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I've been living with a perfectly fine LED-lit 55" panel for about a decade, but with 4K content becoming more prevalent on the streaming services, I decided it was time. With OLED phone screens for years, I knew it would be a missed opportunity to not get one for the TV, despite the expense. I am not disappointed.
Most TV's ship with all of the crap that makes for bad pictures that people respond to (over saturated color, high sharpness, that annoying frame interpolation that makes everything look like a soap opera), but LG ships a bunch of picture profiles that turn it all off. The "filmmaker mode" has a great starting point that allows things to look as they were intended, and I only had to adjust down the contrast a little, brightness up a little, to feel like I was getting all of the dynamic range possible relative to the color grading of the source material. The deep blacks remind me of expensive plasma from back in the day. Provided that you start with those templates, it looks great without being muddy or overblown. Disney+ and some of the Amazon content show off some really great capability for the TV. The Marvel movies and newer animated movies are staggeringly great eye candy.
The unit itself is alarmingly thin but sturdy. I'm using the stand, and it was awkward to attach it while the screen flexed. The Wii-style remote is completely annoying, just give me buttons, please. Fortunately I'm using a FireTV and that remote covers everything, including the volume on the attached receiver getting sound via optical. The upscaling from an Xbox One S looks surprisingly good, and old DVD's played via the Xbox aren't as noisy as I expected.
This missing final star is because the software handling the settings is a mess. For example, you can't use ARC without also enabling CEC, which creates other problems. With a FireTV on HDMI-4, trying to switch to any other input forces it back to 4 every time. It's infuriating. To solve this I had to turn off ARC and CEC (they're on different settings but programmatically connected) and use an optical cable back to the receiver.
| Brand Name | LG |
|---|---|
| Item Weight | 73.7 pounds |
| Product Dimensions | 57 x 9.7 x 34.2 inches |
| Item model number | OLED65BXPUA |
| Speaker Type | Built-In |
