Cheapest I’ve seen it. The new models should be coming out soon, so it’s possible it’ll go lower. However it’s a decent price for a great TV, especially for bedroom or PC use.
42” LG C3 evo for $1320 + Delivery ($0 to Select Areas/ SYD C&C) @ Appliance Central
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All 2023 models for LG and Samsung, are currently being run out, for new year models. Though stock for LG 2023 models seems to be holding up better than Samsung.
You will need to be especially lucky for it to be cheaper than this price, and in stock, within the next few weeks.
It's an excellent price as is imho.
There isn't a Samsung 42' though is there? Thought it was only between LG and Sony.
I'm pretty sure you are correct, and they only made 55" and above in 2023.
They do have 42" models coming this year, but they will use an LG WOLED panel instead of QD-OLED.
Ah cool, thanks for the insight on future product. Wanting to know if I should bite on this for the wife's monitor or not. Hmm decisions.
@starburstyellow: Your alternatives are the new 27" 1440p and 32" 4k OLED's coming out this year. But the 32" ones will be over $2000, and the new 27" are still going to be somewhere around $1500.
This tv is cheaper than all of them, and imho, good enough for pc use. Text clarity isn't as quite perfect as a regular lcd, but it's fine once you use 125%-150% windows scaling. And gaming wise, it's not a pro level monitor, but it does everything it needs to these days, including VRR.
I bought a 42 inch C2 for desk monitor use this time last year, been incredible. Not a single issue and no sign of the mythical "burn in".
I have had a BX 55 for literal all day usage in the lounge for…3 years now? Also no sign of "burn in" - my parents use it for news during the day (both retired) and my siblings use for gaming and movies in the evenings, so yes, on pretty much all day. Based on ratings data on the LG models, you'll need to try pretty hard to get burn in with normal use.
Note that Samsung QD oleds are more vulnerable to burn in. The marketing and sponsored reviews at launch claimed otherwise, but they all back pedaled when RTings published their findings. The newest ones out from this year may have had that fixed, but I'll wait for unbiased data before I buy one.
I got a Samsung S90C recently, and the whitepoint and color is quite over the top for all but the movie and filmmaker picture modes.
I ended up using the movie picture mode, then adjusted the whitepoint down to around 6500k, with contrast and brightness turned down quite a bit as well (sdr content).
It now looks like pretty damn good!
I think that most of the burn in risk is with the over the top picture modes, and that the panels are tuned too bright out of the box for sdr content.
For hdr content, there is some risk from running video games with static element content in hdr. And possibly from pausing a movie in hdr.
And if your going to use it with a pc, make sure to turn on the blank screen screensaver, and turn off windows power savings for screen turn off after x mins. The reason is that windows power savings for screen will turn off the screen, but not completely. It will go to a device not connected screen, with quite a bit of static content on screen. But with blank screen saver, it just goes blank.
Alternatively use colorcontrol
https://github.com/Maassoft/ColorControl/releasesWhile the main documentation page doesn't explicitly spell it out support is there for both Samsung and lg OLED tv
Cool. Didn't know this existed. Thanks :)
It doesn't happen as easily as some people say, but burn-in isn't mythical…
Not a single issue and no sign of the mythical "burn in".
I had temp burn-in for my LG C3 42". Was using HDR mode in windows desktop for a day or two for testing RTX HDR.
Did go away though eventually.
This was the wallpaper used - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=29812…
it has a variant for OLED panels, but the burn in was basically the round whitish circular part.
+$58 del for me
Looks like they’ve updated the price since I purchased it. It’s now $1395 :(
Back upto $1900 at JB etc. Wondering if the price will come back down in the coming weeks to C2 run out levels at around the 1k mark… Time will tell.
Do they have specs on C4 yet? Any major differences?
Absolutely nothing visually. Brightness improvements did not filter down to the C4 < 55". Nor MLA.
So the only difference is 120Hz refresh rates, which means only super high end gaming PCs.
HODL! Been $1285 from same seller before.