LG OLED

John: I’ll trigger the joint tip by just saying to you: “Hey, you bought a new TV, didn’t you?”

Adam: Yeah, I bought a new TV. There’s nothing on. We were at Costco. Our TV is 12 years old. It came with the house. And we’ve been saying to each other for weeks now, like, you know, we should really get a new TV because we had a 56 inch. We could go up a size, 65. And it’s uncanny because once I hung that sucker up for like a week, there was nothing worth watching at all. At all.

John: We’re talking about TV here, not content.

Adam: Yeah, well, exactly. So the tip is, if you go to Costco and we went to the Costco in San Antonio, where I’m so sure…

John: You don’t need to just get this brand at Costco, but okay.

Adam: Well, I’m sure that I paid 1.25 for my hot dog and drink, but I guess it was 1.50. And this is an OLED from LG. Now they have two. They have one with the A9i processor, which is some AI nonsense. You want the 8. And you just look at all the TVs there. And this thing just blows them all away. There’s no viewing angle. You can watch it from anywhere. Now, it’s not cheap because most of those TVs are around 500 bucks and this was not.

John: I’ve seen some off brands for like 349 for 50 inches. You made the right decision.

Adam: And that’s what I was going for. When you see this TV—or just call it a screen—you shouldn’t even call it a TV. Just call it a screen. $999 man…

John: Which was a steal in my opinion. They’re normally about 1400 bucks, but this—we’re talking about the LG… By the way, do you know what LG stands for? This is why they never use the real name. It’s the most Asian name of any company that sells anything.

Adam: “Best price”.

John: Lucky Gold Star.

Adam: No.

John: Yeah, yeah. Lucky gold star. Yeah, that’s the name of LG. That’s what LG means.

Adam: Oh, I didn’t know that. The more you know. The more you know.

John: So I have been an advocate of these OLEDs from LG specifically because they’re the ones who specialize in them. Everybody else makes them, and there’s a thing called a QLED, which is just trying to get off the name. It’s not OLED at all. It’s just a phony. It’s a really nice set; those are from Samsung. But I would say if you’re going to buy a new television, it’s more expensive by a factor of at least two but the quality of an OLED and the lightness—the thing doesn’t weigh anything.

Adam: No, I mean, I took that old Sony off the wall, almost broke my back. That thing was so heavy. And this, you can lift it up with one hand.

John: Yep, you can lift it with one hand.

Adam: It’s super thin. And the luminance that comes off of it. And you have all these—Brunetti will like this—you have a creator mode. So it can automatically start up with all the settings that the filmmaker intended it to be.

Which I immediately shut off. I shut it off. Like, no, I want it bright. And then you’re sitting there like your eyes are burning from this OLED. And then you have reduced blue light. “Okay, I’ll reduce that.”

John: Oh, you can definitely do that. Yeah, but there’s a lot of settings. You can get it so you’re comfortable with what it looks like because it has a bigger color gamut. It has HDR that is dynamite. So the blacks are black and the whites are white. It is the OLED from LG. If you’re going to buy a new TV, just bite the bullet and get one of these. These things are fantastic.

Adam: Now, the only thing I’ll say is, I guess we’ve never really had HDR and 4K because I never really cared about it. Now I watch movies and Tina keeps saying it’s like it’s live. You really see things that you never saw before. I know I’m late to this party. Like, “duh. Okay, Boomer, where you been?” I get it.

John: You finally get to sell your tube TV.

Adam: Yeah. I warmed that thing up for 15 minutes before I hit the other button. Remember back in the day you had color TVs and you had to hit the warm-up buttons?

John: I never had two buttons on the ones we had.

Adam: Oh, I remember. And if you hit the wrong button, then it would go on right away. And my dad—“You didn’t warm it up! It’s going to reduce the life of this thing!”

The only other thing I really dislike about it is when you grab the remote control, like a mouse pointer shows up on the TV.

John: Yeah, I actually like that.

Adam: I hate that thing. I just want to use my rocker, the little rocker.

John: And by the way, if you didn’t jerk it so hard, it’s got these gyroscope chips. If you grab it gently and hold, it doesn’t bring the cursor up. If you shake it, the cursor shows up. What you’re doing is grabbing it like a madman.

Adam: Grab it gently and just move it around.