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You're the man. So humanising to see how you've overcome your insecurity. Didn't expect to see that in this sort of video, but it feels good to see it. Your channel is awesome

100% accuracy is a rabbit hole, but natural colors and close to reference is very important.. Especially because 99% of buyers dont get their TVs calibrated.. Nobody needs wrong colors..

I haven’t considered a Panasonic TV for gaming for years and have always gone with LG and Samsung. It’s good to see Panasonic making their TV’s so gamer friendly now.

Some people who think they know better are probably fans of Quantum TV

I always use warm2 for all content. Every other colour temperature looks too blue to me. Once you get used to it, everything else looks wrong and too blue. It's great to see another video from you about gaming

Wait a minute... I was waiting for some real advantage based reasons why color accuracy is important in games, but instead its just an ad for Panasonics low latency mode. Nice one.

This felt more like a ad for the Panasonic tv. Regardless setting your tv up to meet D65 is so important. If your color temp setting is in cool or normal/neutral. Your doing yourself a hug disservice. Warm is what your supposed to be set to. Some sets have multiple warm settings so check rtings for your tv best warm setting. On Sony tvs it’s usually Warm2

Colour accuracy matters a lot. In lockdown i played Uncharted 4 on a flagship Samsung Q90R QLED. It was good. But then i replayed the game on a flagship Panasonic DX902 which has calibrated picture modes and is accurate, and the difference was night and day. Playing it on the Panasonic just blew me away. Even the HDR was far better even though the Panasonic is only 1200 Nits and the Samsung is supposed to be 2000 Nits. And the Panasonic was 4yrs older.

Definitely need a comparison to LG C2 after calibration.

I really wish Panasonic would sell their OLED's in the US.

“I cannot be as dashing as Henry Cavill” This joke is super, man.. I can’t 💀💀💀😂😂

I love the new delivery of your videos, very enjoyable to watch, keep it up.

I wish Panasonic was still in the US market. I have one of their CRTs that my dad bought in the 90s and it still works. Very reliable TV brand from my experience

Admittedly, I don't game on tvs these days, but it was always strange to me, to see people not realize how important color accuracy is to the (functionality/playability-wise, far more important than color accuracy itself) contrast of a game's visuals. I spent an hour or so 'by sight' calibrating a large HDTV for a relative (FTR, I used an old reference sheet designed for LCD monitors as a baseline for getting reasonable color and brightness balances. I wasn't aiming for perfect, I was aiming for 'significantly better than stock 3rd-tier manufacturer preset gaming mode'), and had them call me two days later calling me a wizard, because they decided to play shooters again, and were shocked at how much better they were doing, claiming the silhouettes 'popped' now and were far more visible.

I’m happy with the more frequent uploads and it’s probably because there are less tvs to review which usually take a long time

You were so right Vincent. I'm now on warm 50 in game settings on my C2. All my favorite games now look much more natural and better. Thanks very much!

Condensing years of experience in less than 10 minutes, pure gold. Thanks Vincent. 😊

Since I purchased my first Oled screen (Lg c9) and paired it with my PS5 your videos have been perfect when it comes to the BEST settings to use in order to have the best experience. Games have never looked better and I'm constantly amazed every time I boot up the console of how jaw dropping everything looks. You the man Vincent! Keep it up

I'm just an 18 year old tech interested person and I don't always understand everything that's mentioned and I also don't have the budget to achieve the "greatest/most accurate" results but I really enjoy watching Vincent's videos and learning more about tech than just hardware and it's nice to see someone so calm and humane on KZfaq combined with great humour.. and also Vincent plays or at least mentions the horizon series so that's always a +

Couldn’t agree more with @vincent. I’ve tried many tv’s but nothing comes close to Panasonic in game mode. Especially the colours, you can use different picture modes because of how they implemented game mode. Especially the picture quality👍🏻.

So glad u got rid of your insecurities. At the end of the day that never mattered. Your are the go to channel to get my info on TV tech. You are mainly why I got my c1 at the time. Thanks for all the content!

Another great video and really was amazing to hear your journey in overcoming your insecurities - I hope you can be proud of yourself for being so open about it now . I do wonder where Sony’s game mode falls on that skin tone colour line - just started horizon forbidden on west on my X95J and I was more blown away than I expected to be at the skin tones

I never used any sort of warm color temp until I started watching this channel, now I'd never go back. Like others have said once you get used to warmer colors the cool setting just looks too blue and harsh.

