02-28-2017, 11:51 AM
Ok, GStan, Sick, just ignore the pricing OK 
http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/lg/e6
So I was planning on picking up a new TV for the bedroom anyway and while looking I couldn't help but notice the prices on OLEDs had absolutely plummeted. I went with the 55" because this is a bedroom TV and I went with the 'E' for a couple of different reasons. I wanted to try out 3D on an OLED. Gaining proper depth perception off of a 2D display is significantly hampered with lower levels of contrast, also shutter glasses give me a migraine in about five minutes- this TV has passive 3D. The 'C' Version also has passive 3D, and lists for considerably less then the "E", but that is a curved display and well, meh.
With all of that said, the normal $800 price difference between the C and E would have had me picking up a C more then likely, but I found a hell of deal(right place, right time) so I got the E for under two(sorry, talking about a few hundred dollar difference between an OLED and a LCD- that aint a fair fight).
Couple of quick gripes- I'm buying what is, as far as I have read, unanimously the best 55" TV in the world and no backlit remote? I know, stupid little thing, but really?
TruMotion- OK, this drives me nuts- you have to disable it in each individual display mode. Each of your normal modes, then each of the 4K modes, then each of the HDR modes- the only mode where it is always off is Gaming. I know, nit picking, but if you are dropping list price on this TV, you probably don't want that crap messing up your images.
Third, kind of sort of issue- I'm going to say this TV has gone beyond the realm of coolness with how thin it is to 'how the hell am I supposed to move this thing?'. The top 3/4s of the screen is about half the thickness of my phone. It's seriously just a piece of glass. Now, since I have it all set up, it looks cool as hell and wows everyone that sees it, but damn is moving that thing a PITA.
Ok, so, picture quality.......(my apologies for my language Beast) Holy Fuck!
Utterly amazing, seriously. Nose to the TV still not pixelated- 33 Million sub pixels(RGBW) each one of them emissive on their own, seriously this is the *only* time where after I've spent a dozen hours I'm just not imagining wanting to upgrade- I can't think of why I would. Now I'm sure after years I'll find something that bothers me about it, but in terms of picture quality- just damn- jaw dropping.
This doesn't just pertain to 4K HDR content, although...... WOW...... straight plain old Blu Rays come to life in ways I've never seen before. The detail, the contrast, the shear quality of the display has almost everyone assuming that I popped in a super high def source when I'm just playing a plain old BRD.
Another point I want to bring up- brightness. So I literally am a basement dweller. People who have known me a long time know that I work third shift(I'm pretty anti social) so my entire basement is finished and my wife and I have our bedroom underground. I was expecting that based on everything I had read that OLEDs didn't get that bright and I was OK with that because of the environment it was in. I was wrong that it wouldn't be an issue out of the box, but not for the reason people would lead you to believe, this thing gets WAY brighter then the LCD it replaced, by a rather staggering margin with HDR content(but even with plain old HD). Now, I understand that the latest and greatest LCDs get brighter still, but I'm left wondering what is the point if it literally hurts your eyes?
Gaming- latency on this is comparable to my Vizio that is upstairs(bought *because* of its' great latency), no it isn't equal, but it is certainly in the ballpark. Something with the image processing is going on, OLEDs have zero response time(well, you know what I mean) while the Vizio still clocks in at almost 20ms, the OLED is a bit higher, but not too much, certainly nothing like the ~100ms we were seeing a couple of years ago. I have Shield TV hooked up to this and have been playing around getting games to run @4K- the ones I've gotten to work are pretty choppy(still rocking a 780GHZ) but utterly gorgeous. Infinite contrast ratio helps a ton. Quadrupling pixel density helps a ton. Absolutely zero blurring helps a lot. Add them all together- utterly amazing. Right now I have Shield and the BoneS hooked up to this, have to bring one of my PS4s downstairs and give it a whirl to see how it goes. For the record, XBoneS video output is stellar when pushing 4K HDR content, they still *REALLY* need to fix the audio situation, but no knock on their video handling.
