LG 42" Class 4K UHD OLED Web OS Smart TV with Dolby Vision C3 Series - OLED42C3PUA

My previous TV, a Panasonic LED, died after only 3 years, so I had to get a replacement quite quickly. I had wanted to get and LG OLED back then, but at that time they didn't make them in the size I needed. So, once I discovered LG now had a 42” OLED, it made my decision pretty easy. A lot of people have commented that the OLED screen is dim compared to regular LED with a backlight, but I have to say it doesn't look noticeably more dim than my previous TV. In fact, I needed to turn the brightness down quite a bit for my own personal comfort. My TV is in a well lit lounge area with patio doors that let in a lot of natural light and I've had no problems seeing the picture, even with the brightness turned down to my preference. The picture quality is excellent. 4K is, of course, beautiful. HD is upscaled so well, it looks almost as good as 4K, to my eyes. Even SD gets upscaled impressively, so your favourite old shows don't look quite as old as they might on less capable TVs. Also, the viewing angles are superb. Walking past the TV, the image doesn't change or fade. I can stand anywhere in the room and the picture is perfect. I've read some reviews that describe this TV as being hard to set up, but I had the opposite experience. The TV practically sets itself up. It scans for regular TV channels, it gives you QR codes to scan and link with your streaming services and you're pretty much good to go. Physically assembling the TV is also straightforward, just screw in the stand legs and plug in your cables. There is a recess on the back of the TV where all your sockets such as HDMI and Ethernet are located. This has a cover which is supposed keep all your cables neatly hidden, but the space just isn't big enough hold my two chunky HDMI cables, so I had to leave that off. There's plenty of picture settings, accessed by pressing the cog button on the remote. You should be able to find one that works for you and any changes you need to make can be found in the picture menu of settings. These are the standard settings you'd expect to find on any modern TV and are simple to change. You might find some options greyed out, and it's not obvious why. You need to go into the general section of the settings menu and go down to Energy Saving and turn off Energy Saving Step, this should make more of the greyed out settings available. The remote has come in for some criticism. The idea of navigating by pointing and moving the remote seems great, but in practice it does seem to be more of a gimmick. Fortunately the central wheel and scroll button work well and there no real need to ever use the pointer, but it's always there if you feel like using it. It can occasionally be handy when you want to select something else at the opposite side of the screen, it's much quicker to point to it than click the direction buttons, but that's the only time it's useful. I can't really comment on the sound quality as I have my TV connected to an AV receiver. Reviews suggest a pretty poor sound, but you'd expect that from a small thin TV, there's not many places to hide the speakers. Though I have often wondered why manufacturers don't build speakers into the TV stand. It might make for a bulkier stand, but it would offer better sound out of the box, and if wall mounted, the stand could operate as a basic soundbar (there's an idea for you LG, you can pay me later :-D ). Having said that, I have noticed the sound through my receiver is clearer and I haven't needed to adjust the volume much moving between apps. Even DVDs of old TV shows sound so much better, without the need to turn the volume up so high. One of the main reasons for choosing the TV was it seemed like the best option for my PS5, and the two work together beautifully. Game mode brings up a host of options to tweak until you get everything looking exactly the way you want it. I found it easier, at first, to change the setting in game mode than in other modes. I didn't expect to see much of a difference between this and my previous, relatively new TV, but picture quality and the settings available result in something truly next level. I'd say to anyone with a PS5, if this is in your budget, it's pretty much essential. Although I didn't want to have to buy a new TV, I'm now secretly glad glad my TV died so I could replace it with this beauty. I just hope it lasts a lot longer than 3 years.

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