


Looks like Samsung has the same issue, but can't be too sure. LG TVs (including the 2018 OLED) only have 10/100 Mbit/s LAN ports! I have read about many other people with similar issues who have either given up on 4k network streams, or just put the files on a USB plugged into a TV. I was convinced my NAS or network were the issue, so I connected my TV via LAN but the issues persisted. Broadly, movies with a bitrate of up to 30Mbit/s were fine, but anything higher caused buffering, no matter if I used Plex, DLNA or other ways to stream the movie. The experience is especially pronounced in sports simulator games like FIFA 21 or Formthe TV’s 65-inch size, resolution, and perfect contrast really make it feel like you’re playing the real sport like a pro.I almost gave up on trying to stream high bitrate 4k movies from my NAS on my LG OLED. The 4K resolution looks so much better on a bigger screen-on smaller monitors, the pixel density is very difficult for the human eye to see. If you ever do get the right card or the right console, your gaming experience will be practically unparalleled with the C1. You can buy an Xbox Series X or Playstation 5 for 4K 120-Hz gaming, but you're in for a rough time finding one of those too. The elephant in the room here is that it’s extremely hard to find graphics cards that can power gaming on a TV like this right now. It functions as well or better than my 38-inch ultrawide, and the deeper blacks from the OLED panel bring an astonishing level of depth to games, beyond anything I’ve encountered on PC monitors. LG's C1 also supports technologies from video card manufacturers like Nvidia and AMD that keep a game's frame rates synced with the screen's refresh rate, so everything looks amazingly smooth. RTINGS' nitty-gritty tests show staggeringly impressive results too. This single step in the processing chain amounts to a significant reduction in input lag-the time it takes the TV to register your joystick movements.Īfter a few years of refining, LG’s team has gotten this new OLED's input lag time down to levels that are equivalent to or better than most gaming monitors. The reason OLED TVs are better for gaming than their LED-backlit counterparts is that they don’t have the extra step of processing the backlighting.