3D- Yes, a gimmick the industry was pushing. I understand, and I get it. I own what was a very pricey nVidia 3D monitor that I have ever used the function of exactly zero times. Shutter glasses suck, and it was a cheap ass approach that was far too cumbersome to be worth the literal headache it would give you. This TV uses passive 3D- the screen itself has polarization built in and it comes with a pair of glasses to which I added another four pairs for a whopping $12. Brought my younger kids down to watch Coraline in 3D- great kinda creepy movie for those of you with pre teen kids btw, my wife was sitting at her computer, turned around to see if the TV worked at that angle(pretty far off to the side) and ended up entranced and watched the whole thing forgetting what she was doing. Mind you, this is a movie I have owned for many years, and we had the old school "3D" version with the paper red/blue glasses, this was an entirely different level. One potential issue- while the side to side viewing angle is stupid wide, the vertical range isn't nearly as forgiving. If you were to mount this higher up on a wall and view it laying down, it would be pretty bad.
4K- Easiest portion to cover. 400% increase in pixels good, small amount of content bad(although getting much better).
HDR- So this is an area that is really showing to have some *major* benefits. Did you guys know that the standard TV color spectrum can not display Ferrari Red? There are a ton of other examples I could use, but quite simply the wider color gamut is absolutely amazing, and something you don't really notice until you are watching say, a fire truck drive by mastered in HDR and it's actually the right color. Yeah, everyone talks about doing super bright with HDR, I don't find that particularly compelling, the wider color foot print offered is a god send though.
'Smart TV' functionality- Well, everyone raves about it, and it is cool(the remote kinda works like a Wii Mote but without using a light sensor bar)- has all the big apps and it is very responsive- far moreso then the XBone, but not quite as quick as the Shield. Not knocking it, it is the best I've ever used for built in to the TV functionality, it just isn't something I'm likely to use.
Sound- So this TV has a Harmon Kardon sound bar built into it. I will say I spent close to a half hour with it on before I shut it off, that is a record by a factor of about thirty over every other TV I've had. My sound system costs a lot more then this TV, and the sound bar really is *by far* the best sounding TV I have ever heard- it wasn't morally offensive to listen to it, but let's be real, a soundbar is not replacing a real home theater setup. Props to them for adding decent speakers to an expensive TV, but personally I would have gladly changed it out for a backlit remote
TL
R- Best TV I've ever seen, and it really isn't close.
http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/lg/e6
So I was planning on picking up a new TV for the bedroom anyway and while looking I couldn't help but notice the prices on OLEDs had absolutely plummeted. I went with the 55" because this is a bedroom TV and I went with the 'E' for a couple of different reasons. I wanted to try out 3D on an OLED. Gaining proper depth perception off of a 2D display is significantly hampered with lower levels of contrast, also shutter glasses give me a migraine in about five minutes- this TV has passive 3D. The 'C' Version also has passive 3D, and lists for considerably less then the "E", but that is a curved display and well, meh.
With all of that said, the normal $800 price difference between the C and E would have had me picking up a C more then likely, but I found a hell of deal(right place, right time) so I got the E for under two(sorry, talking about a few hundred dollar difference between an OLED and a LCD- that aint a fair fight).
Couple of quick gripes- I'm buying what is, as far as I have read, unanimously the best 55" TV in the world and no backlit remote? I know, stupid little thing, but really?
TruMotion- OK, this drives me nuts- you have to disable it in each individual display mode. Each of your normal modes, then each of the 4K modes, then each of the HDR modes- the only mode where it is always off is Gaming. I know, nit picking, but if you are dropping list price on this TV, you probably don't want that crap messing up your images.
Third, kind of sort of issue- I'm going to say this TV has gone beyond the realm of coolness with how thin it is to 'how the hell am I supposed to move this thing?'. The top 3/4s of the screen is about half the thickness of my phone. It's seriously just a piece of glass. Now, since I have it all set up, it looks cool as hell and wows everyone that sees it, but damn is moving that thing a PITA.
Ok, so, picture quality.......(my apologies for my language Beast) Holy Fuck!
Utterly amazing, seriously. Nose to the TV still not pixelated- 33 Million sub pixels(RGBW) each one of them emissive on their own, seriously this is the *only* time where after I've spent a dozen hours I'm just not imagining wanting to upgrade- I can't think of why I would. Now I'm sure after years I'll find something that bothers me about it, but in terms of picture quality- just damn- jaw dropping.
