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★★★★★
Love this TV!
This is a great TV for the money. It has a great piture and lots of features. Keep in mind this is not an OLED TV so it doesn’t have the best contrast or super deep blacks like all LED/LCD screens. If you set up the picture settings correctly you will have a great picture. There are lots of videos and articles that explain how to do this online. You also have to be using the correct cables. You can’t use regular old HDMI cables. You have to use cables that support the latest and greatest features. You also have to be aware that only 4K content is going to look super amazing. Watching OTA TV, cable, satelitte, DVD, regular Blu-rays, and 99% of all online videos will not be in 4K and su the picture has to be streched yo fill your TV screen. This is called upsampling. You have to set yor picture ssettings for each input. Also setting up the picture settings for 1 app (Netflix for example) sets the same settings for all apps. And if your gaming use Game mode in the picture settings. Game mode has very low input lag.
The sound is decent but don’t expect much from tiny speakers in flat screen TV’s. I got a sound bar to get the best sound possible. The TV is easy to set up. Has lots of great features and apps. I was surprised to see Youtube TV which I like. You can share your phone and computer screen but. Not all computers will share though. I have three PC’s and coulld not connect to the TV by adding the TV as a device on the PC settings. But I was able to connect my newest PC to the TV by adding the TV as a wireless screen on the PC. The downside to this method is the sound comnes out of the PC and not the TV. Sharing your phone is easy but you will need to download a Miracast app form the app store on your phone. I was able to stream a movie from my Android phone this way using VLC player. The TV also sees my router and NAS drive as media servers and was able to watch a movie on the TV from the NAS drive. I can also view pictures and play my extensive music collection as well. I also setup Google Assistant on the TV as well. Alexa is also supported. Another great feature is casting Youtube videos from the phone to the built in Youtube app on the TV. This way you can easily pick what video you want to watch on your phone then send it to the TV. This is great for me as I have poor vision and can’t read the text on the TV screen unless I am very close. Oh and for watching movies from the NAS... I have files in the AVI, MP4 and MKV formats. They are all playable on the TV. And for music the TV can play 320kbs MP3's from the NAS. Not sure about other formats.
Lastly. I recommend getting the LG Magic remote. It’s not a great universal remote but you can use the remote as a pointer on screen which makes navigating web sites (yes the TV has a web browser) very easy. It also has a voice function which allows you to open apps and inputs and more easily. You also use the remote to use Google Assistant or Alexa. Be sure to turn off Audio Guidance in Settings/Accessibility for the TV as neither the pointer nor the voice function will work with it on.
I highly recommend this TV.
July 2018 · Electronics · verified purchase