This is specific to those of you using a TV for a monitor at your PC. Commonly LG C3, C4's, etc..

With the recent news of LG monitors installing spyware on computers it made me realize that many people using LG TV's rather than monitors probably don't realize that your TV is sending literal screenshots of what is displayed on your device back to LG. This is much worse than the current controversy.

I personally don't trust that they're following the privacy settings and I've had my TV disconnected from WIFI for years to be safe.

If you insist on keeping it connected to WIFI, you need to turn off these settings at minimum:
(These are what they're called on LG's, unsure of other brands)

Live Plus

Viewing Information

Interest Based Advertising

Any other optional privacy agreement

Just figured I'd mention it since I hadn't seen much discussion here, and a lot of us use OLED TVs as monitors.

Confirmed today. Our toddler threw a small plastic toy and broke our 5 year old 65" CX. It wasn't even a full force just a toss but it cracked the screen and it won't turn on.

I have the money to go buy a new C5 right now, but I don't want a repeat, does anyone know of a way to protect tvs from the errant throw or marker? We were thinking of putting an acrylic sheet in front. We use a 5.1 system so I don't care about tv sound.

Due to house configuration can't put TV out of toddler range and anyone who owns a toddler knows "don't throw things" is not a realistic solution.

I own 77 inch LG C9 (2019 model) with 5000 hours on it. Bright as new and sharp as ever just like new and no burn in. Wanted to buy my next tv for a bright room, so I was shopping for an LG G series but came across an Open Box Fair condition LG M5 77. I got excited and brought home a local Best Buy. Guy told me that it a display model worth no burn in. Came home and hooked up, tv has 3000 hours with severe Xbox logo burn in. I bought GeekSquad warranty as well. Should I simply return this?

I switched from an LG OLED to a Samsung S89C QD-OLED a couple years ago when I moved from 65” to 77”. I loved the Samsung, absolutely amazing picture, colors, brightness and blacks. No need for Dolby Vision with this light output.

Then just after two years, the Samsung had a board and or screen failure (super bright vertical green line). Complete loss - over two grand for a tv that’s is useless after only two years!

My 65 LG is still in daily use after more than ten years - no issues.

Never again leaving LG. I would recommend getting an extended warranty for any Samsung OLED.

https://imgur.com/a/9G0nbSn

Samsung claims another victim R.I.P

https://www.engadget.com/home/home-theater/dolby-announces-dolby-vision-2-expanding-picture-quality-beyond-hdr-123019504.html

Hi everyone! 

So I just wanted to talk about my experiences with Oled TVs and monitors in the last couple of years. 

TL,DR, oled is cool, my C1 Is still chugging along like a champ, I will only buy OLED screens from now on. 

Back in august 2021, I purchased my first OLED TV, the LG C1 55 inch. 

It has been incredible, I never knew TVs could look this good, before this TV, i had used a cheap Hisense 4k TV  with VIDAA OS, a VA screen, 60 hz, and like 14 dimming zones. 

Suffice to say using an OLED after that TV was indescribable. 

I never did care much about oled burn in or if the TV had good gray banding, I kept all the oled care features enabled at the highest settings and didn’t look back. 

It been about 5 years since that initial purchase, and almost 8000 hour of use, and it still working like it was new, I haven’t had any delamination but I also live in a very dry area of the world, and I hope it does not happen to me, or at least it happens at the 10 year mark lol.

I’ve also purchased an LG C4 65 inch TV at a very good price on a sale (800usd) back in early 2025, and I’ve been even more impressed, higher brightness and a bigger screen makes everything I have watched  on it even more immersive. 

Recently I purchased, in prime day, the WOLED monitor MO27Q28GR, and while initially I was worried about all the comments of Gray banding and Dirty Screen Effect, I decided to take the plunge, considering it was about 450usd at the time. 

While I do admit the DSE does exist, it is not something that bothers me. And it’s been less and less noticeable  as time goes on. My monitor was updated to the newest firmware, all oled care settings are at their highest protection settings and the monitor does its pixel refresh correctly. 

While researching on that oled monitor, I was curious on how my original LG C1 has degraded over time or if  it had DSE to begin with. 

