Questions for C9 OLED guys

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tigger1612

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Hows the gaming now at 1440p 120hz? Are you scaling the image and if so do you notice a softer image? Getting rid of my PG27UQ and going 55 C9. I know it'll be a regression for a period of time until Gsync compatible firmware and later hdmi 2.1 but certainly gain image quality. I have OLEDs for other rooms as tvs already and am addicted to that contrast.

Any noticable input delay as it stands today?

Calibration wise, are people just calibrating the game mode on the tv for accurate color?

Any pictures anyone has of their setup would be awesome too. Mount recommendations as well.
 
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In all serious, the C9 is excellent and the 1440p 120hz is OK if your sitting about 10 feet away. Its super responsive and motion clarity looks real good, but its going to leave you wanting MOAR resolution, especially if you are coming from a 4k144hz gaming panel.
 
32" 1440p monitors don't have the best image quality so blowing that up to 55" can't be good unless you sit far enough away.
 
I'm playing Apex Legends at 1440p@120Hz with a C9 and 2080ti. Looks great to me. I sit about 3.5-4ft back. Looking forward to the LG firmware update that enables VRR. I'll upgrade to a HDMI 2.1 GPU when they come out but for now this is pretty close to the best setup possible imo.
 
Of course it's going to look terrible but if you sit far enough you won't be able to notice that but still be able to enjoy that OLED eye candy. Heck if you sit far enough even 1080p becomes hard to notice vs 4k and that is what people were doing previously, running their OLEDs at 1080p120Hz.
 
Is the input delay non-existant? Some charts I saw show the PG27UQ and the OLED at 120hz pretty much the same. Actually I believe the OLED might even be quicker with its 6.x ms time.
 
AngryLobster said:
I owned a B8. 1440p is absolutely atrocious on a display that size even 6 feet away.

My Q80R does something in terms of scaling to 1440p that looks much nicer than a comparable OLED but I'd still never use it in a million years.

I don't get it, buy an OLED for the PQ but use 1440p and destroy that PQ with a soft/aliased blurry mess.
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Well if you aren't destroying the picture quality by lower resolution blur then you would be destroying it with 60Hz sample and hold blur so really there's no way to win here.
 
My eyesight isn't very good. I have a 65 B7. 1440/120 was very smooth, but didnt look great.

I set my res to 4k and if the game allows I render scale it to 80%.
 
I still have an older 65 E6 and back then hooked up my pc to it for 4k/60hz and ran Doom 2016 on it. While obvious input lag sucked, the 4k res even at that size was amazing to me. I remember even putting my face 1ft from it and saying can't see pixels etc. Maybe im just blind but it looked great. Hopefully we get 2.1 soon then the C9 should become the best "monitor" especially considering it was 500 bucks cheaper then my PG27UQ.
 
Can the C9 run 1440P natively 1:1 without scaling and black bars around if you send the 1440P signal with a video card?
 
Stryker7314 said:
Can the C9 run 1440P natively 1:1 without scaling and black bars around if you send the 1440P signal with a video card?
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If you use GPU scaling then it should. It will be a pretty small window though so probably not useful. Try using sharpen filters with full screen scaling instead.
 
Stryker7314 said:
Can the C9 run 1440P natively 1:1 without scaling and black bars around if you send the 1440P signal with a video card?
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No. No LCD or LED panel can do this with non-native resolutions. If you want a full screen image with a less-than native resolution then you're going to have to use scaling of some type.
 
Armenius said:
No. No LCD or LED panel can do this with non-native resolutions. If you want a full screen image with a less-than native resolution then you're going to have to use scaling of some type.
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Sure they can, you just haven't seen them. There are panels that can run those resolutions natively 1:1 without scaling and the other pixels around the active are black.

kasakka said:
If you use GPU scaling then it should. It will be a pretty small window though so probably not useful. Try using sharpen filters with full screen scaling instead.
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At 80ppi it won't be that small, it is approximately 36.5 inches.

https://www.sven.de/dpi/
 
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Stryker7314 said:
Sure they can, you just haven't seen them. There are panels that can run those resolutions natively 1:1 without scaling.
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No. The TV is scaling the image to full screen using its own internal scalar. It's physically impossible for an LCD to display a non-native resolution with 1:1 pixel scaling in full screen. Some televisions give you an option to change the scaling behavior, but most just offer aspect ratio control.
 
Armenius said:
No. The TV is scaling the image to full screen using its own internal scalar. It's physically impossible for an LCD to display a non-native resolution with 1:1 pixel scaling in full screen. Some televisions give you an option to change the scaling behavior, but most just offer aspect ratio control.
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Nope, there are tv's with native display in the settings, question is does this one have it.
 
Stryker7314 said:
Nope, there are tv's with native display in the settings, question is does this one have it.
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The logic of your original question is debatable.

"Can the C9 run 1440P natively 1:1 without scaling and black bars around if you send the 1440P signal with a video card?"
Did you mean
a) without scaling and without black bars.
Or
b) without scaling and with black bars?

a) isnt possible, you cannot have native 1:1 using a none native res.
b) is possible on any display if you set up GPU scaling with scaling turned off.
 
