LG ups its OLED TV game with spectacular results.
Every time LG has shown off its 2019 OLED TVs over the past few months, they’ve just looked better and better.
The rear of the stand has been extended out versus 2018’s design, making the screen feel more stable and providing space for a central channel with a removable cover into which you can tidily feed all your cables. Heading into the LG OLED65C9’s menus reveals further significant improvements to the brand’s already impressive webOS platform. The launcher bar along the bottom of the screen, for instance, introduces a new ‘preview’ layer, where a second deck of contextualized direct content link icons emerges based on the app you’ve got highlighted in the main, bottom deck. A Gallery Mode lets you show digitized artworks when you're not watching the LG OLED65C9, rather than leaving a black screen.
A separate TV icon calls up links to your most recently watched channels; a magnifying glass icon calls up LG’s exceptionally sophisticated content search options; yet another icon calls up LG’s onscreen gallery of digitized artworks; and finally there’s a link to a new Home Dashboard. The OLED65C9’s outstanding smarts continue to impress with its voice recognition support. Uniquely, as well as carrying LG’s own ThinQ voice recognition system, it also supports both Amazon Alexa and Google Home. What’s more, this support is built into the TV; you don’t have to have external Amazon Echo or Google Home devices like you do with most other TV brands that claim Alexa and Google Home support. Excellent.
And so we come, finally, to the main event: the OLED65C9’s picture quality, driven by a second generation of LG's Alpha 9 processor.Given that I was already generally a fan of the pictures of LG’s 2018 models, probably the simplest way to explain the successes of the 2019 model is to focus on the areas where the new set makes things even better.
I should pause here to stress that LG has achieved both these HDR improvements without substantially improving measurable peak brightness; I recorded peak light output on a 10% white HDR window of 820 nits in Standard mode. Which drops to around 780-790 nits in Cinema Home mode, and around 740-750 nits in Cinema home. All numbers which are pretty much in line with last year’s C8s.
This actually represents a big jump forward for LG, and joins the much-improved HDR tone mapping in helping the OLED65C9 frequently paint dark scenes that leave you in awe of their sheer beauty. There are a couple of near-black niggles remaining, though, that I’ll come back to later. The reduction in picture noise was actually the single most surprising thing about my time with the OLED65C9, given that viewings of pre-production sets had revealed challenging titles - such as the 4K Blu-ray of- and areas of deep color or subtle color blends continuing to look a little too grainy for comfort. Clearly in recent months LG has found a way of calming this long-running issue with its OLED sets even with all the noise reduction circuitry turned off. Excellent.
Enthusiasts should still, of course, consider having their sets professionally calibrated. Something that can now be done with more efficiency and effectiveness than ever thanks to a host of new calibration improvements and an enhanced auto-calibration system. The extent of AI Picture’s impact is at its greatest with sub-4K content. In fact, the grubbier your source, the more effective AI Picture is.
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