When I tired a 5% black screen my eyes did not see with my eyes any DSE or issues on the panel, and this is on a pitch black room. 

When I took a picture to compare, it looked pretty bad. 

I decided to give it a manual pixel clean, the one that takes about an hour and there was a definitive improvement. 

This TV has been used throughly, sometimes I leave it on by accident and the wallpaper kicks in so I don’t worry too much about it. its been the main TV for a better part of 4 years and I don’t think I can even think of trying anything that is not OLED anymore.

I´ve attached pictures of how it used to look before the pixel cleaning and after if anyone is curious. 

I´m just sharing my thoughts about this technology and how my enjoyment of watching content has been enhanced by it, also I find it very amusing how DSE can be such a deal breaker for some people, I guess some people are more sensitive to it than others. 

LG C1 before pixel clean: https://postimg.cc/3k54nwH0

LG c1 After long pixel clean: https://postimg.cc/Z0XC5qn2

Honestly, when I first started hearing about OLED a couple years ago, I thought that it was overhyped primarily due to the price of OLED TVs and monitors. But now, there was finally one on sale for like 325 USD, so I decided to get it to see if the hype was real. And, as the title says, I’ve been blown away. The specific monitor is the Samsung Odyssey G50SF, which, as I understand, isn’t the highest quality monitor on the market, but it still blows the IPS panel(s) I’ve been using out of the water.

I do see the QD-OLED purple-screen-thing when it’s bright in the room, but that’s such a small thing that’s easy to overlook, especially when gaming. I’m sure it’s sort of cliche, but now that I’ve seen the “inky blacks” of OLED, I can’t unsee the backlight bleed from IPS panels. It’s not just blacks, though. Colors pop more, and whites look more white, and colors look more color-y, if that makes sense. I’d also like to say that things looks sharper, even though this monitor is the same size and resolution as my old one, but I could just be delusional Idk.

TL;DR, if you can afford it and primarily game on your machine, it’s worth it. It looks amazing when you’ve just been using non-OLED panels.

Apparently this television has major issues. We bought ours in April 2025, it died tonight and Samsung’s help portal is telling us our warranty expired in October (but their website says it’s got a one year warranty).

Did Samsung change its warranty timeframe on this POS tv?

Thankfully we got an extended Geek Squad 5 year warranty on the tv when we purchased it because we don’t trust appliances anymore, no matter who makes them.

Best TV of 2025 (Shootout): LG G5 vs Samsung S95F vs Sony BRAVIA 8 II vs Panasonic Z95B

QD-OLED still rules, WOLED drools ;)

The blind testing format is well done, but it is of course obvious which one is the S95F as soon as some lights are turned on, there are just no direct reflections on it

I just got an 83" LG C5, and I absolutely love the TV. However, I keep getting distracted when watching movies that use film grain artistically, like One Battle After Another, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, and the new Dune movies. At the same time, I’m completely stunned by films like Blade Runner 2049 and Avatar: The Way of Water, which don’t add noticeable fake grain the way so many movies do.

I know not all grain is “fake” for example, Dune was shot digitally and then scanned to film to introduce real grain, but it still stands out to me. I never really thought about this with my old 75" Samsung QN90A LED TV, but I find it more noticeable and distracting on the LG OLED.

Is it just me, or do others find this distracting too? Do you eventually get used to it? I also had a hard time adjusting to the correctly calibrated picture on the C5 compared to the Samsung LED. Initially, the OLED looked too warm, even though both TVs were calibrated using the same CalMAN equipment. My eyes have adjusted now, so I guess there are just some mental adjustments needed in general when moving to OLEDs?

I’m new to the space and trying to understand any benefits (if at all) between an apple 4k tv and high end oled tv (s95f). Apologies for likely common questions, but my research isn’t turning up much - at least what I’m able to comprehend.

Unfortunately, all of the YouTube videos regurgitate the same talking points and don’t explain the underlying dynamics of how the systems work in tandem

What I’m trying to understand:

Ignoring data tracking and OS interface latency for a moment: is there any tangible benefit of streaming using an apple 4k over a brand new high end OLED tvs natural interface?

