Execs
- Dazzling image high quality
- Floor-breaking “wallpaper” design
- Largely glorious audio
Cons
- Image noise with brilliant HDR photographs
- Dolby Atmos help restricted
- Eye-watering value
Key Specs
- Evaluation Worth: £7999.00
- Extremely-thin, versatile display screen
- Native UHD OLED display screen
- Exterior 4.2 Dolby Atmos audio system
- webOS 3.5 smarts
- HDR10, Dolby Imaginative and prescient, Technicolour HDR and HLG HDR help
What’s the LG Signature OLED65W7?
The OLED65W7 is, fairly merely, probably the most superb wanting TV I’ve ever seen. It’s by far the thinnest TV ever made – a declare to fame mirrored in its nickname: the “wallpaper TV”. It’s so skinny you could even bend and flex it just a little with out it breaking.
As if this unimaginable feat of engineering wasn’t sufficient, LG ships the 65-inch W7 with an exterior management unit that comprises a 4.2 speaker system and Dolby Atmos decoding.
All this and we haven’t even talked about the truth that it makes use of the most recent technology of LG’s much-loved OLED panel know-how, full with quite a few enhancements over the already sturdy efforts from final yr, such because the LG OLED55B6.
Earlier than you place your order, although, it’s best to most likely know that the OLED65W7 will set you again £7,999.
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LG Signature OLED65W7 – Design and Construct
The W7 makes each different TV appear like an vintage. The chassis is so skinny you possibly can scarcely see it sideways, and to see a 65-inch image blaze forth from that may be a genuinely breathtaking expertise. When hung in your wall, it feels extra like a window than a TV.
Begin manhandling the display screen and also you’ll quickly uncover that it will possibly bend and flex with out inflicting harm to the interior construction or image high quality. Don’t think about from this that the W7 feels flimsy. Oddly, its flexibility truly offers you extra confidence than you’d usually really feel when dealing with skinny however inflexible TVs.
The exterior management unit/speaker bar appears just a little cumbersome by comparability, and it’s a pity it will possibly’t be wall-mounted just like the display screen. Nonetheless, your internal geek will love the best way two doorways on the highest edge open if you fireplace up the TV, permitting a pair of round audio system to slip silkily up and out, prepared for Dolby Atmos enterprise.
The W7 ships with two remotes: an ordinary unit, and one among LG’s “Magic” designs with point-and-click performance and a central wheel button for scrolling up and down menus. This feels snug to carry and fewer fiddly to make use of than its predecessors. It additionally options an Amazon Video button and a Netflix button – one thing I’d prefer to see on each distant lately.
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LG Signature OLED65W7 – Setup
General enhancements to LG’s OLED image high quality for 2017 make the W7 extra versatile with its setup than 2016’s fashions, however there are nonetheless a number of essential issues of notice.
The most important alternative might be over which image preset you utilize. For traditional dynamic vary sources the Customary preset is probably the most profitable, as long as you flip off the flawed HDR Impact processing.
For HDR content material you’ve got a troublesome name to make between the Customary and Cinema House presets. The Customary mode supplies by far probably the most dynamic, participating and pure HDR photographs, but in addition creates noise in some image areas. The Cinema House enormously reduces noise, however reduces the general brightness stage too low to make HDR as satisfying as it’s in Customary mode.
Additionally it is potential to show down the OLED Backlight setting in Customary mode to restrict the noise, however this solely will get you to this point except you make the picture darker than you would possibly like.
Though LG claims to have launched extra flexibility to its OLED brightness adjustment on this yr’s OLED TVs, the additional flexibility doesn’t quantity to a lot. Black ranges proceed to drop off dramatically for those who push the brightness increased than 52-53, and nonetheless undergo with misplaced element for those who scale back the brightness decrease than 44-45.
I’d additionally advocate turning off all noise-reduction routines when watching native 4K content material, turning off LG’s new Energetic HDR function (by turning off the Dynamic Distinction setting when watching HDR10 sources), and both not utilizing any movement processing in any respect, or else selecting a Handbook setting with the dejudder and deblur ranges set to 2 or three.
LG Signature OLED65W7 – Options
The OLED65W7’s showcase options are its extraordinary slimness and its partnership with a Dolby Atmos-capable exterior speaker system. However there have been enhancements worthy of notice elsewhere, too.
Notably promising given the significance of luminance to HDR is a claimed 15-20% enhance in peak brightness. Particularly since this has being partnered with promised enhancements to the best way the OLED65W7 handles the copy of element and lightweight at very low – “simply above black” – brightness ranges.
The additional brightness on provide ought to assist the TV ship a wider color quantity than its predecessors, in addition to becoming a member of with apparently much-improved HDR processing to make the OLED65W7 far much less susceptible to “clipping” – dropping element and tone data within the brightest areas – than 2016 fashions.
Movement and upscaling processing have additionally apparently been improved, whereas final yr’s help for the Dolby Imaginative and prescient and trade commonplace HDR10 HDR codecs has been joined by help for each the “HLG”, or Hybrid Log-Gamma HDR system set to develop into an enormous deal in broadcasting, and Technicolor’s HDR system. This provides as much as probably the most complete HDR help we’ve seen on any TV so far.
There’s additionally a brand new Energetic HDR processor within the OLED65W7 that makes an attempt so as to add dynamic metadata to HDR10 sources, in order that the TV has extra data to go on when determining how finest to indicate completely different HDR scenes.
Avid gamers might be ecstatic to study that the TV delivers an exceptionally low enter lag measurement of simply 21ms in Sport mode with each HDR and SDR sources.
The OLED65W7 additionally introduces the most recent webOS sensible system: model 3.5. There are a few good progressions right here. First, you possibly can allocate favorite sources to the distant’s numeric keys for sooner entry. Second, you possibly can play Google VR movies on the TV display screen and transfer round “inside” them by easy gestures with the Magic distant. It’s shocking how properly this works on a TV as large because the OLED65W7.
Connections on the exterior management field comprise the 4 HDMIs and three USBs. Notice that the management/speaker unit attaches to the display screen by way of a flat cable that’s simpler to channel into your wall than a standard cable. This could possibly be helpful, provided that the shelf/table-mounted management bar is designed to work with a TV mounted on a wall above.
Help for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is current, making it straightforward so that you can share TV media in your sensible units and networked storage units.
The OLED65W7 doesn’t provide 3D Playback, nonetheless. LG now not helps 3D on any of its new TVs.
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