Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Warning: This is NOT an entry-level TV. If you are looking for something you can plug in and not worry about, don't even bother. Note: LG has confirmed that this is the exact same display used on all of LG's more expensive OLED TVs. The differences are cosmetic, glass screen cover as opposed to plastic, and 3D capability (which is already dying the death it deserves). The only possible difference in performance is the glass screen cover, but it some cases that can actually be worse, but we're getting far into the videophile and "I didn't even know that was a thing" levels of difference. Effectively this TV is the same as the much more expensive models. So if you are here wondering what the difference is and what this TV is missing that makes it thousands of dollars less expensive, it's basically gold trim and a glass screen that 99.9999% of people won't be able to tell the difference on. If you are looking at a TV and have the money to seriously consider an OLED, stop what you're doing and go to the nearest big box store and look at one of these things. I mean seriously look at one of them. Adjust the color settings in the store (they NEVER do that properly in a store) and look at it compared to a back-lit LCD TV. The difference is MASSIVE. Plain and simple, no better picture is available on the market today than LG's OLED offering. Period. People who come over and watch it are blown away. The advertisement that shows on this page is actually pretty informative and not overblown. OLEDs are individually lit and colored, so you get true blacks and no back-light wash that you get with any LED TV. LG's default screen saver actually does a really good job of showing off its color range compared against a true black contrast. I'm typing this on a computer that has a $600 "gaming" monitor that is of exceptional quality, and the difference between my black desktop background and the one on the TV is night and day. If you are a gamer, this is by far the best TV you can buy for one simple reason: Response time. As a PC gamer, that is one of the most important things you can look for in a monitor. Response time is basically how long it takes for your input to be shown on the screen. Gaming monitors on PC will be ~1-2 ms response time, for example, so the time between you moving your mouse and that movement showing on the monitor is effectively unnoticeable. TVs unfortunately have a major problem they can't overcome to get their response time that low: size. It takes time to process and send a signal to all of the LEDs. The bigger the TV, the worse this generally is. TV Response times are usually in the 60-100 range, and are very noticeable if you are used to a computer monitor. However, this TV is clocking at around 35ms response time, which is phenomenal for a TV this size (both the 55 and 65 had similar response times). It appears that OLED TVs just naturally have a better response time, so if you want the best TV with the best gaming specs on the market, this is it. Last years models (2015) had some legitimate complaints about brightness when watching in a well-lit room. I can say with the utmost confidence that this generation of LG OLEDs has solved that problem - though it will take some adjusting on your part. Now, there is some pain that comes with these TVs, and they aren't for the faint of heart nor light of wallet. First and foremost, they are expensive. OLED technology is dominantly used in smart phones and takes up most of the production cycle LG has access to. Beyond that, the technology is just naturally expensive to produce. So buying this TV will hurt your wallet. I got mine in "Like New" condition from a reseller on Amazon and it came in factory packaging for more than 25% off the New price, and it was still more expensive than any other TV anyone I know owns, and I have a few friends with more money than sense. Next, the TV will absolutely require calibration to your environment. This is something that should be done with every TV, but a good calibration is especially important with OLED TVs. You can look this up online, look for the optimal settings all you want. I will warn you right now, you will get deep down into the videophile rabbit hole and come out of it looking for professional calibration services because screw all that noise. For some people, paying someone to calibrate your TV is the right choice. Ultimately what I did was get the color to where I liked it (wide gamut) and set the gamma to where I liked it (BT.1886), and then made other adjustments that are environment dependent using the 'Expert (Bright Room)' picture mode as a starting point. OLED Light (85), Contrast (90), and Brightness (56) will all vary based on your environment and your eyes. How I got those settings was watching a show on Netlix with letterbox bars, paused it on a dark scene, and adjusted it to where I could see detail in shadows without causing the letterbox bars to start to change to gray. It took me about a week of watching various shows and movies to get it right. Now, there are some negatives to this TV, but if you go into purchasing it completely informed and accept those negatives, they don't detract from the score as they don't really detract from the experience offered. First negative is WebOS. I'm sorry, but it sucks. It has little to no third-party support, and you'll be using a Chromecast or Roku to get a lot of your content outside of the big streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon). Now, that's completely fine since I knew about that and wanted to upgrade to the 4k Chromecast that I use for other things anyways. So while WebOS is a negative, if you're informed about it, you can make a decision. If you only care about watching anime on Crunchyroll, just know that they don't have a WebOS 3.0 app and you'll need a Chromecast. LG would much better serve their customers by going with Android since it has much better third party support. I get that they purchased WebOS and want to make their money off of it, but it really wasn't the most customer-centric decision. Second negative is the light band. Nearly EVERY OLED screen in existence has these, and they aren't very noticeable once you get your settings right, and they will only be seen when on letterbox bars and particularly dark scenes. These screens have what's called a Burn-In period, and, in most cases, after that period the band will fade to being barely noticeable. Mine is already starting to fade after just a few weeks of casual use. While it technically a negative, it should be expected and you should know how to deal with it going into purchasing an OLED TV. Third negative is the remote, and it really is the biggest one. Initially I thought it was really cool, it's bluetooth, has an accelerometer that allows you to use the remote like a pointer which is handy in a lot of cases. However, you can't adjust how or when that feature is triggered, and it is seemingly random how much movement is required to bring up the pointer. Sometimes simply picking up the remote to change the volume will trigger the pointer. Other times I can walk the remote across the room and it won't come up. It's also not completely intuitive, since it isn't an IR pointer, whatever orientation you are to the TV is how the remote measures movement. This results in some awkward use of the feature trying to position the pointer, and I often ended up turning off the pointer holding the remote in a deliberate position, and triggering the pointer manually with the scroll wheel on the remote. The single biggest annoyance, however, is to get the pointer to go away you have to function another button, which in any of the built-in apps cause any of a number of things to happen. Ultimately this is just an annoyance that takes getting used to, but the poor implementation of what should be something really cool is a problem. Unfortunately, the feature can't be disabled. I really hope LG fixes this in a future update (luckily software updates can address this issue) as it is the only thing I even considered taking a star off for. There are many features I don't personally care for and I just turn off, like Tru-Motion (LG's name for the software that is on every Smart TV anymore that causes that "Soap-Opera" effect). Tru-Motion actually can cause headaches and nausea in some people. My advice is to turn it off anyways, a lot of older shows will look terrible with it on. However, it is a feature that can be disabled, so I won't take points off for something I can disable. Despite WebOS and the stupid remote (It's not even close to "magic", LG), this TV is still the best one I've ever had. The picture alone is mind blowing and worth every penny and minute of effort you will spend learning and adjusting this TV.