Mine also seemed dark and seemed to blow out highlights when set at default or the recommended settings from rtings.
So I dug out my calibration blurays and checked with Black and white pluge patterns on you tube and I've had to lift brightness to 55 and contrast to 92 to attain proper white and black levels with gamma 2.2
Lee
Contrast at 85 for me and brightness at 52
Using those patterns.
Goes to show how different the sets are from one another ...
Yep, set a friends 55B9PLA up today Brightness 54, Contrast 96.
What oled light setting did you use to set up brightness and contrast?
LG has been busy moving the OLED TV game on but unlike last year, the B8 seems to be pegged back from the rest of the family line-up with the use of a lower grade processor. But does that really impact on the level of performance?
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Mine also seemed dark and seemed to blow out highlights when set at default or the recommended settings from rtings.
So I dug out my calibration blurays and checked with Black and white pluge patterns on you tube and I've had to lift brightness to 55 and contrast to 92 to attain proper white and black levels with gamma 2.2
Lee
What should be showing on the contrast white one if properly set up? Should as many flashing bars as possible be on show , or only up to the reference white?
Reference White 235 should be white and not flashing or barely visible.
To the left you should see 234 flashing white/grey.
Anything to the right 236 onwards should be white.
Thanks, I have had to make contrast 98 for it to show the pattern as you described...
That seems a lot don't you think??
Really disappointed in this TV now
I hope richersounds or LG can do something.
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Bit late to the party, but anyhow have two questions on this device as I strongly consider buying one, and I hope someone here (maybe @Phil Hinton) has the answers:
I know SD quality cannot look great on any UHD panel (blown up 16x!), but still: does this device do a comparably (to other similar priced ones) good job?
Maybe two sub questions:
- Is there an option in this device to show SD content only HD-upscaled and non-fullscreen (with black borders around it)?
- Does the C8 model perform noticeably better in this regard?
And second: does it play FLAC encoded music via DLNA? User guide (chapter Playing Music) says it does but in the spec pdf (German version here: https://www.lg.com/de/support/products/documents/OLED55B8LLA.pdf) FLAC codec is *not* listed... So who's right?
Thx
- Mike
No option to show original resolution as far as I can see.
C8 has a few picture enhancements around colour gradation but it's upscaling capabilities are not visibly different.
My B8 will not do FLAC streaming from my NAS which is disappointing as my QLED in another room can.
It is a weird anomaly, as your model of LG television can most probably play Flac 'audio only' files via a directly connected USB drive...My B8 will not do FLAC streaming from my NAS which is disappointing as my QLED in another room can.
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I suppose there are no apps in the LG webOS app store which provide DLNA client functionality by themselves? Like VLC?
Mike
It is a weird anomaly, as your model of LG television can most probably play Flac 'audio only' files via a directly connected USB drive...
Your TV should also be able to play Flac audio if it's muxed within the .MKV container (along with a video stream) from an NAS...
I have 3 other devices that can stream FLAC in my AV system so no need to spend extra money or do extra work but it's disappointing LG doesn't include support for FLAC via DNLA.