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hey what's up guys Jase $0.02 here if you can't tell we are not in my usual studio that's because if you saw my vlog that I put up recently about redoing my living room in preparation for doing a review of this big guy then you would already know that this review was coming anyway today we are going to be looking at LG's brand-new 65 inch OLED curved UHD TV now LG was kind enough to send over one of their new flagship 65 inch OLED TVs specifically the 65 eg 9600 this thing is pretty badass it packs a lot of features I'm going to go ahead and get started right now now there's a lot of different things we could talk about with this video in fact I could easily fill up an hour of your time talking about all the features of this TV so instead of doing that I'm going to talk about two features that are really important to me one we're going to talk about obviously the picture quality and the user experience and two we're going to talk about LG's web OS which is a built-in operating system on the TV allowing you to actually be able to watch 4k content and other streaming services which we know is how 4k content is being delivered at least in these early rollouts I mean one of the most common things you hear about 4k TVs is what's the point there's no 4k content but that's changing and LG has already got you set up to be able to enjoy that 4k content right out of the box now first things first there are a lot of different panel technology types out there and this one is featuring OLED technology which we kind of first saw in smartphones now the OLED technology found in the 65 eg 9600 is absolutely amazing in fact it is so good in the amount of detail that you can see in low-light situations in blacks and dark scenes and movies and high quality content it's going to make plasma in my opinion completely obsolete just like LCDs LEDs and plasmas made DLP back projection TVs completely obsolete this is completely going to change the game obviously I have a movie playing in the background now this is a vengers age of Ultron it is a blu-ray and it is 1080 P being up scaled right now to 4k and a 4k upscaling DVD now the picture is absolutely stunning and sitting close to it you can't even tell that it is not a native 4k blu-ray so right off the bat the processing engine inside this TV is doing a fantastic job we're back in the day if you took you know standard def and upgraded it to or up scaled it to 1080p or even 720p it looked absolutely terrible looked blotchy it looked really separated and fuzzy that is not the case here obviously I can't wait until we get native 4k blu-rays to really be able to see the picture quality in this TV but that's coming at a future date now one of the things that OLED technology has allowed LG to do is actually to get very accurate colors now there's a lot of different presets for colors inside this TV out of the box in fact there's seven of them there's multiple expert settings and each input also has its own settings for colors that way you can calibrate each device and get the best picture possible but I really didn't do much touching of this thing out of the box if you go and look at different consumer reviews at places that customers have been buying this TV like Amazon and Best Buy and you'll see that a lot of them are a lot of consumers are saying that the picture quality is fantastic in fact color calibration on these is sometimes not even necessary and I'm I would have to agree with that the picture quality and the colors look absolutely obviously you can't see this on the camera like you wouldn't person definitely go to a retailer check it out in person but some of the benefits to OLED is is absolutely silent it makes no noise and the only way you could really get good low-light detail in movies was to go with plasma because plasma had the best blacks reproduced in the market now plasma unfortunately they're a bit thicker panels they were heavy as hell and the fact that they buzzed anything that had bright white images on a plasma TV buzzed like crazy and speaking as someone who had and still technically has a plasma TV it was absolutely annoying to listen to in fact it was it was it was so distracting it really took away from the movie viewing experience now OLED gives you that same level of detail in blacks and lowlights and grays and it does it at anime using Leith in panel this panel is only a few millimeters thick it is absolutely amazing now the downside is the lower half of the TV is where all of the guts and internals are contained so obviously the thin panel is kind of offset by the fact that it is thicker at the bottom now while mounting this thing like I did was a little bit of an experience considering the fact that unfortunately this TV does not natively have any way to mount it out of the box to the wall it does not use a standard base amount does not use standard TV mounts it uses LG's own proprietary adjustable swing mount that you have to purchase separately and you can get those again for around 100 bucks not entirely happy about that considering this is a four thousand nine hundred and ninety nine dollar TV at least at the time of doing this video so I would have thought that something like that would have been included in such a high-end model for connectivity it has three sixty Hertz HDMI inputs as well as a digital optical output to hook up to your receivers making sound setup really really simple but display is nearly edge-to-edge with only a half inch bezel on this TV and at 65 inches that is extremely small you can see behind me right now it is a glorious thing to not have a giant bezel around your TV which is always plagued a lot of flat panel TVs although this is a curved flat panel you kind of get what I'm saying it is available in a flat version as well if you're not really into the whole curved thing also - one thing to mention what the curve is depending on how far away from the TV you're sitting is going to dramatically affect how curved the TV looks now for instance my sitting distance from this TV is about 13 feet and at that distance you don't really notice much of the curve at all even on off viewing angles but one thing I did notice with the curve is that there's a lot less glare and it's going to on the off viewing angles the TV doesn't feel like it's really on an off viewing angle it's really subtle and it's really hard to describe but when you are sitting about 20 or 25 degrees off center of the TV it still feels like it's facing you and I always stop at the opposite side that was facing away from you would feel really skewed but that wasn't the case at all especially at the viewing distance and I'm at now the closer you sit to the TV obviously it becomes a little bit more exaggerated on that curve and it's really going to depend in your unique situation on how the curve is going to feel for you some people like curved some people don't and like I said it is available also in a flat-panel version if