Was previously $1599 discount. Every retailer in Aus seems to have stock, so feel free to attempt to pricematch at other places.
Pros: C1-style OLED with monitor abilities and DisplayPort for graphics cards.
Cons: HDMI 2.1 is 4:2:0 at 4K-120hz, no Movie AI modes or upscaling.
Thoughts on whether this'll keep dropping price?
Who is selling a 65" OLED at this price?
you can't get a 65" OLED TV at this price
OLED, 4k120hz with HDMI 2.1. Your choices for OLED at this pricepoint are a C1 (around $2000). Next closest in QLED would probably be a TCL C825 at around $1600?
42" LG OLEDs shouldn't be much more expensive than this at launch, let alone when they have a price drop, and they'll have a TV tuner, TV OS and a better panel.
If you're after a large HDR monitor, that seems like a better spend.
I was looking at that too, but the RRP seems to be AU$2,500 for the 42" at launch and it'll probably only drop on traditional shopping times (black friday/christmas/boxing).
That was a TechRadar estimate that they plucked out of their butts. C2 vs C1, the pricing appears to be set to increase about 8%, but that's not directly relevant to the brand new 42" panel.
USA pricing is expected to be $1100-$1200 USD, so you're looking at a $1900 AUD launch price at most, maybe $2000 if we're unlucky. It'll drop $200-$300 fairly quickly unless LG and retailers are artificially controlling supply to Australia.
lol, this aged well
@thesmartone1125: I'm sorry, did you think I meant MSRP?
It'll work out a little higher than I estimated, but still sitting around the $2000 mark on sales.
When are these 42" LG OLEDs TVs expecting to launch, something I've been waiting for will there be smaller sized like 32inch or better 34inch?
These are set to launch with the rest of the C2 line-up as far as I know, but that's probably April at this point.
LG Display (note: not LG Electronics) announced at the start of last year that WOLED panels in the 20"-30" range were in the works, but no products or panels were announced at this year's CES, so I'd imagine there's nothing appearing for at least 3-4 months.
So it's the 42" UHD 16:9 WOLED @ 120Hz, or the 34" WQHD 21:9 QD-OLED @ 170Hz.
Thanks for that, by chance any other brands doing the same?, I guess for the size of 42inches more suited as a TV slash with a console, not sure if 42inch size is to big for a pc monitor, I guess if it sits further back might be OK, 32incher 4k monitor here, I'd say maybe 34inch 4k would be a ideal size, I won't say no to bigger 👍😁
@Italkdigital: AU Optronics, JOLED and BOE have OLED panels they've been showing off, but again no concrete products as of right now, and I think the only one out of the three that has something potentially affordable/viable is BOE, and it would probably be inferior to QD-OLED in most aspects.
H2 2022 should be more interesting for the market overall, but I'm preparing myself for no 240Hz OLEDs this year.
The next step is who adopts these technologies and puts them into products, and I can't see anything other than the two aforementioned panels appearing in H1.
If LG has a means to salvage failing TV panels into 1-3 monitors for consumer use, maybe something appears, but I'm not holding my breath.
@Italkdigital: Yeah I was thinking the same thing, I have a 32" led LCD TV in my bedroom and if I was using it at a desk it would be massive lol
I like the idea of the Super wide monitors or having 2-3 but the height of a 32" would be about as big as I could ever imagine needing but hey when I first got a 32" TV (my first flat screen after using CRTs haha) I remember thinking to myself why would you ever need a bigger screen than this (I had a pretty small lounge room) yet now I'm not happy with the big 55" I have. I guess it's what you are used and it's ever evolving.
My only concern is the ergonomy. I’ve got a 43” 16:9 monitor on standard work setup and I find my self constantly looking up.
I've had a 43" as well and the vertical height is a bit annoying.
Sold it and replaced with the Alienware 38" and it's a much more usable size.
Exactly what I'd be worried about, def think 32" height is about the max I'd feel comfortable with using it regularly.
Isn't the point that "monitors" are less prone to image burn and a bunch of other issues that are more prevalent when using them for computing rather than just watching TV/video? Or is that just old tech (LCD/CRT) that had those issues.
I've always been under the assumption a monitor of the same size is always gonna be more expensive than an equivalent TV purely for those reasons.
We use the same term 'burn in', even though the mechanisms are different the behaviour is similar.
A very good explanation video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWrFEU_605g
The panel is the same and they'll have the same likelihood of burning in.
The monitor features that we pay a premium for are more the displayport interface and the screen turning off or going into standby by the video signal or when there is no video signal.
This deal is decent. I don't think the price will drop much more.
The bad HDMI ports on this model is a total deal-breaker, I'd pay a few hundred extra for the LG for that reason alone
Why are the HDMI ports bad on this one? What about the 43inch version?
bandwidth
So what should we be looking for re bandwidth (is there a standard ie HDMI 3.0 or higher) so we can be sure there's enough 'bandwidth' for most scenarios?
I guess these days you want to be able to cover 4k@120 right I always struggle to figure out what it is I should be looking for as there is usually some form of compression involved. Thanks in advance
@Clarky77: HDMI 2.1 defines several "tiers" of bandwidth.
the LG TVs implement the "full" HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, while the gigabyte 4K monitors (in all the big sizes afaik) implement half the bandwidth.
Not to sure about the number I think its 48Gbps vs 24Gbps, but essentially whatever processor Gigabyte choose to use in their monitors can't support the full bandwidth.
Pretty cool monitor, but I already have Alienware AW5520QF, Still happy about it.
Thanks for letting us know.
You are more than welcome!
Chroma subsampling is a type of compression that reduces the color information in a signal in favor of luminance data. This reduces bandwidth without significantly affecting picture quality
I understand some of those words.
Is this a BGR panel? Cos it'll could be annoying
Yes it is (albeit with an extra white pixel) and I was annoyed to find this out because I knew the text would look awful being BGR at least until I realised the 43UD79 I’ve used without issue for work and play over the last 3 years is also BGR.. sooo umm.. yeah, may not an issue after all.
PS I tried working on my 55” C8 in 4K60 4:4:4 and found the text genuinely patchy though, probably due to the larger size (even when accounting for viewing distance).
I would buy a 32" version of this!
up to 40", anything bigger is too big for daily use imo
Cons: HDMI 2.1 is 4:2:0 at 4K-120hz
I believe that's only when connected to a PS5 as PS5 doesn't support DSC.
Does this make a good TV?
Oh man I cannot wait for a 32" OLED monitor. I've been blown away by the picture quality on my LG OLED that I've been doing most of my gaming in the lounge room. Atleast it was an excuse to build a second gaming PC
Links, links, links 👍😁
At this price/size wouldn’t you be better off getting a 65” tv/monitor?