Hello everyone it's SpawnPoiint and welcome back to another tv video
and this time i'm talking about gaming on the impressive LG C1 OLED so i'm going to
show you how good this tv is for gaming on both the playstation 5 and the xbox series x
including the fact that it supports hdmi 2.1 4k at 120hz VRR and ALLM plus i'll cover the
new game optimizer mode that we've seen this year some gameplay and what picture settings i'm using
so this is the 2021 LG OLED and i've been using this for the last week or so
now i know i say this every time that i show a tv on my channel but this is the best tv
that i've had now if you've seen my previous videos you'll know that my last tv was the c10
and you might be wondering is it worth the change well after today's video i will be doing a side
by side comparison of the two but today is all about gaming on the c1 so how good does the ps5
and the xbox look so let me start by saying that the c1 this year comes in five different sizes
we've got the 48 55 65 77 and the new 83 inch now i've got the 77 inch version here and although it
looks smaller this really is the 77 inch model prices and launch dates vary depending on the
size that you go for but they all offer the same features so everything that i cover today well
that's relevant for any size that you go for i've added a link in the description and that
shows you all of the available sizes and their prices so go check that out if you're interested
in knowing more so the c1 is an oled display and that means that each pixel can actually turn on
and off independently and that will then provide near perfect blacks with no blooming at all
now this makes a huge difference in dark scenes in movies and in gaming and also has the new a9 gen
4 processor now that's designed to remove noise and improve contrast and saturation in the picture
something i've definitely noticed in sdr content although i'm going to focus on gaming in today's
video it also supports dolby atmos and dolby vision and that makes a massive difference
for movies especially if you use apps like netflix and disney plus okay let's jump straight into some
gameplay and talk about what it looks like on the tv and how it performs so over the last week i've
played some different games including first person shooters like black ops and warzone to racing
games including forza and dirt 5. now some of these games do support vrr and frames per second
but what i'll do is every game that i'm playing i will display on screen what game it is and
what settings it's running at so every game i've played runs so smoothly i mean we've been spoiled
over the last couple of years with tvs supporting hdmi 2.1 but this tv offers all of that and more
so it supports 4k at 120 hertz which is awesome for games like dirt 5 and call of duty and wrc 9
that's if you enable the performance options but it also supports vrr that means if you're playing
on the xbox series x or the series s you can take advantage of the variable refresh rate and it
basically means that the c1 will match the refresh rate of the console given a far better gaming
experience now games run so much smoother also as the c1 supports alm or auto low latency mode
it means it will switch over to the game mode as soon as it detects a console plugged in so
it's one less thing to worry about when flicking between movies and gaming now i actually watched
a 4k movie through the ps5 the other night and now the tv is actually clever enough to detect
whether you're gaming or watching a movie so it will switch the game mode on and off now as the c1
supports g-sync and freesync which go hand-in-hand with vrr it means you'll suffer less from screen
tearing and ripping with gaming now it's something that we've probably all seen from time to time
over the years on our games and on our tvs which massively detracts from playing a game
so when you're in a game if you press the green button on the remote control the actual lg remote
control press it a few times in a row and it will display this little box in the corner of your tv
and here you can see what frame rate your game is actually running at so the games i've been playing
have looked absolutely awesome and played really really smoothly but there are two big things i
wanted to mention about the c1 starting with the new game optimizer mode so this is a totally new
setting for the 2021 models once you've plugged in your playstation 5 your xbox or your pc you can
go to the option and you can switch this on and this will give you a list of options you wouldn't
normally have including things like vrr and g-sync you've got the picture settings now this is like
a quick change for the type of game that you're playing so you've got fps rpg and rts and they all
have very slightly different picture settings so fps for example well that will actually boost the
shadows very slightly to help you see what's in those shadows now i've actually tweaked mine very
slightly and actually brought those down you can also adjust the black and the white levels here to
improve visibility the c1 does support something called motion pro now this is actually designed
to reduce the motion blur and it does run really really smoothly however by turning this setting
on it will then turn on an option called true motion and it will set it to on now this will
make the gaming look nicer but there is actually a chance that it could affect the input lag
something that i'll cover in a minute and it also offers an eye care option here and effectively it
will reduce the amount of blue that you see in the screen which will then help with eye strain
and fatigue while gaming but what it will do is it will add like a yellow tint to the entire screen
so the input lag on this tv is really really impressive but there is actually an option to
boost it even further if you're experiencing any issues and that will then actually lower
the input lag this will naturally turn off some of the features on the tv include a motion pro
now ai sound if you're using the internal speakers is definitely worth having on for a better sound
experience and then you've got vrr and g-sync along with freesync which i have since turned on
so if your console or pc supports these this will give it an overall smoother gaming experience with
the matched frame rates so yeah this is the new game optimizer mode that we're getting for the
2021 models and i think it's great it gives us a lot more control over what we can do while gaming
so another thing that i wanted to mention was the fast response time on the c1
so if you game on a monitor it might be hard to believe that tv can compete at all when it comes
to playing games but the c1 has a one millisecond response time and a very very low input lag
i mean we all get hit markers when we play online but this tv is definitely fast enough to
