There’s really a distinction between the 42-inch and 55-inch LG C2 OLED, and it’s not so simple as them being two totally different sizes… OK, there’s that too, nevertheless it’s not the one distinction.
LG has confirmed that whereas the 42- and 48-inch fashions use frequent parts of the bigger sizes, together with the Alpha 9 Gen. 5 processor, as a result of pixel pitch, there isn’t any main beneficial properties in brightness vs. non-evo fashions.
In essence, the pixel pitch (i.e. the density of the pixels in relation to the decision of the TV) of the 42-inch and 48-inch C2 OLEDs is so excessive that it prevents them from getting the brightness enhance that the 55-inch and above fashions get from Evo.
In follow, LG says, there’s a few 20% distinction in brightness between final 12 months’s C1 OLED and this 12 months’s C2 OLED, which the smaller fashions don’t profit from.
What’s the distinction between LG OLED Evo and different OLED panels?
Once we speak about LG OLED Evo expertise, we’re referring to LG Show’s development in panel expertise that enables OLED TVs to get brighter than they may beforehand.
LG started utilizing the brand new OLED Evo panels in final 12 months’s LG G1 OLED and introduced again at CES 2022 that the upcoming C2 Collection could be getting them as nicely.
Since then different OLED TV makers have began to supply these panels and created their very own model of Evo expertise (see: Philips’ OLED EX on its 2022 fashions) – nevertheless it looks like LG nonetheless has the broader vary of fashions when you depend its smaller show sizes.
We’ve but to go hands-on with the TVs, however we’ll be excited to see how a lot has modified between final 12 months’s wonderful LG C1 OLED and this 12 months’s new C2 fashions.
