It’s a strange and clumsy implementation of what sounded like a great feature, but at least it salvages from complete irrelevance because YouTube is just about the only app that works with Multi-View.
Flex night screen tv#
If I want to watch YouTube TV, I have to sneak in through a menu option inside the YouTube app, one that appears to launch YouTube TV inside the shell of the normal YouTube app. On the C2 and on the OLED Flex it basically lets you watch one HDMI source input alongside either over-the-air TV or alongside the YouTube app. Within 30 seconds of powering the TV on for the first time, I realized that Multi-View is incredibly restrictive in terms of what it lets you do. Which would have been a mistake, because it turns out I made a great choice, just for all the wrong reasons.ĭisillusionment came quickly. It doesn’t do anything else much better than a normal LG TV, and there is absolutely no way I would have bought it if I had understood that from the start. The LG OLED Flex is a TV whose display can adjust to function better as a computer monitor. I will tell you right now, most of those features are underwhelming at best and bullshit at worst. Then it arrived, followed closely by regret as those daydreams ran headlong into reality. The Flex part of the equation sounded like more of a neat gimmick than a valuable convenience, but taken together the whole package would be perfect for my needs in a way that almost justified the cost. I fantasized about how Multi-View would let me play games on one side of the display while watching the Cubs, Bulls, and Bears lose on the other half.
I loved the idea of not having to mount a TV to the wall to adjust viewing angles or distance, of not having to run speakers around my office, of getting bias lighting that threw complementary sprays of color across the walls around my TV in sync with the display without having to mount a bunch of weird Gamer Shit alongside my TV. Taken alongside all that, the adjustable curve becomes the cherry-on-top of a multi-purpose ice cream sundae of a display. It is sold and often described as an incredible all-in-one device that comes with decent speakers, cool bias lighting, a special “game center” feature (that it shares in common with the C2), and LG’s Multi-View feature that lets you throw two video sources on screen side-by-side. But here’s the thing: there are basically no long-term reviews of the OLED Flex from people who live with the damn thing. I don’t do hardware reviews here, I have neither the technical expertise nor the equipment to make a definitive statement about things like color accuracy and response times.
The end-all, be-all of personal displays. Editor-at-large Caleb Dennison’s final evaluation of the item was fairly measured, especially in light of its cost, but his framing was dangerous to me personally when he described the OLED Flex as a device that is attempting “to be the best of both the TV and monitor worlds.
When I was†researching what display to put in my new home office, I found a link to Digital Trends’ review of the display, which was the first I had ever heard of it. If that sounds like a terrible value proposition, you are not the only person to think so. For around the price of the OLED Flex you could buy both the new C3 and Alienware’s ultrawide quantum dot OLED monitor, the AW3423DW. Its MSRP was $3,000, though it is discounted to $2,500 these days, which means that even now it is about three times the cost of its TV equivalent and almost double the cost of the 42-inch LG C3 TV that has begun to replace the C2 this year. What this means in practice is that when you are sitting in front of it at your desk it wraps around you like an old IMAX screen and almost fills your peripheral vision.
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