play fps games which is probably one of the most important genres when it comes to lag and also the
responsiveness of this tv is really impressive you can pull the trigger and know you're going to get
an instant result but you need to make sure you have game mode enabled to take advantage of this
so yeah the gaming on this tv is honestly incredible it looks good it feels bright it's
fast vivid and really really responsive through the gaming i've played so far i've had no issues
at all so if you've got a playstation 5 or an xbox cirrus x and you're looking for a tv for gaming on
i have no problem with recommending this model now obviously i don't use the tv
solely for gaming i also use it for movies and watching things like netflix and disney plus so
i thought i'd kind of show you what it looks like and it looks awesome so here's some dolby vision
content on netflix and this looks great the colors and the black levels are almost perfect now i've
also tried out some sdr as well as hdr content and from the shows i've watched the c1 does an
incredible job of displaying sdr content now this is some white house farm this is a series i've
been watching recently and it looks really really nice although i would obviously recommend watching
hdr content to make the most out of the tv now i know when i've done my previous videos about the
playstation 5 gaming on my c10 that i had a lot of people asked what picture settings are used so
assuming you're interested in my exact settings to see if you can replicate what i'm using well here
they are now i'm not a professional calibrator at all i'm just a guy that has a tv that enjoys
gaming on it and my room is pretty dark during the day but these are the settings i'm using
for gaming on the playstation 5. so if you want to pause it you're welcome to copy the settings down
i'll have another video up soon where i will show the settings i use for netflix and other streaming
so one of the biggest advantages of an oled are the viewing angles so you're able to watch the
content off center or to the side and not really lose any image contrast or quality at all now
i know who sits to the side of the tv who would ever watch a tv from this angle but if you've got
sofas to the side for your guests when they come around well this is the view that they might see
it's also so thin i mean it's almost paper thin to look at from the side so this is the tv compared
to say the apple tv remote it's actually thinner than the remote control at the top
now as with any tv you're going to get some sort of reflections on the screen now the c1 is a kind
of tinted screen so if you look at the picture you can tell it's reflective there's no denying that
but you just need to be careful where you position it in your room just like you would with any tv
now i wouldn't have my tv directly in front of a window for example but to the side is
absolutely fine so the c1 comes with ports on the rear panel and slightly to the side as well
you've got four hdmi 2.1 ports one of which is labeled e-arc i actually use that to send
my audio down to my avr then there are three usb ports an ethernet port if you're not using wi-fi
it's also got an optical out the antennas for your tv and satellite and you've got a headphone
out port as well now it also supports bluetooth and that actually means you
can use either a wireless keyboard or a controller or even headphones with it so i've actually tested
my airpods max and they connected to the tv absolutely fine and they worked perfectly
and they show up under the settings here so you can see them on the devices and it also means it
works with both gaming or tv shows anything that you're displaying on tv we can actually listen to
them via the tv's bluetooth and then if you adjust the volume on your headset well it actually shows
up on the tv so that's pretty cool oh and someone recently asked me how long the power cable was for
this tv so here it is so in case you're wanting to wall mount it you can actually see how long
the cable is and this is 170 centimeters and that's between the plug itself and the filter
and here's the new remote control that we get for the 2021 models so it's got pretty much everything
you'd expect from a controller including the quick access buttons for your streaming services as well
as google and alexa although actually at the time of recording this video google analytics
is not working here in the uk where you do get a message on screen saying this but with the 2021
models we're also getting the new web os 6.0 and this brings a whole new look and feel to
the app launcher and the home screen there's also loads of apps on the tv including twitch so when
you're not actually gaming you can sit and watch gaming on the tv now this tv can be wall mounted
using the vessel holes on the rear and they are 400 by 200 or you can use the provided stand
so this is really easy to set up and it looks nice as well now the tv does lean back very slightly so
if you've got one of these models don't worry that is actually intentional and i'm assuming
it's designed to reduce reflections while you're watching it so the last thing i wanted to cover
was sound so i don't use the internal speakers as i either use my avr or my headphones but you might
be interested in what the actual tv sounds like so here's a quick demo at least the best i can do
so these speakers actually create a virtual 5.1.2 dolby atmos sound and i think it sounds fine out
the box but if you can use external speakers like a sound bar that would always be my recommendation
so my final thoughts on the c1 this year's oled from lg well i think it's awesome i really do
think it's the perfect gaming tv for me it's got all of the features i need from a tv including the
obvious 4k at 120 hertz and it's got the dedicated game in optimize mode which will obviously help
with things like input lag and various other settings now you'll notice i've not yet wall
mounted this tv although i usually do that that's because the bracket is still on my c10 that i need
to remove i'm also going to move across my lifx lights that i usually have on the back of the tv
so i'll sort that over the coming weeks and as i mentioned at the beginning of the video prices and
sizes they are linked in the description so if you want to check that out you can go and see that now
so that was a look at gaming on the lg c1 but i'm going to cover at least one more video about this
tv over the coming week or so and i'm going to compare the c1 to the c10 i know a lot of people
have asked me about this and seeing as though i haven't sold it yet i think now's the perfect time
so let me know in the comments if you've got any questions that you would like me to cover in that
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