Thanks Vincent ; you are so helpful .

I wouldn’t claim to know more than Vincent but personally I simply like colder colors. I have set everything to Standard on my LG CX.

That's why I chose a Panasonic oled for gaming, and I love it! :)

That’s both funny and wholesome that you used to airbrush your face 😂 Very relatable! I think your sense of humour and passion for what you do far outweigh any advantage in the looks department. I think being ultra-good-looking is like being a billionaire, you never know if your friends just like you for your looks/money. Not that I would know 😂

Brilliant video thanks Vincent.

I don't understand all of the technical color stuff, but I love your videos. Now I automatically mess with settings with new TV's even when they aren't mine. My next step is probably getting some equipment 😂. I've learned to look at movies differently as well. Spotting things like cloth texture and skin pores that I didn't really pay much attention to before. But that hasn't carried over to KZfaq as I have no idea what you would airbrush out. We all worry about stupid stuff nobody else notices.

Fantastic content as always

More content that covers HDR gaming please.

This channel is criminally underrated. I found you when searching for OLED gaming monitors, I'll be looking forward to a review of the LG 27GR95QE-B that you recently presented. The pixel density offered by the smaller form factor is very appealing. I had an idea to try some of the cheaper sub 17" displays offered on Amazon and rigging up a solution to get them very close to my face to bring them near the 'retina' standard but I suspect the input lag may not be optimal, do you have any thoughts on that?

If you get used to a calibrated picture it is hard t go back. All look like it should. If you have no idea, an easy and good way (without colorimeter) to come closer to a neutral picture is to copy SDR 1.Filmmaker (or 2. Movie / Night if there is no Filmmaker) Values into SDR Game Mode (u notice it with Gamma at 2.2 or BT1886 / 2.4) & HDR Filmmaker Values into Game HDR (u notice it with ST.2084 or if gamma is greyed out). But reset Filmmaker / Movie Night before, if you are not sure, u have changed them before. And maybe highering the Backlight / OLED Light a bit for SDR game mode, but i would not go too bright, if it is not needed. Only HDR needs the full Backlight / OLED Light, because it is absolute and the Creator desice, how bright or dim a scene is. I measured my Nintendo Switch (LED) V2 and it is calibrated to D65 very accurate in terms of colors and color tones. EOTF is not perfect but avg of 2.22. But i think some of the V1 Switchs are D75 and also the Switch Lite is D75~ i think. Maybe for outdoor usage. Can´t speak for the OLED because never saw them in person. But i´m happy that my Switch is accurate to have an identic look to my calibrated TV.

Lots of info. Thank you.

Hey bro love your videos could you do a video on what settings to use while using the new Xbox on a gaming monitor or even just tell me here I'm new to stuff like this I normally use your videos as a guide 🙂

I don’t like the way my tv looks with all of your recommended settings but I usually use your recommendations as a base and then adjust until Im happy. No reason to tell you that you’re wrong. Ultimately I can enjoy the TV how I want, idk why people can’t just do the same lmao

