TVs and monitors · LG
Owners keep the LG G3 for a picture that outclasses what they had before, with blacks no backlit set can match, and they accept some brightness limits to get it.
Picture quality is the clearest praise. One owner who secured a five-year warranty plans to keep it at least that long and calls it the best-looking television they have owned; others describe the image as simply beautiful next to older sets.
Text fringing is the clear complaint, raised almost entirely by people using OLED panels for office or productivity work. Some found coloured edges on text bearable, but others returned their OLED for a conventional panel because of it, and one suspected it was making them feel unwell.
Pick up to three. You get a page with just those, side by side, on the subjects owners raised.
Once the novelty passes, the things that still land are the black levels, colour and motion. Owners who worried about ambient light lifting the blacks found it a non-issue in a normal lit room, and the glossy coating gets consistent approval. Price also draws mostly positive comment, particularly from people who found a good deal or a warranty thrown in.
Brightness is where owners divide. Some say it is bright enough where it matters, in small highlights like a spark or a gunshot; others, especially those coming from mini LED, say full-screen brightness is plainly worse and the panel dims when a lot of the screen is white. Text clarity is also divided: some call text perfectly clear, others find it slightly distracting or prefer a mini LED for desk work. A few report eye strain or headaches they attribute to flicker or text rendering, and one found a reduce-flicker menu setting fixed it.
Burn-in is the main long-term question, and owners split on it in a telling way. Those who use the panel for gaming and video, and who do not leave static elements up for long stretches, mostly say it has not been a problem. Those who work eight hours or more a day with fixed toolbars are more wary; one had already seen burn-in on earlier OLEDs and another sold theirs because managing windows and brightness to protect it became tiresome. A purple tint in dark areas is raised by a few, though others say they see none.
Long-term accounts on the G3 itself are thin. Most of what is here comes from people a month to a year in, several of them describing OLED monitors rather than this television, and the one owner planning a five-year run is at the start of it. One prospective buyer was weighing a display model with around three thousand hours on it, which says as much about buyer caution as it does about how the set holds up. We cannot yet say how it fares past a few years.
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.
The same owner, asked again at each point. Fills in as owners answer.
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