LewisD wrote:Grumpy David wrote:LewisD wrote:Grumpy David wrote:Bought the LG C1 55" OLED.
Nearly pulled the trigger on that myself today.
From John Lewis for the 5-year warranty?
Richer Sounds in the end.
JL got rid of the £100 off so it was back up to £1299, with a new discount offer instead which was to get £200 off a particularly expensive LG soundbar that I wasn't interested in.
RS however had both the £100 off code showing + £20 off code (intended to allow free delivery next day or nominated day delivery which is £19.95 but you can also choose 3-5 working days free delivery instead) + RS do 6 years instead of 5 years. Got it arriving on Friday.
Amazon had it at £1179 but it wouldn't arrive till the middle of next week and I'd rather avoid them if I can help it.
How are you getting on with the c1 GD?
As good as you hoped?
It's fantastic!
Biggest surprise is how much easier daytime viewing is compared to the Panasonic TV I had. With the curtains open and a cloud-free day, it was particularly reflective and difficult to see the image. Not having that issue at all now.
2nd biggest surprise is how good the built in speakers are, they have impressed me so much that I've no intention of getting a soundbar now.
Picture Quality settings out of the box are a little intense (contrast set at 100) and the very unnatural "Trumotion" setting is turned on but got the settings adjusted to my tastes and the picture quality is incredible.
I've not watched a huge amount of 4k HDR content compared to regular 4k or Sky HD but the stuff I have watched is a big step up from the 4k (no HDR) TV I was using. Colours look more punchy and intense without looking unnatural (dynamic / vivid picture mode).
It's the darker scenes too where you can immediately see just how black an OLED can go in comparison to LED. It's basically like the TV itself is off. This youtube video whilst being interesting in itself also looked great on the OLED:
Only criticisms would be:
Still not a fan of the LG Magic Remote with it sometimes turning into a mouse cursor without me being aware of how I did this. And the shape / size / location of the buttons means I'm still occasionally hitting the wrong button in the dark.
Some of the TV shows / movie downloads when connected into the USB port will play the video but say "audio format not recognised" so I have to instead connect the laptop to the TV and play on VLC media player (this was true of my old Panasonic TV too). I think only Samsung seems to support the full range of audio files.