We now have this Nano cell TV that’s coming out from LG and it has less processing delay, so I was like hook me up, so I can write about it. They did, so I am writing too. The Corsair one features a compact form factor that is fast, quiet and you guessed it compact! Check it out through Amazon or Newegg for first impressions of the LG 55 Inch SJ 8500.
LG NANO CELL TV FOR GAMING
DESIGN
It looks pretty damn good. The bezels are thin and the metal along the outside looks sharp. I mean it’s hard to explain exactly what makes a TV aesthetic work but this design got the job done for us. You know what else looks good anything you toss up on the screen. The Grand Tour in 4k with HDR on Amazon Prime video looks awesome. Car stuff you can already tell Alex worked on this video and the speakers are reasonably loud and clear. Now to be clear our Nano cell TV had the misfortune of being set up side by side with LG’s w7 OLED wallpaper TV and it’s not as good as that.
LG NANO CELL GAMING TV REVIEW
COLOR REPRODUCTION CAPABILITY
The black levels available on the OLED TV are simply stunning and it is physically impossible for any modern LCD screen to achieve perfect black levels like that. But at half the price of LG’s least expensive OLED it’s a pretty compelling picture. LG’s biggest claim for their Nano cell tech which seems to be basically their branding for quantum dot is accurate colors from any viewing angle up to 60 degrees. Which from our testing actually holds up pretty well. What they didn’t mention though is that the contrast isn’t quite as good from a wider angle. But as you go to the side, black areas of the scene look grayer and less detailed. You won’t encounter this on an OLED anyway.
IS LG NANO CELL TV GOOD FOR GAMING?
MY GAMING EXPERIENCE
Back to the original question, are NanoCell TV’s good for gaming? though is there any credence to the claims that it’s good for gaming, well the picture looks significantly less processed in game mode. Suggesting that well there might be less processing going on but I still find this claim confusing. As far as pure technology goes the OLED pixels should switch much faster nearly instantaneously. So why would it be then that a more expensive TV would be slower than in any way? Is it possible that these OLED pixels are harder to drive or there’s more processing left on in-game mode? meaning that the LCD Nano cell TV might be able to edge out a win well we fired up CS GO.
LG NANO CELL TV GAMING
OLED or NanoCell For Gaming
To try them side by side and see if we could eyeball out a clear Victor and from this completely non-scientific test, it did seem that the Nano cell was offering a smoother gaming experience. Movements felt quicker than the OLED which sort of felt jelly-like in comparison. So to confirm we pulled out the 240 FPS camera all right. So firing off around we wait the OLED is faster. we checked this over and over but side by side the OLED was about eight milliseconds faster. Even stranger the Nano Cell TV and our benchmark for true haste the ASUS rog swift 258 q at sixty Hertz for fairness were near to identical to each other as well.
This seemed a bit strange so we decided to get pure input lag numbers. For this test when the two leads are touched together the LED on the board lights up and sends a mouse click to the computer so we can measure the delay between a click and an action on-screen. After consulting our footage we determined that our OLED delay is about 32 milliseconds and the Nano cell was about 40 this actually maybe make sense given the approximately 8 milliseconds times of good LCDs compared to near-instant for OLED. But that doesn’t mean that a gaming monitor for example can’t perform any better than a TV, our ROG monitor managed a mere 16-millisecond delay once we turned it up to 240 Hertz not to mention the extra frames that it displays. Man, that animation looks good the point of that though. This isn’t to take away from the result of the nano Cell TV, I mean sure professional CS Go players won’t be using one anytime soon. But I’ve used TVs before with over a hundred milliseconds of input lag that are straight-up nauseating and forty milliseconds is comparable to a 60 Hertz gaming monitor.
LG NANO CELL TV FOR GAMING
MAIN GAMING FEATURES
True Color
LG Nano Cell TV maintains color accuracy of nearly 100% from almost every angle, something that a conventional TV might not. It offers Vibrant, authentic color reproduces your gaming experience as it was intended.
Nano Accuracy
LG NanoCell TV’s Nano Accuracy offers more precise color and wider angles to deliver enhanced 4K movies, sports, and gaming experience. Regardless of where you’re sitting, you can enjoy precise pictures from wide viewing angles along with rich detail, clarity, and color.
Dolby Vision IQ
Dolby Vision IQ was described as “Beyond HDR” when the technology was launched at CES 2020. Dolby Vision IQ is the latest imaging technology that helps improve Dolby HDR content on your LG NanoCELL TV in changing room conditions by automatically adapting your gaming images to changing ambient conditions and your entertainment.
LG NANO CELL TV
CONNECTIVITY FOR GAMING
With LG’s OLED models and most NanoCell TVs, the HDMI 2.1 is available. This upgraded connectivity feature gives you new opportunities to experience variable refresh rates while gaming, higher frame rates for 4K and 8K video,s and richer HDR data that will allow adjustments at the scene level for more-precise backlighting control. Also, NanoCell TVs support HDMI VRR (Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr), making LG the pioneer in offering compatibility of utilizing a wide variety of gaming devices such as high-end graphics cards and game consoles.
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