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what's up guys Ibrahim our connects and over the past few months I've been thinking about building a really powerful gaming PC for my living room I can pretty much handle everything from streaming Netflix to high resolution gaming unfortunately my current TV setup wasn't up to the task it's slow response times and poor contrast when viewed on and even the slightest of angles was acceptable for console gamers but I needed something that was a bit closer to what a pc monitor could achieve that's why when LG approached us to look at their new nano cell 4k HDR TV I had to jump at the chance this TV will actually lead us into a new compact htpc build in the next few weeks and a few other living room upgrades - now before I get too far into this video I want to mention a bit of a promotion and contest that LG is doing around this TV it's called the LG nano cell super match and it involves a soccer match between two pretty famous soccer players named a Steven Gerrard and Adam Lallana I'll leave a link to that match video below or you can search for LG Nano so super match on Google one thing I liked about this new nano cell TV right away is how it looked there is an edge-to-edge glass panel with very small bezels a slimline footprint and while this isn't as thin as something like an OLED TV it's still amazing to see what LG has managed to fit into such a small space port selection is pretty good too we have 4 HDMI 2.0 ports that are hdcp 2.2 compliant 3 USB ports RF in composite in Ethernet optical and an rs-232 C mini jack I just wish all of these ports were rotated 90 degrees so I could have used a flush mount vasive wall bracket okay so now back to this TV and why I was pretty excited to get it set up and gaming basically it offers great performance and exactly the areas where I found my old TV lacking the panel LG used is fast compared to many other TVs that I've used in the last year or so while it can compete with V response times on the best gaming monitors it's still much better than many competitors also unlike some other TVs that add color sheets in between the LED panels and the backlit like quantum dot for instance nano cell technology filters distant colors with much greater precision resulting in a wider color gamut then msl technology also helps improve viewing angles LG ended up sending me their 55 inch SJ 8500 which typically retails for around two thousand dollars USD but it can be typically found on sale for much less considering this TV also has a 4k resolution and the capability to process HDR content I think that's a pretty good price all things considered as you might expect I need a pretty massive amount of horsepower to push gaming content to a 4k TV that high resolution makes images look extremely sharp but it also requires a very powerful graphics card too and I also needed one that would support HDR output in the future as well while that's something I'll take into account when eventually building the new htpc for now I decided to use the AMD thread Ripper system I finished building about two weeks ago you can find a link to that build video right about in person this TV just looks stunning regardless of the content I threw at it I certainly felt a difference the moment I switched from my old LCD TV the colors very vibrant and very true to life it took my content consuming experience to another level a good way to test this was to watch a few of my own 4k YouTube videos and see how the panel handled am i greeting and it did a really good job displaying the image with excellent white balance and perfect contrast remember this is an LED TV and not OLED so don't expect the deepest blacks and vibrancy I was barely able to spot the backlighting on this display but it's certainly not pitch black and there are very subtle shifts in panel uniformity in some areas of the screen like I mentioned earlier one of the main selling features of this new nano salt TVs is the ability to view content at an angle without experiencing distortion or contrast shift conventional LED TVs have suffered from this drawback thankfully LG steps and once again offering consumers accurate colors in contrast no matter what angle you're viewing yet so if you have siblings or kids who are fighting to get that optimal smart to watch a soccer game a movie or play games well nan-oh sell TVs are here to rescue and speaking of gaming let's get to that since it's one of the primary reasons I was so excited about according to this TV obviously when you move from a gaming monitor to a UHD TV you will be maximizing size but sacrificing response times plus while the 55 SJ 8500 does advertise a hundred twenty Hertz refresh rate it actually has a sixty Hertz panel but uses interpolation to achieve the illusion of smoother moving images basically its hdmi 2.0 eight input can handle that bandwidth necessary for 4k HDR and 120 Hertz you need to wait for an HTML 2.1 supporting TV for that gamers will want to turn this interpolation off since it adds processing overhead on the TV side and therefore increases input lag luckily LG has added a few options to their nano self 4k TV that works towards improving the gaming experience first and foremost there