LG OLED65G6 Review – Trusted Reviews

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Introduction

Another year, another G-series OLED from LG. But don’t assume that this is another rehash because there have been changes under the hood.

LG has bet big on OLED with only Samsung as its main challenger, while others have placed their chips on alternatives such as Mini LED and RGB TVs.

The reasoning behind Mini LED/RGB is that they offer higher brightness, wider colour range and better performance in bright rooms. LG disagrees.

And with the OLED G6, it’s taking on the naysayers to disprove the notion that OLED may be inferior.

This is LG’s brightest OLED yet, and more than a decade after it launched its first OLED, it wants customers to know that OLED is still the best in the business.

So the gloves are off (again). Can LG’s G6 OLED knock its RGB rivals out, or is this going to go the distance?

Design

• Stand or wall-mount version
• Vanta Black Anti-Reflective panel
• Strong viewing angles

There haven’t really been any significant changes to LG’s design of the G6-series in years – ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’.

The stand takes about four minutes to assemble, but it seems to be the same as the G5 and G4 stands. Of course, if you buy the wall-mounted version, you just deal with hanging it up on your preferred surface. Connections are side- and downward-facing for feeding sources to the TV.

The stand is adjustable. You can hang it in its low orientation, or if you want to put a soundbar below, put the stand into its high position.

The OLED65G6 features LG’s Vanta Black Anti-Reflective coating to reduce reflections and maintain black levels in a bright room. Black levels remain strong, but I don’t find the G6 necessarily as good as Samsung’s glare-free OLEDs at mitigating glare and reflections. That said, the S95H does raise blacks slightly in a dark room but the OLED G6’s panel does create a purple tinge to reflections.

Wide angles are very strong, and while brightness and colour saturation do tail off, you’d have to be very wide and far to notice this.

User Experience

• Five-year software updates
• LG webOS platform

LG’s webOS interface still fundamentally looks like the webOS it’s been for the last few years. There’s no room for Freely but all the UK catch-up and on-demand apps are provided, side-by-side with the big global apps such as Disney+, Netflix and Apple TV.

Accessing these apps requires an LG account. In previous years, this was ring-fenced to some but not all apps; now it’s required for all apps. It’s not a change most will like unless they already have an LG account.

You get five years of updates with LG’s Re:New program that guarantees four major software updates.

The interface itself is swift and responsive. Scrolling down to the bottom doesn’t take long, the interface free from clutter or meaningless diversions. There are ads, of course, but I don’t find them intrusive. Flick to the left and you’ll be received by LG’s Information Board, which offers weather updates, Google Calendar and any smart tech in your Home Hub.

Given this is the G-Series TV (which once upon a time stood for Gallery), there is LG’s Gallery+ app, where you turn the G6 into a picture painting (not to be confused with LG’s Gallery TV, which can also do the same thing). A subscription is required, but there’s free content alongside AI-generated… things.

With the LG Sports app, you can keep track of your favourite teams across a range of sports, as well as access content via Prime Video, YouTube, Apple TV, and DAZN. Currently, there’s a spotlight on the World Soccer Festival (you can guess what that is).

Gaming

• Cloud gaming
• 4K/165Hz for PC gaming
• AMD and Nvidia VRR

LG still pushes the G-Series as a gaming TV despite its more lifestyle focus, and I measured input lag remains quick at 12.9ms. All four HDMI 2.1 inputs support ALLM, VRR and 4K/120Hz.

PC gamers get a boosted 165Hz refresh rate with both AMD FreeSync Premium and Nvidia G-Sync included. There’s also Dolby Vision Gaming (4K/120Hz) and the HGIG standard, which covers off most of the gaming HDR formats aside from HDR10+ Gaming.

For further tweaking, press the Settings button when the TV is in its game mode, and the Game Optimiser pop-up allows for deeper customisation, including adjusting black levels or switching the Game Genre setting to optimise for specific game types.

Head to LG’s gaming portal and that has cloud gaming options in GeForce NOW (which supports 4K/120Hz in the cloud), Amazon Luna, Xbox app, Utomik, and Blacknut, while Twitch broadcasting is built in too.

Connectivity

• Four HDMI 2.1 inputs
• Bluetooth

If this feels like Déjà vu, then that’s because nothing much has changed on the connectivity front. There are four HDMI 2.1 inputs, one of which supports eARC for a sound system. Other HDMI 2.1 features include QFT to reduce latency during gaming and QMS, which eliminates black screens when switching to other HDMI sources.

