Official LGxxLM9600 owners thread - Page 5

Originally Posted by vishank 

I checked out 3d for the first time today. One word again: AMAZING! I noticed zero crosstalk and quality looked pretty good!

Originally Posted by wg4ever 

I just ordered the 55LM9600 from Amazon, today. It will be delivered Friday. There is a Link on the site, which I am not sure if I am allowed to post here, that you click on the TV, and a pair of $12,99 glasses. You go to the cart and change the quantity of the glasses to six pairs. When you go to pay, the TV, which comes with 6 pairs of glasses, will cost $2338, and the six other pairs of glasses that you added will be free. So, in summary, you get the TV and 12 pairs of glasses for $2338, with no tax and free shipping. I live in California, so buying this locally at this price with the tax and a state e-waste fee would have added about $350 to the total. Also locally the only place that has this TV is the Magnolia Best Buys, and there it is priced at $3300!

Originally Posted by kentgabel 

Yes!!!!!! I agree 100% the best 3d I have seen compared to the theater, Sony personal 3d viewer, and active shutter 3d from a panasonic vt tv !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Got toxicity from the dentist the other day so I wasn't able to play Tekken in 3d or watch Titanic in 3d yet. I will follow up.

Originally Posted by 6athome 

I have the LG LV9500,it is the same TV with active 3D,with THX 3D I can tell you it is a killer TV,I just wish these two TV'S could be compared together.Does anyone have both models?

Originally Posted by vishank 

I actually have both models. I can't do any side by side comparisons though but here is my point of view regarding both of the models:
Picture quality
- The LV9500 definitely has better black levels. As you probably know, it can get very milky black levels that in a dark room, you cannot see where the bezel is. In comparison, the LM9600 has grayish black levels which makes it very horrid to watch in a dark room.
- There seems to be an issue with shadow detail with the LM9600 that I cannot fix yet with the settings. e.g. When I see a person wearing a dark suit, you cannot distinguish the individual parts of the suit, as the black color meshes all together. The LV9500 had no problem with this.
- Zero blooming with the LM9600. This was a big problem with the LV9500.
- LV9500 on a totally dark screen, was just that - totally black (with LED dimming on). In comparison, my LM9600 has clouding on the upper side of screen and the right and bottom of the screens.
Audio quality
- Can't comment as I am using a sound system.
3D
- I so far don't notice a big difference in resolution. I am also sitting further back so do not notice the horizontal lines with passive 3d. I definitely do like the more lightweight glasses though!
Wifi and Apps
- Both are dual band, and work great.
- Apps are about the same with both. Although the LV9500 had Amazon Video and its missing in the LM9600
DLNA/File/Audio Support
- The LM9600 has better DLNA support and a better folder system view. It is an improvement over the LV9500. It looks like the menu system has also been improved. Still, moving around in the menu is much slower than the LV9500 even with it being dual core.
- The LM9600 has DTS support including passthrough! This is a huge difference as the LV9500 would get audio error when playing a file with DTS.
- The LM9600 also has subtitle support. The LV9500 does not.
I think its worth the upgrade if you can sacrifice black levels but get the benefit of passive 3d, DTS support, etc. By the way, it looks like CNET posted a review stating the LM7600 has better picture quality (including black levels) than the LM9600. What's up with that?

Originally Posted by vishank 

Try turning LED Local Dimming to low, medium or high if you have not. That can lessen the bleed somewhat

Originally Posted by JTT23 

The edge bleeding on the bottom right is little less now after some tweaks i did with Flatpanels calibration. you could barely notice in dark scenes. i think you can't really get away from this with LED sets, i'll give it week and do some more testing on it and wait for more reviews on Sony XBR-HX950 and i'll decide if i'll exchange for another LM9600 or trade for Sony XBR-HX950

Originally Posted by kentgabel 

I too had problems with bleeding light in the corners, in particular the upper right. I exchanged mine within a 30 day window and my new one is awesome. The LED compared to a plasma will never be as dark. If you are looking for black blacks then I suggest you go with a plasma. I have a VT downstairs and it's bar none. I bought the LED for temperature purposes in my bedroom. Plus, the 3d is the best I have seen. I too looked at the Sony XBR but I'm not sold that the tech is over a year old and the 3d is weak. It also has tricky 3d viewing angles. The XBR is dark like a plasma for a LED but I hear the new one is coming out in a couple months you might wanna wait for that. I will say it won't be as cheap as the 9600 though. If you decide to keep it I would at-least switch it out with a new 9600 to try to get better corners. Good luck.

