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it's been more than a month since I've replaced the LG 65 eg 9600 65 inch curved OLED 4k TV in my living room with LG's brand-new Signature Series OLED 65 G 6p thanks LG BT Dubbs the birthday cake was cool but this is better now last time around I was blown away by the massive improvements to image quality compared to my old 1080p LCD that were made possible by the switch to OLED pixels and four times as many of them at that but have we reached the point of diminishing returns or is the 2016 flagship another quantum leap forward thanks to the industry's next big buzzword HDR let's discuss Coursera boasts unrivaled comfort and universal compatibility on its void surround headset featuring a genuine Dolby 7.1 headphone USB adapter check out the link in the video description to learn more the g6 as I'll be calling it for the rest of the review because it's fly is gorgeous in ways that I've always been able to appreciate like the way the organic light-emitting diodes the O LEDs are so close to the surface of their glass backing that they almost seem to be floating they're dramatically improving resistance to glare and viewing angles to new ways I mean it's funny how your perspective changes over time there was a point in my life not long ago mind you that a display a monitor or a TV was all about the panel it could be in a cardboard box housing for all I cared as long as the image quality was the best that I could get for as few dollars as possible and yet now that I'm older I find it a easier to appreciate the value of a beautifully designed enclosure for my TV because I view it as a piece of furniture as much as a window to my Netflix fix and be easier to justify the price increase that comes with better industrial design because of how much the piece is surrounding it managed to cost without having a TV inside them and people judge you if your stuff sucks being an adult is kind of a bummer unless you've had the sexiest toys on the block though right the first thing I was blown away by with the g6 was it thinness feels like we're saying this every year doesn't it but this time it's different the protective piece of cardboard in the box is almost the same thickness as the entire display assembly at least that is until you get down to the somewhat blocky integrated sound bar power supply and video input box stand thing at the bottom I mean let's face it putting all that stuff down there then calling your display 2.5 7 millimeters thick is a bit of a hack isn't it though this does raise the question do I care if they hack whether it's Samsung's 1connect or LG's bulky power input base everyone is pulling stuff out of the TV now because it no longer physically fits in order for them to hit new fitness targets but I just don't care but if I don't care about that and likely neither do you did I care about the rest of it being thinner in the first place what kind of TV could they make if they didn't stress out about that I'll probably never know so I'll just have to live with LG's approach which isn't terrible since they did a lot of things right including using their hack to have the integrated Harman Kardon co-branded speaker bar fired directly at the listener instead of downward the next thing they did right is the image quality I still lack an HDR capable pattern generator to measure this stuff exactly so for now all I can really do is put it in the words of my wife with whom I did blind a B testing between an SDR and an HDR master of Sony's camping demo clip my first instinct is this one looks better referring to the HDR one it feels like I can see more detail even though the scene seems darker the colors look almost more vibrant and that's HDR in a nutshell it took me a while to wrap my brain around this but it doesn't manifest so much as a difference in color as it does as a difference in contrast that makes a dark scene with bright lights for example look less washed out because it's not trying to cram everything into this narrower contrast and color space it's more about how it feels more natural and more true to what it would be like if you were if you were sitting there though taking advantage of this requires that the content is mastered in HDR at all then beyond that that it's mastered in HDR in a way that you the viewer will find pleasing I was really struggling with my comparison between my old set and the new one watching Marco Polo on Netflix colors skies landscapes skin tones were all clearly better on the g6 but I had to crank the OLED brightness even in the bright HDR preset to make out any details in the shadows at all well I don't know if it was the g6 firmware update or the Netflix app update but instead of just saying HDR in the top corner partway through my time with the TV it started telling me if it was HDR 10 or the competing Dolby vision standard the g6 supports both and the Netflix app doesn't allow you to manually choose so watching HDR 10 only content like LG's chess demo side-by-side the superiority of the newer display is obvious in the reflections off the King's armor and the glistening off all this Chinese stuff which means then that I just don't seem to like the Dolby vision Master of Marco Polo as much as the HDR 10:1 that was the problem thankfully unlike most manufacturers LG at least supports both of those standards but I would like to see them take it one step further and allow me to set a preferred one and/or switch between them at will because other than that the thing looks amazing which doesn't mean that they didn't do anything wrong the first one is a relatively minor one but at what the actual F moment for sure the power cord is permanently attached I mean I guess anyone who can afford an $8,000 TV can also afford a $5 extension cord but come on and the second one is much bigger LG and other TV makers too need to wake up to gaming there simply isn't any excuse anymore I don't expect anyone to give a rat's ass about the half dozen people other than me that are running gaming PC's in their living rooms but in three years since it launched the PlayStation 4 has sold over 40 million consoles stop ignoring this maybe if everyone complains they'll deal with it next year that's apparently why the curved screen is gone by the way and the g6 follows directly in the footsteps of its predecessor astonishing image quality to the point where anything else just kind of looks net but if it appears that a conscious decision has been made by LG to say screw it to input leg in favor of concentrating almost entirely on image quality then it's because that's exactly what happened even in game mode it's slow so the bottom line then is the g6 as a fascinating product the onboard processor is tangibly faster that same air mouse magic remote interface that I really like is still here LG's software isn't Android TV but it has a plex app and a Netflix app which is pretty much all that I really need and while oled burnin continues to be a concern to the point where LG's interface even has an image quality restore routine that takes an hour to run my year-old panel with adequate care continues to behave well which leaves us with the bottom line would I pay $8,000 for this TV no the law of diminishing returns hits pretty hard once you've crossed over into OLED territory at all but would I say it's the best viewing experience I've ever had if you simply don't care about money and you're willing to compromise on gaming then yes yes I would which isn't to say that you always have to fork out a ton of money to get the best experience I'm of talking of course about Squarespace Squarespace lets anyone whether you're a more experienced programmer or you are like me build a website they've got 24/7 support via live chat and email and it starts at just 12 bucks a month with a free domain thrown in if you by Squarespace for the year they've got tons of gorgeous templates they all feature responsive design so your site's going to 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