thatsjord
Standard Member
Hi All,
About a month ago I purchased a 65" LG C1 OLED, and have essentially suffered with headaches and what I would describe as head pressure throughout. I took a 3 day break from the television which removed any lingering headaches / pressure and had it return within about 10 minutes when using the television again. Here's my current setup and what i've tried.
Personal Setup -
Viewing Distance - 3 metres
Room Brightness - Medium / Dark
Bias Lighting - Philips lightstrip set to warm white (About 40 brightness)
Eye Health - Good, had an eye test on the 5th of Jan 2022.
Additional Info - I wear blue light blocking glasses (no correction) as I've found it helps with eye fatigue with work (Software developer)
General Settings
All energy saving settings disabled.
HDR Settings (Movies / TV) -
Filmmaker Mode
OLED Brightness - 35
Contrast - 85
Screen Brightness - 50
Colour Temp - Warm 50
Sharpness - 0
All motion settings disabled (afaik this is done by Filmmaker mode by standard)
Playstation 5 Settings -
Game Optimizer
OLED Brightness - 35
Contrast - 85
Screen Brightness - 50
Colour Temp - Warm 50
Sharpness - 0
Input set to PC mode for full RGB spectrum (confirmed in ps5 menu)
All motion settings disabled
I have tried enabling Motion Pro / Tru Motion and BFI at various different settings with no difference. I have also enabled / disabled the blue light reduction but that made no difference.
Ratchet and Clank on the Playstation 5 seems to be the worse offender for giving me headaches / head pressure, i've tried the game at fidelity mode (40fps on 120hz) and at performance mode (60fps) and the experience is essentially the same. Particularly when the camera is panning, it feels like someone is pressing my temples.
Having done a bit of research I did notice that some people seem to struggle with OLEDs and headaches and thought I might just be one of the unlucky ones that falls into that category, but I've been daily driving a Google Pixel 2XL for the last 4 years which uses and OLED screen at 250hz PWM (see - Google Pixel 2 XL Smartphone Review ) and i've never had any experience of headaches / head pressure before. Could it be that the slight dip in brightness at every pixel refresh cycle that all OLEDs have is causing this?
Additionally my daily driver for work is a Iiyama G-master GB3461WQSU which is a IPS panel with no flickering / pwm and apart from the odd bit of eye fatigue (sore eye / twitching etc) i've never had any issues with headaches. My previous TV the Sony KDL-43W755C (VA Panel) also caused me no issues.
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions, tests they'd like me try I'm open to all ideas!
About a month ago I purchased a 65" LG C1 OLED, and have essentially suffered with headaches and what I would describe as head pressure throughout. I took a 3 day break from the television which removed any lingering headaches / pressure and had it return within about 10 minutes when using the television again. Here's my current setup and what i've tried.
Personal Setup -
Viewing Distance - 3 metres
Room Brightness - Medium / Dark
Bias Lighting - Philips lightstrip set to warm white (About 40 brightness)
Eye Health - Good, had an eye test on the 5th of Jan 2022.
Additional Info - I wear blue light blocking glasses (no correction) as I've found it helps with eye fatigue with work (Software developer)
General Settings
All energy saving settings disabled.
HDR Settings (Movies / TV) -
Filmmaker Mode
OLED Brightness - 35
Contrast - 85
Screen Brightness - 50
Colour Temp - Warm 50
Sharpness - 0
All motion settings disabled (afaik this is done by Filmmaker mode by standard)
Playstation 5 Settings -
Game Optimizer
OLED Brightness - 35
Contrast - 85
Screen Brightness - 50
Colour Temp - Warm 50
Sharpness - 0
Input set to PC mode for full RGB spectrum (confirmed in ps5 menu)
All motion settings disabled
I have tried enabling Motion Pro / Tru Motion and BFI at various different settings with no difference. I have also enabled / disabled the blue light reduction but that made no difference.
Ratchet and Clank on the Playstation 5 seems to be the worse offender for giving me headaches / head pressure, i've tried the game at fidelity mode (40fps on 120hz) and at performance mode (60fps) and the experience is essentially the same. Particularly when the camera is panning, it feels like someone is pressing my temples.
Having done a bit of research I did notice that some people seem to struggle with OLEDs and headaches and thought I might just be one of the unlucky ones that falls into that category, but I've been daily driving a Google Pixel 2XL for the last 4 years which uses and OLED screen at 250hz PWM (see - Google Pixel 2 XL Smartphone Review ) and i've never had any experience of headaches / head pressure before. Could it be that the slight dip in brightness at every pixel refresh cycle that all OLEDs have is causing this?
Additionally my daily driver for work is a Iiyama G-master GB3461WQSU which is a IPS panel with no flickering / pwm and apart from the odd bit of eye fatigue (sore eye / twitching etc) i've never had any issues with headaches. My previous TV the Sony KDL-43W755C (VA Panel) also caused me no issues.
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions, tests they'd like me try I'm open to all ideas!