Stryker7314 said:
Can the C9 run 1440P natively 1:1 without scaling and black bars around if you send the 1440P signal with a video card?
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Let me see if I can take a crack at this and clear this up:

Only a 1440p panel can display a 1440p resolution natively without scaling and without black bars. This is inherently 1:1.

Otherwise, a 4K panel can (keyword "can"; not all 4K TVs do) natively support a 1440p signal through scaling (no black bars) -- or -- natively support a 1440p signal through 1:1 (with black bars -- which would be a frame box, since you'd have both letter boxes and pillar boxes). I suspect this is what you were asking, in which case I believe the C9 only does the former with respect to 1440p signals (scaling), not the latter (1:1).

EDIT: The C9 can do both, apparently. :)
 
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gan7114 said:
Let me see if I can take a crack at this and clear this up:

Only a 1440p panel can display a 1440p resolution natively without scaling and without black bars. This is inherently 1:1.

Otherwise, a 4K panel can (keyword "can"; not all 4K TVs do) natively support a 1440p signal through scaling (no black bars) -- or -- natively support a 1440p signal through 1:1 (with black bars -- which would be a frame box, since you'd have both letter boxes and pillar boxes). I suspect this is what you were asking, in which case I believe the C9 only does the former with respect to 1440p signals (scaling), not the latter (1:1).
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Turns out it does with a setting called Just Scan that does 1:1 Pixel Mapping.

Thanks all!
 
When you disable scaling does it center the image, and can you control the position?

And has anyone tested a non RTX card yet? I have a 1080ti and would prefer to wait for the 3k series to upgrade.
 
Pretty sure it only works with Turing cards, though a clarification in the driver notes would be appreciated.
 
tigger1612 said:
I still have an older 65 E6 and back then hooked up my pc to it for 4k/60hz and ran Doom 2016 on it. While obvious input lag sucked, the 4k res even at that size was amazing to me. I remember even putting my face 1ft from it and saying can't see pixels etc. Maybe im just blind but it looked great. Hopefully we get 2.1 soon then the C9 should become the best "monitor" especially considering it was 500 bucks cheaper then my PG27UQ.
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B6 owner here; I'm one of those guys on the fence about getting a C9 now and waiting for 2020's GPUs (which I'm assuming will support HDMI 2.1 for that 4k120 HDR VRR goodness), or holding off.

And yes, PC Displays are definitely overpriced by about 2x right now. You can literally get a 55" OLED with full HDMI 2.1 support for less then some of these displays.
 
gamerk2 said:
B6 owner here; I'm one of those guys on the fence about getting a C9 now and waiting for 2020's GPUs (which I'm assuming will support HDMI 2.1 for that 4k120 HDR VRR goodness), or holding off.

And yes, PC Displays are definitely overpriced by about 2x right now. You can literally get a 55" OLED with full HDMI 2.1 support for less then some of these displays.
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Yep. I seen 55" c9 as low as $1200. The 65" can be had around $1800.
 
The real question is can mini LED fill in gap until micro LED is affordable, and is it good enough. I wouldn't buy an OLED without a Best Buy (burn-in) warranty and that's an extra $600.00. If the TCL mini LED is "close enough" until full blown micro LEDs are cheap enough to make your $600 back, I guess that's the tradeoff versus getting an OLED.
 
pippenainteasy said:
The real question is can mini LED fill in gap until micro LED is affordable, and is it good enough.
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With a big enough Mini-LED array I expect we would get good enough results for HDR with not much haloing. The dual layer LCDs are also promising. Neither will do anything for LCD response times though and those are unlikely to get to OLED levels anytime soon.
 
kasakka said:
Neither will do anything for LCD response times though and those are unlikely to get to OLED levels anytime soon.
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We might see strobing tech get more effective to mask LCD response times a bit, but yeah, very unlikely for LCDs to approach OLED.
 
I have not.

I cant get 10bit color depth at 2560x1440 120hz either. It greys out changing color depth even with hdr enabled. Looks like it may have to do with using a pc resolution. Can't change it even at 4k either unless i change to YCbCr422 or 420
 
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Haemato said:
I'm playing Apex Legends at 1440p@120Hz with a C9 and 2080ti. Looks great to me. I sit about 3.5-4ft back. Looking forward to the LG firmware update that enables VRR. I'll upgrade to a HDMI 2.1 GPU when they come out but for now this is pretty close to the best setup possible imo.
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Can you confirm whether or not low framerate compensation works with the c9? Im seeing people talking about how it isn't supported by looking at the edid. The 40-120 hz range suggests that it should indeed support it. I wont get my tv until tuesday, but im trying to figure out if I should be relieved or disappointing now, or wait till Tuesday to test myself..
 
C9 can't do 1440p@120hz 1:1 AFAIK. Enable gpu scaling and thats just a normal 4k60 signal to the TV (also mega burn in).
 
