The contrast is king when it comes to the most striking visual TV.
The plasma TV screen suddenly disappeared rated to produce for his ability, an intense black color and a new technology called organic light emitting diode (OLED) is ready, the TV screen in the crown with excellent image quality thin drawings take effect.
Finally, the 55EC9300 is cheaper per inch so far. Here's our review.
The size, style, and the installer
The 55-inch LG 55EC9300 delivers his "infinite contrast" defined LG with an attractive design. Slightly curved screen EC9300 measures about 0.21 inches thick, while a box in the middle of the back contains messages and other electronic support. It adds another 1.3 inches. EC9300-screen is hardly surrounded by a touch of chrome trim visible from the front. The active part of the image almost fills the area within the chrome, only with a dark stripe, approx 0.4 cm, board design.
Matte Silver base TV is connected to facilitate the work setting. Provide support feet of the base centered about 12 inches, and the front and rear edges of the bevel bottom is curved. On the sides of the screen Located at the base, the TV screen is slightly tilted backwards.
The EC9300 contains two attachment points of the M6 mounting material wall mount style. This setting is the use of HDMI input page require the TV and a built-in, to avoid a separation element along the upper edge of the disk socket.
Input options
Entries in the back of the EC9300 include 4 HDMI with ARC enabled port and another who is willing MHL. Dongle included provides component video input and an optical digital output for use with built-in tuner and the output of the application to an external audio device. Wireless connections are a / b / g / n WiFi and Bluetooth v3.0. A trio of USB input makes connecting external storage devices a breeze, and LG offers a loan option Skype USB camera.
Display Technology
The OLED technology is a screen issue, such as plasma, which does not require a fiber optic backlit LCD TVs and traditional filter layers. The screen offers 55EC9300 per pixel lighting makes the black bars of letterboxed movies in a dimly lit room invisible, while at the same time a desirable LCD brightness.
Compared to LCD TVs, including "local dimming", which increases the apparent contrast by controlling the generation of backlit by a limited number of areas, the EC9300 able to control the lighting in each pixel, excellent results eliminates artifacts such as halos and Hot Spots.
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3D made properly
For fans of 3D home theater offers EC9300 some of the best views of the experiences I had. The passive 3D TV technology enables the use of polarized light, without power, which divides the screen resolution between each eye, the brain will melt in a full screen resolution glasses - assuming idea of biological diversity, especially sight. Active 3D technology delivers screens 1080p resolution to each eye. The four pairs of polarized glasses provided are two clip-on glasses for prescription eyeglass wearers. 3D images are clear and detailed made with minimal crosstalk.
Another use of the 3D capabilities of the TV offers players two different views in 2D, undergoes an option that shared a double play with two players in separate fullscreen view configuration. Two glasses with 3D game option, to use this feature compatible is required.
Acoustically
The built-in stereo speakers directed downwards (40 watts of total power) in the back of the EC9300 can not compare with a sound bar or surround sound system decent dedicated to her, but I was impressed by their sound quality. They gave a warm sound experience, of course. Been listening to a menu item to optimize audio output or wall mounting configurations seemed degrading (tested with media online communications and placed on a coffee table) experience, so I ended this function to its (from) the standard.
Magic WebOS and distance
TV FreeSpace activated remotely Magic contains cursor control Nintendo Wii as its beautiful interface based on WebOS with an RF connection, eliminating the need for on television. The remote clean design was comfortable to hold and operate, even if your first cursor speed was too fast for my taste. Set the menu command very well tamed.
I was very surprised, missing EC9300 extensive features Bluetooth keyboard support contrary, neither the LG TV Remote App for Android provide keyboard functionality. However, with the keyboard television with remote control magic was precise and relatively quick.
The visual allure of the WebOS interface with animated tabbed options at the bottom of the screen, has been located mitigated somewhat by his general slowness. Almost every menu selection requires a second or two to respond, and I was grateful for the "thinking" animation asked to confirm my actions.
Tuner Time
Configuration over-the-air TV (OTA) Tuner marked its sensitivity, as he stood stations with ease and stability in the area. Guide displayed EC9300 direct channels from the menu on the right third of the screen and shows the channel information for three stations at once. I prefer a grid guide channels in full screen as Samsung HU8550 type, but the trackball EC9300 magic distance is easy to select a particular channel link quickly. In addition, the EC9300 does not signify the details, the 720p broadcast destroy, as done HU8550 overscan.
Comparison OLED
Looking closely at the screen shows a subpixel Design EC9300 four colors: red, green, blue and white. In addition, the LG OLED filter uses a color LCD with backlight OLED materials as "white"? An advantage of this configuration is the relative simplicity, compared with RGB OLED materials offered by other manufacturers. The white sub-pixel also offers advantages in terms of efficiency, producing direct white light, but as the combined production of the three RGB subpixels (like what every other TV).
