OPINION : In the last few years , the trend in the premium sphere of the TV food market has been accuracy . Does this icon accurately convey the spirit of the creator ?
But at the same time there ’s also the goggle box producer ’ own belief in how image should look . Then there ’s the thoughtfulness of the picture processing engineering , and how much do the various panel technology play a broker : OLED , Mini LED , QLED , QD - OLED , LCD etc . bear on the carrying out ? There are many way to struggle a cat , though the point of it all is to reach the same finish .
Whenever new TVs are in the offing , I head off to demonstrations held by the tv set brands . It ’s always the new television versus a challenger ’s from the previous year , show all the improvements found . Often there ’s a mastering monitor from Sony in - between them – 30 - inches in sizing and $ 30,000 in cost – to reflect how closelipped to the mastering monitor the TV ’s picture is .
Back in February I was invite to see what Samsung had to extend with its 2023 TVs , and I ’ve mentioned this in a previousSound & Vision pillar , but I ’ll bring it up again here . HDR mastering expert Florian Friedrich was presenting a tech compare between the newQD - OLEDand theLG G2and he noted a tint of green to a lamp shade where it should n’t be .
It was odd because the illumination was yellow , but whatever was materialize with the TV ’s WRGB panel or the video ’s processing , it was coming out as slenderly green . I said to another soul that perhaps it ’s to do with the HDR10 tone function and that sure , it ’ll be dissimilar with Dolby Vision content . That sour out to be an wrong assumption , but more on that later .
Having receive the C3 for testing , I travel about my usual affair , looking at a few pattern from the Spears & Munsil bench mark magnetic disc , value top cleverness and so on . But the bulk of testing is always observe real - humans content – test patterns are helpful , but when you unpack a TV at home , you ’re not take in a colour wheel twirl round for eternity . You ’re going to be watching the stuff you wish .
And so , with the C3 I put on Interstellar ( 4 K Blu - ray ) and that ’s where I first noticed that thing were off . There was more green in this flick than I remember . When the ship lands on the water major planet , there ’s a green timbre to their spacesuits and even the water seemed greenish . Furthermore , this was in Filmmaker modality , which is meant to be the most accurate impression preset .
I made a note of it as up until then I had n’t really notice it , and wondered whether it could be aHDMIissue or colour problem between it and thePanasonic UB820 , though connect it to aSony A95 K , the green tint did n’t show up …
Then theOLED65G3came in for testing . This TV is a beast . It is comfortably one of the bright OLEDs on the market place ( 1400 nit ! ) and the Vivid mode is so bright I could scarcely consider the turn it was throw up . All the complaint competitors had about OLED not being bright enough – the G3 range its eyes and waves them away .
But more than on the C3 , I start notice green tints everywhere . compare the G3 side - by - side with the A95 K ( yes , Sony , I sleep together I ’m taking a very long time , apologies ) and the LG G3 produces weird unripe tones in unexpected places , and not even Dolby Vision can correct them .
The pastoral countryside setting of The Dig ( Dolby Vision ) takes on a fleeceable hue ; while rain buckets Men on Prime Video in Filmmaker fashion ( and to be mediocre , it ’s a very dark-green film anyway ) some odd green tones were popping up all over the topographic point .
The lily-white stripe on the lounge behind Knives Chau at the beginning of Scott Pilgrim vs the World ( Dolby Vision ) see green ; pelt tonus and shadow in Captain Marvel ( Dolby Vision ) looked slightly unripened , the brightness level shining on the jacket Carol Danvers wearing had a green tone to it . It ’s like I ’m in The Matrix .
And verbalize of The Matrix , spinning up a 4 K disc of The Matrix Resurrections , and switching to the HDR10 bed brought this up .
I know the sun can grow a spectrum of colours , but I ’d say that ’s alittle too green . It ’s almost just what Florian Friedrich spotted at the Samsung seminar .
He had put it down to the white portion of the WRGB venire introducing tones that ought not to be there . In all the OLED television set I ’ve envision , I ’ve never noticed the government issue , but now , at least with the G3 , I ca n’t lay off ensure it . It ’s been a while since my last eye test but when I look at the Sony QD - OLED , I ’m not seeing those green tone .
Both the C3 and G3 impress , but something is cockeyed with that green tint . I would have put this down to , perhaps an HDMI issue , but it ’s appearing in stream content too , putting a prick in those ambitions of characterisation accuracy . It would seem that it ’s not easy being green as far as LG is concerned .