Couple things for those getting one:

1. When in pc mode on hdmi port, SDR content is rgb full so black level setting on picture mode should be set to high.

2. When HDR is enabled it will switch to rgb/ycbcr limited so change black level to low or image will be washed out.

3. 2560x1440 cannot be done 1:1 across the entire screen. Oled only has one native/physical resolution of 3840x2160. When gpu scaling is turned off it goes to 1:1 with black bars around all sides. Thats because its only lighting up 2560 horizontal and 1440 vertical pixels.

4. You are always limited to 8bit color depth unless changing to ycbcr 422 or 420 at 4k60. We need hdmi 2.1 badly.
 
tigger1612 said:
Couple things for those getting one:

1. When in pc mode on hdmi port, SDR content is rgb full so black level setting on picture mode should be set to high.

2. When HDR is enabled it will switch to rgb/ycbcr limited so change black level to low or image will be washed out.

3. 2560x1440 cannot be done 1:1 across the entire screen. Oled only has one native/physical resolution of 3840x2160. When gpu scaling is turned off it goes to 1:1 with black bars around all sides. Thats because its only lighting up 2560 horizontal and 1440 vertical pixels.

4. You are always limited to 8bit color depth unless changing to ycbcr 422 or 420 at 4k60. We need hdmi 2.1 badly.
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This is the first report i've heard of 1440 p creating black bars. I can also tell you that pc mode with hdr will cause color banding. To remove that you will need to set the input as console or just leave it the way it is. You lose 444, but you also get much smoother gradients.
 
My post mentions doing it 1:1 filling the screen. That is impossible. Oled is fixed pixel so there is only one 1:1 resolution that fills the screen, 3840x2160. Any other resolution is scaled to fill. If u turn off gpu scaling u can output 2560x1440 with black bars all around the image.
 
tigger1612 said:
My post mentions doing it 1:1 filling the screen. That is impossible. Oled is fixed pixel so there is only one 1:1 resolution that fills the screen, 3840x2160. Any other resolution is scaled to fill. If u turn off gpu scaling u can output 2560x1440 with black bars all around the image.
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IDK if that's true; I have a B6 and play a *lot* of old games, and everything that runs in a 4:3 resolution is stretched to fit the screen; no black bars. Not sure if GPU scaling is enabled on my GPU (1080Ti); whatever is default I guess.
 
Understanding that fixed pixel displays cannot show a non native resolution without scaling happening somewhere (or showing black bars) must either be a difficult concept to understand or be lost in semantics somewhere . English is a difficult language.
 
I consider 1:1 mapping a non-native resolution as the "just scan" option of showing black bars if the image is smaller than the screen. Because the only displays that actually changed their native resolution are CRTs which haven't been used by most people in over a decade. It's obviously impossible to change the native resolution of oled, lcd, dlp, etc.

But I do see how it could be confusing to someone that doesn't know anything about display technology.
 
sethk said:
Understanding that fixed pixel displays cannot show a non native resolution without scaling happening somewhere (or showing black bars) must either be a difficult concept to understand or be lost in semantics somewhere . English is a difficult language.
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sharknice said:
I consider 1:1 mapping a non-native resolution as the "just scan" option of showing black bars if the image is smaller than the screen. Because the only displays that actually changed their native resolution are CRTs which haven't been used by most people in over a decade. It's obviously impossible to change the native resolution of oled, lcd, dlp, etc.

But I do see how it could be confusing to someone that doesn't know anything about display technology.
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Of course, but he said when you select 1440p you will get black bars. He is the only person that i've seen mention that. I just hooked up my c9 last night, ran 1440 p 120 hz and no black bars. I'll check again to see if it's my tv or gpu that is the scaler, but usually nvidia defaults to the display for scaling.

Edit: Maybe hes talking about the no scaling option? If you select 1440 p and opt for no scaling that should give the black bars. Either way its a confusing post because hes making it seem like this is exclusive to oled technology.
 
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sharknice said:
I consider 1:1 mapping a non-native resolution as the "just scan" option of showing black bars if the image is smaller than the screen. Because the only displays that actually changed their native resolution are CRTs which haven't been used by most people in over a decade. It's obviously impossible to change the native resolution of oled, lcd, dlp, etc.

But I do see how it could be confusing to someone that doesn't know anything about display technology.
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Sounds like you are talking about semantics more than anything and that's just not useful to anyone.

All these options should work just fine if GPU scaling is used:

  • Lower resolution spanning the full screen size but with added blur due to not mapping 1:1 to the pixels of the screen. NVCP "Aspect ratio" or "Full-screen" options.
  • 1080p or lower resolution scaled to full screen using integer scaling. Works only for resolutions that are integer divisible from 4K. NVCP "Integer scaling option".
  • Lower resolution shown in a portion of the screen with black bars. NVCP "No scaling" option or "Integer scaling" when using non-integer scalable resolutions (e.g. 2560x1440).
  • Ultrawide resolutions that are vertically narrower than the native res, eg. 3840x1600. NVCP "Aspect ratio" or "No scaling" should work for this.
What the display supports using its own scaler I do not know. Which one gives better results in image quality depends on the display.
 
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