Angle
The 55EC9300 delivered excellent display off-axis plasma beat my favorite, the Samsung F8500 portable terminals. And compared to LCDs, as HU8550 Samsung, LG maintains excellent contrast and color saturation, as seen from across the room. Curved TV has also proven to be effective to minimize reflections from ambient light, and the brightness of the LCD screen as a pleasant viewing experience in a brightly lit room.
Interestingly, the role of the OLED devices such as plasma TV's, the dynamic display screens, the energy in function of the relative brightness of the shown, consume. So the brighter the image, the more power consumption. In addition, the voltage of the screen will be adjusted: 100% full-frame as bright white, as the size of the window 10% of the 84.64 m Lambert about a third of the action. Watch Blu-ray, broadcast and streaming content, I found that the little white elements video seems to overlap graphic score as sports or television information signal to be much brighter than any other how bright scene full-screen, but it's never wrong.
Unlike my favorite plasma television, the EC9300 showed no signs of uneven wear of pixels or image retention during use (also known as burn-in known).
Uniformity
With all of the motion video tests EC9300 provides excellent uniformity, similar to a plasma screen. A case where I see problems of uniformity, was very dark, with static backgrounds with the worst place illuminated logo Netflix app with your dark gradient background. Vertical lines observed in this case, but not observed in the normal video content.
In addition, the review shows EC9300 is received, had a very slight green tint on the edge of the screen to the left. This device was less pronounced viewing distances over seven feet and saw the center-left of the screen. This artifact was particularly noticeable when a light gray background, containing the settings the TV menu, but I have not found it annoying to see when viewing regular video content.
Color and contrast
With a test configuration with TPG AVLAB excellent DVDO SpectraCal CalMAN and v5 software factory calibrated image 55EC9300 Cinema preset delivered a great result ColorChecker. This measure of the test accuracy of 20 colors in the entire Rec. Scattered 709 color space, and dE2000 (TV Delta E 2000 formula) average of 1.68 and a maximum of 2.83 (under 3.0 is ideal, lower is better) is the best I "I recorded in 2014.
Results grayscale with LG factory settings were correct, and with an average Delta E of 2.4 - 3.0 lower back is ideal. RGB balance the blue / red gray gray illustrated further in darker in level and a bit too red in light gray.
Greyscale and color calibration EC9300 was difficult because the image control gains / bias were very interactive. Adjust the white balance of the TV allow duplicate values in the inputs, but also other calibration controls including color management, gamma and the basic settings and images lack a mechanism to copy the values of the other inputs.
See tests with a transmission system and Blu-ray titles marked contrast to the epic television that has a good account color and handsome good saturated image. The accuracy of the apparent color and gradation was attractive, of course, and no artifacts.
Motion for a resolution
Experiment with custom-de-judder and blur controls EC9300 showed that activation blur the fine details of the maximum achieved in the reference motion resolution tests, but also for the less video noise reduction to decrease slightly interlaced HD detail. In addition, EC9300 was the absolute clarity of detail movement HU8550 UHD Samsung LCD TV compared fit side by side.
Video Processing
Treatment of HD interlaced video EC9300 was strong with 24p content (on the film) and the material of 30p / 60i. A processing function called Real Cinema (enabled by default) causes a repeat of the 24p material according to the refresh rate of 120 Hz TV 5x frame without unwanted soften the image interpolation. The activation of some de-judder for TV TruMotion setting helped but soften the glaring strobe artifacts in scenes detected quickly, thoroughly movie content.
Reaction time measures revealed Cinema standard image 55EC9300 an average latency of 108ms Video depending on the lag test Leo Bodnar . Shielded brought the transition to TV game to close the gap to 50 ms. Rename the HDMI input to "PC" (one of many options default name) and with the gameplay is the measure of the average delay for 34MS.
Best price ever
A year ago, the price of a 55-inch OLED TV has around $ 15,000. Six months later the price was halved. And today, the prices of the LG takes 55EC9300 the cost of OLED property to a tempting $ 3500, with the greatest reductions in the near future (Note :. 55EC9500 The LG is now available for some time in Best Buy or Amazon for $ 2,999 links to the corresponding pages.) My prediction that 1080p OLED TVs fit into a 2160p OLED UHD4K years and is soon to take over the video option luxury home screen.
Bottom Line
The most important feature of the LG 55EC9300 is its high image quality at affordable prices. The EC9300 supplied the contrast performance of the best plasma TVs, while adjusting the brightness and efficiency of LCD technology. Calibrated with its good image work and attractive design, Anyone who is the first to find an OLED adopt 55EC9300 to be the case this year.
HD Guru LG OLED HDTV Price 55EC9300 4.5 out of 5 hearts 
Robert Heron
Disclosure: Review sample in the form of a loan from the manufacturer.
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