I applaud you for this video. Like I applaud you for all your content, and amazing advice. This is something that I’ve been trying to explain for a long time, to so many people, who are ignorant. I just can’t afford the gear needed to prove my point. It not worth it anyways. I made a LG CX settings video for gaming awhile back. I got the same type of comments, and personal attacks for recommending a D65 white point, and targeting the industry standard. It’s just crazy to me that so many people are so twisted on this subject. I mean, I get everyone has different vision, and color blind issues (cough, cough QTV). But it’s not piss warm white lmfao. D65 is aiming to replicate natural light. If a creator/colorist wants a cooler look for the movie, or scene, they’ll make that happen in the content, while at a D65 white point. If they want something to look warm, it’ll look warm. It why the grade content lol. This argument just makes my mind spin. Anyways, after that..I honestly gave up on recommending settings. I want to do a C2 settings video, just for the fun of it, and to help others; but I just don’t feel like explaining the importance of standards and why they’re important, as well as calibrating to the standards, to all the people who are going to ignorantly disagree. I’m not saying you have to abide by the standards to a absolute T, but getting as close as possible, using the correct color space, color temp, etc, is really important. It’s truly the only way you’re going to feel true realism and immersion. Luminance can always be adjusted to taste, and ambient lighting conditions..there’s dark and bright room modes for a reason, though content is always best enjoyed in the dark, imho. And don’t even get me started on HDR, and all the “nit wits” out there, who don’t understand a damn thing about it, and like to claim SDR is superior, and HDR is a scam lol. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve argued with about HGiG, or tracking PQ EOTF. I feel like 95% of people I talk to, don’t understand it. I get liking a brighter picture, but it always comes at a cost. There is always give and take, when deviating. You give up depth, for “pop”. You’ll lost detail as well, and also possibly exaggerate detail, that shouldn’t be seen. For instance, making film grain more obvious. Lifting shadows, and washing them out, etc. HDR is supposed to be dark. It’s hit lower luminance levels, as well as higher. Dynamic range…but they always whine about HDR being dim..most likely not understanding HDR is for dark environments. Like theaters. And if there’s some ambient light, us things like DTM, and DoVI IQ/Precision, etc. But again, that comes at a cost, and often looks worse, due to clipping of highlight, and constant luminance changes, depending on how you set it up. Last, I just wanna say that I used to be a vivid mode fool. That was when I was a literally a kid tho, and knew nothing about display tech, colors, etc. If YT and this channel was around back then, I probably would of been in the comments arguing haha. My whole world changed when I learned what a calibrated display looks like. I mean, I wonder how many iPhone users are watching this, and saying they don’t want piss yellow whites, while typing/watching it on a D65 display (if TruTone is off). I truly wonder…I also wonder how many of these commenters, actually let their eyes adjust to D65…granted their display was even close to D65 at warm2. I know I can say for a fact that my CX and C2 were both too cool at warm2/w50. The CX more so. The C2 was actually pretty damn good OOTB. I doubt I would of never noticed, if I didn’t come from a calibrated display 😉 Anyways…I’m finished writing my book. I just truly wanna say thank you, for everything you have taught me, the amazing content, and for always being honest.

I would love to see a review of the best budget tv's for movies and tv series.

I totally agree with Vincent. Accuracy is one of the most important things in gaming. Reminds me of comedian Ken Suzuki, lol. Making it hard for me to justify getting a 42-in Sony A90K. These Panasonics look amazing.

Thanks! In the USA it is a bit tough to find a Panasonic excepting the DP-UB9000 4K player which I have. lol

Claiming you need to have it is subjective. Plenty of people play on crappy TV's from the early 2010's and are just happy they can play games on a screen.

I have an LG C1, but this has made me want a Panasonic. I haven't had Panasonic since I was a kid with a 14" CRT in my bedroom.

Great video on the importance of color fidelity on HDTV's for gaming. You know what's more important than color fidelity on HDTV's for gaming? INPUT LAG.

You are more dashing than a real life Space Marine 🥰 subbed

Don't have any plans to replace my CX yet, but I hope Panasonic keeps up the good work because I'm leaning more and more towards them for next display.

Love your videos! Could you make one comparing the Alienware AW3423DW and the AW3423DWF? Lots of debate going on on these right now.

Do you do gaming monitors or just tvs? I just got the samsung neo g 7 and would love a video of your tips on the best settings

Vincent what are the make/model of your glasses! They're so cool!

I mostly play games on CRTs, where you often cannot achieve perfect calibration. My CRT friends and I had a saying, "Disregard calibration, acquire nice". I do try to achieve proper calibration on my LCD TV still though.

This guy knows his shit! He's a Fn genius for real. Doesn't get enough credit. You should easily have 2 mill subs my friend. Much respect.

As a hobby photographer and love gaming! Yes it is very important to calibrate your monitor! For gaming, yes you have to unfortunately by your self a expensive monitor! But it makes a huge difference, and you are gaining FPS.

Hi Vincent, what do you recommend for color settings when gaming on LG TVs? I select HDR game mode to have the lowest input lag, but colors seem too cold.

i dont like warm temp. i like cool temp. its personal preference

Fully on board with the message... a standard for white point is crucial. Am curious though, how do you white balance the camera that films the displays? 6500k? What about green/magenta axis? A further question, if you do in fact rate the camera at 6500k (and assuming green/mag is set correctly), does your camera’s recording of the display’s D65 white point reproduce true white ie. equal RGB pixel values? Or would this depend on a display’s emissive characteristics?

