this year the lg c2 has come out and made some advancements on last year's c1 and with newer tvs
that means there are now older tvs and with older tvs there are deals deals deals so in this
video i'm going to break down loads of important factors that you need to know when you're planning
on buying either the c1 or the c2 we're going to talk about things like design price motion picture
quality color accuracy so strap yourselves in the c2 is obviously the better tv it's
newer it's just the evolution of last year's tv so obviously it's better but just because it's better
doesn't mean it's right for you i can phrase that differently just because it's better doesn't mean
it's worth it but instead of telling you what you should buy i'm just going to break down
exactly what the differences are so then you can make your mind up i'm going to break down
every important difference between the lg c1 and c2 so first of all let's compare the obvious thing
the price now a couple of disclosures in terms of if you're watching it right now these prices
are live as of me filming this video so if you're watching it a little bit down the line
do check the links down in the description to see exactly what the live prices are today and be
aware that the prices i say for the c2 they are definitely going to be going down in months to
come so first comparison as i have two 55-inch tvs i'm just going to go into the 55-inch tv
price but like i said links are in the description if you want to know more so first of all the lg c2
in the uk is 1900 pounds in the us that costs 1800 it's slightly more expensive than what the c1 was
when it launched however the price of the c1 now is even lower you can actually get a 55 inch c1 in
the uk for 1 140 pounds in the us that's 1 010 now those prices are live on amazon as i speak
and i'm sure there are different deals around too so there's a whopping difference in price
but what are you getting extra for that difference in price now it is worth knowing that the lg c1
probably won't get cheaper now once lg stopped making the c1 and they only make the c2 all of
the c1s are going to die out which means they'll probably stay at this price for quite a while
then as we get closer to black friday the lg c2 is going to be coming closer to that price that
the c1 is now so is it a case of getting the best deal with the c1 is it the case of just going in
the deep end and getting a c2 or do you give it six months give it nine months or however long
and get the c2 next year when it's cheaper i don't know you tell me in the comments below
but let's actually look at the differences first of all the design so the most obvious
thing you'll know is different is the stand the c1 has a much wider and shorter stand
the tv isn't held up as high by it but it is also taking up a large space on any unit
on the c2 it's a much narrower stand similar to some of the samsung tvs now i definitely prefer
center mounted stands to leg so i'm glad that they've stuck with that and because the c2 is
slightly higher it is easier to put a sound bar in front of it that being said it's still not really
tall enough for it even though they've made those strides another massive difference between the two
is what the back looks like now the c series has had the same sort of massive arse on the back of
it for quite a long time they've suddenly decided to change their mind and they've gone for a much
different back and it makes a huge difference so as much as we don't have the ridiculously thin ola
display and they've made that a little bit thicker funnily enough the tv is a lot lighter and when
i say a lot lighter it is so much lighter and it makes such a huge difference and if like me you're
constantly picking up tvs and moving to different places for reviews not that you necessarily would
be it's actually blown my mind how much lighter this tv is and even though it's lighter it doesn't
feel less secure so if you are the type of person who does change where their tv is it doesn't stay
necessarily in one space and that has a massive positive for choosing a c2 now the c1 had a lot
of ports on the back and the side of the tv this is where the c2 differs again and they've gone to
put all of the ports on the side and personally i prefer this it means that if you decide to warm
up your tv you're not limited for access to those back ports you can access everything from the side
another positive in my opinion is that they've moved the fixed power cable from being on the side
to being in the center where all the cable management is that's a massive positive because if
you use the cable management system on the c1 you waste loads of wire going from the side of the tv
to the cable management system and then out and you end up a much shorter power cable with the c2
you get the same length power cable but because it starts in the middle you end up getting more that
you can use now a few other cosmetic differences the c2 does have thinner bezels it's not massively
different but it does look a bit smarter and because of the different shaped back the visa
mounts for wall mounting it is actually a lot higher up on the back of the tv whereas before the
c won't have to squeeze it all onto the booty at the back because the back of the c2 is higher they
can add it in higher so do bear in mind if you're going to be wall mounting it you might need to
move your brackets around now the tv supports all of the same gaming capabilities it has 120 hertz
it supports freesync g-sync vrr and all that stuff but there is a new processor inside the c2 now
this processor can affect everything from motion to picture quality to just navigating around web
os so i will deep in and out of the benefits of this new processor throughout the video so moving
on to software and features well first of all they both still run on webos which is lg's tv operating
system and i like webos i think it's okay it's a bit crowded and it's a bit busy which i don't
particularly like but you can access anything from wherever you are and it just works pretty well
there's good ideas for shortcuts you've got the wii remote feature which i think is actually
really good idea and when you're turning on the tvs and setting them up it is pretty similar on
both of them there's not much difference there now most of the features that you find on them are the
same they both have airplay you can link them with alexa and google home they have apple home
kits there's actually a lot more that's the same than that is different but there are a couple of
new additions you have uh things like multi-view where you get picture and picture and that's
not working 100 yet i'm assuming they're going to start bringing out some updates which will
add support for different apps but that is going to be a really useful feature for a lot of people
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i just paid for his flight what the um anyway yeah lg c2 look there are a bunch of other features
that the lg c2 does have so i have done a video with all of the new features of the lg c2 so if
you want to see that after this video you can go and watch that one on my channel now one of
the big things that lg have pushed is this new evo panel on the c2 it was on the g1 last year
and they've pulled it across to the c2 this year so that should be a massive improvement on the
tvs right no look it is a difference and it is a brighter tv but it's not as big a difference as
