-A gamer's point of view on his Oled LG 55ec9300-
Gaming:
I have been playing games on this non-stop as this is my gaming monitor. No image retention or burnin, checking with the 5 and 10% grey screens. Nothing has happened yet. All full screen gaming though, not sure if letterbox or 4:3 content could cause uneven wear, I would use caution with that type of content in the first couple hundred hours. The only issue with gaming on this display is that you can see in some instances the vertical banding, you would think you could see it in roads which are composed of grey's in driving games with the back and forth but you cant, only sometimes in the sky if your looking for it.
I tried my torture test for displays, Forza 5.. it is very bright and every display except the samsung pc monitor fails at this game, they all show DSE ( plasma's) or vertical banding (led's). This display is much better then led's when it comes to banding, but it is still there and can be noticable. FPS games actually faired better because you look all over and there is not horizontal banding so averal much better then led's in this respect.
I have tried fighting games, FPS shooters, racing games etc on here and this display handles them like a champ! This dispolay can do true 0 black and its amazing how much this and the perceived contrast changes the way all games look, it has this liquid look to them now, its hard to describe but it is incredible, it really is. Most gaming was with 1080 games on next gen PS4 and Xbox One and I have tried PS3 with games like Tekken 5 DR and Burnout Paradise.
I have not seen an y image retention and would HIGHLY recommend this screen for gamers!! nothing compares.
Longevity:
I have been running the Oled tv non stop since last saturday, 24 hrs a day, full screen slides. No smell from the tv, no buzz, not even hot to the touch and no fan noise. I have checked the timing counter and have done this for 181 hrs. No dead or stuck pixels. From what I have deduced this panel can stand up to the rigors of running it hardcore with no issues. I had the oled light at 50 mots of the time and contrast at 80 in Pc mode and game picture mode. I don't recommend breaking it in with vivid or store mode.
So far everything has been bliss on the tv. The only issue I have and its an an issue I have encountered on alot of displays and that is vertical banding. This tv does indeed have some vertical banding, it is NOT noticable in all content, mostly in blue sky content panning left to right or right to left and it is more noticable is medium to slow speed panning. Fast panning in FPS shooters and racing games it is harder to notice which is completely different to led's and plasma when it comes to noticing banding.
I have checked the Oled for horizontal banding- None. Very shocked about that, I have not come across a display that didn't in one way or another have that, the Kuro's had it via the filter they applied, sometimes looking like DSE, all led's I have used barring 23 inch pc monitors have it too, so this is a huge plus to the oled.
Motion clarity:
Plasma's have phosphor lag, the 1080p Kuro's had it worse when content was high contrast, phosphor streaking in gaming was most noticable, not much of an issue with tv and movies though. Led's have blur that comes after the color being displayed, alot of higher end led's use S-PVA, MVA etc panels, these blur moreso with darker colors. The oled does not have this pixel persistance like the led's.
What I am trying to say about oled motion for gaming is that overall I prefer it to plasma with its phosphor lag and the led's with their color streaking. The oled removes the previous picture much faster then plasma or led so for gaming I would prefer an oled for motion. The 300 lines that is being quoted to do is indeed accurate per that test but you have to play games on it and go back and forth with plasma and trust me their is a difference and I prefer oled.
Input lag:
I am on firmware 4.30.08, with hdmi input labeled PC and putting it in game mode ( you also want to go into the genreal settings and turn off auto update for firmware, and anything else you can turn off ) and I get 26.1ms for the top bar, middle bar is 29.2 and bottom bar is 31.3 with my Leo Bodnar input lag tester. What is interesting is that the oled screen displays the full screen image faster then any led I have tested, all of the leds I have tested with this tester take about 7ms per bar, so a total of 14ms to update the entire screen whereas the oled does it in 4ms.
The only display I have that feels snappier in gaming response to this oled for input was the Samsung S24D590pl, which had 2ms top, 8.9ms middle and 17.2ms bottom. This is also the only display I have seen with no vertical banding. Sadly the contrast was only about 1100:1 and the blacks completely went to glowing with maybe 50 degree off angle. Also it was very small.
Compared to other displays:
Below is a list of displays I have/had :
Pioneer Elite Kuro Pro101 ISF calibrated by D-Nice
Pioneer Elite Kuro Pro110
Pioneer Elite Kuro Pro111
Pioneer Elite Kuro Pro1150
Samsung 65H8000 ISF calibrated by D-Nice (Led)
Samsung 32D5000 ISF calibrated by D-Nice (Led)
Samsung 55F7100 ISF calibrated by D-Nice (Led)
Sony 52XBR909 (FALD)
Sony 34XBR800 (CRT)
Sony 30XBR910 (CRT)
Sony 24FW900 (CRT)
Samsung S24D590 (LED pc monitor)
Samsung S23A750D (LED pc monitor)
LG Oled 55ec9300
LG Oled 15el9000
I have the LG oled 9300 next to my Pioneer Kuro Elite... some interesting observations so far. The Pioneer is incapable of even coming remotely close to the Oled for contrast and blacks. Even though the ABL is on the Oled, the full screen white can still be super bright compared to the Elite plasma.
The blacks.... watching the oled in a pitch black room has to be done... it is like nothing I have experienced before in a display. I could never in the past watch a plasma or led/lcd in the dark because of the glowing blacks. No longer need to play with the lights on :0
The oled is also alot clearer, same resolution 1080p but the oled is 5 inches bigger and has no PWM noise, no DSE unlike the Kuro. The oled seems to have not much between you and the actual picture and it comes off looking very pure in display.
All of my Kuro's had some type of DSE, just the nature of the filter on the panel and playing bright games, normal tv content and movies rarely showed it. There was no DSE on the Oled, only some vertical banding on some content and 5 and 10% grey screens.
Games seem to really show a displays downfalls versuse tv/movie content. Kinda like test screens. So this review is more geared towards how the display handles games. For tv/movies I do not see the vertical banding nearly as much.
Final take:
This Oled for gaming is better then all of the displays I have mentioned above, there is just no comparison. If they can get the vertical banding gone on the grey patterns that show in some content and offer flat versions of the tv then their really won't be anything left to nitpick!