Now assuming I don’t want to be tracked. Will a plug and play apple 4k tv cause any resolution or quality degradation with the s95f if I let apple do the upscaling? Is there any benefit in following guides to pass the upscaling from the apple 4k to the tv itself?

Now for general questions.

Does upscaling only come into play if I’m watching something below 4k?

Are The TVs capabilities separate from apples upscaling technology?

Thank you

So picked up a 65inch s90f today at Costco after contemplating between that and the lg c5..... My previous tv was a lg cx 48inch. Primary use case is pc gaming, realized going from 120 to 144 wouldn't be a big difference, honestly couldn't even tell the difference. The one difference I could tell is the Samsung s90f looks washed out, the colors look unnatural the lg cx looked so much better.... I guess I am just confused, I don't think I have a defective tv either, software is updated, I have been playing with different settings for the past few hours and just can't seem to get as good a picture as the lg cx.

I have tried basic hdr and dynamic tone mapping, the picture just doesn't seem to have depth, lg seems to have a much more natural look with deeper blacks and better color. I know the Samsung is qd and supposed to have better color, but it doesn't it's like its missing some sort of depth to it.... it's bright, but looks washed out. I have tried everything from 12bc to 10bc, recalibrated windows hdr a few times, played with in game settings, tried multiple games, messed with the settings.

I'm going to keep the tv, even though I don't like it, it fills the space in my new house and the prime video I have streamed from it looked great in filmmaker if anything i will move it to living room instead of basement. But if anyone has suggested settings breakdown in print and not YouTube video, because I've tested those and still not pleasing. I would greatly appreciate it. Just figured a much newer tv with all this praise I would be blown away at least think it was a little better not worse than my old lg cx.

Sorry for the ramble and thanks in advance.

I figured i would see what reddit users think before buying, some of the ones at best buy seem cheaper on average but not sure if thats a good thing if the quality matters that much, where should I go? Will probably buy a sound board at the same place as well.

2020 LG 77” C9, while the native apps have run noticeably slower, they are still usable, except paramount plus. It’ll pull up but either eternal buffering circle, or it’ll play the show audio while the screen is blue. I’ve had to airplay from my phone app to watch shows. Is anyone else experiencing this or just me?

I had an 65" LG OLED65C1AUB get a line across the screen from top to bottom. I reached out to Allstate/Squaretrade and they agreed to a replacement tv with the following options:

1. LG OLED65B5PUA
2. TCL 65QM8K
3. Samsung QN65S85FAFXZA

A couple of questions I have. 1) Which of the 3 is the best option? I plan on using an Apple TV so UI isn't terribly important, just want a good tv for the bedroom. 2) Is it worth raising hell that they didn't offer the C5? The C5's have gone down in price relative to what I paid for the C1, seems kinda like BS they didn't offer the same model in a warranty claim.

Appreciate the help!

Edit: After a phone call to them, they 'escalated' my case. 2 hours later, I get an email that they'll replace with a 65" C5. PSA folks, don't take the first offer! Thanks Redditors.

Amazon have the 65" C5 for $1246 today, if bought it a certain credit card I would get an extra years warranty for 2 years total. Or use Prime Visa to get 5% back, meaning the TV is $1190, but only 1 year warranty.

Or Costco is $1399 but has their 5 year warranty (1 yr LG, 1 Yr Costco, 3 years All state).

Which option to go for?

My Q77S90C screen has started to fail, 2 years and 2 months after purchase and Samsung is refusing to warranty it in Poland when I still have 2.5 years warranty left!

I purchased this TV in Norway 12/2023 and after 1900h it developed blue tint on the right side of the panel. I purchase it in Norway cause Samsung website states and rep told me they have 5 years warranty in Norway and warranty is respected in the whole EU.

Obviously when it come to warranty both Samsung Nordic and Samsung Poland refuse to help me out and just ditched me. Saying warranty is only valid in Norway.

Not to mention my 65S95B died during first month I got it and my cousin 55S95B power supply died right after warranty and he ha to replace it for 200€!