Originally Posted by Derf 

I've had my 55LM9600 for a few weeks now and overall am impressed. Solid picture quality, great looks, nice extras (I have an XBMC setup on my other TV, so I loaded PLEX onto my Diskstation server and can use MediaLink to watch shows on the LG). Not enthralled with the Magic Remote, but nothing is perfect.
I do have one serious issue though - if I try to connect the TV via ethernet directly into my network, the TV begins to have a "wired network connected"/"wired network disconnected" cycle. For a while, I just removed the connection and switched to WiFi, but MediaLink has issues with high-bandwidth shows on WiFi. So, I'm trying to reconnect the wired ethernet. As long as there is an active stream of data, it works (and handles the higher bandwidth), but once you go back to just watching regular TV, the "wired network disconnected" message starts popping up. To make it even more obnoxious, it apparently gracefully fails over the the WiFi but when the wired network "reconnects", it pops up a dialog box asking if you want to revert to wired network.
This just repeats ad nauseum about every 90 seconds. Needless to say, I yanked the ethernet.
Has anybody else had this problem? For all I know, I have a dodgy switch (although it is a brand new Netgear 5-port switch for the TV and Blu-Ray player, which in turn routes to a Cisco 16-port business-class switch, so it should be fine). No other piece of equipment on the network complains, so I'm assuming it's a problem with the TV.

Originally Posted by Infernus1948 

Alright this is going to be a slight review and also some problems I am having that I am really hoping somoeone can help me with.
I calibrated the TV and the picture is phenominal, I watched UFC 152 in HD the other night and everyone was amazed at the picture quality, only issue I have is MAJOR backlight clouding issues, especially in the corners and in the middle it's almost marbled, I ordered another one and am actually exchanging it tomorrow.
The other problem I am having is MAJOR input delay problems I have it running through a Yamaha RX-V3800 receiver and the audio is way off, I have all of the processing turned off and I still have audio delay, I finally figured out the manual delay setting on the receiver and around 83ms is about dead on, which is fine until you try to watch something in 3D, I just got avengers in 3D and tried to watch it, the 3D looks fantastic but the audio is WAAAYYYYY off, I really don't want to have to go in my receiver and change the audio delay everytime I want to watch a 3D movie, I also tried putting it through just the tv speakers and there was still delay, like how is that even possible on this expensive of a TV?. Also as far as input lag, without game mode on playing video games is horrendous and I have ALL of the processing turned off, but then enabling game mode you can't use your calibrated settings which is also enraging.
Now the thing I really need help with is the audio delay which is explained above, my receiver has automatic audio delay, but it doesn't seem to work, I've read that you need to have it on the TV as well so they can communicate with each other, I don't know if this is true but any help would be greatly greatly appreciated, because if I could get the automatic audio delay to work then it would be a none issue and just adjust itself accordingly. This TV does seem to have an AV sync mode but only to manually adjust the tv speaker delay.

Originally Posted by JTT23 

I can't help you with your sound problem cause i just have a sound bar but you could calibrate the settings in game mode.
Try this setting on game mode, gives the games more pop
backlight 55
contrast 85
brightness 50
sharpness 35
color 85
colortemp c1
dynamic color low
gamma medium
noise reduction low
black level low
eye care low

Originally Posted by kentgabel 

Come on nobody has messed with the 3d calibrations????

Originally Posted by Infernus1948 

Update for me as well, I exchanged the TV on Thursday, I'd have to say the backlighting is about 90% better, much more uniform with very minimal bleeding. BUT my sound delay is even worse, I have my receiver set to 130MS which is ridiculous, I'd really like to get this problem figured out but I'm all out of ideas.

Originally Posted by JTT23 

How do you have your receiver connected through optical digital input or HDMI???