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In this video, @philrodfilms pits the LG G4 OLED TV against the latest Apple Vision Pro in a head-to-head home theater showdown. Phil looks at how both of these premium devices perform, demonstrating the Vision Pro gameplay, live sports, and movies, and how it stacks up to LG’s premium OLED TV. And how does the Vision Pro immersive video compare to LG’s best OLED TV?
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Can the Apple Vision Pro replace my 65-inch LG G4 OLED TV when it comes to watching movies, sports, and gaming
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I love my LG G4 and Samsung Q990D. Find them was my top priority after moving into my new apartment
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But after spending time with the new Apple Vision Pro with the M5 chip and AirPods Pro 3
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I realized I can get a similar OLED HDR and Dolby Atlas experience for only a little more than my
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entire home setup. I need to address a few elephants in the room. The Apple Vision Pro
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can do a lot more than just media consumption. It's capable of spatial computing and VR gaming
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But to keep things simple, I'm going to put both devices head-to-head to see which outperforms the
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other when it comes to the audio experience, watching movies, watching sports, and gaming
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I'm expecting this to be a pretty controversial video, so I'm counting on you guys to argue it out in the comments down below
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Movies. One of the main reasons people are buying their OLED TVs and a soundbar system is to get the best movie and TV experience possible
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Disney Plus is great for watching movies because they have things IMAX enhanced
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that means the entire screen gets taken up during certain scenes. Spoiler warning for Avengers Infinity War, technically
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but honestly, if you haven't seen Avengers Infinity War, what are you doing
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All right, we're going to lower the lights, make this a little more of a cinematic experience
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Okay. I've seen this movie so many times, and it continues to just be one of those like wow moments
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The LG's ability to showcase those really bright colors so the HDR really pops
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but because it's OLED, we have that pitch black effect. So it's an LG OLED
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It's going to look fantastic with any sort of HDR content. All right, let's check out watching movies on Vision Pro
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I'm here in my virtual Vision Pro mode, so you guys can see me
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Oh God, that scared me. Just kind of jumped out at me
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What's cool about Vision Pro is the fact that you have the ability to move things where you'd like
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So by simply pinching, I'm able to move the screen close to me
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but also the fact that it can take you places. If you want to create an environment, all you have to do is turn the knob at the very top
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This is pretty sweet. Check this out. I can go to environments and look at what I have access to
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The Disney Plus Theater, Alien Earth, Avengers Tower. So you kind of guessing what I'm going to do already
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Look at this. I am on top of the Avengers Tower. And keep in mind that the Vision Pro records things in 1080p
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But I'm seeing this in incredibly sharp resolution. It's 4K per eye
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It is so detailed. It feels like I'm actually there. There's a chair over here
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I've got fun little Easter eggs about, we no longer make weapons. Sincerely, Tony Stark
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about some shawarma and another thing you can do as well is you can watch 3d movies so if i wanted
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to watch that scene again but in 3d i can do it and look at this little detail here i've started
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the movie and what happens it darkens the environment so it really creates that feeling
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wow look at that you literally in avengers tower it so cool all the little Easter eggs and the detail is incredible Heads up viewers The Apple Vision Pro protects copyrighted material from being screen recorded
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so you're going to see a black screen while I'm watching stuff. Enjoy
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I mean, this is amazing. You have all those full controls. If you want to make it larger or smaller, it stays right in front of you
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Now, the Vision Pro also uses an OLED screen, and it's a micro OLED panel that Apple developed
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So you're still getting HDR. You're still getting 4K. It does a really, really great job
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You're not compromising at all on the visual experience. Being able to go into really cool environments was pretty remarkable on the Vision Pro
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However, I found that the HDR and Dolby Atmos performance on the LG with the soundbar
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provided a better experience. So this round goes to LG. So I have the Q990D soundbar system
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which is capable of Dolby Atmos. So I'm gonna go ahead and hop onto Apple TV
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and I'm gonna put on one of my favorite movies to test Dolby Atmos, which is A Quiet Place
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This scene's awesome because you can really hear where the aliens are coming from
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yeah so as it's destroying things and it's upstairs to me it's hard to tell on camera but
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it sounds like it's actually coming from upstairs that's the effect that Dolby Atmos can create
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another great Dolby Atmos movie to see is the edge of tomorrow so it's something like edge of
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Tomorrow, he's deploying from the ship. He's spinning around, so you fully hear that all around you
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War movies, sci-fi movies. When there's a lot of things going on, Dolby Atmos really stands out
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It's hard to beat. Got the AirPods Pro 3, and what they do is they support Dolby Atmos
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just like I demonstrated with the LG. So it's going to allow me to feel that bubble
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So we're gonna go ahead and we are going to watch A Quiet Place
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Yeah, this is incredible. It's doing a great job of just creating that bubble
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It sounds like the aliens are exactly upstairs. I'm going to switch over now to Edge of Tomorrow
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The Vision Pro does a great job of creating that space in that environment. Watching stuff on this really is remarkable
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Not only is it remarkable, but it's pretty terrifying to have this type of audio experience out in the middle of the desert
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It does a great job, but I'm going to give the point to the LG because a dedicated soundbar system was still performing better in the audio department than my headphones
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So, another point to LG. LG OLED TVs are fantastic for sports
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They have really good motion smoothing, which means that a lot of the fast action going on looks really good
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Sometimes TVs will kind of stutter if they don't have good motion smoothing
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There aren't any games going on at the time of filming this but I am watching the highlights of the Celtics and Wizards game
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So, you know looks really great. It's 1080p 60fps great colors good brightness
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I have the volume turned down because i'm talking to the camera But one of the downsides of watching sports on an OLED is that a lot of options for seeing it in 4K resolution with HDR turned on which is one of the best things about an LG OLED or any OLED TV is the HDR performance
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You don't really have that a lot with sports. I mean, you try to watch a game, it's usually going to be 1080p and the 4K options are usually available in more premium places like