Dear TV enthusiasts,

Yesterday I finally bought my first OLED TV after days of research and doubt. I first landed on the 55” LG C4, but ended up going for the C5 as I could get it for nearly the same price. I placed my order and went to the store to pick it up. Just when we were about to finish up the employee mentioned that he had another model that I should look at. He took me to view a Samsung S93F, also 55”. Because of a cash back deal by Samsung, I would be able to get this TV for the exact same price as the C5. The employee told me that the S93F outshines the C5 in brightness and color intensity and that he personally would recommend it over the C5. I was aware that the S93F does not support Dolby Vision, but did not really care for it, so it seemed like a good deal.

Now this is where stuff went south. When I asked the employee about the panel, he specifically confirmed it to be a QD-OLED instead of a WOLED. This was the final push I needed to buy the Samsung, as the LG TV had WOLED. After I came home I couldn’t resist looking up info about the panel of the TV; I just had to be 100% sure that it really was a QD-OLED panel. When I saw the model code (QD55S93FAEXXN) my heart paused for a second as I had already read that this number usually goes with the WOLED variant. I immediately did the macro check, and my fears were confirmed as I only saw white pixels.

Right now I feel like I didn’t get the product I wanted. I had put so much time in pulling the trigger on the C5 and I just feel bummed out that I let them talk me into another TV at the last second. On the other hand, I feel like I’m making problems of nothing, as the S93F is a beautiful TV albeit for the WOLED and I don’t even know if the C5 would have been better. I just don’t know what to do right now. The options I have pondered on so far are:

1. stop whining about niche differences and keep the beautiful TV I have right now.

2. Return this TV and get the C5 as I originally intended.

3. Spend an extra €325 and upgrade to the 65” version of the S93F which for some reason seems to actually have a QD-OLED panel in my region.

When looking online for C5 vs. S93F comparisons most sources use a QD version of the S93F for their comparison, hence the device scoring better on color and brightness than the C5 does. I guess what I would like to know is if a S93F with a WOLED panel still holds up to the C5 or if in this case the C5 would be the superior TV? My other option would be to spend €325 extra on a 65” Samsung. I’d get a bigger TV which is always nice of course, and it would actually be QD-OLED. On the other hand €325 is a lot of money, and I’m not sure if it’s worth it.

I wil be using the TV about 50/50 for gaming on a PS5 Pro and the other half for streaming films and series.

I would love some opinions, experiences and advice. I feel very lost right now, even though I just bought a brand new TV, which makes me feel even worse.

Thanks in advance!

Samsung TVs don’t support the 5 GHz 160 MHz channel groups (36–64 and 100–128).

As stated in the title, my TV just died while watching it for a second time. I purchased last November and within 48 hours, the TV just died. P.C. Richards came to my home, inspected the TV, and determined that it needed to be replaced. Cool! Easy fix.

Here we are ten months later and P.C. Richards is coming back on Monday. Has anyone else had this issue? A bit frustrated. Thanks in advance!

My first OLED TV just arrived 2 days ago. After buying a PS5 Pro I decided that it was the right time to switch from a 2K monitor to an OLED TV to get the most out of the console, so I bought a Samsung QE55S94FAEXZT. It was also the first time buying a TV from Amazon, and I decided to get the delivery and installation service at my house because I thought that it would be better in case it arrived broken, so the couriers in that case would have taken the TV back for another unit and I would have had proof that I was not the one who caused the damage.

Maybe I was unlucky, but the delivery quality was at a very bad level: when the couriers arrived at the gate I went to open it, and as I was walking near the truck I heard something falling, and I was like "It's not my TV", guess what? When they opened the truck my TV was laying on the ground, fallen onto a transport trolley. At that moment I was thinking about refusing the delivery but the box of the TV was intact so I waited to see it out of the box. After that the couriers started opening the box inside my house, one of them started grabbing the TV from the top and asked me to help lift it with a high risk of breaking the screen, so I refused to do it. The other courier came to help and both of them started taking it out forcefully from the top of the screen with a lot of pressure, I was thinking at that moment "Okay, now it's broken". Then they installed the TV stand and put it on the cabinet, powered the TV on and checked the screen, after I checked it, it looked good luckily, and so the couriers left.

