Picked up a LG OLED55B6V

Combat Fighter · 2 Sep 2017 at 18:25

peahead said:
The C6 got HLG is the latest update as it now works with the iplayer beta HLG trial. The B6 may have it now or its coming.

Yeah my B6 has had HGL support for a while now.

Your'll need to load the firmware manually.

beachBOYken · 3 Sep 2017 at 09:43

Combat Fighter said:
Yeah my B6 has had HGL support for a while now.

Your'll need to load the firmware manually.

Did you get that from the official Russian website, as Im pretty sue LG UK site only has the older firmware still with no hlg support.

Scramz · 3 Sep 2017 at 17:34

I can't decide between a 55 inch or 65 inch. A friend of mine has a 55 and I love how crisp the picture is. Would you lose some crispness and punchiness going from 55 to 65 due to being less dense?

Combat Fighter · 3 Sep 2017 at 20:20

beachBOYken said:
Did you get that from the official Russian website, as Im pretty sue LG UK site only has the older firmware still with no hlg support.

Yes, that's what I meant in my previous post about loading the firmware manually.

Combat Fighter · 4 Sep 2017 at 22:23

Just so you know I loaded the latest firmware 05.30.03 the other night and the detail in the blacks/shadows is quite improved (using the same previous settings)

LG definitely have tweaked something with firmware 05.30.03.

Well worth doing!

:cool:

JediFragger · 5 Sep 2017 at 07:42

Good to know, thanks

Am on the hunt for a 65" B6...

beachBOYken · 5 Sep 2017 at 09:47

Combat Fighter said:
Just so you know I loaded the latest firmware 05.30.03 the other night and the detail in the blacks/shadows is quite improved (using the same previous settings)

LG definitely have tweaked something with firmware 05.30.03.

Well worth doing!

Yep, quite a few on AVF have also confirmed this, good to hear, not that it was bad in any way but improvements are always welcome.

Im waiting for the LG UK to list the firmware on their site before I install it, just a bit hesitant downloading from other websites even if it is official.

VincentHanna · 5 Sep 2017 at 09:51

But wasn't there a firmware release that made Game mode HDR worse? Have they released a further improvement since then?

beachBOYken · 5 Sep 2017 at 10:02

VincentHanna said:
But wasn't there a firmware release that made Game mode HDR worse? Have they released a further improvement since then?

Not sure, its been mentioned in the past the HDR game mode was dark but not found that an issue, apparently with the latest 5.** firmware for HDR game content everyone says to put Dynamic contrast to high, think even LG recommend this as well, NOTE: only for HDR game mode.

Ayahuasca · 5 Sep 2017 at 10:21

Decent updates coming for 2017 set owners as well

http://www.twice.com/news/tv/ifa-2017-lg-adds-technicolor-expert-mode-all-2017-oled-tvs/65948

VincentHanna · 5 Sep 2017 at 11:05

beachBOYken said:
Not sure, its been mentioned in the past the HDR game mode was dark but not found that an issue, apparently with the latest 5.** firmware for HDR game content everyone says to put Dynamic contrast to high, think even LG recommend this as well, NOTE: only for HDR game mode.

Yeah I did that anyway for Game mode.

It's still not as bright as HDR standard on 4K Movies, but better than not having it.

Dublove · 6 Sep 2017 at 20:45

Anyone got a 65b7v?

Had mine a week now, and its damn impressive with 4k hdr. Only prob is I think its going to have to go back for a replacement - LHS edge of the screen seems to have a feathering in tint/glow. Most worst at the physical edge and fades in over about four inches.

Shows up most with greys & whites and to an extent yellows. For example if the screen was displaying 25% grey, then the 4 inches on the LHS shows a yellowy grey. Same with white. Now I can't stop looking at it

Put Planet Earth II Jungle on, and cannot tell with all the greens!

Ayahuasca · 6 Sep 2017 at 22:09

Yeah the 65 inch screens tend to get it often

VincentHanna · 10 Sep 2017 at 12:18

New version 05.30.03 firmware is officially on the LG UK site for the B6

According to AV Forums people, it improves black levels.

It also adds new background images to the 'no signal screen' and "changes the Amazon HDR mode"

http://www.lg.com/uk/support/software-firmware?search=OLED65B6V&pageVisibleFlag=2

Just installed it myself.

VincentHanna · 10 Sep 2017 at 15:16

Oh and Battlefield 1 was recently updated to support HDR.

Weird thing is - To use HDR to work from my Nvidia Titan X's I generally have to disable the Nvidia audio to get it to work.

But Battlefield 1 supports Dolby Digital Atmos. With that enabled I was able to play it in HDR with glorious atmos audio coming out of my Denon AVR and no issues. So I am now re-downloading all my other problematic HDR games to see if enabling Atmos in the windows control panel means they will work with audio....fingers crossed.

PS4 and Xbox One S don't have this issue.

beachBOYken · 10 Sep 2017 at 15:29

VincentHanna said:
New version 05.30.03 firmware is officially on the LG UK site for the B6

According to AV Forums people, it improves black levels.

It also adds new background images to the 'no signal screen' and "changes the Amazon HDR mode"

http://www.lg.com/uk/support/software-firmware?search=OLED65B6V&pageVisibleFlag=2

Just installed it myself.

Have it on USB stick ready to install myself, just a bit unsure currently, heard a few people report glowing blacks??? and HDR game mode is dimmer and needs DC on high.

Have you tried HDR game mode since installing it.

VincentHanna · 10 Sep 2017 at 16:24

Quite frankly the old firmware I was on (04.31.25) didn't really have a bright HDR game mode anyway, so I had DC on high anyway for HDR Game. Couldn't see any difference between the new firmware and the old in terms of that.

Breakthrough though - Shadow Warrior 2 worked fine with HDR and the receiver was showing Dolby Digital. It seems that if you send a bitstream signal over HDMI instead of PCM then it uses less bandwidth and works great.

Now to test Hitman...

HungryHippos · 10 Sep 2017 at 21:02

I know it's curved but damn fine deal if you can wing a 65C6 for under £2k!

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lg...-3d-hdr-oled-tv-199997-instore-currys-2786345

beachBOYken · 11 Sep 2017 at 13:23

VincentHanna said:
Quite frankly the old firmware I was on (04.31.25) didn't really have a bright HDR game mode anyway, so I had DC on high anyway for HDR Game. Couldn't see any difference between the new firmware and the old in terms of that.

Breakthrough though - Shadow Warrior 2 worked fine with HDR and the receiver was showing Dolby Digital. It seems that if you send a bitstream signal over HDMI instead of PCM then it uses less bandwidth and works great.

Now to test Hitman...

Yeah you are correct about game mode, just updated and the picture is no dimmer than before so Im not quite sure what everyone is talking about on some forums when they say its dimmer.

DC to high does brighten it but it washes out the colours a little, colour gamut to wide fixes that, do you find this?

Marlie · 11 Sep 2017 at 17:23

Hello I've just picked up a LG OLED65B7V. Does anyone know how I can access the sky TV guide button on the magic remote? It all working but just don't know the actual button for the sky TV guide?