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Saint of Killers wrote:After all my umming and ahhing, I plonked for a LG CX Being a plasma owner, I swore I'd never baby another set but... eh, live dangerously and all that. That and I couldn't pass up on the 55" being so cheap. Its HDR peak brightness isn't as good as the Q90 Samsung, but I play in a mostly dark room so hopefully the CX will still blow me away. The £100 Switch + Animal Crossing and Minecraft sealed the deal. (Currys offer. Try another browser if it won't let you add the bundle.)

Now I just need a next gen console

wildphantom23 wrote:

Saint of Killers wrote:After all my umming and ahhing, I plonked for a LG CX Being a plasma owner, I swore I'd never baby another set but... eh, live dangerously and all that. That and I couldn't pass up on the 55" being so cheap. Its HDR peak brightness isn't as good as the Q90 Samsung, but I play in a mostly dark room so hopefully the CX will still blow me away. The £100 Switch + Animal Crossing and Minecraft sealed the deal. (Currys offer. Try another browser if it won't let you add the bundle.)

Now I just need a next gen console

It will blow you away. No comparison with the LG OLED's to Samsung's tech. OLED's are different planet, as you'll soon see. Amazing purchase. If you're after the best settings for all the picture modes etc (I'm sure you're all read up anyway), but I can PM you no problem with mine. Have had an LG OLED B7 for three years and it is one of the best purchases I've ever made. and that was upgrading from my beloved Panasonic plasma.

Saint of Killers wrote:

wildphantom23 wrote:

Saint of Killers wrote:After all my umming and ahhing, I plonked for a LG CX Being a plasma owner, I swore I'd never baby another set but... eh, live dangerously and all that. That and I couldn't pass up on the 55" being so cheap. Its HDR peak brightness isn't as good as the Q90 Samsung, but I play in a mostly dark room so hopefully the CX will still blow me away. The £100 Switch + Animal Crossing and Minecraft sealed the deal. (Currys offer. Try another browser if it won't let you add the bundle.)

Now I just need a next gen console

It will blow you away. No comparison with the LG OLED's to Samsung's tech. OLED's are different planet, as you'll soon see. Amazing purchase. If you're after the best settings for all the picture modes etc (I'm sure you're all read up anyway), but I can PM you no problem with mine. Have had an LG OLED B7 for three years and it is one of the best purchases I've ever made. and that was upgrading from my beloved Panasonic plasma.

I'm going from a Panny plasma, too! (VT30.) Though my gaming telly a mid-range Sony LCD so it'll be a whole other level

And yeah, I'd love a PM of your settings. Ta!

wildphantom23 wrote:

Saint of Killers wrote:

wildphantom23 wrote:

Saint of Killers wrote:After all my umming and ahhing, I plonked for a LG CX Being a plasma owner, I swore I'd never baby another set but... eh, live dangerously and all that. That and I couldn't pass up on the 55" being so cheap. Its HDR peak brightness isn't as good as the Q90 Samsung, but I play in a mostly dark room so hopefully the CX will still blow me away. The £100 Switch + Animal Crossing and Minecraft sealed the deal. (Currys offer. Try another browser if it won't let you add the bundle.)

Now I just need a next gen console

It will blow you away. No comparison with the LG OLED's to Samsung's tech. OLED's are different planet, as you'll soon see. Amazing purchase. If you're after the best settings for all the picture modes etc (I'm sure you're all read up anyway), but I can PM you no problem with mine. Have had an LG OLED B7 for three years and it is one of the best purchases I've ever made. and that was upgrading from my beloved Panasonic plasma.

I'm going from a Panny plasma, too! (VT30.) Though my gaming telly a mid-range Sony LCD so it'll be a whole other level

And yeah, I'd love a PM of your settings. Ta!

seems the boards haven't enabled the feature for me - so I can't PM just yet.
Regardless, the recommended settings on rtings.c om are pretty much all you need.

only thing I disagree with is their preference for Dynamic Tone Mapping, which I would definitely have switched to 'ON' as it will be able to deal with any HDR movies you might watch with nuked nits - some Sony titles are mastered like this which is great, but sunglasses at the ready unless your panel can tone it right - which yours can with this mode switched on. You'll also want the dynamic contrast to 'Low' which is just about right.

Most important - get all that default motion and judder rubbish switched to off, unless you want your movies and games to look like a soap opera. It's all there in their recommendations anyway. Real Cinema can stay 'ON' but everything else - off off off!!

It's pretty clear what Sony's strategy is here with hardware design: to keep costs manageable with a small processor, but increase performance by blasting it with a high level of power, diverted to CPU and GPU frequencies as needed. Dissipating the heat is all down to what I'd consider an almost Toyota-like philosophy - not to reinvent the wheel (in the way that Microsoft has with Series X perhaps) but to rely upon what works and to add some extra flourishes where needed. The price we pay comes in terms of sheer volume: this is clearly going to be a huge console, relatively speaking, but the advantage to Sony is a considerable reduction in build cost.

Japanese influencers have been hands-on with the system and its silent nature has been commented upon - and I'll certainly be interested to see how that all stacks up once we're hands on with the hardware. Hopefully, that won't be too long now...

Preezy wrote:Yes but will it have Blast Processing?

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KK wrote:Good news about the PS Store no longer being a stand alone app, and rather inbuilt into the UI. Hopefully will mean much faster, smoother browsing.

Love the help walkthrough video guides. I try to figure everything out myself but sometimes hunting out a YouTube video feels like the only option (then trying to find specifically what you need to watch is then a faff). Locking them to PS Plus feels naughty though.