Both are available for £1499 now, perhaps even less.
I just bought a Samsung 55Q7 but seing that prices of the LG's have tumbled in the last few days I thought I owe it to myself to have another look as they are now affordable for me.
I went to Curry's again.
I stayed with the C7 for an hour, adjusting everything to my liking which is a natural, much dimmer picture than retail mode.
Aesthetics wise, the set looks quite bulky with that big central foot. The bezels (inside the glass cover) are thicker than the Samsungs. I am not sure if i prefer the look of the C7 over the B7. However, I love the thin back (until it reaches the bulge at the bottom).
Currys have everything linked through the same feed so absolute quality is difficult to establish. Next to it was Sony's A1 OLED and a Samsung 6470 LCD.
First things first, as usual, blacks were perfect, obviously. - But deep black level detail seemed disappointing. There were large chunks of it with no detail. No matter what I did (upping or lowering Gamma included), I could not get the detail. - The Samsung LCD, whilst not great, had better low level dark detail with the same signal feed.
Colour; Good but not great. There was not the gradation of the QLED (it was hanging on the wall but with a different feed) but I felt it was marginally better than Sony's A1 with slightly more subtlety. It did not have the depth, richness and subtlety of the QLED but it bettered the visibly smaller gammut range of the Sony.
Sharpness; Not as sharp as quite a few 4 tv's there, some quite a bit cheaper and nowhere as sharp and natural as the QLED. I tried ramping sharpness up a little but with little positive effect. Quite the opposite ...
... Noise; There seemed substantal noise in images on the 4k feed. By that I mean it looked faces/skin had a life of its own with crawling dot noise. - Both the Samsung LCD and Sony A1 had it but to a lesser extend so it was probably the signal feed. Still, I found it a little disconcering.
Which leads me to the biggest problem I have noticed today.
Colour banding. Both on the 4k feed and terrestrial tv colour banding was noticeable everywhere. Again, I could not dial this out with settings.
This may sound damning but I am well aware that the signal feed was everything but great. However, other tv's seemed to suffer far less from it.
Now the Q7 is certainly not perfect. HDR seems unusable as the the tv ramps the backlight up to eyesearing levels with a resulting grey screen. Its adjustable but I havent played with HDR settings yet. Much prefer SD and the panels inherent very good contrast makes movies glow with punchy highlights aplenty
I have once before listened to reviews and bought a Kuro which I heavily regretted. I am almost totally happy with the Q7 other than black levels but no LED panel will beat an OLED anyway and the Samsung comes very close.
Can any owners (Gazzip/Gel) please confirm that my findings of today are not typical of the B7/C7?
I do not want to make a mistake.
I just bought a Samsung 55Q7 but seing that prices of the LG's have tumbled in the last few days I thought I owe it to myself to have another look as they are now affordable for me.
I went to Curry's again.
I stayed with the C7 for an hour, adjusting everything to my liking which is a natural, much dimmer picture than retail mode.
Aesthetics wise, the set looks quite bulky with that big central foot. The bezels (inside the glass cover) are thicker than the Samsungs. I am not sure if i prefer the look of the C7 over the B7. However, I love the thin back (until it reaches the bulge at the bottom).
Currys have everything linked through the same feed so absolute quality is difficult to establish. Next to it was Sony's A1 OLED and a Samsung 6470 LCD.
First things first, as usual, blacks were perfect, obviously. - But deep black level detail seemed disappointing. There were large chunks of it with no detail. No matter what I did (upping or lowering Gamma included), I could not get the detail. - The Samsung LCD, whilst not great, had better low level dark detail with the same signal feed.
Colour; Good but not great. There was not the gradation of the QLED (it was hanging on the wall but with a different feed) but I felt it was marginally better than Sony's A1 with slightly more subtlety. It did not have the depth, richness and subtlety of the QLED but it bettered the visibly smaller gammut range of the Sony.
Sharpness; Not as sharp as quite a few 4 tv's there, some quite a bit cheaper and nowhere as sharp and natural as the QLED. I tried ramping sharpness up a little but with little positive effect. Quite the opposite ...
... Noise; There seemed substantal noise in images on the 4k feed. By that I mean it looked faces/skin had a life of its own with crawling dot noise. - Both the Samsung LCD and Sony A1 had it but to a lesser extend so it was probably the signal feed. Still, I found it a little disconcering.
Which leads me to the biggest problem I have noticed today.
Colour banding. Both on the 4k feed and terrestrial tv colour banding was noticeable everywhere. Again, I could not dial this out with settings.
This may sound damning but I am well aware that the signal feed was everything but great. However, other tv's seemed to suffer far less from it.
Now the Q7 is certainly not perfect. HDR seems unusable as the the tv ramps the backlight up to eyesearing levels with a resulting grey screen. Its adjustable but I havent played with HDR settings yet. Much prefer SD and the panels inherent very good contrast makes movies glow with punchy highlights aplenty
I have once before listened to reviews and bought a Kuro which I heavily regretted. I am almost totally happy with the Q7 other than black levels but no LED panel will beat an OLED anyway and the Samsung comes very close.
Can any owners (Gazzip/Gel) please confirm that my findings of today are not typical of the B7/C7?
I do not want to make a mistake.
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