curved isn't your thing there is some reflection and glare that you have to be concerned about because this is a semi glossy panel it's not as glassy as a glass panel like you would see on plasma TV however that's one of the ways that they are achieving such rich colors is having a glassy panel and that is something to keep in mind now when the TV is on and you're watching scenes moving and and bright scenes and it doesn't really show up too much but if you're watching a scene that is really dark like say in a cave or something like that it does show up a little bit if you have rear mounted lights in your TV room so that's something to keep his mind now setting up at this TV is probably one of the easiest I have ever experienced the moment you hook it up and you turn it on you're greeted with this kind of a friendly little blob that will move around and guide you through the setup and it sets you it helps you set up all your inputs it asks you what's connected to the TV it asks you what devices they are what inputs they're on it asks you what cable provider you're using or satellite provider it will set up your remote for all of that and in fact the remote even acts like a Wii or instead of having to navigate through a d-pad you can just point the remote at what you want to interact with and it's just like using a Wii on the TV it I wasn't expecting that and on top of that it also has voice recognition where you can control the TV with your freaking voice things like this or making Star Trek seem a little bit less like sci-fi and a little more like reality now the menu system and webOS on this TV is a lot less intrusive than some other brands that I have used in the past where sometimes on other brands you hit menu it brings up a huge menu and it shrinks your viewing portal down to a tiny little window in the corner and while you're navigating and doing your thing you can't really see what's happening on the TV on this one when you operate the menu it brings it up very subtle as an overlay it's transparent it doesn't shrink your picture at all and it's very easy to navigate because as I mentioned the remote control acts as a Wii now if you're using some sort of a third-party universal remote you lose that feature however with this remote you can't control all of your popular devices with it and get it set up very very simple so the LG remote does also work as a universal which is really nice now some of the really annoying things that have happened with other Smart TVs is if you're watching net now I know we've all had this happen and don't say it hasn't happened to you let's say you're watching Netflix or you're watching Hulu or Amazon TV or something built into your TV and you accidentally bump the button or you bump escape and it kicks you out and you go back to watching your set-top box and you bring up menu again and you have to start all over to find where you were and this TV that's not the case it's intelligent and it remembers what you were doing where you were last and will basically pause whatever your webOS experience was when you exited so when you go back to it it picks up flawlessly right where you left off now what's really cool is the fact that they've also got a very high performance processor in here that is keeping things very real-time we're switching between different webOS features different players or different streaming services built within with the TV it transitions very very quickly very similar to just switching channels on your set-top box you can switch between the different functions inside the TV now watching things like Netflix 4k streaming Netflix Amazon 4k or YouTube on this in 4k is absolutely stunning 4k really is making its way into your living room and it's doing it through your network provider first but DirecTV is one of the brands that is also starting to bring you in home 4k without having to use yo your internet connection which is a problem for some people who have data caps or slow internet speeds now I'm extremely impressed with this TV but at its price tag I had better been impressed with it otherwise something would have been wrong now I mentioned in my vlog I don't really watch TV but I never said I don't watch movies I love watching movies I love the home theater experience and this TV really does make me feel immersed inside of it now it also is a 3d TV and it does it without using active shutter glasses which is something that's always bugged me if you have to put on active shutter glasses they're heavy they're weighty they require batteries and they just very uncomfortable and unnatural to wear while watching TV however because of the way that 3d is utilized on this TV all of the magic is happening on the TV and the glasses aren't having to do anything when it comes to decoding of the 3d signal so when you put on their glasses they're very lightweight like sunglasses or even like going to the movie theater or you don't have these big giant weighty things chilling on your face and they don't really obscure any of the color or any of the clarity it's just an amazing 3d experience and this is coming from someone who has never liked 3d I've I've never liked VR I've never liked 3d my eyes weren't compatible with it it gave me headaches but that's not the case with this one so I'm happy to see that 3d is evolving and so is the picture quality as well as the latency when it comes to 3d and it's absolutely it's been a complete joy to watch some 3d contents like the last three 3ds our DVDs I bought this is actually a 3d movie right here I started buying 3d discs because I'm enjoying it I'm starting to finally see what the whole 3d crave was all about it's not something I'll watch all the time but it's nice to know that it's there if you want it anyway guys it's time to get the heck on out of here this has been my kind of a high-level overview and my user experience with the LG 65 eg 9600 they do have other versions and flavors of this TV available also in Full HD which is a 1080p model and all the way up to a 77 inch behemoth and it is also available in a flat-panel version as well as I mentioned if curved isn't really your thing once again got to give a huge shout out to LG for sending me this TV to take a look at and give you guys my opinions on if you guys are interested in winning your very own LG Smart TV make sure you look down the description LG is running a sweepstakes this month where you could win your very own lg tv anyway guys that's it I'm gonna get on out of here I'm gonna finish watching this movie here I haven't actually watched the whole thing yet on this TV and I really really want to I've been watching a lot more movies ever since receiving this thing which is why you've seen a lot less videos from me so if if you want to know why you're seeing less videos well you just go ahead and blame LG in there damn amazing TVs because now I don't want to leave the living room alright guys time to get out of here thanks watching and as always I will see you in the next one