We might have spent a number of paragraphs highlighting certain shortcomings on the LG 55EC930V, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad display. On the contrary, every new OLED TV to hit the market – especially one as affordable as this one – will be scrutinised to death precisely because it has the potential to be the best television ever.
No TV is perfect, and let’s not pretend that PDP and LCD TVs – which have taken decades to mature into the ubiquitous display technologies we see today – are without flaws. Plasma suffers from image retention (which if left unattended may lead to permanent screenburn), high-APL buzzing, dynamic false contouring (DFC), PWM (pulse-width modulation) noise and ABL-capped light output; whereas LCD is hampered by black level, backlight uniformity, viewing angle and motion quality.
It’s worth remembering that the EC930V is only LG’s second iteration of a 55-inch curved OLED television: it’s got an ideal platform of unrivalled blacks from which to deliver gorgeous images, and some of the described issues can potentially be rectified via firmware updates (to improve picture processing) or an outboard 3D LUT solution like the Lumagen Radiance series of video processors (which we will be exploring). If you have £2,000 to spend, and absolutely have to buy a new TV at this time of writing, then the LG 55EC930V deserves a place on your audition shortlist.