The rest covers a headphone output, digital optical output, two RF aerials for broadcasts, Ethernet, three USB 2.0 inputs, and a CI+ 1.4 common interface slot.

That’s virtually the same as it’s been for the last few years, which is fine, though the Hisense UR9 drops a HDMI input for a DisplayPort, which is different from the accepted norm.

Wi-Fi 6E support has Google Cast, AirPlay 2, and WiSA (for audio) under its umbrella, while there’s also Bluetooth 5.3 streaming.

Features

• Hyper Radiant Colour Tech
• α11 AI Sound Pro
• Supports Dolby Atmos FlexConnect

This is the second year of LG Display’s Primary RGB Tandem panels, and the G6 is upping brightness further.

This year, it boasts what LG calls its Hyper Radiant Colour Tech, and along with the Alpha 11 AI Processor Gen3, it says it can boost peak brightness by 3.9 times.

That sounds like the usual marketing mumbo jumbo that doesn’t mean much to most people. I wasn’t able to record the figures of the OLED65G5 as I didn’t have the necessary equipment, but now I do and the OLED65G6 is one of the brightest OLEDs I’ve tested. In its Standard mode it registers the following:

The OLED65G6 can go even brighter, registering above 3000 nits in Filmmaker and Vivid modes, while very briefly reaching 4000 nits in the latter. If you’re of the opinion that OLEDs aren’t bright enough to watch during the day, the OLED G6 rebuffs that. And I suspect that when the G7 turns up, it’ll be even brighter.

HDR support covers HDR10, HLG, and Dolby Vision, and LG says there’s Dolby Vision x ambient Filmmaker mode, though as I’ll get to later, I’m not entirely convinced this is the case.

The 4.2-channel system has 60W of power at its disposal. On paper, it’s the same as the OLED65G5 model, but LG has re-tuned it to sound warmer and offer more bass. As always, we’ll hear whether that’s the case.

LG’s α11 AI Sound Pro feature claims to up-mix Dolby Atmos sound to 11.1.2 virtual channels, and I’d recommend using it – it’s a much more expansive sound when enabled.

WOW Orchestra combines the TV’s speakers with an LG soundbar to create a bigger sound, but the OLED65G6 also supports Dolby Atmos FlexConnect and will work with the Sound Suite speaker system LG launched in 2026.

The G6 features AI experiences powered by Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot, which you can mostly (if not completely) avoid. LG’s Shield security system protects your data through the cloud and in real-time.

Picture Quality

• Crisp, clear, detailed 4K images
• Not the brightest Dolby Vision performance
• Slick motion processing

There’s been a lot of kerfuffle surrounding the launch of LG’s new 2026 TVs. Reviewers have mentioned different issues, different firmware updates – it’s all been a slightly messy rollout.

On my part, the G6 OLED I received seemed to have firmware dating back to 2024, which I couldn’t believe and thought I’d misread, but I updated the TV anyway. I’ve not experienced the issues some have, but there is one issue I’d like to point out.

I don’t think the Dolby Vision x Filmmaker mode is working properly.

On its website, LG notes it is the ‘ambient’ version of Filmmaker mode, but this is either not true, or it’s not working. Dolby Vision x Filmmaker mode is dark – and it’s meant to be like that as it’s tuned for watching with the lights off. The problem is that when the TV asks you to watch in this mode, it doesn’t compensate for ambient light. In a bright room, it’s so dark that detail is missing. I’ve turned on the AI Brightness mode in the settings, and that’s had zero effect.

Whether it was night-time scenes in Civil War, Dune or Sinners; detail is lost to the darkness in a bright room. Switching to Dolby Vision Home Cinema fixed this, but every time the LG G6 OLED receives a Dolby Vision signal, it’ll ask to watch in Filmmaker mode. My advice is to decline unless you’re watching in a dark room.

Aside from that, the LG OLED65G6 looks terrific in virtually all its picture modes. It’s not a massive increase in a real-world sense from the G5, but it is better.

Colours are rich, punchy, varied, but also seem accurate out of the box. Compared to a Hisense UR9 sat alongside it for the majority of testing, colours, shades and tones always seem to strike a better expression on the LG, with a more convincing performance.

Sharpness and detail are excellent; the OLED65G6 wrings every last bit of detail from the dank corridors and rusty surfaces of the Romulus station in Alien: Romulus; better than the Hisense UR9, which is softer, not as sharp and not as defined.

