LG OLED556BV issues

[JackReacher]

After much deliberation, I purchased this TV last weekend from RicherSounds expecting great things as it is replacing a 7 year old Sony 40" LCD tv.

Unpacked it, set it up and changed the picture settings to some suggested settings I found on avforums. I have to say, I'm not wowed in the way I expected it to. I'm hoping that these can be resolved otherwise it may need to go back:-

1. The backs are incredible, but the knock on effect of this is that any bright white wording etc, like in the tv guide look extra white and slightly blurred, making it slightly uncomfortable to read. Even on expert dark room setting

2. The TV seems to impact the wifi connection of nearby devices, principally an amazon firestick and my PS4 which are both connected to the TV. When I try and stream video using either device, whether it be from Amazon video/Netflix/youtube, the quality is very poor and suffers buffering. This didn't happen on the old TV. I switched off the internal wifi connection to see if that was effecting things, and this improved things slightly but it's still way behind what it was doing before.

3. SD tv channels through aerial on freeview. I know that increasing the screen size is always going to compromise the quality of this sort of source, but the upscaling capability still isn't as good as I was expecting. HD channels are fine.

4. Motion issues - very occasionally, when there is a lot going on, there appears to be some weird blurry bits appear. This happens on both tv and when I played a blu-ray though the pS4


Has anyone experienced similar issues? or suggestions on changes to make to improve things?

[HRL]

Not sure about most but you could try turning off any post-processing.

I experienced a bit of blurriness with motion until I switched a few settings off. Some of them are only worth using if you have a poor quality image to work with. HD or 4K content shouldn't need any additional processing.

[Manc Dwarf]

I didn't find the picture as bad as you've described. However, I have read enough on here to know that TVs out of the box are rarely in optimum mode in terms of picture settings.

I'm sure getting it professionally calibrated would make it much better - I didn't though - I followed the instructions on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXwFi3E1K0g

Made a huge positive difference and I'm now really happy with the picture quality and clarity across pretty much all colour ranges - not just black.

[rossub]

Every time I've tried suggested settings on forums they've looked absolutely terrible - it's like there's some kind of 'emperors new clothes' thing going on or something. Same happened with my B6, so I've left it on the standard out of the box settings and it's fine.

Only time I've noticed judder is when there's golf on. The ball landing and rolling on the green always creates some. Managed to improve it by playing around with some of the processing, but didn't get rid of it completely.

[JackReacher]

Thanks for the comments. The settings I used are those in the avforums video linked above, but interesting to hear that not everyone seems to get on with them.

I will need to have a play around with them to see what effect it has, although I'm no expert.

The wifi issue is really bugging me as I don't understand how it can happen.

[jmorgan]

Cannot comment of the settings, I have an earlier set however the I never wifi my kit if I can hard wire. Is this an option for the TV?

Also, how much kit is using your wifi, is it too much for what you have available?

3. SD Channels. They will be shown up for what they are on these sets. You are taking something that was meant for a 625 line TV set initially (leading back to the good old days of PAL) It will be poor on a set that will do 3840 × 2160 pixels, around double the HD. UK HD being 1080p (forgetting i for the moment). HD being 1,920 x 1,080. So upscaling a HD is a lot better (multiply the number by 2 to see what you get....).

I saw the HD version of my 4k next to each other in a shop and on BBC HD I found it hard to tell them apart. SD is just poor, that is all it will be.

Edited by jmorgan on Sunday 21st May 10:44

[redneckLT]

I have also had WiFi issues, mine is 65". Looks like TV is blocking WiFi signal. I solved by moving other devices from behind the TV. Use HDMI extension cable for Fire Stick. I might not look very neat though. Annoying.

Long time ago Xmas tree lights used to affect the WiFi in my home as well.

The most annoying feature is lack of ExFat file system support for USB. I am Mac user and had to buy Tuxera.

[gizlaroc]

Right, I would say ignore the setting from the forums, for some reason they all like the OLED light low and then pump up contrast, but it still looks dull and soft imho.
I have calibrated mine and have gone the other way, I have OLED light on 95 and contrast on 80 for day and 70 for night under ISF presets.

This also stops the ABL, the brightness limiter kicking in, so god knows why they don't do this themselves. Well I do know as it can clip the very brightest whites, but in reality this happens in maybe 1% of material and you wouldn't know anyway.

Set

colour 48
brightness 52
h and v sharpness 10
Gamma 2.4

Super res High
colour temp warm 2
High red 2
green -12
blue -12

True motion off.

See what you think of that.

[RobDickinson]

Game mode should kill any motion blur or switch off the processing manually - expert modes should be good too. Have to do this for each input.

I've never noticed it anything other than pin sharp for text (55b6) if the input is good.

I also got fed up with the built in wifi , seemed to refuse to connect to my 5gz quit often, sometimes just plain crash its networking module, even once had to totally factory reset it. Switched to a power line 'cable' instead of using wifi.

For other devices use extension cables I guess plugging them directly in the tv is blocking the signal, had to do thid with my xbox wifi dongle once.