Disclosure: LG provided me with a G6 at no cost as part of a promotional event on r/4ktv. I was asked to share my experience, but everything I’ve written here is based on my own opinions and impressions.

I also just want to say i’m not a TV expert, just a regular guy that enjoys OLED tech and watching way too much TV. This is not going to be a technical analysis of the G6, I’ll leave that to the pros! 

Let’s begin!

So I’ve had the LG G6 for a couple of weeks now, and coming from an LG C4 I’ve been having a lot of fun putting it through its paces. My TVs get a lot of mixed usage between myself and my wife/kids streaming movies, watching 4k discs, sports, YouTube and lower quality streams from my wife’s home country. 

The first thing I noticed straight away was the brightness . This thing is insanely bright. It’s more brightness than I’ll ever need and is noticeably brighter than my LG C4. What surprised me most is that the extra brightness doesn’t come at the expense of colour. The colours stay incredibly rich and HDR highlights pop all thanks to the tandem stack panel. I thought my C4 looked fantastic, but the G6 makes it look a little well… dim, which is something I thought I’d never say.

Reflections 

My living room is pretty bright, with windows to the side of the TV and directly opposite it, so reflections are something I normally have to put up with.

The G6’s Reflection Free Premium screen is easily the best reflection handling I’ve seen on a glossy OLED. Looking at my C4, which basically doubles as a mirror when my room is bright, the difference is huge. You can see the difference in the photos above.

I know people will say get a matte screen if you have a bright room. But I’ve never been a huge fan of matte screens spreading glare across the panel or taking away some of that deep, punchy OLED contrast and colour. The G6 does a such great job preserving black levels, colour and contrast which has made watching during the day so much better. 

The one downside is that in very dark scenes, reflections aren’t completely eliminated and appear as a purplish glare. It’s noticeable, but personally, I’m more than happy to live with that trade-off to keep the glossy finish.

Dolby Vision

Dolby Vision content looks fantastic. The extra brightness really helps HDR content pop, and bright highlights have that “wow” effect. I read there were some Dolby Vision issues with the G6 at launch, including some weird contouring and banding in darker scenes, but thankfully LG has since addressed these with firmware updates and I haven’t come across any issues during my time with the G6. 

Nitpicks 

The Magic Remote pointer takes a bit of getting used to and feels like a throwback to the 2000’s Wii era with the waving and pointing. I do like the upgraded remote on the G6 though as it does feel more premium and streamlined. A backlit remote would’ve been nice touch.  

WebOS. It works completely fine but it isn't my favourite OS. I think I’m just so used to using Apple TV that it’s hard to change my ways. 

Overall

So far, I’m really impressed. The combination of brightness, colour and reflection handling makes the G6 such a good option for an OLED in a bright living room. It has also handled all the content I've thrown at it really well, both SDR and HDR. 

The fact that it manages to dramatically reduce reflections without going matte is probably the biggest positive for me. So much so that I'm going to be picking up a 77” G6 over the holidays. It has sold me. 

Photos: G6 on the left, C4 on the right. Both in the same picture mode and at max brightness

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Starship Troopers is one of those movies that you either love it, or you hate it. I watched it a ton as a teenager so, of course, I loved it. I still do. As I continue to peruse my growing but respectable 4K Blu-Ray library, I was so happy when I came across ST. It had been quite since the last time I watched it, but I knew every beat. I probably watched it way too much as a teenager but come on, how could I not? Watching this on the 65" LG OLED G6 was an absolute blast. Mostly ever experiencing it on smaller tv's and usually not the best quality, filling every inch of the TV brought back all the nostalgia. Using Filmmaker Mode ensured that the movie looked every bit as colorful and gloopy as Verhoven intended. This is a gloopy movie!

Hey everyone! So my parents are getting a LG B6 for their living room and i’ve heard about the shitty reputation lg has gotten with all the ai and “listening to everything you say” bs. So i was wondering what are the settings to turn off to minimise their exposure to all those useless and invasive features. Especially during the setup.

Also if there are any must turn on settings for a better viewing experience do let me know!

I know most of this info can easily be found on the internet but i’ve been super busy lately and wouldn’t mind links to articles or video that can help me.

Thanks!

Hello! I have the 65QNED84BUA and I just noticed it has this weird bar at the bottom of the screen. So far I've noticed it on YouTube videos and in Mario kart on the Nintendo switch. Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of it?

Since no one else could provide an answer, I finally discovered that the PS5 Pro and the LG OLED G6 have an audio decoding issue. Specifically, when the TV switches to Game Audio and Game Picture modes, it stops outputting sound if you select the "RPG" setting, because the TV and console have trouble handling Linear PCM and Bitstream. The only way to get audio working is to set the TV to Bitstream and the PS5 Pro to Dolby Atmos. I hope this helps anyone else experiencing this problem. Regards.

LG is the absolute worst; this is definitely the last year I buy from LG.