Are the luminance levels all it calibrates?
Johnny, I humbly recommend you consider getting it professionally calibrated once you get over 100 hours on the TV. (OLEDs need a little break-in time as opposed to LED-LCDs.) It's such a great piece of kit it would be a shame not to squeeze every last drop from its picture capabilities. Short of pro calibration (PS: I'd love to do it for you but my biz is up in Chicago) at minimum right out of the box change the picture mode to ISF Bright or Dark and make sure all the motion processing is off. (Frame interpolation is the devil incarnate.) Once you do that you'll be a good way towards where we'd be heading when one has an LG OLED professionally calibrated. (Not that we can't do much more tweaking but you need the proper gear/software, etc.). If the picture appears too dark on either ISF settings for your taste, use the OLED Light control to bump it up. Don't touch contrast. Enjoy the TV!
It fluctuates from pro to pro, of course. (And when I say pro I mean someone who's been trained by ISF or THX and has all the gear, including a colorimeter, a spectrophotometer (used to profile the colorimeter to the TV/projector being calibrated), a SDR/HDR pattern generator such as a Murideo, and specialized calibration software such as Calman or ChromaPure. In other words, not someone from Best Buy!)
So each TV input for an LG TV allows for a SDR calibration AND an HDR calibration. Meaning that when you do an HDR calibration after the SDR calibration on, say, the ISF Dark picture mode, it won't futz with the SDR tweaks made atop the same input/picture mode. Which is awesome as most TVs don't have this sort of total separate between the two. Actually, the more I think about it one could probably do a separate SDR and HDR calibration for EACH picture mode within EACH HDMI input. Which would be nuts of course. One needs a calibration for a dark room, a light room and HDR for both.
I think my LG UH8500 has a save settings to all inputs.
It does indeed, exactly what you need to use if you ever decide to plug more stuff into the TV’s Hdmi inputs. If you do, though, remember to double check that all the settings port over to the new input. As I recall, when you get into the white balance settings you may have to do the Save to All Settings for each IRE. Anyway, your calibrator surely knows all this. Have fun with the 77” OLED! How far we’ve come—I remember trying to hook up my boom box to our 19” CRT back in the mid-80s to get more robust sound. Never mind the quality of the VHS/rabbit ears picture!
That's fine and dandy so why are you posting in this thread then? I guess just to slam LG as one of posters is overjoyed with his new LG purchase.
And, of course, LG supplies all the OLED panels to Sony, so if one is a Sony Man one is also an LG man!|
The Sony also cost about 25% more than the LG and I suspect Sony's improvement over the LG isn't anywhere close to that price difference.
