LG G4 (OLED65G4)

[What Hi-Fi?]

LG’s second generation MLA OLED, the G4, improves on the original in nearly every way, save one.

LG G4 (OLED65G4) : Read more

 

[reginaldperrin]

Firstly… Picture = 5, Sound = 3, Features = 5. Total = 13. 13/3 = 4.33 out of 5. I must have been wrong about the rules of ‘rounding up’ all these years! Surely this is a 4/5 TV?
Secondly… 144Hz? It’s pretty much universally agreed that - dependent on individual, of course - the human eye has the ability to process between 30-60 ‘images’ per second. Let’s not fuel the ‘numbers game’ if we don’t need to. ‘Smoother’, often interpolated, images in sequence doesn’t necessarily mean ‘better’. You’ll be telling me that a 96kHz audio file sounds better next, even though the human ear can’t hear above circa 20kHz. Oh, wait… #facepalm

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Firstly… Picture = 5, Sound = 3, Features = 5. Total = 13. 13/3 = 4.33 out of 5. I must have been wrong about the rules of ‘rounding up’ all these years! Surely this is a 4/5 TV?

I think sound matters least - many who have a decent sized screen will use at least a soundbar. A TV's sound would be of no importance to me whatever.

 

[checkbuzz]

Firstly… Picture = 5, Sound = 3, Features = 5. Total = 13. 13/3 = 4.33 out of 5. I must have been wrong about the rules of ‘rounding up’ all these years! Surely this is a 4/5 TV?
Secondly… 144Hz? It’s pretty much universally agreed that - dependent on individual, of course - the human eye has the ability to process between 30-60 ‘images’ per second. Let’s not fuel the ‘numbers game’ if we don’t need to. ‘Smoother’, often interpolated, images in sequence doesn’t necessarily mean ‘better’. You’ll be telling me that a 96kHz audio file sounds better next, even though the human ear can’t hear above circa 20kHz. Oh, wait… #facepalm

#facepalm indeed!

Wow. There's a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation to unpack here.

High refresh rates (e.g 144Hz+) and therefore frame rates are critical in competitive gaming, the difference between 60Hz/fps and 144Hz/fps is like night and day. It has nothing to do with the human eyes ability to process images. My gaming computer monitor has a 240Hz refresh rate.

The article actually supports your opinion regarding interpolation not necessarily being a "better" solution, it's hardly a unique opinion. However the author is clearly making an exception in the case of the G4 (a first for What HiFi?) due to the outstanding performance of the new Alpha 11 processor. You did read the article yeah?

Also the sampling rate of digital audio (e.g. 96KHz) really has nothing to do with the upper frequency range of human hearing (circa 20KHz). These are two completely different things that just happen to both be measured in KHz.
In fact 96KHz is the modern industry standard digital sampling rate, widely used for the recording, mastering (and more recently streaming) of digital audio for music and cinema. On a high end audio system the subtle differences between CD quality audio (44.1KHz) and high definition audio (96KHz) are quite apparent. This all despite the fact that my aging ears upper frequency response is probably restricted to 16KHz these days at best.

A late reply I know but this TV is still the latest model from LG (I so want a G4!) and uninformed comments like this should not go unchallenged.

 

[checkbuzz]

I think sound matters least - many who have a decent sized screen will use at least a soundbar. A TV's sound would be of no importance to me whatever.

Agreed. Literally no AV enthusiast who spends over £2000 on their TV uses the internal speakers. LG is well aware of this.
In an ideal world TV manufacturers would make high end models with optional audio processing, speaker and TV tuner systems, and even OS/app bloatware to save enthusiast consumers money.
Like most enthusiasts I use my TV exclusively as a monitor to view video signals from external sources. I don't really want to pay for OS features, hardware, software or functionality that I'm never ever going to use.