This doesn't just pertain to 4K HDR content, although...... WOW...... straight plain old Blu Rays come to life in ways I've never seen before. The detail, the contrast, the shear quality of the display has almost everyone assuming that I popped in a super high def source when I'm just playing a plain old BRD.
Another point I want to bring up- brightness. So I literally am a basement dweller. People who have known me a long time know that I work third shift(I'm pretty anti social) so my entire basement is finished and my wife and I have our bedroom underground. I was expecting that based on everything I had read that OLEDs didn't get that bright and I was OK with that because of the environment it was in. I was wrong that it wouldn't be an issue out of the box, but not for the reason people would lead you to believe, this thing gets WAY brighter then the LCD it replaced, by a rather staggering margin with HDR content(but even with plain old HD). Now, I understand that the latest and greatest LCDs get brighter still, but I'm left wondering what is the point if it literally hurts your eyes?
Gaming- latency on this is comparable to my Vizio that is upstairs(bought *because* of its' great latency), no it isn't equal, but it is certainly in the ballpark. Something with the image processing is going on, OLEDs have zero response time(well, you know what I mean) while the Vizio still clocks in at almost 20ms, the OLED is a bit higher, but not too much, certainly nothing like the ~100ms we were seeing a couple of years ago. I have Shield TV hooked up to this and have been playing around getting games to run @4K- the ones I've gotten to work are pretty choppy(still rocking a 780GHZ) but utterly gorgeous. Infinite contrast ratio helps a ton. Quadrupling pixel density helps a ton. Absolutely zero blurring helps a lot. Add them all together- utterly amazing. Right now I have Shield and the BoneS hooked up to this, have to bring one of my PS4s downstairs and give it a whirl to see how it goes. For the record, XBoneS video output is stellar when pushing 4K HDR content, they still *REALLY* need to fix the audio situation, but no knock on their video handling.
3D- Yes, a gimmick the industry was pushing. I understand, and I get it. I own what was a very pricey nVidia 3D monitor that I have ever used the function of exactly zero times. Shutter glasses suck, and it was a cheap ass approach that was far too cumbersome to be worth the literal headache it would give you. This TV uses passive 3D- the screen itself has polarization built in and it comes with a pair of glasses to which I added another four pairs for a whopping $12. Brought my younger kids down to watch Coraline in 3D- great kinda creepy movie for those of you with pre teen kids btw, my wife was sitting at her computer, turned around to see if the TV worked at that angle(pretty far off to the side) and ended up entranced and watched the whole thing forgetting what she was doing. Mind you, this is a movie I have owned for many years, and we had the old school "3D" version with the paper red/blue glasses, this was an entirely different level. One potential issue- while the side to side viewing angle is stupid wide, the vertical range isn't nearly as forgiving. If you were to mount this higher up on a wall and view it laying down, it would be pretty bad.
4K- Easiest portion to cover. 400% increase in pixels good, small amount of content bad(although getting much better).
HDR- So this is an area that is really showing to have some *major* benefits. Did you guys know that the standard TV color spectrum can not display Ferrari Red? There are a ton of other examples I could use, but quite simply the wider color gamut is absolutely amazing, and something you don't really notice until you are watching say, a fire truck drive by mastered in HDR and it's actually the right color. Yeah, everyone talks about doing super bright with HDR, I don't find that particularly compelling, the wider color foot print offered is a god send though.
'Smart TV' functionality- Well, everyone raves about it, and it is cool(the remote kinda works like a Wii Mote but without using a light sensor bar)- has all the big apps and it is very responsive- far moreso then the XBone, but not quite as quick as the Shield. Not knocking it, it is the best I've ever used for built in to the TV functionality, it just isn't something I'm likely to use.
Sound- So this TV has a Harmon Kardon sound bar built into it. I will say I spent close to a half hour with it on before I shut it off, that is a record by a factor of about thirty over every other TV I've had. My sound system costs a lot more then this TV, and the sound bar really is *by far* the best sounding TV I have ever heard- it wasn't morally offensive to listen to it, but let's be real, a soundbar is not replacing a real home theater setup. Props to them for adding decent speakers to an expensive TV, but personally I would have gladly changed it out for a backlit remote
TL
R- Best TV I've ever seen, and it really isn't close.
