This review of the LG OLED65E6V will look at the latest high-end version of the famous OLED TVs with improved image quality and new features, such as HDR and Dolby Vision. will they be enough to be proclaimed the best TV in the world. We’ll see you below.
The best TV in the world?
It is a few years since LG introduced the first OLED TV on the market, and since then they have been set as the reference in image quality with respect to any other TV on the market.
What is an OLED TV? You may wonder. OLED TVs offer the advantage of having organic light emitters. With them, each pixel offers a level of independent color, intensity and brightness, so the contrast gains and color fidelity are spectacular, and make a difference from another type of panels, which look for other types of techniques to be able to approach their image quality.
With this year’s new TV series, LG brings us very interesting innovations such as the support of the HDR 10 and Dolby Vision formats, new standard that arrive to stay and replace the already dead 3D.
In this specific case we will perform the analysis of the LG OLED65E6V, a flat 4K OLED TV that arrives to conquer the market.
Design
We have to say that we have mixed feelings regarding the design of the LG E6 OLED. Although it should be clarified first that this is not LG’s flagship on OLED TVs, as there is the G-series, which sits slightly above. And precisely one of the biggest differences between the LG E6 and G6 is in the design section. Although it shares some elements, such as the spectacular panel.
We already knew about the advantages of OLED panels in terms of thinness and flexibility, and in this case they have taken advantage of that thinness to offer the thinnest panel on the market, to which is added a glass in its back that protrudes slightly on the edges of the panel to offer a total thickness of about 5 mm, thinner than any smartphone. It is what LG calls picture-on-glass, and the truth is that the impression it gives is to have a simple crystal in front of it.
If we continue with the front, under the glass of the monitor we find an integrated soundbar on which the foot of the TV is placed in the center, made of metal and that offers a fairly solid base.
In this way the total dimensions amount to 146.1 by 89.3 and 20 cm wide, height and bottom. Along with a total weight of the TV is 24.8 Kg, it is not easy to handle this TV only one person, even more so if we take into account the price of the LG OLED65E6V. We’ll talk about it later, though.
In the back we have what we liked the least. When you have in front of a monitor of as high a range as this, you expect it to ooze quality on all 4 sides, and in this case it only does it for 3 and a half.
At the bottom of the back we find the side and rear connection panel, made of a glossy black plastic of the same apparent quality that could have a much cheaper TV, and that has not left us as good taste of mouth as the rest of the TV. It is in the LG G6 signature that this aspect is taken care of the most. It is a part that is not visible under normal conditions, but we would have appreciated a slightly more premium finish.
Connectivity
The tendency to minimalism in TVs forces the number of connections to be reduced or hidden from view to favor the appearance of the same. In this case, the connectivity of the LG E6 presents a good compromise between simplicity and number of connections.
For starters, and as it’s already starting to get quite typical on Smart TV, we have available 4 HDMI 2.0 connections, capable of transmitting up to 4K at 60 Hz. We also have 3 USB ports, of which one of them reaches protocol 3.0, while the other two are 2.0. All of them are located on the connection side panel.
Among the features of the LG E6 are the coaxial connections for the DVB-T2/C/S2 decoder antenna, along with the optical audio output, headphone output, LAN network connection, and two additional connectors for composite audio or video outputs, which we can use thanks to the built-in adapters.
Image quality
That OLED panels are one step ahead technologically compared to LED panels that include the vast majority of TVs is a no-brainer. Its ability to offer a contrast and a depth of color are beyond doubt, although the most surprising thing is that absolute black that is able to give us.
Here we can say that the image quality of the LG OLED E6 is simply spectacular. The colour range it reaches is very high, and the colors have a very high vividness. The contrast is very high, and even in the darkest scenes we are able to appreciate a lot of details that we will hardly see on any other TV.
Even more so if we use all the possibilities offered by this TV, with high image configuration possibilities, with a wide variety of settings for viewing, where we will highlight HDR mode, which significantly enhances the dynamic range of the image to be able to appreciate in a more efficient way all the details. This has 3 levels of intensity depending on our preferences.
And since we’re talking about HDR, it must be said that like all high-end TVs, this LG E6 is compatible with the HDR 10 format, which is going to be the new feature that includes virtually all high definition multimedia contents in place of 3D, which still resists disappearing.
Here we should also mention that it is one of the few TVs compatible with Dolby Vision, a new format that takes better advantage of the excellent contrast of the OLED panel, and is able to manage the color depth in a more accurate way than HDR 10, managing a brightness up to 4 times higher. An advantage very well taken advantage by the features of the LG OLED E6.
Apart from the quality of the panel itself and the specific formats to take advantage of all its possibilities, we will also find ourselves using other content that does not present such a high quality, so here the processing and rescale work of the LG OLED65E6V becomes a vital importance factor given the heterogeneity of content that we have today.
Here the work he does is outstanding, with a fairly high precision when compensating for the missing pixels, and interpreting in an excellent way the image being played. The representation of contents at 480p is quite good, and already in content at 720p the improvement is more than remarkable, resulting in a surprising image for this resolution. The 1080p and 4K image reaches heights we hadn’t seen before this test of the LG OLED65E6V, and shows that in terms of image quality OLED TVs are one step ahead.
As we were already accustomed to the OLED panels of other devices, the viewing angles are excellent, with a very unper noticeable loss of image quality, with very little color distortion. At the level of reflections, we do not find great differences from other top-of-the-range panels on the market, so in the front vision we do not notice problems thanks to the tremendous brightness that this TV is able to emit, while the vision on the sides is good enough as long as we do not look for the incidence of a direct light, where reflections are inevitable.
When it comes to its use as a monitor, we have to say that we have not encountered any problems when it comes to playing with the pc or different video game consoles. Although there is some signal delay regarding what a gaming monitor would be, this one is low enough that we won’t appreciate it.