If you want better overall image accuracy
Choose LG C6. It scores 4.8 vs 4.3 for overall image accuracy, with a 4.1 overall score.
LG G6 TV Review
Bottom Line
Choose the G6 for class-leading bright-room OLED picture, rich color, deep blacks and elite gaming. Skip it if you want strong built-in audio, polished launch firmware, no account sign-in, or the best value.
Best for
Best for movie and gaming enthusiasts who want deep OLED blacks without giving up daytime brightness, plus PC players who can use 165Hz and four HDMI 2.1 ports.
Not for
Skip it if value, strong built-in audio, DTS support, account-free streaming or perfectly stable launch firmware matter more than peak OLED performance.
Verdict
The LG G6 is a flagship OLED built around an exceptional core picture. Its glossy anti-reflection coating, unusually high full-screen brightness, deep blacks, broad color and refined HDR10 gradients make it equally convincing for daytime sports and dark-room movies. Gaming is another major strength, with four full-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 ports, 4K/120 console support, up to 165Hz for PCs, broad VRR compatibility and extremely low input lag. The tradeoffs are meaningful: launch firmware produced inconsistent HDR and Dolby Vision results, webOS adds large ads and mandatory account sign-in, and the built-in speakers do not match the picture. It is also expensive while the G5, C6 and C6H can deliver much of the experience for less. Later updates improve the case considerably, but value still depends on pricing.
Feature Scorecards
Summary
110 reviewed features-
Very positive 4.5-5.070 (64%)
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Positive 3.5-4.422 (20%)
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Neutral 2.5-3.410 (9%)
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Negative 1.5-2.46 (5%)
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Very negative below 1.52 (2%)
Pros
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Measured latency is consistently extremely low, often below one frame and dropping further at 120Hz or 165Hz.
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FreeSync, G-Sync, and HDMI VRR work smoothly up to very high frame rates, with only the usual OLED flicker possible in some static game scenes.
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All four HDMI ports support modern high-bandwidth gaming, avoiding the two-port limitation found on many rivals.
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AMD FreeSync support is consistently praised as part of the G6’s complete adaptive-sync package.
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OLED pixel response is nearly instantaneous, producing crisp motion and exceptionally responsive gaming.
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Nvidia G-Sync compatibility combines with high refresh rates and low latency for excellent PC gaming.
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The metal frame and substantial construction feel reassuringly sturdy and appropriately premium.
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webOS offers an excellent app catalog covering major streaming services plus niche platforms such as Crunchyroll and Hidive.
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The almost borderless screen creates a clean, floating-picture effect that suits the Gallery design.
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Full-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 across every input supports the G6’s comprehensive gaming feature set.
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The heavy metal pedestal is consistently described as reassuringly sturdy.
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Four capable HDMI inputs and a broad gaming feature set make the G6 a first-rate 4K gaming display.
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Accessibility options are extensive and easy to reach, while eye-care features can reduce fatigue during long viewing sessions.
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Apple AirPlay 2 works alongside Google Cast to make wireless sharing flexible across device ecosystems.
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ALLM is part of the G6’s complete gaming toolkit and helps consoles switch into responsive play automatically.
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Per-pixel OLED lighting eliminates the halos and bloom associated with backlit TVs, preserving clean high-contrast edges.
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Google Cast is built in and works as part of a versatile wireless streaming setup.
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Inky blacks, precise highlights, and cinematic depth make the G6 superb for lights-off movie viewing.
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The tandem OLED implementation delivers the cinematic blacks, depth, and color that make OLED especially compelling for movies.
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eARC is available for connecting a soundbar or receiver, though it cannot pass DTS.
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Four capable HDMI inputs provide ample room for consoles, PCs, and external media devices.
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Per-pixel OLED dimming precisely separates stars and highlights from black backgrounds without blooming.
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The four-stack tandem OLED panel combines premium blacks, high brightness, and richly realistic color.
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The native 120Hz panel extends to 165Hz with compatible PCs, providing excellent flexibility for gaming.
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Major and niche streaming services are widely available and work correctly once the required LG account is active.
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HDR gaming can run at 4K/144Hz on compatible hardware, giving high-end PC players plenty of headroom.
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Built-in Google Cast and AirPlay provide broad, convenient wireless sharing.
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The tested panel showed no visible dirty-screen effect on full-field gray slides.
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The RGWB subpixel arrangement makes desktop text noticeably clearer, with less fringing and blur than the G5.
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Classic screen mirroring joins AirPlay and Chromecast for flexible wireless display sharing.
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A skinny, flat base leaves room for a soundbar without dominating the furniture.
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The G6 reaches exceptional OLED peaks, often around 2500–3100 nits and higher in tiny highlights. Measurements vary by mode and firmware, but brightness is a major strength.