You should do a video about banding in certain games (mostly cutscenes) .

Great Content ❤️

Thank you - finally! All the gaming features in the world don't mean much when the colors suck in game mode and there's barely a way to correct them. I hope you will lean strongly into this in future reviews when evaluating the gaming chops of a TV. (And also that a 5-way HDMI 2.1 splitter will finally be available until your next best-of-year blind test shoot-out :) )

Hey Vincent. Are you ever going to do a full review of the Philips OLED807? You did a preview stating full review soon, but still nothing. Really interested in the tv but not keen on buying without a review from yourself first.

You should do an updated gaming settings video.

Just bought the 55LZ1000e, the picture is amazing and calibration out of the box is just perfect.

Do you have a video for sony x85k picture settings and gaming settings please you seem to be the artist person I have came across with this kind of knowledge

He's right. A properly calibrated image can change the whole atmosphere of a game. I've recently gone from playing the PS5 on a Samsung NEO QLED to a Panasonic OLED and there is a big difference. Playing the same games looks and feels totally different on both TVs. Once you get everything looking as intended the games really shine.

Once I set my LG G1 to game mode, I knew something was wrong right out of the box. Everything definitely looked too blue. I tried to set the color gamut to "natural", but again, something was off. Mario's hat was way too red, and the colors in my NES did not look like how I remembered. I tried looking through the Expert Bright" picture setting, and found what was different. That damn white balance! I slammed that thing down to warm 50, and couldn't be happier with the result. But its nice to know that there are tvs out there that are accurate right out of the box. Mine just wasn't one of them.

LG C1 or C2 are still the only great choice for budget-conscious and hardcore gamers. 4 HDMI 2.1 ports so you can have E-ARC and multiple 2.1 devices, GSync\VRR and ALLM. Color accuracy is phenomenal after calibration as well (yes having it out of the box is better)

Color is essential in gaming, especially when playing 3A titles, creators spend a long to create realistic open words, and others create cinematic-like experiences. While we target Real-time Ray Tracing and other graphics performance but in reality, the display performance has a much more significant impact than most gamers think.

Can you make a video measuring color accuracy for Sony A80J in game mode and recommend the best settings?

Would you go with the S95B or G2 for gaming and movies as well as being future proof

Vincent. Is it common for Oled to produce slightly off yellow tones? I have a C1 and it’s great. But to my eyes the yellow tones seem to have a hint of a lime tint to them. Not sure if my settings have caused this 🤷🏼‍♂️

I legit used to play games up to the PS3 era on Vivid mode for the insane color pop. 😬

What are your recommendations for the LG C3 for playing games? Do you have a video for this?

Are you gonna release a best settings video for the C2 with xbox series x vincent? Just got one and would like to use your settings 🙏🏻

If you get your hands on a a95k again can you do a gaming settings video on it

Even game developers develop on a calibrated monitor. Calibration IS a standard. There’s also nothing wrong with over-saturating things to taste. That’s the beauty of having choices in TV settings IMO

Case closed! Great job Vincent

Glad you said that I was using fast gaming monitor with poor colour on it (tjought it was good) I couldnt see how wrong I was. My monitor broke so I bought temporary one cheap second hand 4k samsung with only 60hz and I was shocked! The games I played on 60hz were so much better and clearer even though picture tearing and all crap you get with lack of gsync freesync directdrive etc. I prefered the 60hz high colour accuracy with high contrast wide gamut to my superb gaming fast one. Now looking for a new monitor and main specs I look into are contrast black lvl grey lvl gamut, gradient colour volume etc and lastly I choose fastest one out those meeting colour criteria

Could you do one picture settings for LG oled, one for Sony and Samsung QD Oled? Thanks?

I have a Samsung and setting sharpness to 0 and color tone to warm 2 (following your advice) are the best things I could do to achieve picture fidelity.

If I repeat the games that I love or play games that needed daily grind, that is when I need it color accurate or not below average, to keep me intrigued and in love with the game. Just like movies, if I watch a very good movie, it doesn't matter if it's only 1080p and none HDR, I'm still at the edge of my seat constantly during the first watch. But when I rewatch it, it better be Hi Res HDR to re admire the beauty of the world. Though I prefer already at the best quality during the first watch if the movie is spectacular.