Where the LG loses points is with dark detail, which, while good across the films I demo on the OLED65G6, there are instances where black levels are a little impenetrable. But overall, black levels are rich and rock solid. There’s not a raised black in sight, even in a brightly lit test room. The pixel-perfect control of black levels means OLED TVs still reign over backlit LCD TVs.

In Disney’s Soul when Joe falls into The Great Beyond, highlights are rendered brightly, the sense of contrast from the TV is greater than the Hisense UR9, the pixel-perfect dimming also means it’s more precise with the starfield, picking out the varying brightness of the stars clearly and sharply.

It’s even more notable with Interstellar as they travel through the wormhole into another galaxy. As the camera pans past stars, the LG picks up more stars – and therefore more detail – than is visible on the Hisense.

With HDR10 content, the LG can feature white tones that are a little less bright – especially the ‘Construct’ scene in The Matrix Resurrections where Neo wakes up in a white room. Full-screen brightness is an area where Mini LEDs still have the advantage.

The Vivid mode features colours that are punchy, pure and rich – a boost in colour volume over the Home Cinema mode with a wider range of colours, and a performance that’s more balanced than it has been in recent years.

Brightness is excellent, contrast is terrific, detail levels are excellent and motion is handled with few issues. The Vivid mode boosts brightness and colours in all the right places, and it does so without adding distracting noise or garish colours. There are moments where it is oversaturated, but this the best Vivid mode I’ve seen on an LG TV.

A brief note on the Game Optimiser mode. It’s a little too bright to my eyes, and seems to introduce some clipping (loss of detail) with bright sources.

Upscaling

• Impressive levels of detail

While the LG G6 OLED handles HDR content impressively well, most tend to watch in HD rather than 4K. It’s a good thing the OLED65G6 continues its excellent performance in this area.

With a Blu-ray of Mad Max: Fury Road, colours strike the right look (the red-orange of the ‘wasteland’, the blue skies, the white tones of the clouds). The LG uncovers more detail than the Hisense UR9 with a clearer sense of sharpness and finer detail visible. The LG retrieves more detail in the characters’ clothing, revealing more of the wear and tear they’ve been through.

The same is true with a Blu-ray of Pacific Rim – colours are consistently better on the LG than on the Hisense, complexions feature more colour and life, and the dark detail performance is the opposite of its HDR picture, offering more insight into dark scenes than the Hisense.

Colours have more punch, solidity and range. It’s a very pleasing HD image.

With a DVD of There Will Be Blood, the LG handles noise well, although it doesn’t eliminate all of it; it balances noise reduction without affecting film grain better than the Hisense.

Sharpness and detail are good enough for a DVD source, and I noticed the LG picked out more detail with Plainview’s beard than the Hisense UR9 did. There’s a touch more definition on the LG, colours – again – seem more accurate, with a richer and punchier feel for colours.

Sound Quality

• Warm delivery
• Clear dialogue
• AI Sound Pro with Atmos

LG’s taken the G6 OLED in a different direction with its sound, responding to customer feedback.

The issues ‘fixed’ with the G6 aren’t the ones I’d have gone for. While the G5 sported a thinner sound, it was clear and sharp, especially with the highs. The G6 carries more bass and a warmer tone, but the highs have dulled and it’s not as detailed.

The built-in system isn’t very loud at my usual listening levels, and has to be pushed to close to 80 to have an impact. You won’t want to listen to stereo programming with AI Sound Pro as the processing can make it sound harsh. If it’s a Dolby Atmos soundtrack, enable AI Sound Pro; otherwise, use Standard mode for everything else.

For stereo content, the Standard mode is a good choice. Watching The Capture on iPlayer, and it’s clear, with a big, broad soundstage, good bass, and decent dynamism.

Switch to Atmos in AI Sound Pro, and there’s a warmer tone with richer bass and a smoother performance. Despite the emphasis on more bass, the LG can sound a bit tubby at times –in Blade Runner 2049, the lows can sound muddled and soft, and the highs aren’t the sharpest.

With Civil War, the LG isn’t the most energetic, coming across as tepid and quiet at half volume. Pump the volume up and there’s slight distortion but regardless the action scenes sound sluggish. It’s fine but not exciting.

Dialogue is clear and, for the most part, natural, though there have been times when the warmth of the sound renders male voices a little bassy. Watching series two of Daredevil: Born Again, and there are moments where the tone of voices isn’t quite right.

Nevertheless, sound is spread across the screen, and at times you can hear effects pushed out from the frame, widening the soundstage even further.

When playing games on the PS5, the sound system goes for a sharper response, and I find it too crisp and sharp in Game Optimiser mode.

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