No o !!!

Just received my 77" LG C3 yesterday... still in the box cos doing home theater reno

Dead pixels is quite common on OLED TV.
Better buy extended warranty for peace of mind to cover dead pixels.

Really such a significant difference now? Last I checked prior to getting my own G3 77", the C3 77" was only RM2.5k less at HVN.

Uh... I bought my G3 last year July lol. It just launched about a month in Msia at the time.

Last when I checked the C3 price because I was scouting for a 55" to put in the bedroom, I was told the C3 77" was only RM2.5k cheaper than G3 77". That was in January of this year.
There is no "stock clearing" prices at the timeline I purchased my G3 and C3.

Oh and btw there is no reason to buy an 83" G3 because it lacks MLA, might as well just get a C3 83" and save the money.

Price was from HVN @ IOI mall putrajaya.
In fact I'm going to go there tomorrow to check the price difference between a C3 and G3, along with picking up a 48" as an editing display.

About the brightness thing, you're just regurgitating what normal peeps on the internet says. The typical you don't need any brighter if your room ain't bright and it's overkill.
Well, let me just tell you that nothing is overkill once you've seen a dolby pulsar monitor. If you understood dynamic range, you wouldn't even have said that to begin with.

The only one delusional here is you.

If you think I'm buying into marketing hype without actually even knowing what I do, that pretty much confirms what I've thought of you all this while looking at your previous posts. I won't say it because you'll get offended.

Apologies on my part as well, I sounded rude.

The point I'm making though is that there's more to just peak overall brightness. Most movies are mastered at 4000 nits these days on a UHD disc, some studios that are on the lazy/quick-buck side just blanket maxes a movie's peak luminance @ 10,000 nits which only a dolby pulsar monitor can reproduce faithfully. Fortunately the lazy approach isn't too common in recent times since all the major streaming platforms requires some level of standard for mastering of a studio's content before being published (although Disney has taken some shortcuts as well, it's a bit hypocritical but that's a different topic).

So the whole "spec sheet" thing isn't just there to appease some numbers from the marketing team of LG (or Panasonic, Sony, Philips etc.). The capability of a higher peak luminance reproduction from a display isn't just there to "make things look brighter in a bright room", that's just a byproduct (or a bonus). The true reason for needing brighter displays is so that content can be tonemap better and therefore a more faithful reproduction that represents a creator's intent.

What?   

If the TV has fake DV, then DV can't even be activated when you watch any content that has DV lol. There's no fake or real here, it either works or it doesn't. Every LG OLED release since 2019, DV works.

I think you're misunderstanding tonemapping. If a TV doesn't have the capability to reproduce the peak luminance of a frame in a movie, it will simply be tonemap to fit within the TV's peak luminance window.
So if we take a LG C3 for example, it can maybe do 800 nits maximum on a 10% window, so when a scene in a movie has anything higher than 800 nits (let's say an object like the sun is 2000 nits), it will just be mapped down to fit within the 800 nits capability of the C3. Everything above that will just be clipped away, meaning there's a loss of detail.