DO NOT Buy an LG OLED Monitor - Here’s Why

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DO NOT Buy an LG OLED Monitor - Here’s Why
I see you there ogling that LG OLED monitor or even 42” C3, and I'm here to tell you please for the love of all that is holy do not buy that thing.

Now I know what you're thinking, what does this guy know? I'm gonna buy 10 just because he told me not to, well go ahead, do it, see what happens.

You know what’s gonna happen, you're gonna have serious buyer's remorse, because first of all, and most importantly there are some WAY, and I mean WAY better OLED monitors coming out very soon.

We have a whole gaggle of companies such as ASUS, MSI, Alienware, and probably many more getting ready to take a steaming dump of OLED monitors on us very soon. How soon, well recently Alienware revealed they would have two new monitors available in early January of next year, which is around just three months away, and if they stick to what they said, any OLED you buy now is going to get destroyed.

Look OLED monitors now certainly aren’t bad, and if you bought one earlier this year that you’re enjoying, I don’t want you to feel bad about it, but if your thinking of buying one now, depending on what the size and resolution is, you may want to seriously reconsider, because these new monitors coming early next year are using Samsung’s new QD OLED gen 2 panels and will be offering sizes and resolutions we have been asking for for YEARS.

Now if you’ve been following the TV market you’ll know that the gen 2 QD OLED panels are being used in the best flagship TV’s available.

But more than that LG OLED monitors with the exception of the 42” TVs are using absolute garbage matte finishes which look like you poured vegetable oil. There are no words for how horrified I was to find that LG had decided to so thoroughly annihilate their monitors with such a god awful finish that blurs everything and mutes perceived color while smearing reflections across the whole screen which of course harms the contrast all in a vain attempt to stop reflections which isn’t possible by the way.

Well guess what. QD OLED panels are all glossy by design which means that the outcoming image has very minimal distortion applied before hitting your eyes allowing for the best clarity, contrast, and vibrancy, but even if you don’t care about that you should care that there will be many more options on the market next year including a 32” 4K 240Hz and 27” 1440p 360Hz which will offer far superior image quality over anything available now, and from what I’m hearing they might not cost that much more than many OLED’s available today. We’re talking probably around $1,500 for the 4K monitors, and likely closer to $1,200 - $1,000 for the 1440p option, and were not even talking about the many other sizes that have been leaked coming out from both Samsung and LG, but even with LG’s new MLA OLED panels which greatly improve brightness and viewing angles, personally I’m not waiting for any of their monitors at this point, because if they continue to take a fat dump on top of the screen and likely can never solve the low color volume I have repeatedly measured on all LG OLED’s likely due to the extra white sub pixel, than the QD OLED monitors from Samsung are just better by default, and in my opinion LG should be entirely abandoned by the PC industry and buyers until they create a new panel technology which can compete with what Samsung has brought to the table.

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[thedisplayguy]

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[stvarnonevjerovatno]

After this video, finally convinced to buy LG OLED monitor.

[Noneya]

This guy has such an obsession against matte coatings on oled panels that he devotes pretty much the entire video raving about it. In fact, he never mentions the lack of overall brightness on qd-oled monitors with those glossy panels - which they need because of that lack of brightness. 🤨

But will the upcoming oleds achieve more than 1k nits brightness at a 3% window, as the existing qd-oleds do? Can't understand why people are raving about such tiny specular highlights of brightness.

[TheOneGhost]

Asus is terrible no hdmi 2.1 or DisplayPort 2.1 such a joke

[scottgardiner]

I own two LG monitors and have been very pleased. Samsung has been horrendous for me. Multiple failures across their product line from tv's to phones to appliances.

[yoremythsandmonsters]

Gonna be the odd duck and say I love the matte finish, not a fan of Glossy at all. Love my LG

[thsense]

all OLED monitor brands use the same panels from either LG or samsung. you’re basically telling people don’t get a monitor because eventually a better one will come out. which, of course! only you’re continuing the illusion that they’re all different monitors.
the ONLY minimal differences will be ports, aesthetic, and cooling. the base panels will be the same from brand to brand

[colin]

The matte finish doesn’t bug me, I have the 27 lg OLED and I’m very happy with it. I use it for gaming that’s it, I prefer Lg in my opinion. The last 2 monitors I’ve had is LG. They were the gp850 and gp950. Both were great, with the exception of horrible ips glow and bad contrast.

[Battleneter]

The matt finish provides a "better" image quality when being operated in a lighter room close to a bright Window for example, its not as simple as glossy is always better, its entirely situational.

[maxpayne]

I’m pretty happy with my C2. I play every game in 4k and I paid $600 for it. Nothing can touch this for this price.

[paulw]

Got the AW34DWF in August and have no regrets. There is always something better around the corner. Sometimes you gotta just be happy and content. It’s not like I use that monitor and think “this sucks”. Lol! Sarcasm aside, good job with the videos.

[MsGuesswhoitis]

Woled adv over qdled:
- if you play games or watch movies with lights on or during day without covering 100% of light from outside, woled is at least 10x times better
- more resistant to burn in
- better bright blues

qdled advantages:
- slightly brighter
- better bright reds

This video is horrible, just yapping about personal preference for gloss over matte finish. Matte is much better is you have lights sources or reflections in the room.

[blendernoob]

Ever since I started using a CRT as my main gaming display, I’ve been so interested in OLED to replace my 60hz ips Dell monitor I had for over 4 years now. From what I hear it’s the closest lcd has gotten to CRT color depth and motion clarity, which is why I’m so exasperated that almost all the most attractive models are Uber expensive ultrawides rather than a standard 16:9. I hope we will get upper mid range oled displays that can do 160hz max at 1440p.

[jrlivingspaces]

Manufacturers make the screens matte for work environments in the chance a company will bulk buy them. Matte screens are trash for typical home lighting but for fluorescent office or business overhead lighting its perfect because the lighting is more indirect and the coating isn't smearing a single hot spot. With gloss, you'll get more mirror reflections from the indirect lighting but its perfect for typical home lighting since it doesn't have to diffuse

[jamesjetson]

Those companies buy the OLED panels from LG. Even Samsung has started making deals with LG for their panels. All depends on what your looking for, but for OLED is reliable to stick with LG.

[DariusPL]

Are you a Samsung shill or what? This is such a biased view, spamming YT all over the place with “don’t buy LG OLED” BS videos. Matte vs glossy finish is largely a question of preference but yes, I also prefer glossy. HOWEVER, the LG OLED TV coating (e.g. C2/C3) craps all over the QD OLED one which kills the blacks in all but dim rooms and looks awful with its strong purple tint. It’s not really glossy by the way, quite a few people scrub the AG coating off their screens. The 2nd gen panel hasn’t improved that. As for the color volume, LG panels look way more natural in many cases, they are far from being washed out or anything. You could even argue QD OLED tends to be way oversaturated in many applications. Burn-in vulnerability is also a thing, do some research. Rant over, I still enjoy some of your content 😁

[jackhandy]

If no one bought any OLED monitors none of these new OLED monitors would be possible, so, shut up and be more supportive...

[reginalddebrah]

Samsung just needs to make a 42in monitor 16:9 no curve .

[matthewkmovie]

yeah but people want high frame rate and 2k is the sweet spot and LG is the oled OG

[skyllaros]

Ugh! I just bought the LG ultragear 45" OLED this summer and am past the return period. For the most part I'm happy with it for screen size and immersion, but I agree that I HATE the matte finish. I think it will just be a placeholder until one of these comes out. Hopefully I can sell it for enough to put a decent chunk twords a new one next year. Still waiting for my "End-game" Monitor.