“Asking other owners, How’s the picture quality out of the box? Any major tweaks or Pro calibration to get it 100%? Coming from an LG UJ6300 LED 65” that has to go.”
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Hi Buyer. Even though your question is directed at other buyers, please be advised that unless you are satisfied with the picture quality of a TV right out of the box, just about every TV will need calibration because they all come with factory defaults which will need some calibration to give you the best picture possible. Professional Calibrators use professional tools to calibrate the TV for the room that it is installed in and for any devices that you might want to connect to the TV. No two rooms within the same house or apartment have the same lighting conditions so calibration will differ for each room. You can visit the support page for the LG C8PUA 4K HDR Smart OLED TV w/ AI ThinQ® - 65" Class (64.5" Diag), MOdel # OLED65C8PUA at https://www.lg.com/us/support-product/lg-OLED65C8PUA#manuals and scroll down to the Help Library and click on the first link under "Operation" labeled as "Best Picture Settings for your LG 4K or 4K OLED - TV" to see settings that you can apply to the TV to adjust them according to your environment and to your personal taste. A Professional Calibration will still provide you the best picture possible. LG also partnered with US Software developer Portrait Displays®, Inc. to provide auto calibration for our 2018 OLEDs using Portrait’s flagship software CalMAN ® by SpectraCal®. Your TV allows direct CalMAN access to the TV's internal look-up tables (1D and 3D LUTs) and the color accuracy can be so precise that the TV can match the video accuracy of professional reference monitors. The addition of this auto calibration software from Portrait Displays greatly streamlines the process for professional calibrators and ensures that you will be able to enjoy the full potential of your TV. Portait's CalMAN software is the video calibration solution chosen by nearly every professional video calibrator and by most end users in broadcast, production, and post-production, as well as the most popular solution for home video enthusiasts. You simply connect CalMAN on your computer to your TV via Wi-Fi or Ethernet and then let CalMAN Autocal make your picture perfect. CalMAN AutoCal by SpectraCal capability is available for not only Standard Dynamic Range (SDR), but also for all three varieties of High Dynamic Range (HDR): HDR10, HLG, and Dolby Vision. You can get more details about CalMAN's AutoCal for LG by Portrait at calman.spectracal.com...^IFV ,
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I was going to get it professionally calibrated when I bought it however I found no need to. If you never owned an OLED it did take a week or so to get used to the picture. I played around with the picture settings and found the IHS Expert Bright Room setting to be pretty near perfect. The only other adjustment I made was to Tru motion. I set it to clear. Prior to that change it was pretty juddery. Those are the only adjustments I made and I find the picture to be flawless.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Great picture and color quality. Cannot go wrong. Personally I compared many high end TVs and this is the best one out there in terms of overall grade. You may need high speed HDMI cable if you don’t have one already, maybe cinnamon or better.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Out of the box, it was amazing. I used the Consumer Reports settings just because I assumed they knew something, but it was already awesome. I will once in a while look for an "expert" setting list, but its not much of a concern.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Out of Box picture on LG OLED 65 C8 has two significant issues. 1. A lot of the picture controls are buried in menus within menus, and only the major adjustments can save across various inputs, so you end up changing the same things over and over. LG should really fix this with a software update, so you can save ALL the picture settings to all the inputs. Keep notes on a PC file and make sure you know how to reset each mode and reset entire TV. 2. In moderately lit room all the out of box settings have a significant issue that the bright images (whites, commercials) are so bright they hurt your eyes and the darks are so dark, you can not see anything. This can even happen at same time in same scenes, someone in a dark corner with a window on other side of shot. I have NOT been able to solve this yet, and steps taken do seem to reduce overall picture quality in most scenes, but lowering OLED light, raising brightness, raising contrast (keep <91) and setting Black Level to high (called lite on other brands), and Eye Comfort to on, help some. LG should really offer a software up date to compress the brightness some, something will dynamically raise the brightness of darks (when needed) and drop the brightness of whites when needed. Paying extra for the A9 processor, but it is not helping with this significant picture issue. 3. So basically, the panel seems to be top notch, the A9 processor is lacking, probably because there is no software intended to make all scenes watchable, the software is designed to sell sell sell, so eye popping set ups with little regard for viewing dark scenes or viewing bright scenes or, viewing scenes that have both bright and dark areas (there are many many of these in Sci-Fi / Action shows). Since it appears the panel is excellent, LG could fix this if they wanted too. 3. Still, seems to be one of the better LEDs, no where as good as a good Plasma.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Picture is too much. In same scene you can have bights that hurt your eyes and 1/3 screen so dark you can not see anything. Then if image jumps to commercial it can be so bright you must look away, but you still have retinal after image as if you stared into a light bulb. I am currently trying Expert Dark Room with Black level set to high. Maybe a little better, but commercials still an issue. May need to drop back light or brightness some, not sure. Lowering contrast seems to make dark areas harder to see, higher seems to make dark areas easier to see. I usually watch at night and have a 75 watt light behind me to side so not directly reflected in screen but allows me to see remote, so not a real dark room, low side of moderate.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Thanks LG. I now know that I’ll be paying geek squad for a calibration. I really wish high end OLED TVs would come with a free calibration after paying $3k with tax for this TV. After opening the box I really don’t know how I’m going to wall mount it let alone remove it from the box without the risk of cracking the screen, it’s no thicker than the single layer cardboard supporting the screen in the box. I think I’ll tape the box back up and buy the Samsung Q8 I went to purchase in the first place. LG must comp Best Buy to not display Samsung products I guess.
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