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I purchased this TV after giving Samsung the benefit of the doubt. Originally had the 65” S95 (2022) model that lasted me 2 years before the PCB died. It was my first Samsung and I will never buy a Samsung again.That said, got the LG C5 and quite impressed with the picture and color. Overall extremely happy with the quality/setup time. Delivery was spectacular, doubled boxed - and arrived in 2 days. Highly recommend!

At the time of purchasing this panel was $1400 for the 48". This is key to my review.I purchased this panel to use a computer monitor. I had been using a 42" Gigabyte Aorus LCD for about a year and my biggest issue with that was smearing and color variance based on viewing angle. At that size the color varied considerably between where you were looking straight at the monitor and what was in your periphery. This panel solved both those issues, but ultimately has it's own compromises that are severely distasteful due to the price they are asking.My biggest issue with this panel is LG's WebOS. My god, there are settings scattered everywhere, and for $1400 it performs abysmally. I don't even care to use the Smart Apps, so what I'm referring to here is just the menus you interact with trying to change inputs and picture quality settings. Slow, sluggish, and inexcusable for this price range. My 2-year old HiSense TV in my living room is running Android and responds instantly... That TV was less than half the price then too.I had to google how to change to and HDMI input. The remote does away with an input button and instead has two different home buttons. One of the home buttons is dedicated to launching the Smart Apps home, and the other brings up a convoluted launcher where you can also select inputs. One redeeming setting was the ability to remember your last input, it's buried, but it's there and it lets you power up the TV to the last input rather than the "menu" that shows a ton of garbage but also has the ability to select inputs.I know I'm being hard on the product while using it as a monitor instead of a TV, but if I was using it as a TV the WebOS is so sluggish and unintuitive that I would be even more disappointed if it were a TV and I had to use that.Purely speaking about panel performance, I am happy with the product. After using ColorControl and following guides to tune the panel purely for PC input it solves the problems I was looking to solve. Color is uniform, there is no visible ghosting, power consumption is reasonable. However, it's not plug an play to get there.I would change the review to 5 stars if there was a 48" LG OLED that simply displayed input. Everything other than the panels technical abilities is worthless in this price range IMO. As a TV I would have returned the product.

Extremely well-engineered and intuitive HDTV. I was able to master operating techniques easily. I use Fire Stick TV and Sony Blu-Ray through the HDMI ports. Great picture. Great sound. Well worth the investment.

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High quality OLED. Brilliant picture. Although the sound is adequate, to complement the high quality picture, I would strongly suggest adding a sound bar. Very easy to set up, and user friendly remote control.