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Perfect OLED blacks beside intense highlights create exceptional depth and punch. This remains a standout advantage in both dark and bright rooms.
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Blacks are consistently deep, rich, and precise, even with room lights on. A few tests found mild black crush in the darkest HDR scenes.
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Rich, bright color is one of the G6’s defining strengths, with bold highlights retaining impressive saturation and realism.
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High full-screen brightness and excellent anti-reflection treatment make this one of the strongest OLEDs for bright living rooms without sacrificing deep blacks.
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Complex color transitions are exceptionally smooth and among the best seen on OLED. Only heavily compressed or Dolby Vision material occasionally reveals residual issues.
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The flat Gallery chassis and included zero-gap or slim mounts create an especially clean, picture-like wall installation.
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Sports and games look smooth, responsive, and largely free of ghosting or obvious artifacts.
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Across movies, sports, games, SDR, and HDR, the G6 delivers a brilliant, cinematic image with deep blacks, rich color, and strong detail. Most criticism centers on firmware-specific flaws rather than the core panel.
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Fast response, extremely low input lag, four full-bandwidth HDMI ports, and rich HDR make the G6 an elite gaming TV across consoles and PCs.
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Reflections are greatly reduced without using a matte finish, so the screen keeps glossy depth and strong black retention. A faint magenta tint can appear in reflected light.
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The slim, understated Gallery design looks premium and especially elegant when flush-mounted. Its familiar appearance has changed little, which some consider overdue for a refresh.
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PC gaming reaches up to 165Hz, while consoles are exceptionally well served at 120Hz. The maximum 165Hz mode can trade some gradation and chroma quality for speed.
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The glossy anti-reflection coating suppresses glare extremely well while preserving image depth, contrast, and saturated color.
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The new processing pipeline produces exceptionally smooth HDR10 gradients and greatly reduces the G5’s banding. Very dark compressed material and some Dolby Vision scenes can still expose artifacts.
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webOS 26 remains a fast, customizable, app-rich platform with useful Quick Cards and settings. Ads, account requirements, and uneven AI features are its main drawbacks.
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Game Optimizer provides quick, customizable access to frame rate, VRR status, genre presets, black level, HGiG, and latency controls.
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webOS is usually intuitive and quick, especially with the pointer remote, though occasional settings-menu sluggishness remains.
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GeForce Now can reach 4K/120Hz, and the portal includes several major cloud services. Low-latency controller support makes the feature unusually capable for a TV.
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Uniformity is very good overall, with clean gray fields and strong sports performance. One sample showed minor edge tint and faint dark vertical streaks.
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Matter support and compatibility with Thread, Zigbee, Homey, and connected devices make the G6 a capable smart-home hub.
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Voice control and AI search offer broad device and content commands, and some consider LG’s assistant among the best for TV control.
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A five-year panel warranty on G6 models adds valuable protection beyond LG’s standard one-year coverage.
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The combination of bright highlights, deep blacks, broad color, and fine detail creates spectacular HDR. Firmware and Dolby Vision inconsistencies prevent completely uniform results.
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Full-screen HDR brightness around the mid-400-nit range is a meaningful OLED upgrade, improving sports, bright scenes, and room-light performance.
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The panel covers virtually all DCI-P3 and a strong portion of Rec.2020, producing broad HDR color. A few comparisons found slightly less high-brightness coverage than rival QD-OLEDs.
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Fast sports and movie movement is generally excellent. Default processing can look heavy-handed, but better-tuned modes restore natural motion.
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Console gaming is exceptionally well covered at 4K/120Hz, including Dolby Vision on compatible systems. Image fidelity is generally strongest at 120Hz rather than pushing the optional 165Hz mode.
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DVD and HD material often gains crisp texture and careful detail, especially from cleaner sources. The weakest compressed broadcasts can still expose overprocessing.
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Dithering and dark-scene noise are greatly reduced, and DVD grain is usually preserved. Compressed HDR can still reveal flicker or temporal noise.
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Color is usually natural, vivid, and highly accurate out of the box, particularly in Filmmaker Mode. Some samples showed green tint, warm magenta, or firmware-related saturation errors.
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Small highlights are intensely bright and full-screen HDR output is substantially stronger than before. Some firmware versions undertracked real scenes despite excellent test-pattern results.
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Cinematic Movement controls panning judder effectively without strongly exaggerating the soap-opera effect, though some smoothing is needed.
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The ThinQ app works well as a quick remote, and external streaming devices perform smoothly with the TV.
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Ultra-low-latency Bluetooth controller support strengthens the G6’s cloud-gaming credentials.
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Dolby Atmos FlexConnect is a promising way to add wireless surround speakers and use the TV within a larger audio system.
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The second-generation tandem panel improves efficiency while also increasing brightness and color performance.