is a game mode which essentially turns off much of the TVs a background image processing and that lowers input lag by quite a bit any other fine-grained image adjustments can still be made on your window system though so you can still achieve a spectacular picture but do all these features make the LG an NSL TV good for gaming titles like Ghost Recon with its sweeping environments and massive open-ended gameplay looked spectacular I spent a good amount of time gaming on this TV and there were definitely a few standout features that will benefit gamers for example of those wide viewing angles that I kept talking about meant I could actually lie down on my couch without any fear of missing parts of a gaming action my TV is actually in a pretty bright room which made gaming on my previous setup almost impossible during the day there was just too much glare off the screen even with a panel at maximum brightness but LG has applied a light anti-glare coating to the screen that works well in cutting down reflections without cutting down on clarity of color reproduction I know that comparing it to an older TV may sound odd but I'm in the same situation as many of you could be in I was looking to upgrade an older LCD set and the LG nano cell TV seemed to fit in quite well but the question everyone is really wondering is how a TV feels after playing games on a monitor for most of my adult life for first-person shooters I could immediately tell that the Nano so TV had a higher amount of input lag than most PC monitors have used in the last few years it didn't destroy my performance completely but it took a while to get accustomed to all right now that gaming is done let's seriously discuss some other things that I wanted to talk about this new LG nano cell TV other than a PC my set up primarily involves around using the Nvidia shield Android TV as it has the best pad collection in my opinion and that partly due to how well its ecosystem has matured over the past few years the unit can natively output 4k at 60 Hertz and it recently got an update with support for HDR which ended up being a perfect companion for LG's active HDR with Dolby vision support it's compatible with generic HDR 10 and hybrid log gamma formats I used Amazon Prime to watch one of my favorite TV shows that Grand Tour which was available to stream in 4k HDR and the best part is that the TV automatically picked up the metadata that came with the app or the TV showed to be more precise and it switched the picture profile mode to HDR instantly watching the Grand Tour with that remarkable b-roll was amazing couple that with the edge to edge display and the immersion is just unreal there is a lot of 4k HDR content on YouTube that you could take advantage of but the collection is limited although Netflix has adapted the HDR standard so that's a positive throughout my experience it was hard to pick out any glaring false particularly since HDR signals are processed directly by the TV and don't require user input for picture modifications LG has a built-in 4k upscaling engine that essentially up skills non UHD content to 4k in order to give users a sharper image I did test out a few 1080p blu-ray movies from my collection and it looked great without any artifacts honestly I'm not really sure if there's a better way to test out this feature unless if I have two identical 4k TVs with one playing bag 1080p content upscale to 4k and the other playing the same content in native 4k resolution it's important to understand that if you're in the market for a 4k TV make sure you have access to 4k content broadcasting standards at least here in Canada haven't quite caught up to that resolution so alternatives like Netflix Amazon and a few other streaming services are your best bet but that ax cost the Nano Cell TV comes with webelo s 3.5 which simplifies the entertainment experience it comes pre-loaded with all the major streaming apps like Netflix Amazon TV and even YouTube you can certainly expand that election via the LG app store but unfortunately it is very limited when compared to Android TV right now there's even a built-in web browser if you want to browse things and the included magic amount is both economically and functionally perfect for the TV you can simply point at the TV and a cursor pops up which helps ease the browsing experience the built-in scroll wheel within the remote is a great addition as it helps with browsing the web YouTube Netflix and a few more streaming apps do note that this is only vertical and not horizontal well that concludes his overview video on this new LG 4k HDR TV featuring their new nano cell technology this video is definitely the start for a series of other videos that I have a plan for this living room space so stay tuned for that but I'd like to hear your thoughts about this TV and more specifically would you like me to check something else out or probably suggest a few upgrades that could complement my 4k living room experience let me know the comments down below I'd like to take this time to thank LG for sending me out here a new TV perfect time but yeah I mean we're with hurricane X thank you so much watching make sure to subscribe for more similar content and we'll see you in the next one