Thanks for your review! Since I’m looking into this TV to be used with my Mac for office work, I would have liked a more in-depth review of how texts look like.
Thanks for watching Dario! Totally understand where you are coming from, while it is not as smooth as IPS screens it hasn't been a problem for me at all. If you're close to the screen you will see fringing from the pixel layout, but I don't recommend anyone view this screen less than an arms length anyway, just due to its size. I think most will find the text clarity is no problem. Macs with clear type turned on will alleviate this further. I do quite a bit of reading, coding, design and documents in my day, haven't had any issue with that, it has been great! Definitely check it out in a store though just to make sure you're happy with it, I hope that helps!
Many thanks for the great review. Do you have any experience/thoughts on burn-in issues with long term office use (mainly docs and other office tools, normally in the central screen area [not in whole screen mode]?) Thanks :)
Thank you for watching! Yes I've had many documents and bright things open for decent chunks of time (both centrally and full screen) and have no issues still. The burn in reduction features have worked very well for my unit. I still advise mixing up the positions every now and then just to be on the safe side.
Nice video. I definitely agree with the programmable shortcut buttons and picture settings profiles that should be assignable to them. I honestly would prefer those over mostly "useless" buttons like the Netflix and Disney+ singe-purpose stuff. By the way, regarding the feet, if you want better options with tilt and swivel you can actually buy a table top stand for TVs that have them and can handle from around 32"~55" sizes adjustable, 66lbs+ weight limit, and they often come with a flat base that's sometimes black tinted glass so you can just put stuff on it too. They mainly use VESA mounting.
Great video! I tried the Samsung QN9C 43'' as a desk monitor, but the color shifting issue gave me terrible headaches... Had to return it and go back to my 32'' monitor and I have zero problems with it. But I'm really tempted with this TV, as I still would like a larger screen, but I'm concerned about the large screen giving me headaches because of the size or excessive light...
Glad you enjoyed the video Victor! Thanks for watching. It might take a couple days to adjust to it in terms of size, but it shouldn't be a problem if you sit far enough away, until you can comfortably see the entire screen. For me that's about an arm's length. I have my brightness at 20%-30% for SDR contents (which most will be). So definitely turn the brightness down for most use cases. 120hz feel very fluid so it should lower the jittery nausea that comes from being close to large screens. Colour shifting is quite well controlled with oleds so I don't think it will be anywhere near as bad as your last monitor. Check it out in-store - the instore units will basically be the worst case scenario (colours, brightness all pumped to the max). Also remember you don't need your application windows full screen if it's not comfortable, I am often dividing the screen into different zones, one of the perks of a screen this big. Also somewhat related tip, the 20, 20, 20 rule: Every 20 minutes look at something 20 meters away for 20 seconds. This helps me so much if I'm getting a headache from screens, no matter the size it's not very good for our eyes to focus close without a break.
I have the 42" C2 as a PC monitor, it's an incredible screen but way too big to use as a monitor. Trying to play an FPS on it with keyboard and mouse is basically impossible unless you have a ridiculously deep desk.
It's certainly not for everyone, and definitely helps having a deep enough desk, especially if you're playing competitively. I personally couldn't go back to 27" 😂.
Great video ! Subscribed…….What pc/graphics card are you running for this monitor ? … i am a day trader and I intended on getting the exact set up with the 55 inch C2 or C3 but I need a powerful PC
Hey thanks for your kind words and the sub! Glad you liked the video. I run a i9 12900k cpu and a 3090 video card and it's more than enough to run this TV flawlessly. The 55 inch will be epic for your use case! Have fun 😊.
You use filmmaker mode while doing your photo/video editing on it? Filmmaker mode is way way way more yellow than the macbook or other laptop screen. If I edited something on mine in filmmaker mode it would come out a completely different colour when I looked at the same image on my phone or laptop, no? I just got my c3 and I'm not sure what colour profile to run it in to get it to match my macbook the best. I found you can switch from the default colour profile in macos for the tv to 'display p3' and that is verrry close but it's a tinge bluer seemingly. IDK it's tricky. Any tips?
Hi thanks for watching my video! Yes filmmaker mode will yield the best("accurate") colours. Keep in mind compared to other profiles it will appear quite a bit more warmer, as we tend to be fed cool colour tones and over saturated colours in mainstream devices. Especially whites, which get pushed into blue tones. Phones tend to be highly saturated and have more cool colour balance in the same way - this is not accurate but looks "good" to the average person. Filmmaker mode doesn't do that and so it will appear much warmer if you haven't experienced it before. It takes time to adjust for the first time, but you'll start to appreciate more honest colours over time and will notice how overkill default colours are in devices today! Display P3 is a newer gamut and made for more modern content, best used for authoring content in HDR. I'd advise keeping in sRGB and rec709, as most content is still SDR. Apple's DciP3 is non standard too from memory. Edit: I forgot to mention for any colour critical work, it's best to calibrate all devices being used, in order to ensure they're all in the same ballpark with their colours. Otherwise you'll be comparing to mismatching screen colour accuracies. I hope that helps, feel free to ask any more questions!