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The tandem panel reaches up to 83 inches, giving big-screen buyers access to the flagship picture technology.
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VRR remains smooth and tear-free up to 4K HDR 165Hz, giving PCs a very wide operating range.
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Off-axis viewing is generally excellent, though extreme seats can reveal a green or pink shift on white objects.
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Filmmaker Mode can look natural and reference-like, especially after firmware fixes. Sample-to-sample tint and changing HDR tracking caused some inconsistent early results.
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Dark-scene texture is often excellent and preserved without raising blacks. A few firmware versions and challenging scenes showed mild crush or required a small Near Black adjustment.
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Stand or wall-mount installation is generally straightforward, although one 5GHz Wi-Fi issue made initial software setup painfully slow.
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webOS feels swift and snappy in most use, with only occasional hesitation in deeper settings.
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Filmmaker Mode and Calman support can deliver reference-grade accuracy with extensive adjustment. One firmware version’s broken HDR color controls created a notable exception.
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Speech is generally clear, natural, and separated from background effects, though the warmer tuning can make some male voices sound slightly bass-heavy.
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Pointer controls, the scroll wheel, and navigation pad make webOS fast to operate, although some buttons require excessive pressure.
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Firmware has already corrected major HDR and Dolby Vision problems, and LG promises years of webOS updates. The messy launch showed how dependent performance can be on software version.
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The Alpha 11 Gen 3 processor improves gradation, clarity, and detail, but low-quality sources can trigger ringing or aggressive smoothing that erases fine texture.
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Dolby Vision can look excellent and improved substantially after firmware updates, but early units showed serious near-black artifacts. Dolby Vision 2 is also absent.
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Good DVDs and HD sources can look crisp and detailed, but heavily compressed broadcasts expose ringing, artifacts, and inconsistent processing.
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AI Sound Pro adds noticeably more bass punch and warmth than the G5. The low end can still turn soft, tubby, or underpowered in demanding movie soundtracks.
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Game Optimizer is feature-rich and responsive, but firmware-dependent HGiG, color, and high-refresh accuracy issues keep it from being flawless.
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Audio can spread beyond the screen with decent directionality, yet it often remains contained and lacks the scale of stronger built-in systems.
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Most modes are well balanced after proper setup, but some samples show green, pink, or warm magenta tint, especially off-axis or in selected scenes.
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Cinematic Movement can add useful smoothness without obvious artifacts, while stronger settings may hesitate or create an artificial look.
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Traditional TV functions include useful recording and time-shifting, but the US tuner remains ATSC 1.0 rather than the newer ATSC 3.0 standard.
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The sturdy, height-adjustable pedestal works well with soundbars where included. Several wall-mount variants omit a stand entirely, creating extra cost for tabletop users.
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Rear channels and clips can keep wiring tidy, but the permanently attached power cord and cable-length requirements complicate concealed installations.
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AI Sound Pro can produce sufficient or improved loudness, yet other tests found the speakers too quiet until pushed near their upper range.
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Near-instant OLED response makes 24p stutter visible, especially on larger screens; light TruMotion can smooth it at the risk of some soap-opera effect.
Cons
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The hardware is widely regarded as excellent, but launch firmware varied across units and introduced inconsistent HDR, Dolby Vision, and processing behavior. Later updates fixed many of those problems.
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Built-in sound is fuller and bassier than the G5 and adequate for everyday TV, but it falls well short of the picture quality and usually deserves a soundbar.
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AI Concierge can surface useful suggestions, but several tests found the recommendations too limited or unremarkable to become a regular feature.
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The revised layout is cleaner for some users, yet missing backlighting, charging, and a straightforward source button keeps it from feeling fully premium.
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AI Search can be convenient for simple requests, but broader queries may return slow, inaccurate, or irrelevant results.
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Performance is genuinely flagship-level, but launch pricing is difficult to justify while the discounted G5 and cheaper C6/C6H deliver much of the experience.
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The Magic Remote’s pointer can be genuinely useful, but many versions feel light, plasticky, and unworthy of an expensive flagship.
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Dynamic tone mapping can reveal shadows and add punch, but several tests found it overbrightened, washed out, or reduced highlight and color nuance. Accuracy is usually best with it disabled.
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Wireless results vary by region and unit: Wi-Fi 6E is welcome where included, while Wi-Fi 5 and a reported 5GHz setup failure feel like regressions.
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Pushing the volume introduces slight distortion, and action scenes can sound sluggish rather than clean and forceful.
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Voice ID and queries have potential, but slow responses, limited language support, and inconsistent usefulness weaken the experience.
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HDR10+ remains unsupported, leaving Dolby Vision, HDR10, and HLG as the main formats.
