I’ve been dreaming of a TV deal, and selling Amazon Prime Early Access is my next chance at it. Like many, I see the biggest sales of the year as the time to get one of the best TVs out there. Unfortunately, my eyes are wider than my wallet at the moment, because this is a TV that I stopped buying because its current price is too high.
Contrary to many (or so I hope), I’ve spent the last months staring at my OLED TV (make sure burn-in protection is turned on in the settings on your OLED). But since this TV is such a big, bright, and colorful beast, I’m spoiled for what to replace it with.
my choice? 55 inch LG C2 OLED, $1,346 at Amazon (Opens in a new tab) It’s the exciting new TV you can get. I thought I’d buy its great predecessor too, but I didn’t understand how TV pricing and availability worked.
Why LG C2 is the right place for me
Why this TV? Well, as usual. I asked for advice from my colleague Kate Kozuch – who wrote the LG C2 OLED TV review – and started by saying that it’s great for gaming. As someone who owns a maxed out PS5 and Xbox Series X, I’m happy to see that all four HDMI ports support variable refresh rate and low latency modes automatically.
Furthermore, Game Optimizer has a new Dark Room mode, plus it supports NVIDIA G-sync and AMD FreeSync as well. All with an incredibly low lag time of 12.9ms? This sounds like the TV that should last me the next decade.
In her review, Kate highlighted how C2 has an “impressively wide color gamut, yielding 134.45% of the Rec 709 color space”, and noted how C2 made the “mirror dimension scene in Spider-Man: No Way Home” look great, with “looked The colors of Peter’s suit and Doctor Strange’s gown are exceptionally rich.”
Even more impressive, if not more so, is the clarity of movement, as Top Gun notes: The Maverick looked stunning on TV, with the “motion handling of speeding fighter jets” where “no detail is lost.”
Outlook: Wait too long and the TV you want will be gone
Kate’s review also noted that the C2 doesn’t have much brightness advantage versus the C1 I’ve been watching before, but this isn’t a TV I can get with confidence right now. As you know, TVs basically have an availability range of over a year, which is where they are off.
Currently, the C1 is not sold by any of the major retailers, and it was just sold from somewhere called “Beach Camera” in Edison, NJ via Amazon. And don’t respect them, but for a purchase of this size, I want to buy it from Amazon or Best Buy, not a company that I have no real awareness of.
The price of the C1 has dropped to $1,099 since early April 2022 (according to camel camel camel (Opens in a new tab)). This is my current goal. I’d like to see the C2 priced at $999, and since this is much older than the C1 in April 2022, I’d probably be willing to hit “buy” at $1,199.
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