Comparison: My new LG 4K Smart OLED TV (OLED55C5PUA, 2025) vs my old LG 4K Smart OLED TV (OLED55CXPUA, 2020)Sources Used: Sony UBP-X700 4K Ultra HD Player (October 2024) and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs.Connectors: Zeskit Maya 8K 48Gbps Certified Ultra High-Speed HDMI Cable 16ft CL3 In-Wall RatedRemote Control Solution: As others rightly indicate, the new remote that comes with this TV is not up to the tasks required. I ended up using the remote that came with the previous version of this TV - the "LG Remote Magic Remote Control" (AKB75855501) - which is available on Amazon.LG TV's UNIQUE STANDOUTS SUMMARY- "Nightmare Alley" (2021, 4K, Guillermo del Toro) joins perfect details and colors to allow the genre's nihilism free rein.- "Pinocchio" (2022, 4K, Guillermo del Toro), a brilliantly filmed, very dark stop-motion animated film that hits every button (Note: not for young children).- "TRON: Legacy" (2010, 2K upscaled to 4K, Joseph Kosinski) is everything a gorgeous Sci-Fi drama - with stellar soundtrack - should be thanks to LG and Disney.(DETAILED EVALUATIONS BELOW)Preface: All my viewing was in HDR mode for 4k. I used the movies listed below, all of which benefitted from excellent motion smoothing, without awful sheen/glow, when rendered using moderate level of this TV's Black Frame Insertion (BFI) in Game Mode and a touch of extra brightness. Bright or dark room did not matter. (See bottom of page for comments on 2K SDR/Regular Blu-ray.)THE HOBBIT - THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (48fps): If you hated the 48fps of The Hobbit, your troubles are over! Watch this movie with correct BFI and generally accepted parameters for Game Mode on this TV. Then the natural appearance of everything in this movie will bowl you over. Faces are normal. The spiders of Mirkwood show markings that are easier to see and have colors that make sense on those horrid creatures. Seeing the etching on Smaug's hide (without the sheen) is worth every penny.STAR WARS (2020 UHD Release)(24fps): The movie is fun and impressive to watch given how old it is. The color and lighting are very good. Its sheen was tamed very well on this TV, and scenes filmed outdoors were very natural. (When I watched this movie on my previous LG TV - the OLED55CXPUA, 2020 - I was distracted by the less manageable sheen/glow.)DUNE, PARTS 1 and 2:- (Dune1, 24fps) The abundance of sand colors and sunlight make the DUNE movies bright overall. Beautiful browns in their various shades are a treat. In the midst of all that brown, you should notice subtle dark shades of green on clothing, and quilt-like stitching on the jackets. Facial features are beautifully rendered. The Bene Gesserit ship passing through and out of The Spacing Guild's Heighliner (at 20m:50s) and the Worm Spotter aircraft's flight (at 1h:01m:50s) should not break up in their movements across the screen. In the battle scenes when the Harkonnen invade, you should see no tearing or empty space in the rolling flames.- (Dune2, 24fps/48fps) It took almost the entire movie for me to register that there was no lag or choppiness in Dune Part 2 at all... none (at least with BFI engaged). Turns out Dune Part 2 occasionally used 48fps in some places instead of 24fps only, an approach that worked almost magically. It now takes 1st place as the best all-around film in my collection.BLADE RUNNER 2049 (24fps): The BFI nailed the surrounding colors and movement of K's police vehicle as it passed behind buildings. The vehicle's movement was smooth and the snow/rain contrails moving over and past the back of the vehicle were easy to pick out. Colors were incredibly detailed and vibrant at every turn.1917 (24fps): This movie benefits enormously from BFI and reduces the number of "jittery" scenes to two: 1) the stuttering movement as the camera views an embankment and pans left to right just after the two soldiers narrowly escape the collapsing tunnels, and 2) the panning left to right as the two soldiers are in a barn looking through wood slats at a plane in the distance.OBLIVION (24fps): I've watched this movie many times and this LG TV brought out colors better than the previous LG. The motions were very smooth and details abounded. Things to look for are Vicca's tears running down her face and off her nose as she betrays Jack, and the flickering lights when Julia and the hapless people are in the sights of the drone programmed to kill them (the flickering lights should not tear or have holes).FORD v FERRARI (24fps): The most interesting and exciting (and perpetual) visual experience I had with this movie was the heightened detail seen on clothing I don't recall seeing on the previous TV. But most of all the colors of red and brown in their various shades were able to make me fall further into the movie as everything seemed so very natural.THE PRESTIGE (24fps): This is a very detailed movie where the differing shades of brown are everywhere. Especially look for the brown variants (and other colors) in the weave of the tweed coats, especially prominent near the end of the movie.GEMINI MAN (60fps): I know what you're thinking: this movie is intolerable for its irremediable sheen/glow. You're right. It's also too intimate: it's as close to "being there" than I could tolerate... feels creepy, like eavesdropping. I played this all the way through again but came away with no changed opinions, except for very slightly better colors all 'round. HOWEVER, the climax near the end of the movie is visceral in how it renders the minigun being used to shred the store where the heroes are sheltering. TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, I must say that one of the most impressive demonstrations of BFI motion smoothing is how, in the opening scene, the filmmaker was able to sweep the camera across the ribbed structure above the train station and not induce seizures. (On the other hand, you might want seizure medicine handy if you try to view that panned ribbed structure with no BFI enabled.) On the whole, its motion smoothing and details are absolutely amazing.Regarding 2K SDR (i.e., regular Blu-ray), my results were either very good or very poor. For instance, the original releases of Avatar, Total Recall (2012), and The Imitation Game rendered outstanding results. On the other hand, The Last Samurai and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows were a disappointment. While the upscaling and motion smoothing were excellent on all these 2K movies, the Last Samurai and Sherlock Holmes renderings were too dark or dull, foggy, and wispy. The previous model of this same TV (OLED55CXPUA, 2020) did not have such challenges and disparities.As I write this, I notice the screen's gradual dimmer is working very well to ensure no image burn-in occurs when I stop typing for a while. (At the moment, I am using the TV's input connected to my computer.) Even though the dimming feature is not good for watching movies, it is a must for anything else. Thankfully, when using the 4k input for movies, and Game Mode is enabled, the TV will not dim on its own.