Numerous reports are emerging online suggesting that the latest firmware LG has rolled out to its massively popular CX OLED TVs has brought with it some bad news for gamers: a significant reduction in the Game mode’s peak brightness.
I don’t still have one of these TVs myself, unfortunately, so I can’t directly confirm the reports. According to multiple users of AVSforum, though, following the application of new update 03.21.09, peak white in calibrated Game mode now measures around 525 nits, having previously measured closer to 650 nits.
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That equates to approaching a 20% reduction in the brightness of the lightest parts of your HDR game visuals, so it’s not surprising to learn that the change is visible to the naked eye rather than being something you only notice if you’re using a light meter.
In fact, following the application of this update, peak brightness in Game mode is now more than 100 nits darker than that of the CX’s already muted (relative to other presets) Filmmaker Mode.
Games are apparently running significantly less brightly on CX OLED models such as the OLED48CX ... [+]
Photo: LGThere doesn’t yet appear to be any release notes for this new firmware version on LG’s UK or US websites, so it’s hard to know for sure what might be behind the Game mode brightness reduction.
My first thought when I heard about it was that maybe LG had done it in a bid to fix the shifting black level/flickering issues when using VRR on its OLED sets (an issue I have also recently witnessed, by the way, on a Samsung 55Q90T!). According to other reports on the same AVSForum discussion, though, the 03.21.09 update actually seems to have made near-black flickering more rather than less noticeable.
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I guess it’s possible that LG has made the change to try and reduce the likelihood of users getting screen burn on their CXes given how understandably popular LG’s latest OLED generation has been with gamers - and how much more time we’re spending gaming on the back of Covid-19 and the launches of the PS5, Xbox Series X/S and RTX 30 graphics cards.
Personally I think this possibility seems a little unlikely given the strides LG has made in this respect with its core OLED panel design and the relatively subtle anti burn-in tools now at its disposal. But it will certainly be interesting to hear what LG has to say about it.
[UPDATE: Since first publishing this article, CX owners have contacted me to say that the update does seem to have some upsides. Namely that it seems to fix/improve an issue with raised blacks when watching some Dolby Vision content; that it seems to reduce color banding in some internal apps; that it fixes some eARC issues; and possibly that it fixes the issue of raised black levels when gaming in VRR mode. Though this latter improvement seems to still be open to debate. When LG publishes its official firmware release notes, I’ll update this story again accordingly.]
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I’ve raised the issue with LG, and recent experience suggests that a fairly quick response will be forthcoming - though before anyone gets too impatient, bear in mind that at the time I contacted them it was both New Year’s eve, and a weekend!
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