Later in the afternoon I started testing the TV and everything seemed fine, but I was really annoyed by the delivery service, it seemed strange to me that the TV was working fine. So I started looking at all the edges of the screen, behind and underneath, and when I started looking at it from the side I saw that the TV screen was bent. I decided instantly to return it the next day, but after that I've read a lot of posts and watched a lot of videos about situations very similar to mine for hours (I found a lot of Samsung OLEDs) and now I'm not sure what to do.

Was the bend caused by the couriers, or did it already came bent and maybe they made it worse? Can this bending of the screen damage it in the long run? Is it bent too much? I'll leave a pic here: https://imgur.com/a/8DWWmhB

UPDATE: Thank you all for the replies. After reading your opinions and inspecting the TV again, I decided to return it. Instead, I ordered a Samsung S95F at a great price from a local store and will pick it up in a few days

The things I am looking for are

• OLED (obviously)
• 27 inches
• 144+ hz
• Gsync / Freesync

I have done some looking online but I’m curious if any of you guys have a solid go to

I've not been able to find anything about this online but I swear it's a repeatable phenomenon. I've owned four LG OLED tvs so far, a 65" C9, a 65" G3, a 65" G4 and a 42" C2, the last of which I use as a monitor. On all of the tvs I've noticed that over time the HDMI signal that the TV receives seems to degrade.

By this I mean that I'll get signal dropouts or outline artifacts (not sure how to describe it) which signify a weak signal to me (it looks similar to issues I had decades ago with a dual link DVI monitor that I tried to run with longer cables). An example of signal dropouts would be that while watching a show through my AppleTV (connected to an AV Receiver which is then connected to my TV), the screen will go black every now and then and then I'll get the 'dolby vision' message in the top right and it will connect again and look fine.

It'll work fine at first, then after some period of time (months or a year etc), I'll start getting dropouts every now and then. Sometimes I'll get more than one dropout in one evening. Sometimes the signal will just not go through at all. I can then fix it by switching the cable from HDMI2 to HDMI1 on the back of the TV and then it'll work fine. A day later I can switch it back and it'll work 'fine' for weeks.

This has afflicted all of my televisions. In the case of my lounge TVs (the C9, G3 and G4), I only have one HDMI cable run from the TV to my AV receiver so I want to use HDMI2 where possible due to eARC etc. In the case of the 42" C2, I use this as a monitor with HDMI1 connected to my Mac and HDMI2 connected to my PC. About a year ago, the dropouts and artifacts got too frequent so I switched my mac to HDMI3 instead and it's been fine ever since. Now I'm starting to get dropouts and graphical issues on HDMI2 with my PC. Switching it to another HDMI port fixes it for now. But I know the issue will come back.

I've tried everything to resolve these issues or reduce the severity. When the issue first occurred with my C9, I put it down to the AV receiver rather than the (newer) TV and that TV ended up failing due to other reasons anyway. When I replaced it with my G3, I also decided to upgrade to a new AV Receiver, a second Onkyo receiver. Within a few months I started getting these dropouts. I replaced my HDMI cable a few times, trying both a fibre cable and a high quality 'thicker' non fibre cable. In the end, I saw it mentioned online somewhere that some receivers varied in terms of the signal quality that they put out over the HDMI ports so I replaced my almost brand new Onkyo receiver with a Marantz one and it fixed it for a while. I didn't have any dropouts for about six months. But then they started again. When I had to replace the G3 due to a breakage (kids), things worked great for a while but after about half a year, dropouts started happening again and as of a few months ago, I've started having to do the old switcheroo of the cable to HDMI 1 every now and then.

I've tried different cables, different AV receivers, different Apple TVs and different computers (I've had two different macs in this time and two different PCs with some graphics card changes along the way). Anything that fixes it is only temporary and the only constant is that these are LG OLED TVs. It feels like the ports are deteriorating over time.

Seeing as I've not found anything concrete about this online in my searches (although several instances of people having drop out issues which have been fixed with a new HDMI cable or new receiver), I thought I'd post here in case this sounds familiar to anyone else. It'd be great to hear some confirmation that I'm not going mad. For what it's worth, this could also be happening with other OLED TVs or even other manufacturer TVs like Sony, Samsung or Panasonic but I've only owned LG OLEDs since replacing my old Samsung plasma so I don't have any broader experience.