@@Nisch. I have since been in a rabbit hole of learning more about colour accuracy, and comoparing different modes on the LG c3 and putting my m3 macbook pro right up against the screen to compare my images in the different default icc colour profiles... The more I think about it the more stressful it is 🫣😅 I have since put it into filmmaker mode which interestingly even with the exact same settings as standard mode, looks a bit warmer and a bit more vibrant than standard. I put colour depth at 50, sharpness at 10 and contrast at 85, those are all defaults in filmmaker mode. I decided that both to my eye and to my phones camera the 0 or neutral white balance was a bit colder than my m3 macbook pro screen so I went to warm 20. Colour gamut native. The warmth looks about the same to me now but when looking at grey on website backgrounds or white on website backgrounds those appear a bit magenta on the macbook in comparison to the LG and a bit green on the LG in comparison to the macbook. You have a callibration system? Could you please tell me what settings you are meant to put into the TV when you calibrate the colours? Do you set colour gamut to native and colour depth to 50 for example? Can you tell me if your laptop screen or your phone looks considerably bluer when seeing the finished work you edited on the calibrated warm 50 LG tv? Sorry for these walls of text and thank you so much for your input :)
No problem. Yes it is indeed a rabbit hole. That sounds correct, standard mode will appear cooler. All the different modes have their own hard coded characteristics in addition to the manual settings. I know Rtings.com provides settings they used to calibrate their unit, you can try that (this might not work for everyone since there will be differences per unit). But the only true way to work with multiple displays is to calibrate them all so you know where the ground truth lies and then tweak your outputs to cover your most critical target device. It's an impossible task these days! I would recommend picking up a second hand colour calibrator and running your MacBook and LG through it, you should get a fairly similar match (there will always be some differences due to different panel technology). The calibration actually takes you through what settings to use. I.e brightness, temperature and colour values etc. The most critical aspects when working with OLED and other screens with outstanding contrast is not to overly crunch your work so your black levels aren't being compressed. My phone is set to sRGB mode (Android) to get around overly saturated images, but will occasionally turn it off to see my work in the "wrong" context. It does indeed look cooler in tone when I do.
I have a i9 4090 desktop and I have this monitor. I was thinking about getting rid of this monitor to get something else. Do you think this monitor is good for 4090 desktop ?
Thanks for your review! Since I’m looking into this TV to be used with my Mac for office work, I would have liked a more in-depth review of how texts look like.
Thanks for watching Dario!
Totally understand where you are coming from, while it is not as smooth as IPS screens it hasn't been a problem for me at all. If you're close to the screen you will see fringing from the pixel layout, but I don't recommend anyone view this screen less than an arms length anyway, just due to its size. I think most will find the text clarity is no problem.
Macs with clear type turned on will alleviate this further.
I do quite a bit of reading, coding, design and documents in my day, haven't had any issue with that, it has been great! Definitely check it out in a store though just to make sure you're happy with it, I hope that helps!
Many thanks for the great review. Do you have any experience/thoughts on burn-in issues with long term office use (mainly docs and other office tools, normally in the central screen area [not in whole screen mode]?)
Thanks :)
Thank you for watching! Yes I've had many documents and bright things open for decent chunks of time (both centrally and full screen) and have no issues still. The burn in reduction features have worked very well for my unit. I still advise mixing up the positions every now and then just to be on the safe side.
@@Nisch.Many thanks :)
Nice video. I definitely agree with the programmable shortcut buttons and picture settings profiles that should be assignable to them. I honestly would prefer those over mostly "useless" buttons like the Netflix and Disney+ singe-purpose stuff. By the way, regarding the feet, if you want better options with tilt and swivel you can actually buy a table top stand for TVs that have them and can handle from around 32"~55" sizes adjustable, 66lbs+ weight limit, and they often come with a flat base that's sometimes black tinted glass so you can just put stuff on it too. They mainly use VESA mounting.
Thanks for watching! That's great advice
Great video!
I tried the Samsung QN9C 43'' as a desk monitor, but the color shifting issue gave me terrible headaches... Had to return it and go back to my 32'' monitor and I have zero problems with it.
But I'm really tempted with this TV, as I still would like a larger screen, but I'm concerned about the large screen giving me headaches because of the size or excessive light...
Glad you enjoyed the video Victor! Thanks for watching.
It might take a couple days to adjust to it in terms of size, but it shouldn't be a problem if you sit far enough away, until you can comfortably see the entire screen. For me that's about an arm's length.
I have my brightness at 20%-30% for SDR contents (which most will be). So definitely turn the brightness down for most use cases. 120hz feel very fluid so it should lower the jittery nausea that comes from being close to large screens.
Colour shifting is quite well controlled with oleds so I don't think it will be anywhere near as bad as your last monitor. Check it out in-store - the instore units will basically be the worst case scenario (colours, brightness all pumped to the max).
Also remember you don't need your application windows full screen if it's not comfortable, I am often dividing the screen into different zones, one of the perks of a screen this big.