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certain YouTube TV packages, Fubo, things that cost a lot of money. So most people don't have
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the ability to even fully enjoy sports in 4K HDR. The handful of times I have seen sports in 4K HDR
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they've looked fantastic, but they're just not that commonly available. I'm a big soccer fan
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for example. I love the ability to watch the English Premier League in 4K HDR, but again
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it's very expensive to get those options. You can't just see it through Peacock or Paramount Plus
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for example, where they're streaming these soccer games. So LG OLED does a great job. You know
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if most TVs are even going to be showing things in 1080p anyways, you're still going to take advantage of that brightness and the motion smoothing
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So, yeah, it's great. Don't really have much complaints. It's more on the streamers
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So, streamers, come on, more 4K HDR content, please. Make it more easily available
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I got the Vision Pro on, and right off the bat, if you're looking to buy something where you can watch sports with your friends
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I wouldn't get the Vision Pro, because you're not going to be able to invite them over to watch content together on the Vision Pro
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if they don't already have one. Wait, then why am I here? That's a good question. I don't have an answer
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Yeah, all right. Well, I just lost a friend. So we're going to go to the NBA app
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And what's cool about the NBA app is that you have a lot of really interesting features that you can play with
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I don't have a membership, so I can't see the full game replay
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But basically, you have the ability to watch the game and then create this multi-view
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So as you're watching the game, you have live statistics on the left. You're able to see things like assists, rebounds, field goals
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You've got other games going on the bottom. You can see stats about the players
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What a Game by Jalen Brown. 35 points. Wow, started well too, 31
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But yeah, you have the ability to fully customize this. So you can do a multi-view setup
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Look at this. I now have my game stats right here and I can tweak what I want to see and how I want to design it
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Key highlights, full games. This is really, really cool. And then there are those experiences with
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Vision Pro where it feels like you're actually in the stadium. What they're doing is they're putting a 360 camera up to 8K resolution in the actual game. So you are seated there. So when
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you're sitting there looking around, it does a really great job. So watching a game like this, which is a lot more ytical, is really, really cool
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I know Apple TV has a really great demonstration of this. Yeah, this is absolutely incredible
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I'm right here with the players. Because of those copyright issues I mentioned earlier
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I once again can't show you what this looks like. However, I found this footage on Reddit from the Vantage app
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which does a good job of showing what it's like to be courtside at a sporting event
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I am sitting courtside right now. Both do a really great job with sports
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I'm going to give this one to the Vision Pro because the Vision Pro is allowing you to actually be immersed in the stadium
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You're on the field, you're courtside, and you're doing it from the comfort of your own home
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Vision Pro takes this point. Can it start a comeback? I've got the PS5 Pro with me
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We're going to start off with the Resident Evil 4 remake, Something the LG OLEDs have always done really well is have the ability to support high frame rates in games And what that allows you to do is have up to 120 frames per second
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So this is the LG gaming menu, and you can see I have 92 frames per second, 94, 93
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It's a variable refresh rate. That's what VRR stands for. Now, the way I'm going to play this level, for those of you who may not have played Resident Evil
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I would not recommend doing it this way, but I'm gonna basically just get right into the action here
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and just cause some chaos. All right. Yeah, like I said, it's on hard. Go easy on me, okay
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Any sort of 4K HDR game is gonna look really great on the LG
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Obviously, if you want to do VR gaming, you're going to want a Vision Pro or a competing headset
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For this scenario, we're going to look at what the console experience is like. You want to play some PS5? Is that possible
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It is, but you have to stream it. So this is PX Play, and it allows you to connect using Wi-Fi to your PS5, sort of like remote play
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I've got my purple DualSense controller in my hands. I've already paired it to Vision Pro using Bluetooth, so it's already connected
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You can see the thing right there. I'm gonna go ahead and make it spooky Which is dark cool
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All right Now we have nowhere to run In case I die, so the audio
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experience here Yeah, really good. So we're gonna go to the exact same spot that we were at earlier when we tried this out
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Yeah, I have a really good internet. Okay, and this is this is uh, it's okay
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there's a lot of latency truthfully. Not great guys. I'll be honest. It's not great. It a lot
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of latency here. There are games you can get on Vision Pro that use the controller. So it is
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possible to play some there and they don't have a lot of latency. But if you're looking for that
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console experience or a PC connected to a big screen, I just can't recommend this. There's ways
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to connect the Vision Pro to your display that has less latency and uses like it's an HDMI trick
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basically. If you guys want to see a video on how to connect your Vision Pro to things like a Switch
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2 or other consoles without using remote play, let me know in the comments. We can do a deeper dive
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But if you're planning on gaming on a console, the LG gets this point. It's an easy point to give out
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So gaming, it's going to go to the LG. Okay, there you have it. The Vision Pro is really impressive
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I think what it can do to create these immersive spaces and environments and really large screens
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plus Dolby Atmos support makes watching content on it pretty remarkable. If you're somebody who already has a TV setup and is looking for something that can be
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a really high-end theater experience on the go, I think the Vision Pro is a really great product
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But at the current moment, the LG OLED TV with the soundbar system
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I think is still the best setup for most people. So the LG wins this showdown, but the Vision Pro still left me really impressed
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What do you guys think? Are you going to pick up a Vision Pro? Are you going to try to upgrade your system
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Do you want to see more unique comparisons like this one? Be sure to let me know in the comments
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And until next time, I'm Phil Rodriguez, this is Tom's Guide, and I'll see you in the next video
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I'm just being silly
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