Una review de la C8 desde FlatpanelsHD:

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Excellent HD & 4K
Excellent HDR
Reference picture quality
Improved motion
Low input lag

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Dolby Vision “raised blacks”
Rear-facing ports
webOS becoming stale
webOS is not getting updates



Picture quality is an entirely different story. While there are no significant OLED panel upgrades to speak of this year, C8 delivers some of the best picture quality you can find today. The ‘Alpha 9’ now matches – or exceeds – Sony’s video processor, and after comparing LG C8 and Sony A8F side-by-side we have seriously considered whether C8 should take over our Reference Award. It delivers excellent HD and 4K picture quality, and the best overall HDR we have seen to date, mainly driven by its pixel-level luminance and color control. It is a great TV for enjoying channels, streaming, movies, gaming etc. Motion has been improved and the auto-calibration feature is very cool, despite C8 having several very, very accurate picture modes. We are also excited about the fact that C8 exists in a 77” version that is actually within reach. And the speaker system has been improved.

We compared LG C8 head-to-head with the Sony 2018 A8F OLED and motion performance was almost identical. A8F had a slight edge perhaps but it was incredibly close, which is probably a result of ‘Alpha 9’. We also compared HDR video performance and again, things were incredibly close. We were slightly limited by the fact that our C8 had a 55” panel whereas Sony A8F had a 65-inch panel but performance was so identical that you would have to have the two TVs side-by-side to really spot any significant differences. LG had slightly higher peak brightness in some instances but Sony at times retained better saturation in the brightest colors. We call it a draw. We have included a few photos for your pleasure below be please note that it is not practical to take SDR photos of HDR video. Please don’t read too much into them. The motion photo also suggests that there is a major color temperature difference between the two calibrated TVs but it was much less pronounced in practice.

However, one pesky issue remains in the form of Dolby Vision’s “raised blacks”, and since LG’s TVs default to Dolby Vision when playing from a HDR source that offers shows or movies in more HDR formats than one, it is very hard to avoid. To be clear, it only happens occasionally but it is one of those things that is hard to ignore once you are aware of it. It surprises us that LG OLED TVs continues to be affected considering that the Loewe bild 5 TV we had in for testing at the same time had no issues with “raised blacks” in Dolby Vision. This is why we currently cannot consider it a reference TV.



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