Please Kindly Share You Experiences with LG C2 42 Inch When Used as a Monitor for Work from Home, Gaming, Movies?

Aerith-Waifu on 28/08/2022 - 22:30
Last edited 29/08/2022 - 11:23 by 1 other user

Can someone who recently bought the LG C2 Oled 42inch TV sharing your experience when you using it as a PC monitor for movies, games and work from home etc?

Can low end graphic card like the Galax 1660 Super pairing it ok?

What's your user experience when used as a work from home monitor?

If I were to go for it, I will be sitting around 70cm away from the monitor, is the distance too short for it?

Reason I am considering it is people in here have been saying for ages how good the OLED TV are. Also my company is paying 50% or up to a max of $1000 towards it.

Thanks heaps

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  zoltanc on 28/08/2022 - 22:55

  +1

  I’d be concerned about burn-in, though I don’t know if the newest OLEDs handle it better than older ones.

  Also, the Automatic Brightness Limiting (ABL) feature may be an issue. You can read about it on the RTINGS review:

  https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/lg/c2-oled

  I run Kodi at home, and I noticed when I had the OSD showing during the credits of a movie or TV show, the brightness of the OSD changes a little depending on how much text there is onscreen.

  I suspect that as a PC monitor, the overall brightness may increase or decrease every time you open or close a window.

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    Aerith-Waifu on 28/08/2022 - 23:13

    Does that happen all the time or just happens sometimes? I would hate to see the burn-in happening especially consider the price tag is around $2k at the moment

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      cille745 on 29/08/2022 - 01:18

      It's cumalative so it happens in every panel eventually

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  resubaehtgnolhcs on 29/08/2022 - 00:21

  +1

  Also my company is paying 50% or up to a max of $1000 towards it.

  I see what you're doing …

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  silentsoar on 29/08/2022 - 09:03

  +1

  If I were to go for it, I will be sitting around 70cm away from the monitor, is the distance too short for it?

  I would think the ergonomics of this aren't great - in particular, the vertical height, you'll be moving your eyes a fair bit to move focus from the top to the bottom of the screen

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    toomuchdogfur on 29/08/2022 - 10:04

    Agreed, I had a 43" on a 60cm deep desk for a while and it was definitely too high. It wasn't unusable, but I wouldn't recommend it for 9-to-5 use either as angling your head up and down constantly isn't good for your posture.

    You'll want at least 80cm depth, if not more to comfortably use this as a monitor.

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    Aerith-Waifu on 31/08/2022 - 16:18

    You might be right on this one, as I just tried my friend's 38inch and it appears just right at around 65cm.

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  Therage on 29/08/2022 - 09:29

  Gaming and TV you will have zero issues.

  For PC usage you will be fine, I would however recommend auto hiding the start bar if you are on windows just to be safe

  This was the old 2017 models - https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/real-life-oled-burn-in-test.

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    Aerith-Waifu on 31/08/2022 - 16:18

    Thanks for the link, good reading.

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  AB100 on 29/08/2022 - 09:57

  I have the 48" C1 and sit 100cm from the screen, so you can probably get away with 70cm from the 42". I hated the Automatic Brightness Limiting function so much that I bought the factory service remote and disable the feature. I also auto hide my taskbar. The LG OLED's are great screens for PC use, gaming and movie watching.

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    Aerith-Waifu on 31/08/2022 - 16:19

    Whats to hate about it though? Isnt it one of the feature of the TV?

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  ESEMCE on 29/08/2022 - 11:19

  Slightly offtopic (being LCD), but also related.
  I'm using a 55" Sony X90J as a monitor in our Home Office/Spare Room/Second Lounge one day per week.
  I sit around 1m from the center of screen. It's quite a deep desk.

  I use Windows Powertools FancyZones to segment the screen into quarters to give me something akin to 4x27" screens.
  I really only use either the lower (while sitting) or upper (while standing) virtual screens, although do tend to spot up some lightly used screens in the top segments while sitting.

  I specifically chose 55" as it would sit at perfect viewing height for me while standing (top edge of screen just below my eyes) and sitting (bottom edge of screen just above my tabletop sit/stand desk and the bottom half of the screen at about eye level.
  I could have fit 65", but the width and height would definitely have been a problem ergonomically.

  Viewing angle is compromised at the very edges of the screen, an issue you'd experience far less of with OLED, but it's still very workable.

  I chose LCD over OLED due mostly to price but also due to Burn-in fears as I sit in Spreadsheets pretty much all day, so there's a lot of static content.