I amended my original post. They paired for me also

I amended my original post. They paired for me also

Looks great, why worry about something that you have never seen? Life is to short

I hope this is the right thread for this question - I have an LG B7A - 65" and just connected a Sony x700 Blu-Ray player.
Should the upscaling be set to off on the Sony x700 and just let the B7 do the upscaling or does it matter?

Just pick the one that looks best for you. Sometimes it’s the player sometimes it’s the TV.

Thanks for the quick answer - will the upscaler on the Sony x700 blu ray player conflict with the LG B7's upscaler if both are left on?

The B7 won't upscale upscaled data.

There is no conflict Since there wouldn’t be anything to upscale

OK, so here's the story. I got my 65" C7 from Value Electronics in early June of 2017. Out of the box it had minimal banding and John did an excellent calibration job. I do have some very mild yellowish tinge on the bottom left corner but it has faded somewhat and it's no big deal. Over the past few months, I've begun to see banding show up on content with certain light background colors. Gray screen tests show a band border in the center of the screen. The band itself is to the left and less obvious but screen to the right of the band line is slightly brighter than it is on the left of the line. It's primarily the line itself that shows up on content with the rest of the band being a bit vague. I've run the pixel refresher several times with some improvement but then it reverts back. I'm also seeing some increased vignetting on the side edges but they have yet to be evident on content. Do I have to live with the banding and decreased uniformity or is there something else I can do? I do have an extended warranty through Square Trade but I'm not sure that they would consider the banding to be severe enough to justify action on their part.

I agree to just do what looks better, but I wouldn’t expect much change. I left my on TV upscaling, but it was very hard to tell a difference. If you let the TV do it, the x700 will scale all 480p content to 1080p which the TV will then upscale to 4K. This might make more of a difference but I really don’t have any DVDs I watch regularly enough to mind.

So, have I been living under a rock? I just discovered that the on-board Youtube app on my C7 sends DD 5.1 via ARC to my AVR for those videos that support it. My ATV doesn't do that. I was under the impression Youtube didn't support 5.1 at all.

There was an LG YouTube app update a couple weeks ago, that, among other things, enabled 5.1 output for content encoded as such.

Like many other lagging-audio streaming services as of late, YT is quietly rolling out DD/5.1 support in stages.

You can test DD+/Atmos here:



P.S. I should also point out that (as otherwise with apps on recent years LG TVs - or some other devices) the YT app/LG TV will re-encode/convert any 2.0 or 5.1 source encoding to DD/DDP 2.0/5.1 depending on what is connected downstream (E-EDID detected) on the ARC channel. You get the "realtime" DD/DDP re-encoding/conversion capability of LG TVs+enabled apps.

For example:
PCM/AAC 2.0 becomes DD/P 2.0 if you have a DD or DDP capable ARC-device detected
or
DDP 5.1 or PCM 5.1 or AAC 5.1 (however its encoded) becomes DD 5.1 if you have just a DD ARC-device connected
etc

So you will find that "PCM 5.1" or "DTS 5.1" encoded videos will playback as DD/DDP 5.1 (depending on ARC device connected)

Keep in mind that while the original source may be 5.1, it may not be DDP or DD encoded even though the LG TV+app ARC output is DDP5.1 or DD5.1 (depending on what you have ARC connected).

This is one of the increasingly tricky aspects of streaming audio: original content codec/channel encoding vs actual output codec/channel encoding - it becomes very difficult to know at times whether you are getting a touched/untouched bitstream output or even whether the original source encoding is accurate/correct as per the label.

Hey looking for some help here! I've had my B7 for 16 months now and I ran the Pixel Refresher (manual) cuz the recommendation was to run it once a year. Now I have a 25% box that is pretty much the same problem as the RTings 10 week burn in test video so I contacted customer support. A few days later they sent a repair guy over who said this was burn in and nothing could be done as my warranty expired 4 months ago. I told him they fixed this issue regardless of warranty so he contacted his seniors they said this was burn in - user error and all that shiz even though I showed them the rtings video and said they weren't gonna do anything like sending it to the factory. So I need help and was wondering if someone knew who to contact so that I could upload the LUT myself via the service port and the proc. needed to do so.

TL;DR Customer support isn't helping me even though TV has a box burned in all due to a SOFTWARE bug from the factory and now I need a lookup table and the steps to fix my B7. I'm located in Pakistan sadly.

Wow that is absolutely horrendous. LG should be flogged over that. Good luck bro in the lottery.

I picked up a 65C7 on ebay about 6 months ago. All has been good until just recently I noticed a very thin vertical stripe going all the way from bottom to top at about 1/3 of the way from the left edge. Is there any info on what may be causing this? I found some posts about a T-Con board but they seemed LCD related. Is there any chance LG would warranty this considering I am not the original owner and the manufacture date on the back is over 1 year?

