I was super excited to set them up, and even more disppointed when it looked like hot garbage, even after adjusting the setting to the best of my ability for 30 minutes.
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I have an LG Smart TV. Turning off allot of the processing pretty much eliminates the lag, besides peoples perceptions of input lag will differ from person to person, we may be more "aware" of it whilst the next person might never be able to tell the difference.
And I will never own a Samsung TV. I have repaired a few of them in my time, some components are of questionable quality, especially in some of the cheaper and mid-range models where corners have clearly been cut with things like capacitors.
Burn-in is a non issue if you know what you are doing, same held true for Plasma's, heck even CRT.
As for calibration, nothing beats using the proper tools. :)
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Artifacting is the biggest problem of the LGs, not the input lag. In fact, I was commending the OLEDs on their speed, not calling it a problem. And turning off all the background processing defeats the purpose of a smart TV, and having a game console reduces the worth of the applications. Using a TV that has a good processor in it (like a Sony) would allow you to have your cake and eat it, too. As far as I can see, the only reason people buy LG TVs is because of how frequently they go on sale when compared to Samsung and Sony.
Of course Burn in is a non-issue if you know how to get around it, and the 2016 LGs actually have a way around it (powering them off is followed by 15 minutes of snowing the screen with the lighting off). But the risk due to the large number of static imagery in video games is still present.
30 minutes from me, and a full hour from our TV technicians and their calibration tools. It still looks bad enough that bargain Hunters come in wanting to buy the 65" on sale for $900, but looks it and leave empty handed. It's hot garbage, and we've but stuck with a stock of around 20 of them since they came out.
