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The Mattybee: Sep 15, 2007; despair.

Palladium posted:

100mbps max ethernet ports on tyool 2020+ TVs, you say?

Quoting myself from another thread:

The Mattybee posted:

The whole reason I am known by people higher up at work is by automating an LG firmware update process, which done manually, involves the following steps:

Download the firmware file, which is a zip file somewhere upwards of 800+ MB, divided into chunks

Create either six or seven folders, depending on the model, on the server

Grab one of two arbitrary numbers off the server

Add exactly two files into each of these folders, except for the last one, which is sometimes three; no, you can't put them all into the same folder, gently caress you

Specifically tell the server to use each of these sequential files as part of a firmware update, and you must use the larger of the two arbitrary numbers as an initial key; doing this wrong could brick stuff if you get the files out of order

Remove the files the next day because it will cause issues for normal operation if they're still on there, assuming it worked, which you won't know until the next day

There's a reason that when I asked for monitors in this thread I explicitly said "no LG monitors". Sure, maybe the quality of their monitors isn't the same, but, well

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# ? Apr 22, 2025 20:46

kliras: Mar 27, 2021

it's weird how i generally like lg's tv's, but the stories about the monitors are really something else. probably to do with how monitors are more sensitive to mediocre firmware than tv's

msi also have a reputation for being laggards in terms of properly updating theirs

# ? Apr 22, 2025 16:00

Animal: Apr 8, 2003

The LG32 4k 240hz OLED screen is good except for two dumb things: the lovely scaling on the 1080p mode mentioned above� seriously, this is the main feature and you can�t use simple pixel perfect nearest neighbor from 1080p to 4k?

The second dumb problem is that the HDR mode firmware doesn�t report peak brightness to 1,000 nits (or 1,300 nits) on the EDID as advertised� it reports 600 nits even though it�s outputting 1k+ nits� leading to many many people calibrating it incorrectly because they are setting the sliders to 1000 nits instead of 600 nits where it actually clips (and is actually doing 1k nits). Or worse, you couldn�t set a correct value using RTX HDR (not sure if that was ever corrected.)

It seems to be because only the white subpixels reach the peak brightness, therefore some firmware engineer decided that the firmware should only report the lower value from the other subpixels as peak.

It�s tragic because the hardware itself is fantastic. Clean industrial design, great IQ and matte coating, and the built in speaker is fantastic. Like, competitive with desktop speakers worth $150+. Very clear sound and incredibly loud, it only lacks in lows. Understandably.

Animal fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Apr 22, 2025

# ? Apr 22, 2025 17:12

butt dickus: Jul 7, 2007; top ten juiced up coaches
and the top ten juiced up players

Palladium posted:

100mbps max ethernet ports on tyool 2020+ TVs, you say?

agreed having ethernet ports on tvs is bad. tvs should never connect to the internet

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