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Large banner ads occupy a substantial portion of the webOS home screen. Some promotions can be disabled, but the space cannot be removed entirely.
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There are three USB ports, but limiting all of them to slow USB 2.0 is disappointing on a flagship.
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DTS passthrough over eARC is missing, forcing disc users to route compatible players directly through an external audio system.
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Opening streaming apps can require consent to transmit data outside the European Economic Area, which privacy-conscious users may dislike.
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DTS decoding and passthrough are completely absent, a recurring drawback for Blu-ray collections and external audio setups.
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Streaming apps being locked behind an LG account is one of webOS 26’s most disliked changes, with added concern over required data consent.
Compared With Category Average
Compared with other TVs, this product is above average in reflection handling, glare resistance, response time, near average in contrast ratio, gaming performance, below average in value for money, voice control accuracy, remote control quality.
Summary
90 compared features-
Above average 0.4+ pts higher32 (36%)
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Same as average within 0.3 pts42 (47%)
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Below average 0.4+ pts lower16 (18%)
Largest category differences
| Attribute | This product | Category average | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| reflection handling | 4.8 | 3.0 | +1.8 |
| glare resistance | 4.8 | 3.1 | +1.8 |
| response time | 5.0 | 3.4 | +1.6 |
| motion clarity | 4.9 | 3.3 | +1.6 |
| value for money | 2.9 | 4.2 | -1.3 |
| Dolby Atmos support | 4.5 | 2.9 | +1.6 |
| sustained brightness | 4.7 | 3.4 | +1.3 |
| G-SYNC compatibility | 5.0 | 3.7 | +1.3 |
Consider This Instead
Compared in Reviews
Products reviewers directly compared with this model, grouped into quick takeaways.
G5
- Cheaper: value The G6 improves the picture, but the discounted G5 is the stronger value.
- Older model: reflection handling The G6 reflects much less light than last year’s G5.
- Older model: banding and dithering The reviewer prefers the G6 because its gradient and dithering improvements are meaningful.
Samsung S95F
- Worse: natural sharpness The LG looked more natural and sharper in side-by-side viewing.
- Worse: bright-room viewing The G6 preserves blacks better while controlling reflections in bright rooms.
Samsung S99H
- Better: overall picture quality Samsung currently offers cleaner near-black handling and more impactful HDR.
- Better: color realism Samsung looks slightly warmer and more lifelike in a difficult dark scene.
FAQ
Is the LG G6 good for bright rooms?
Yes. High full-screen brightness and excellent glossy anti-reflection treatment make it one of the strongest bright-room OLEDs, while blacks stay deep.
How good is it for gaming?
It is elite for gaming, with four HDMI 2.1 ports, 4K/120 console support, up to 165Hz for PCs, FreeSync, G-Sync, VRR and very low input lag. Some firmware versions showed HGiG or color issues in Game Optimizer.
Does it need a soundbar?
For casual viewing, the fuller and bassier built-in audio is serviceable. Movies benefit greatly from a soundbar because the speakers can sound contained, soft in the bass and short on volume.
Is it worth upgrading from the G5?
Usually not at full price. The G6 improves reflections, full-screen brightness, gradients and near-black processing, but the discounted G5 offers similar core picture and gaming performance for less.
Were the firmware problems fixed?
Later firmware corrected major HDR tracking and Dolby Vision issues in several tests. Results still varied by software version, so the launch experience was less consistent than the hardware deserved.
Which HDR and audio formats are missing?
It supports Dolby Vision, HDR10, HLG and Dolby Atmos, but not HDR10+, Dolby Vision 2 or DTS decoding and passthrough.
Do streaming apps require an LG account?
Yes, multiple tests found that webOS 26 requires an LG account before opening major streaming apps, which was a recurring complaint.
Sample Expert Reviews We Analyzed
These are a few of the reviews included in our analysis.
Video Reviews
YouTube - SpawnPoiint
- Review score
- 4.8
Article Reviews
techradar.com
All three of LG's 2026 OLED TVs are great, but which is really the best value for money? I compared them alongside each other to find out.
- Review score
- 4.5
smarthomesounds.co.uk
LG G6 OLED evo is in stock now at Smart Home Sounds. Brighter Tandem WOLED, improved reflection handling and next-gen gaming. Lowest Price...
- Review score
- 4.5
stuff.tv
The OLED standard-bearer returns. Can a brightness boost keep the new generation LG G6 at the top of the TV pile?
- Review score
- 4.3
choose.tv
In-depth review of the flagship LG OLED G6. Testing the new 2nd gen Tandem OLED panel and 165Hz gaming performance. Check out our benchmarks...
- Review score
- 4.7
trustedreviews.com
Is this LG's best OLED yet? The OLED65G6 delivers an excellent picture performance across a range of sources
- Review score
- 4.3
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