I had what sounds like exactly the same failure a month or so ago. My TV was 15 months old at the time, but it was covered as warranty under the conditions set out my Australian Consumer Law (basically mandates that warranty applies for manufacturing defects that appear within the reasonable lifetime of the product despite the manufacturer's claimed warranty period).

Your case is further complicated since you are not the original owner, and presumably don't have the original receipts as proof of purchase date etc.

My line appeared almost as if it were a line of dim pixels that you could see part of the picture behind.
I ran a pixel refresh to see if that had *any* effect, but after that, the line of pixels became a very distinct broken white line , still only 1 pixel wide, that changed length and broke into segments depending on what image was showing on the TV at the time.

The repair involved a full panel replacement, keeping the electronics bump, all performed at my home.. The technician cleared the panel run-hours, which also involved a reset to factory default settings.

I had the same problem after 15 months of ownership and they agreed to replace my panel without too much fuss. Be persistent and insist upon escalating the problem to higher levels and keep referring to their pledge in the video to rectifying the problem. Don't take no for an answer.

I have a strange problem on my 55c7v ( European model) that I never heard before. It exists since first day I bought. Problem is my oled doesn't have ABL!

Full screen whites not get dimmer contrary getting more brighter! I used 55C6 oled before around 1 year and then I sold it and bought c7.In my c6 I was seeing how ABL works. After bought c7 First hours I thought its difference of C7 and it has more peak luminance but few hours later I noticed it's abl not working.

At beginning I didn't care much about it and even I liked this more ( who wouldn't full screen whites like Leds? 🙂 but lately Im aware of panel homogenity got worse. not burn in but I see horizontal bands and some other things like bandings especially on magenta. I don't have a good camera so I couldn't take a good picture as I see them.
I never heard about this problem before and I wonder about your opinions and also wonder is there anyone who has same problem?

Also sometimes I see brightness differences in white fones like web pages. I think it's connected to same problem.

I added picture and video but due to poor camera they not like how I see In real.


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The TV can't not have ABL. Thats physically impossible as that would require more power than the psu can ouput at peak brightness.

But ABL works differently on the 2017 series compared to 2016. It gets less aggressive the lower your oled-light is set, to a point where it wouldn't dim a full white screen at all if it's set low enough. Try setting your oled-light to 100 to test if you still don't notice ABL...

I know it's makes no sense but I tried already and same. Full screen whites not different then small areas. I don't have equipment to check luminance. There are anomalies about variable screen brightness and also when I change oled light settings. I can't find any explanation.

My 65B7 setup looks like this. My wife's aunt made the TV-stand for the cost of materials. The bottom half swivels, so it is easy to hoover under.

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Just hit 4K hours, tv still looks fantastic, no issues

About to hit 3000 hours and have zero technical issues as well.


My biggest gripe remains LG's terrible approach to tone mapping 4000nit content. I really hope they update the TV to the 8 series approach to tone mapping, but I'm starting to doubt that will ever happen. I would buy the 9 series, but I really can't justify it since the jump probably won't be huge and I'm better off just waiting for the next big OLED breakthrough.



Hopefully more devices allow you to set max nit level and/or allow you to send out your own metadata to the TV. I'm considering buying an HDFury Linker, but it kind of seems like a hassle.

I hadn’t heard about that. I put dynamic contrast on low and the tone mapping of HDR10 content looks great. Pretty much indistinguishable from DV.

What artifacts are you seeing?

That works ok most of the time, but it isn’t available in game mode, and since game consoles don’t send metadata LG tone maps as if it’s a 4000 nit signal which darkens the image even if the content doesn’t get close to hitting 4000 nits. They made the 2016 sets do the same thing and then rolled it back to a different tone mapping curve.

It’s fixed on the 8 series too, where tracking is close on the low end before rolling off. On the 2017 sets it’s depressed even at 100 nits which is why the image looks dim without DC on low.
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I guess this was asked before: how do i get in the service menu of a C7?

just want to diable SABL (although is not as aggressive as on C6 it's still a bit annoying.

A Harmony remote has the IR codes in its database. Either borrow or buy the cheapest model available off eBay.

Thanks. That would explain why I haven't seen it. If I used game mode, that might drive me batty.

The 7 series also falls back to significantly dimming mid-tones, lowering average picture level, in the presence of spectral highlights.
I use and HDFury to override the static metadata to values like 600 nits for Max luminance and MaxCLL.
This technique would also fix game mode.

- Rich

Once you get into the service menu, you won't see an "ABL On/Off" option. This is a very scary place if you don't know what to look for, or where to look.