Also somewhat related tip, the 20, 20, 20 rule: Every 20 minutes look at something 20 meters away for 20 seconds. This helps me so much if I'm getting a headache from screens, no matter the size it's not very good for our eyes to focus close without a break.
@@Nisch.thanks a lot for the tips!! I'll keep an eye at the pricing, who knows I could get a good deal on it!
I have the 42" C2 as a PC monitor, it's an incredible screen but way too big to use as a monitor. Trying to play an FPS on it with keyboard and mouse is basically impossible unless you have a ridiculously deep desk.
It's certainly not for everyone, and definitely helps having a deep enough desk, especially if you're playing competitively. I personally couldn't go back to 27" 😂.
Great video ! Subscribed…….What pc/graphics card are you running for this monitor ? … i am a day trader and I intended on getting the exact set up with the 55 inch C2 or C3 but I need a powerful PC
Hey thanks for your kind words and the sub! Glad you liked the video. I run a i9 12900k cpu and a 3090 video card and it's more than enough to run this TV flawlessly. The 55 inch will be epic for your use case! Have fun 😊.
Great video, straight to the point!
Thanks for your kind words! Glad you liked it 😁.
Awesome video. Thx a lot
Thank you for watching!
You use filmmaker mode while doing your photo/video editing on it? Filmmaker mode is way way way more yellow than the macbook or other laptop screen. If I edited something on mine in filmmaker mode it would come out a completely different colour when I looked at the same image on my phone or laptop, no?
I just got my c3 and I'm not sure what colour profile to run it in to get it to match my macbook the best. I found you can switch from the default colour profile in macos for the tv to 'display p3' and that is verrry close but it's a tinge bluer seemingly. IDK it's tricky. Any tips?
Hi thanks for watching my video!
Yes filmmaker mode will yield the best("accurate") colours. Keep in mind compared to other profiles it will appear quite a bit more warmer, as we tend to be fed cool colour tones and over saturated colours in mainstream devices. Especially whites, which get pushed into blue tones. Phones tend to be highly saturated and have more cool colour balance in the same way - this is not accurate but looks "good" to the average person.
Filmmaker mode doesn't do that and so it will appear much warmer if you haven't experienced it before. It takes time to adjust for the first time, but you'll start to appreciate more honest colours over time and will notice how overkill default colours are in devices today!
Display P3 is a newer gamut and made for more modern content, best used for authoring content in HDR. I'd advise keeping in sRGB and rec709, as most content is still SDR. Apple's DciP3 is non standard too from memory.
Edit: I forgot to mention for any colour critical work, it's best to calibrate all devices being used, in order to ensure they're all in the same ballpark with their colours. Otherwise you'll be comparing to mismatching screen colour accuracies.
I hope that helps, feel free to ask any more questions!
@@Nisch. I have since been in a rabbit hole of learning more about colour accuracy, and comoparing different modes on the LG c3 and putting my m3 macbook pro right up against the screen to compare my images in the different default icc colour profiles...
The more I think about it the more stressful it is 🫣😅
I have since put it into filmmaker mode which interestingly even with the exact same settings as standard mode, looks a bit warmer and a bit more vibrant than standard.
I put colour depth at 50, sharpness at 10 and contrast at 85, those are all defaults in filmmaker mode.
I decided that both to my eye and to my phones camera the 0 or neutral white balance was a bit colder than my m3 macbook pro screen so I went to warm 20.
Colour gamut native.
The warmth looks about the same to me now but when looking at grey on website backgrounds or white on website backgrounds those appear a bit magenta on the macbook in comparison to the LG and a bit green on the LG in comparison to the macbook.
You have a callibration system? Could you please tell me what settings you are meant to put into the TV when you calibrate the colours?
Do you set colour gamut to native and colour depth to 50 for example?
Can you tell me if your laptop screen or your phone looks considerably bluer when seeing the finished work you edited on the calibrated warm 50 LG tv?
Sorry for these walls of text and thank you so much for your input :)
No problem. Yes it is indeed a rabbit hole. That sounds correct, standard mode will appear cooler. All the different modes have their own hard coded characteristics in addition to the manual settings.
I know Rtings.com provides settings they used to calibrate their unit, you can try that (this might not work for everyone since there will be differences per unit). But the only true way to work with multiple displays is to calibrate them all so you know where the ground truth lies and then tweak your outputs to cover your most critical target device. It's an impossible task these days! I would recommend picking up a second hand colour calibrator and running your MacBook and LG through it, you should get a fairly similar match (there will always be some differences due to different panel technology). The calibration actually takes you through what settings to use. I.e brightness, temperature and colour values etc.
The most critical aspects when working with OLED and other screens with outstanding contrast is not to overly crunch your work so your black levels aren't being compressed.
My phone is set to sRGB mode (Android) to get around overly saturated images, but will occasionally turn it off to see my work in the "wrong" context. It does indeed look cooler in tone when I do.
Please post video on powertoys
I have a i9 4090 desktop and I have this monitor. I was thinking about getting rid of this monitor to get something else. Do you think this monitor is good for 4090 desktop ?
Thanks for watching. There will be no problems at all! Enjoy!