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Some provinces have statutory warranties which cannot be overridden by the standard written warranties provided by manufacturers. A computer should last 10 years, so if a mother board dies, that would probably not be 'of reasonable quality". You would have to check the legislation of the province you bought the computer in.

I mean when your PC died originally that could have been covered.

I saw a couple of reviews. However I forget where I saw them.

Oh that abomination! I forget what the specs are, but it had a lot of failings. It is in the running for one of the worst monitors ever.

No idea what the OLED is. If it is a TV, especially an older one, it probably doesn't have a gaming mode. All I can attest to is that the new LG OLEDs have 6ms of input lag.

Pixel response times have everything to do with input lag Input lag= pixel response time + processing lag If the image isn't there for you to see, you can't react to it.

Yeah they have been doing that for a while. The answer is to keep it unplugged, but many don't because they use the built in apps. Ironically however, a gamer will probably hook a TV up to a PC and thus have no need for the apps, and can leave it unplugged from the net.

All flagship TVs are 120hz native. This fake high refresh rate nonsense is a thing of the past really (lower end TVs probably still have it). The only downside are those that are still HDMI 2.0 are locked at 4k 60hz. 120hz at 1080p or 1440p. The LG C9 is 120hz, and is probably the same panel used by Alienware since LG makes the vast majority of OLED panels.

Yeah I feel the same way. However the main point here is that these displays are at grossly inflated prices. Paying $3000 extra for the Alienware is excessive. At least it is well worth keeping a smart TV unplugged from the internet.

VA panels tend to have worse pixel response times creating motion blur, and thus have increased input lag. Here is a list of pixel response times and input lag of various monitors (and the panel types) VA panels have good picture quality, but bad viewing angles. For gaming I would probably pass, but for a mix of say RPGs and movie watching it might be a good buy.

Some TVs have surpassed even high end monitors; even have better input lag, all the while being cheaper. BFGDs are a joke.

Small claims court is your only recourse. However for a few hundred dollars a judge may not be too happy for bringing such 'trifle' to court (This does happen). Your provincial consumer protection legislation may extend your warranty for the initial motherboard death. You would have to look up what it says. For example here in Saskatchewan, our consumer legislation gives us statutory warranties, and that a good must be of 'reasonable quality' meaning that what it is used for and the price you paid for it should have bearing on how long it should last.

Actually these products are BETTER not almost as good. Yes I agree that there is some entertainment value. However Linus is being sent these items for review, and his videos are being taken as a review. One of his shticks is to outright crucify inferior products, and there was plenty of room for him to have some criticism in these videos. I like how he does just do a use case review, and cites any measurements found by other reviewers in passing as given, but there should still be a cost analysis in there somewhere.

There are a few people who see this same discrepancy. 'only' 2 are speaking out about it on this forum.

Nope this has been confirmed by several independent reviewers. Here is Rtings.com review: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/lg/c9-oled You can also see screen shots and look for over or under shoot. Input lag is 21ms with processing on. Gaming mode is 6 ms. My post is very well informed. I have been researching this for a while now. It started as research into a new monitor, but monitors don't make much sense other than size.