people might have thought ultimately if you're looking at sdr content then actually there's
barely any difference at all it's only when you get into hdr content that you start to see
the new evo panel stretching its legs a little bit now i did do some measurements of brightness
i'll be honest the equipment that i'm using isn't the most accurate but it does give us a bit of an
idea of what it looks like so for a full white screen on the lg c1 i measured it at about 130
nits on the lg c2 however that's jumped up to about 150 nits and then we've been moved to a 10
window which should shine a lot brighter on the lg c1 that was sort of pushing up to around 700 nits
on the c2 that's gone up to 800 nits so 100 its brightness does sound like a lot but
ultimately to your eyes you don't notice it as much as you think you would now even though the
tv can get to a maximum higher brightness if you want the tv to look accurate and you change the
settings to be accurate it's actually not going to really look that much different and you can
see it when you put them side by side here but ultimately if you walk from one room into another
you're not going to notice the difference now shadow detail is meant to be better on the c2
and in some circumstances it is if you enable certain settings like dynamic tone mapping and ar
picture pro then it does make a difference to how the processor the new a9 gen 5 processor handles
all of those different levels and this processor is doing a much better job this year than it did
on the c1 last year that being said if you don't have those settings turned on the c1 actually does
a little bit less black crushing and the shadow detail is probably better on the c1 so if you
don't have those settings turned on on your tv and you're not planning on turning those settings on
then do bear in mind that actually the shutter detail isn't going to be better now the most
visually pleasing part of the c2 over the c1 in my opinion is the colors now these are the kind
of things that can vary panel to panel but um in my circumstance and the tv i watched and i think
it has happened in a lot of other people's cases as well is that the c2 has a much better handling
of colors now the longer you use a tv the more it will run in and the better the colors should get
and i'm starting to get to that point on the c2 now where i should be seeing the best colors and
honestly i think they're just a lot better the way the c2 handles especially colors like the reds
i think it just makes the image look so much fuller and more accurate it doesn't look over
saturated by any means it just looks like it's been handled better and you can see it if i put
the tv side by side how the tv handles reds on the c2 they just look more bold and vivid and if
you look at it compared to the c1 they just look a bit pink and washed out now obviously a lot of
these tests you're not going to necessarily see a massive difference because of the limitations of
the camera but do trust that to my eyes there is a very distinguishable difference between these two
pictures now one of the reasons that the c2 might be able to be doing this is because of the evo
panel now the way that these tvs work is that they have a pixel layout of white red green and blue
and what oled's try to do is use the rgb colors to make as good a picture as possible and then
the white just sort of boosts the brightness of it now the problem is if you rely too much on that
white sub pixel it's going to wash out the image because you're not getting as much color in there
so now that they've got the evo panel they're able to focus more light through these colors
and therefore make a better colored image and now i think the c2 does have a wider color gamut and
it can handle those colors better now moving on to gaming ultimately i don't think there's much
difference i've gained on both of them for quite a lot of time obviously more time on the c1 but i
haven't noticed any huge strides in gaming i know the motion is a lot better and i'll get on to that
but in terms of the other features with gaming it is still pretty similar ultimately i had a
fantastic time and i never have any issues when it comes to gaming on the c1 or now the c2 but that
does bring us on to motion because the motion on the c2 in my opinion is a lot better the lg c1 has
sort of had a bit of a bad reputation for motion because of how it handles it and ultimately is
understandable because it doesn't handle motion particularly well if you're sensitive to it what
do i mean what do i mean so you might have heard of something called soap opera effect
and that is where smoothing on a tv creates this almost hyper real effect where it doesn't look
real because it looks too real and tvs just lose a lot of the cinematic feel that you'd expect
especially when you're watching movies and then also when tvs are trying to reduce this judder and
create this smooth finish you can get artifacts where there's sort of things on the screen that
shouldn't be there and it doesn't look good and the problem with the c1 is that motion smoothing
was just so sensitive if it was off it was off and then when you turn it to the lowest setting
it was the same as if you had it at the highest setting and it just didn't handle it very well you
couldn't get a good balance is that that scale has now changed quite a lot which means you can sort
of get more of an equal balance similar to how you might have it on some of the sony tvs so if
you are sensitive to motion and soap opera effect and that kind of thing um then that's something
that actually the c2 does handle a lot better and i would definitely recommend potentially
going for the c2 over the c1 in that regard so i use my tv for a few things i use it for tv shows
movies and gaming ultimately in your day-to-day tv use you're probably not going to notice a
huge difference between the two tvs when you're watching cinematic movies you might notice a bit
of a difference in motion if you're particularly that way sensitive and gaming again gaming is
perfectly fine on both of the tvs now if you do not want to get the best of the best and
you don't want some of the new features that you might be able to get on the c2 then personally i
would still massively recommend the c1 it is a fantastic tv and just because there's a new one
doesn't mean that that tv is still not a fantastic tv obviously the c2 is better of course it is
but is it 800 pounds better i honestly don't think so so in my personal opinion you have a couple of
options one you jump in and get the lg c1 it is a fantastic tv and you will not be disappointed with
it if you buy it the second option is is that you get the lg c2 now it's a better tv it does
better colors and better motion and ultimately i think the design's a lot nicer as well but
you are going to be paying for that premium and if you don't want to do that then you're probably
going to want to consider the other options the last option is you just press pause and wait until
later in the year and when we get to times like black friday the prices of these tvs will have
dropped and ultimately by this time next year the lg c2 will probably cost what the lg c1 costs now
although they'll be the lg c3 and then we'll have to get that one guys i really hope this video
helped you and thank you so much for watching if you want to see my review of the lg c2 55
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