TVs and monitors · LG
Owners keep the C9 for its picture: deep blacks, strong color and plenty of brightness, with several still calling it the best TV they have owned years after buying it.
The picture holds up. Owners who have since bought newer OLED and mini-LED sets say the C9 still looks excellent next to them, and in a dark room some turn the brightness down because it is more than they need.
Owners are divided on burn-in. One had a game with a static health bar and crosshair leave a mark after a few hundred hours, while another who moved from a C7 to a C9 says this model resists it far better than the older set.
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What still pleases people after the novelty fades is the combination of black levels, color and HDR highlights. Owners who have compared the C9 side by side with newer LG and Samsung sets say the difference is small in a dark room and mostly shows up in a bright room or in HDR peaks. One who bought a much cheaper non-OLED set says he cannot tell the blacks apart. Another simply says it is still perfect and the best TV he has owned.
The adjustments are about the room and the content. The glossy screen reflects windows and lamps, and one owner who moved to a matte set names the reflections as the thing that annoyed him. Gamers who care about burn-in learn to disable static HUD elements and keep UI brightness sliders low. A few owners also mention that a good screen cleaning product is part of ownership, though too few say so to judge.
On the good side, more than one owner says a C9 from 2019 is still running with no visible problems after five or more years. On the bad side, one owner had a C9, C7 and CX all develop dead pixels and delamination, one reports a green blob in the centre of the screen from the red sub-pixels wearing out, and one who now has a newer set thinks his C9 has grown dimmer with age. Burn-in itself is split: some have it from static game elements, others have none. The one owner who got a C9 from LG as a free replacement for a burnt-in out-of-warranty C7 says the C9 is much better in that respect.
The long-term accounts are thin. Only a handful of owners talk about panel reliability at all, and they point in opposite directions. What can be said is that the failures reported are pixel or panel defects and uneven wear rather than dead sets, and that the owners who are happy tend to be very happy.
Nothing with a clear majority yet. Owners who raised these subjects were split, or too few to judge.
Nothing has a clear majority against it yet. Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.
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