So, while sound modes other than AI Sound Pro prove to be just acceptable, there are a few methods of improving the LG G1’s sound. There’s the G1 Soundbar due in July, which is a match for the OLED55G1 model but expressly designed to be wall-mounted. To be more specific, AI Picture Pro can now recognise if an incoming image contains scenery, a cityscape or night footage, and locally ‘massage’ parts of the picture to enhance this sort of content’s impact and realism. Plus the new processor can look for skin tones and individual objects in the picture and subtly refine and emphasise them without impacting other areas of the picture. All with a view to creating an image that better reflects the way your eyes see the real world. For many users and a lot of content, though, I see the much-improved AI Picture Pro system as a pretty irresistible way of adding more drama, sharpness and dynamism to the viewing experience.

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There are, of course, people who won't use the AI Picture Pro mode because they don't like the idea of a TV's processor taking over the way a picture looks. And for those people the OLED G1 still supports all the calibration tools and accuracy of other recent LG generations. The much improved AI Picture Pro is very much worth trying for most users, though. We leave the set’s AI Picture Pro and AI Sound Pro settings (which can be enabled during initial set-up) on when viewing all non-Dolby Vision content. These features have been improved by the new AI Processor Gen4. With the launch of the G1 Gallery OLED, LG has introduced underlying panel technology to encourage more brightness. This ‘Evo OLED panel’ is exclusive to the G1, which should differentiate it from the C1 – as previous years had seen picture parity between the C-series and G-series. These two improvements instantly help the G1 deliver a more satisfying and ‘complete’ HDR performance than any LG OLED before. They’re supported, too, by a further slight but again important improvement in colours. With video sources this sees relatively pure blue and, especially, red and green tones enjoying both more subtle tonal delineations and a more natural feel. Especially when they’re presented in a bright situation. The OLED65G1 features a refinement on the Gallery design LG introduced in 2020 with a view to creating the ultimate wall-hanging TV. It sports a slim, flat rear, and provides helpful cable channeling for its built-in connections. The 2021 refinements include making the rear substantially slimmer than last year’s, and adding a recess to the rear panel into which the wall mount can slot, enabling the TV to sit completely flush to the wall.

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The LG G1 has fantastic accuracy after calibration. There are almost no virtual color or white balance inaccuracies, and gamma is perfect. Color temperature also improved and it's nearly spot-on with our 6500K target. Using a huge database of over one million visual date points, AI Picture Pro uses deep-learning algorithms to recognise content, remove noise and optimise the picture. AI Sound Pro leans from more than 17 million audio data points, identifying voices, effects and frequencies. From here, it optimises the sound by genre, giving a more natural sound quality. There are plenty of more expensive TVs with worse viewing angle than this one, but how are the other aspects of picture quality? Find out in our Samsung UE43AU9000KXXU review. How we test the viewing angle

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The luminance changes up between 35 and 55 degrees are quite dramatic, and that's certainly why the full five stars was out of its reach, but it keeps colours consistent. NanoCell TVs have an extra colour-boosting layer. While we don't always think it provides a clear improvement to vibrancy or colour accuracy over standard LCD TVs, they could be partly responsible for the impressive viewing angle. Colours, contrast and how much light you see being emitted from the screen are all affected by the angle you're sitting at. Usually, the more severe the angle, the more severe the loss of quality. First, the new AI Picture Pro option is a substantial advance over its predecessor. Its ability to apply more effective enhancements on a more local basis yields pictures which look both more eye-catching and more natural. This eye-catching/natural combination is key, since while LG AI processing has previously delivered enhancements to colour, sharpness and contrast, those enhancements have always been accompanied by distracting side effects. On the OLED G1 the improvements are not only more pronounced, but come at the expense of practically no downsides.Alexa also worked with the few requests I lobbed at her – and, conveniently, I could call her up without using the remote. Both OK Google and Alexa were a little tardy in their responses, though. Picture quality There's a gulf in price on these models, too. You could buy two of the 55OLED705/12s for the same price as the Sony and have plenty of change.

