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Summary:

Excellent picture quality with deep blacks and vivid colours, and good picture setting customisation and tweaking. Great sound quality, decent bass and good in-built surround-sound emulation. Streaming app selection is reasonable but no side-loading of apps and very limited customisation of ugly user interface causes this TV to be 4* instead of 5*. I paid €899 on sale, but not pay €1,399 (the price as of writing this review).

Positives:

I've had this TV for around a month now and am really pleased with the both the picture and sound quality. This is both my first 4K TV and first OLED TV, so I was pleasantly surprised by the crisp quality of the screen and the incredible contrast between bright and dark areas. I know that OLED TVs have a more limited brightness range than other screen types (e.g., QLED) and the default settings make the screen feel a little lacklustre, but the TV has a program which helps you optimise the image settings to suit your content and viewing habits, and it's easy to optimise the settings to get more vivid and bright colours. The sound quality is a huge improvement from my last TV - I was planning to use a separate sound bar, but the sound quality was good enough (nice loudness, decent bass and surround-sound emulation) that I decided not to invest in a sound bar in the end (especially as I live in an apartment and care about my neighbours). The TV has energy saving settings and good OLED-care features which can help counteract the typical OLED burn-in issues that older OLED screens can suffer from. I would list LG's TruMotion (motion smoothing) as a negative because I'm generally not a fan of smoothing frame rates of all media, but they have included a minimal TruMotion setting of "Cinematic Movement", which only attempts to smooth the judder effect seen in films and shows with fast action or camera movement, but otherwise preserves the original framerate as best as possible. This redeems the TruMotion feature for me but with the other (higher smoothing) settings, films and TV shows all have a very cheap "soap opera" look. I don't watch much sport, but I assume the higher TruMotion smoothing would work better for that.

Negatives:

I like customisable interfaces and the ability to install my favourite apps. The LG app store has all of the main streaming apps, but is missing some of the ones I routinely use on my android streaming device. The main interface, where you select apps and see recommended shows, can be changed only in a very limited fashion with a large space for advertised films and shows (that I really don't care about) that cannot be removed. The LG operating system does not allow side-loading of apps so if the app is not in your app store, you can't use it directly with the TV. In addition, to access the LG app store, you need to create an LG account and are forced to agree to a lot of collection of personal data, which annoyingly seems to be the way nowadays. Another minor problem is that the CEC feature (which allows your main device connected through HDMI to communicate with the TV) is a little bugged. I use an android streaming box as my main streaming device, which switches the TV on when it switches itself on. After around 2 weeks of normal use, the LG TV seems to run into some CEC synchronisation issues which creates an endless loop of the TV and my android box switching each other on and off repeatedly. This can only be fixed by power cycling both devices. I have used the android box with 5 other TVs and never had this issue before.