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Each week, we'll hand pick some of the most commonly asked questions and answer them as concisely and helpfully as we know how.

Each week, we'll hand pick some of the most commonly asked questions and answer them as concisely and helpfully as we know how.

So, Jon, as you suspected, running an optical cable from your LG OLED TV to the receiver is your easiest and least expensive option. Yes, Constantinos, the lossless Dolby True HD signal sounds noticeably better than the Dolby Digital+ signal that comes from streaming services. There are other factors at play, but the lossless audio signal sounds noticeably better to me, and the Atmos experience is superior. That doesn’t mean that streaming surround and streaming Atmos is bad, but there’s no question that my 4K Blu-ray discs sound significantly better than the streaming version of the same title.

Moiré effect on TVs involves a pattern on the television — not necessarily a dedicated Moiré pattern designed to trigger this kind of effect, but any pattern with tight, fine lines in very close proximity. Anyway, on many TVs, you can reduce the sharpness setting, and that will have eliminate some Moiré effect. Unfortunately, sometimes TV brands will limit how much influence you can have over the processing that’s done by the TV. We’re seeing this now with certain Samsung TV models. Turning down the sharpness all the way doesn’t have much effect on the processing that’s being performed.

I worked in retail for many years and was once a big fan of the open-box buy. I persuaded my parents get an open-box 36-inch Toshiba CRT TV. And that thing — which was built like a tank — still looked good when I helped them get rid of it some 10 years later. My bigger concern, though, is when demo or floor models are used for a period of time, then reboxed by the retailer and sold as open-box instead of floor models. I can see retailers doing this because they don’t want to waste a TV for demo purposes. But when the TV is on all day every day at absolute maximum brightness, that does take a toll — less so on an LCD-based LED TV than an OLED, but it still takes a toll.

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