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That said, there are instances where stronger TruMotion settings hit the spot. Watching the Spanish F1 Grand Prix on All 4 produced impressively grippy levels, ironing out the wrinkles in the image. With TruMotion off, the stutter of the broadcast was a distraction. We've already lab tested and reviewed close to 100 TVs in 2021 - you can discover which we like best in our top five sets for 2021 Colours hardly ever look forced or over the top despite the slight brightness increase and marginally purer presentation, and sharpness is slightly improved without making the image look brittle or harsh. With HD sources, in particular, the new Alpha 9 Gen 4 upscaling really earns its corn by delivering a markedly crisper finish than seen with previous LG OLED generations without exaggerating noise. The advances of the OLED G1's new Evo panel (which is exclusive to the G1 series) come in two main areas. Next, we measure for luminance and colour changes at 10-degree horizontal intervals up to 55 degrees, and 10-degree vertical intervals up to 30 degrees.These differences, along with a slightly richer, more refined HDR-content colour palette, are more consistently noticeable when playing HDR console and PC games than they are with typical video. FMM also supports auto-detection over HDMI or from a streaming app, so when it receives a FMM signal it will automatically pivot to the picture mode. As far as I can tell, there’s no content with the Filmmaker mode signal out there. Below that is the ‘Trending Now’ bar: then the new position for the app list, a row of physical/digital inputs and smart connections, frequently viewed programmes (seems I enjoy Pointless), and rows of content from various apps: Rakuten, YouTube, iPlayer, ITV Hub and so on. This sound configuration also reminds us that the LG G1 follows all of LG’s recent OLEDs by carrying a built-in Dolby Atmos sound system. That’s not the only Dolby connection, either, for the set additionally supports the Dolby Vision HDR format. This adds extra scene by scene picture information that compatible TVs can use to deliver more dynamic picture quality results.

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While it makes sense these days to shift the webOS focus to providing recommended content curated from across supported apps rather than making users explore content on a per-app basis, the layout and 'weighting' of the new home screen doesn't feel quite right. The three link options along the top of the screen in particular feel like they're been given more weight than they really warrant. There’s Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM) for automatically putting the TV into its Game mode when it detects a gaming signal, while the HGiG standard improves HDRtone-mapping for a more consistent performance. I did notice more detail in the darker parts of an image than I remember seeing before. Upscaling of HD sources is handled better than it has been before too. Bags of detail are added now without reducing sharpness or exaggerating noise. Even better, this detail and sharpness is added more intelligently, so that different parts of the picture are impacted by different upscaling rules. This results in more natural, lifelike results. One area where the G1 isn’t as strong is motion. TruMotion offers five choices: Off, Cinematic Movement, Natural, Smooth Movement and User (for finer control over de-judder and de-blur settings).

OLED TVs have almost become synonymous with LG. The South Korean electronics brand produces the panels that feature in every OLED on the market, and with the LG G1 (OLED55G1), it’s aiming to evolve its own OLEDs further. Since LG doesn't join Sony in using the screen surfaces of its premium OLED TVs to produce sound, there isn't much space in the OLED G1's super-skinny design for a big old set of speakers. With that in mind, though, in many ways the OLED G1 sounds pretty good. Burn-in and image retention are issues prospective buyers ought to be aware of with OLEDs. Image retention is temporary, but burn-in can be more permanent. Both are only a factor if the TV is driven hard over a prolonged period. This is obviously one part of our TV testing - if you want to find out more about our full test programme, then go to how we test televisions. But there will be some who are drawn to the minimalist, picture frame-like appearance of the G1 and wouldn’t dream of adding a soundbar to this set-up. Those people will simply have to accept that the audio performance will not hit anything like the same cinematic heights as the picture. Verdict