![]() This is particularly noticeable on single colour darkish sections of the picture, like the evening sky. That might seem like plenty, but it turns out that these aren’t quite enough to allow graduated colours to blend seamlessly into one another, particular in scenes which are mostly red, green or blue. In broadcast TV, DVD and Blu-ray, colour has been defined in 8 bits, which gives each colour 256 levels (at best, it’s a bit more complicated). With TVs, High Dynamic Range is to some extent concerned with stretching the boundaries of how bright and how dark the panel can go, and also with providing finer brightness graduations within those boundaries. The remote includes many of the keys omitted from the usual smart remote, such as numbers, input selection and so on.Ī word about HDR: HDR in TVs is only loosely related to the traditional use of the term, which involved compositing photos taken with different exposure settings so as to capture better details in both the bright and dark ends of the scene. This is easy to master with just a little practice. You’ll probably want to, though, since selecting smart functions involves moving an on-screen arrow by means of moving the remote. Meanwhile, the remote control is RF wireless, so no need to point. ![]() ![]() This is a smart TV and uses LG’s webOS Operating System, with performance of this boosted by the use of a quad core processor. These are ‘passive’ models – polarised lenses, no batteries required – so you can acquire more inexpensively if you want. The TV supports 3D and comes with a couple of pairs of 3D glasses. The sound is ‘Designed by Harman/Kardon’, but I’ll ease the suspense by disclosing right here that they sound just like TV speakers, which makes them great for watching the news. There’s one digital TV tuner (so no recording one while watching another live station), while the four speakers are mounted in the wider section at the rear and fire downwards. As it happens, you can also record broadcast TV to the modest amount (there was 4GB free on the review TV) of built in memory.Īll three HDMI inputs conform to the latest HDMI 2.0 standard, support expanded colour specifications and support the latest HDCP copy protection system, so they’ll work with UHD Blu-ray when it appears. There are the usual inputs, including a USB 3.0 socket for attaching a hard drive which can be used for recording TV programs and couple of extra 2.0s for plugging in flash memory or a HID (Human Interface Device – known to mortals as mouse and keyboard). Blue remains the weak point of OLED, but LG is able to boost blues thanks to the addition of the white sub-pixel. The OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) panel uses LG’s four sub-pixel system, with each pixel being constituted by red, green, blue and white elements. The rear is finished in white: plastic for the deeper half, but with a glossy diamond-shaped crosshatch for the top half. The bottom half the rear swells out at the middle to reach the full screen depth of 51mm, necessary of course for the connections and wall mounting points. And not only at the edges: this glass panel is all that there is of the TV for its entire the top half. I measured 6mm (LG says 5.8mm), or less than a quarter inch, as though it were just a sheet of thick glass. The rising section of the stand is transparent perspex, so it also tends towards understatement. At the edge, protecting the glass, is a metal strip around 1mm wide.Īside from the stand, that’s it. The bottom (except for the protruding LG name plate) and top are the same width as the sides. The picture reaches to 10.5mm from the edge of the TV body on all four sides. The TV presents itself as an unmarred piece of glass, with no bezel protruding forward of the glass surface. Not only minimalist in styling, but in bulk. Yet as handsome furniture goes, the 65EF950T is still a thing of beauty. Curved screens can look very attractive from a furnishings point of view, but they provide a more distorted picture to viewers who are watching from an angle. Given that last year I called the 55EG960T ‘the best TV I have ever reviewed’, it starts from a promising base. Aside from the flatness and the HDR, there wasn’t much that was new since last year. LG provided the larger model – the 65EF950T, all 164 centimetres of it – for review (on my premises, rather than its own, unlike last year).
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