Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Replaced my 65" OLED B7a from 2017 with a 77" C2 and I've been running it for a week as of now. The picture quality after calibration has improved over the older model. I feel the black levels on this device are far far better than the B7a ever were, which BTW required a lot of "tinkering" to get to what the C2 did pretty much out of the box. My old OLED had no burn-in that I could see, even after 5 years of daily usage, but the older OLED panel was never as uniform in solid colors test as this panel is, not even when the B7a was new. Especially watching dark scenes now, there is no fixed pattern noise anymore. The scene motion on this TV is better what the B7a has, which was already good, but it had issues with some stuttering under certain conditions. Obviously this TV is 120hz with a 5 year newer video processing unit, so it would be expected to be a good improvement. The worst part for me during initial setup was figuring out the new WebOS UI. Coming from the older B7a WebOS, which had things in different places and required different steps to get things done was quite frustrating at first. I guess once you understand how it works its okay. After setting the TV like I wanted, I then updated the firmware and after the firmware update things didn't work right, things like LG channels got stuck, couldn't click out of some popups, etc, so I had to perform a factory reset, and redo the whole setup again. The TV has been running well since. So be aware that if you perform a hardware reset, chances are you might have to do a factory reset and redo all the settings. The remote internal accelerometer wasn't calibrated somehow when I first paired it, so the pointer kept always pulling to the left on the screen. To resolve this I had to shake the remote several times until it finally became accurate. The scroll wheel feels a bit too deep this time compared to the previous magic remote from the B7a, which was way too high... guess the next TV will be at the sweet spot! :) IMO. For the price of this TV I would've liked some backlight on the remote too. I did miss not having a pause button on the remote like the B7a. Which was nice to pause shows without having to bring the menu and click on the pause screen button. Connectivity for DLNA worked well, the NAS and other storage stuff in my LAN was detected fine after everything was setup correctly. Mobile screen cast via Miracast, etc... worked well with all my phones/tablets that are capable of screen cast. All the basic streaming services I've tried worked well too. Audio from the default speakers is certainly okay for a TV, and it seems to have improved the spatial audio somehow over the older B7a. Still no match for a dedicated receiver/speakers setup, but if you don't have one, this TV alone will be a good start. Privacy was and is still a concern for me with this TV. And let me say it loud and clear: Serving ads on a 2500 dollar TV feels quite a bit of an insult, TBF; b/c at that point why not just give the TV away for free? if you are going to soak the end user in ads, and sell their usage stats, etc at some good $$$? I believe most of the tracking, etc can be disabled by going into the agreements and disabling all the options there. For most of the basic B7a level of functionality that I wanted I only had to agree with the two first terms, so voice and all other terms are not enabled, which still is a bit of a concern to trust if a company will honor a checkbox... Also, the remote seems to have a built-in microphone, so if you are super concerned about this thing eavesdropping then you can just take the batteries out of the remote, or use an universal remote but you lose the nice mouse-like pointer. The old B7a remote doesn't seem to offer full functionality with the C2, at least not the mouse pointer part. Overall the TV was a step up from the B7a, both in size and picture quality. Only time will tell how the TV pans out in the end, but if the B7a was an indication, working well for 5 years, I think this TV should last at least the same amount of time.