so guys with all of the hype of the new lg c2 it's easy to forget that the lg c1 is still a
fantastic tv and now that it's a year old it is a lot cheaper than what it was when it was
brand new they are still available and you can still get them and you probably will be able
to for some time the one that i have here and i've done all my comparisons and my review with
is a year old so i'm going to give you my one year later review on the lg c1 i'm talking about
the quality of the tv the features what's like having and using this tv for over a year and
lastly i'm gonna hopefully answer your concerns about bernard so let's go have a look so the lgc1
is arguably the most popular oled from last year now that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best
and people are gonna get on my back about it is it the best oled it's not the best but for
the amount you were paying it seemed to be the most popular and that is for a few reasons one
it looks fantastic two the gaming capabilities of it are they outclass every other brand and lastly
the experience of just owning this tv and using it is always a positive one so first let's look
at the design now here the c1 i have has a white back you can also get it with a dark gray all
of the computing and processing and all the stuff that goes on inside the tv is done in this section
at the back at the bottom it's almost like the tv has its own massive arse what this does mean
is that because all of that is down there you get this ridiculously thin oled panel that sticks out
at the top and when people come into your house and they see the tv is the first thing that they
notice is just how ridiculously thin this is now the stand at the bottom of the tv is this brush
metal stand and it looks fantastic it is pretty weighty so it means the tv is not going to be
going anywhere but do bear in mind that this is a heavy tv so if you're planning on moving the tv
around a lot you're going to be wanting someone else there to help you now on the back of the
tv we do have a visa mount and that is a 30 by 20 centimeter one now do bear in mind the visa mount
on this tv is actually quite low compared to a lot of other tvs so if you have your brackets set
up for a certain tv you might want to consider potentially having to move them now one of the
ports are either on the back or the side of the tv and one of the key benefits of this tv is the hdmi
2.1 ports now hdmi 2.1 is a standard of hdmi that allows the signal passing through to be 120 hertz
and 4k or 60 hertz and 8k now as this tv is only a 4k tv it does have a refresh rate of 120 hertz now
that paired up with a response time of about one millisecond this tv is one of the best available
for gaming i'm comparing it to gaming monitors where that's their main purpose this tv is up
there with the best of those now not only do we have hdmi 2.1 ports but we actually have
four of them now i don't have four devices here that need hdmi 2.1 but if you have the new xbox
and the new ps5 then you're already going to be needing two if you have a gaming pc
that's your third slot taken up so having four is a little bit overkill but it does future-proof
you in case more devices start supporting it in the future now the tv runs on lg's web os
this has been updated from the previous year where it was just a bar that popped up
now it does take over your whole screen when you're going through the menus as much as i don't
particularly like it and i don't like how the home menu is very crowded it does work there are tons
of features for you to easily navigate across the tv most of the stuff is accessible from that home
page and as i learned from my last review where i thought you could only use shortcuts that were
on the bottom of the remote you can also set your own shortcuts for any app just by holding a button
on the top now along with webos we get a ton of really helpful useful features first of all the tv
supports things like airplay so you can remotely send things to your phone without the need of
like an apple tv or something it also supports things like amazon alexa and google assistant
which means you can use those assistants by pressing the buttons on the remote you can
also use those assistants on other devices in your home to control the tv now unfortunately on the c1
we don't have features like picture-in-picture that is on the c2 although at this stage isn't
currently working so if that's a feature that you're dead set on having that unfortunately it's
not present here on the c1 now what lg is very good at is constantly updating their tvs with new
firmware and this is what happened last year after about six months is that they brought in an update
with a new game optimizer menu and what's great about that is that when you're playing games it
gives you all these extra settings to mess around with that can tweak the game's performance and
picture quality and it can do it really easily now enough of the boring stuff what does it look like
well ultimately it is a fantastic image as far as odors go it is definitely up there with the
best of them the image is ridiculously sharp and clear the infinite black of having an oled is just
absolutely mind blowing and if you've never seen an oled i encourage you to go out and test one
because oh my word it changes how you watch tv now as much as i am loving on the picture quality
it is not the best picture quality out there of all oleds for example the sonys tend to handle