It would be great if other manufacturers like LG, Samsung etc. wouldn't enable all kinds of filters like sharpening and cool colors in Game Mode. It's crazy that out of the box, only Panasonic has more or less okay defaults.

I wish I could buy a Panasonic OLED. I still have several Panasonic plasma TVs and they're fantastic.

Hi could you please do a video on settings for the nano cell 86? Would be hugely appreciated

Hey mate, this is off topic but I recently purchased an LG Nano 75 (43") and use my PS5 with it. What are the best settings to use on the Tv (on it's own for movies) and in conjunction with the PS5? @HDTV Test

Been gaming on warm 50 for last few years and would never go back. Accuracy gives the best natural and balanced look to any content. Certain games that have eerie atmospheres can be completely ruined by an overly blue and contrasty look particularly I find.

i really have to thank you for saving my eyeballs. oversaturated displays literally caused me eye strain alongside being inaccurate.

Quick question, if you set an LG OLED's HDMI port to PC mode and then watch a 4k or Blu-ray disc on PS5 will it revert to the correct black levels....?

@Vincent Could you please look into Sony's broken EDID + Nvidia RTX 3000/4000 (after the 512.95 driver). You can only get a working image when using the 3 or 4 HDMI 2.1 port set to VRR (the 1 and 2 HDMI 2.0 ports doesn't have VRR so the are completely useless). Because of this you are locked into VRR Game mode and on my X95K I can't change mode to Cinema to use Motionflow or use the Enhance input to game at 120fps with BFI as Clearness doesn't work in VRR mode. The TV is virtually useless as a Media Gaming HTPC when hooking it up with the newer Nvidia cards. This seems to affect most recent 2.1 capable Bravia sets as is evident in a couple of threads on AVSForum, especially the X90J thead. The only solution I've found is to output via Displayport and a dongle to HDMI, but then the Nvidia panel doesn't recognize the TV as HDMI Forum VRR capable, so it's not possible to game with VRR enabled through the DP->HDMI solution. Also the Video Range Full/Limited isn't detected automatically by the TV and defaults to Limited and you have to manually set it on the TV to match. Right now it's IMPOSSIBLE to use a RTX 4000 card and Clearness at the same time for 120fps + BFI gaming as you need to be able to set the input to Enhance (non-VRR ) and if you try to do this you get no working image.

What are recommended gaming settings for Sony A80K?

What do you think of the Xbox series x colour calibration tool in menu? Would it be good to use the same settings for normal tv viewing?

Do you have a video to especially calibrate Nintendo Switch on C1? I saw one for ps5 and I'm no sure if those SDR settings you shown are enough. Thanks!

Even my samsung plasma television defaults to Warm 2 in Movie Mode 👍

Question: for playing CoD MW3 multiplayer, is Panasonic better than my 2020 LG C7? Black color, inputlag? Please let me know

I'm a bit lost, so Panasonic is the go to for gaming in 2022?

Hi Vincent which tv do you recommend lg c2 83 inch for 3 330 euros or lg c2 77 inch for 2 790 euro. I am just asking because I have read comments that c2 83 inch uses last year panel. I don't mind money or size but which one is better. ( will use for ps5, pc and movies in bright room) Thank you!

Thx Vincent, but compared with G2 or S95B? Sponsored by Panasonic!!?…

My grandparents have an LCD 4K Panasonic which I calibrated a week ago... they are very accurate out of the Box, of course I had to tweak some settings but my QN90B was more off the Standard than this panasonic.

I wish those Panasonic OLEDs were available in the US.

panasonic is very nice and I hope they will release a QD Oled next year with the latest mediatek chipset. That being said. LG dan also be set very easily to a accurate picture mode while gaming. Just relabel the HDMI port to "PC" and switch to "Expert dark" for SDR and "Cinema" for HDR. Done. if you use the streaming apps on your tv instead of your console or PC (which you always should) you don't have to switch back.

As a seasoned user of Reshade for PC gaming 8 can confirm that having color accurate monitors is a must. I'm genuinely tired of the way most new games look, still being held back by compatibility with old tvs and having terrible flat color and dynamic range. Everything looks so washed out.

Can we get an updated 2022 or even a next year 2023 "best ps5/series x" TV. Like between lg c2, sony a80k, sony a90k, and then a comparison of lg g2 and sony a95k? Or whatever new models and high contenders there are. Love the content!