LG's 48-inch OLED Gaming TV with G-SYNC Goes on Sale This Month

[Valantar]

I'm all too familiar with visual acuity, I've another eye surgery in 10 days.

I think the big thing with the monitor I'm talking about (not the one in the topic) is the 8k resolution, the improved DPI makes it more like a phone to look at at e.g. 0.5m distance. It would actually enable those with worse vision to move a little further back and probably have text nicely displayed.

I think black top/bottom bars might be less of an issue given how tiny the bezels are versus the size of trhe screen. But maybe matching the wall-paper/paint would work, Samsung's TVs do that for when they are idle if you wish so they "vanish" although I think I'd prefer the option to display art/photos if a large black space bothered me.

I think there needs to be options to reposition HUD elements added to games for this kind of thing, m,ake them more transparent, floating, or eye tracking etc. etc. Maybe only appearing when a button is pressed etc.

This is a useful discussion I think and also makes one think that maybe going VR headset is a better option ...

If someone would make a 32" UHD monitor that ticked all the boxes these TVs do at more TV-like price, most of this would be moot.

Yeah, your conclusion is pretty much exactly what I have been wishing for too: a 32" UHD monitor at a TV-like price with a TV-like featureset. It feels downright absurd that you need to pay more than the cost of a 48" CX for the current top PC monitors, which while matching its resolution and refresh rate have worse color gsmuts and accuracy, either low-count FALD or are edge-lit, lack HDMI 2.1, are often locked to G-sync only, etc., etc. Currently the options for those wanting a large (for a monitor) and fully featured high refresh rate monitor are buying a full featured but ridiculously large TV, buying a more expensive monitor with fewer features, or buying a fast monitor that sacrifices resolution on top of even fewer features. So for me, I'm sticking with option #4, waiting for a better option.

 

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Jesus, can you please actually read my post? I was specifically asking about the upcoming 8k panel @nemesis.ie was talking about. My question had nothing at all to do with the CX, nor its bandwidth. I was not asking about bandwidth, but whether a TV - which after all includes not only an interface, but a processor, display driver, display panel, etc. - was actually capable of displaying 4k120. Just because 8k60 necessitates more than sufficient interface bandwidth for transferring an 4k120 signal does not mean that the rest of the parts of the TV are capable of actually displaying this. And just because the 4k CX series supports 4k120 that doesn't tell us whether an 8k60 panel from the same manufacturer would be capable of displaying 4k120. Okay? Can we please abandon this stupid offshoot of this discussion now?

My mistake, I didn't realize I was interfering with your off topic
I know nothing about that other panel.

 

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One month later, you still can't buy this anywhere

 

[nemesis.ie]

It also turns out that the "off topic" 8k LG TV only has a 60Hz panel. Seems a bit dodgy, what works be the point of feeding 4k/120 but only seeing 1/2 that?

Your GPU or console would be doing more work than needed.

Most odd.

It certainly looks like waiting for the next round of screens is the way to go.

 

[Valantar]

It also turns out that the "off topic" 8k LG TV only has a 60Hz panel. Seems a bit dodgy, what works be the point of feeding 4k/120 but only seeing 1/2 that?

Your GPU or console would be doing more work than needed.

Most odd.

It certainly looks like waiting for the next round of screens is the way to go.

Might it be capable of higher refresh rates at lower resolutions? Didn't LG use to sell 4k60 TVs that could do 1080p or 1440p120? Though I guess that might have been down to processing and interface bandwidth and not the panel, of course.

 

[nemesis.ie]

It might be, but the spec says the panel is 60Hz, so maybe not.

Even if it is, the point about 4k/120 being a waste of power would still be true.

 

[Valantar]

It might be, but the spec says the panel is 60Hz, so maybe not.

Even if it is, the point about 4k/120 being a waste of power would still be true.

Oh, absolutely. I still think gaming at 4k is rather silly given that the visual difference between that and 1440p on any reasonably sized monitor is next to nothing. Even when I eventually get a 4k120 monitor to pair with the new consoles I doubt I will mind whatsoever using resolution scaling to get better performance in a lot of games. Even with a 32" monitor at monitor (not TV) viewing distances, upscaled 1440p will likely not be perceptibly different from native resolution. Native 1440p would of course be a tad sharper, but that would mean running the consoles (at least the PS5, MS might support 1440p like on the XOX) at 1080p, which is a no-go for me.