things like colors better and the lgc one does suffer from a bit of black crush in some of the
shadow detail now for an oled the tv is actually pretty bright it doesn't have the evo panel of
this year's c2 or last year's g1 but even though it's still pushing about 700 nits on a 10 window
now unless you're in a ridiculously bright room this tv is going to be more than bright enough
if you are watching the tv in some sort of garden terrace or in a room with more windows than
you know what to do with then this tv is gonna struggle for things like reflections it's like
watching a mirror in those circumstances but those are pretty extreme circumstances for where you're
gonna put a tv and if you're in any sort of normal living room this tv is gonna be more than bright
enough for you now i briefly mentioned color as much as the picture quality is very very good
from comparing this to other tvs and comparing it to the new c2 i've actually noticed that the color
on it isn't actually the best now it's by no means bad and actually it still looks very very good
but from seeing the upgrades in this tv it doesn't necessarily handle things like the reds
as good as it possibly could but that is pretty much the only issue when it comes to color
other than that it handles itself pretty well now what about motion the c1 has tons of features for
dealing with motion you've got smoothing um when you're playing games you've got all the freesync
vrr all of that stuff so on a general account this tv handles itself pretty well the only downside i
think it has is that that motion smoothing is pretty extreme as much as you do have a slider
where you can sort of up the anti-judder the slider is pretty pointless as soon as you have
any anti-judder on you're gonna be at a pretty high level of anti-judder which you think probably
wouldn't sound bad but what it does do is it does emphasize things such as soap opera effect so if
you're particularly susceptible to that do bear that in mind there are different tvs that handle
that better that being said i don't have any issue with things like super perfect and stuff like that
i'm much more susceptible to seeing judder so i'm quite happy to switch on the smoothing and just
leave it at that and it doesn't really bother me and if you're anything like me honestly you won't
care so the highlight of this tv is the gaming and that is because it supports things like amd
freesync nvidia g-sync vrr and ultimately if you're looking for an oled for gaming
you cannot ignore this tv there's going to be the best gaming tv that you can buy out there for the
amount of money that you're probably planning on spending now as much as last year's sony tvs have
had an update doesn't always vrr it still doesn't quite match up to the c1 so if you are a gamer
don't ignore this now one of the fears of buying an oled tv and i constantly see this
in the comments all of the time is burning i'd never buy an oled because of burning i'm
only ever going to buy an led tv burning is too much of a risk ultimately me and people
in my family have had olives for quite a while and burning has never really been an issue but
after the first year on this tv this is what the tv looks like and as you can see
there is absolutely no evidence of the screen deteriorating in the slightest and now i use
this tv for a lot of things one of those things is gaming where there's heads up displays and one
of the things that this tv has done a lot of in its life is been stuck on the news where there's
logos and there's bars that run across the screen constantly in the same place and normally the news
is left on this tv probably more than it should be i've not been careful with it i've not really
been trying to stop it getting burned in but there's absolutely no evidence of it whatsoever
now there are features that are built into the tv to try and prevent this because it is possible to
get burnt in but for anyone using this tv as a normal tv you're not going to experience it the
only example i could probably find where someone's going to be getting extreme burn-in is if they're
using their tv as a static display for something so honestly if that is a massive concern from
you please take this to know that you do not need to be concerned and if you still are concerned
comment down below and i'm sure people who have had this tv or had older versions of their tv
will reassure you that it's not something you need to worry about so i just want to make sure
you guys are aware this video is not sponsored all of the opinions on this video are my own and with
that i'm going to give you my general opinion of this tv it has been one of the tv purchases i have
been the most happy with ever how this tv looks is just incredible and even though it's probably not
as good as the slight improvement of the lg c2 it is now so much cheaper you can get a 55 inch
c1 like the one i have here and it's only going to cost you 1 140 pounds if you wanted to go for the
c2 right now that's going to cost you 1900 pounds and if you're in the us it's about 1010 to 1800
and i mean as much as i love the new lg c2 it is not worth 800 pounds or 800 more so guys what
are your thoughts on this tv if you have one do you agree with me do you disagree with me
pop it all down in the comments below and i look forward to having a conversation with you there
click this video to see my review of this year's lg c2 and i'll see you in the next one