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Review on 📺 LG OLED65A1PUA: Smart 65" 4K OLED TV with Alexa Built-in (2021) by Jeffrey Sanders

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Fairly good so far

I would give 4.5/5 if I could. Since my complaints are not that important, I gave it a 5/5. Just an amazing looking panel. 4k HDR content is so crisp and really stands out. I mounted it on the wall with this https://www.amazon. com/dp/B00TZBBPFY?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details and usually use a Revain 4k Firestick to play content (but when Jellyfin gets an official webOS release soon I will be using it). My photos show that the mount isn't blocking the ports/connectors, so I was lucky. I recommend this mount. Being OLED, the near-instant pixel refresh makes things look shaky without TruMotion enabled (couldn't find an option to insert a black border), but I found setting TruMotion to Natural gave the best results. without too much soap opera effect. I leave it enabled for all content (including animations). It's not perfect, but it's better than turning it off completely. In terms of image settings, I think Vivid is the best. Other options almost make the image look like a weird color filter on the media, making the blue more yellowish and making everything darker. I expect this to be fixed in future updates as I bought it so close to release. Everything is fine with the remote control. but I haven't played with it much yet. I just wish there were fast forward/rewind/play/pause buttons somewhere. I assume webOS (Smart TV OS by LG) is fine. This is my first experience with him. The only thing I don't like is that your apps are pretty small compared to the other content panels that are displayed on the home page (weather, sports news, sponsored media, etc.). But it works at a decent speed. Even their browser isn't that terrible and comes with an (optional) ad blocker, which is nice. It has the ability to do speaker output + TV speakers, which is interesting. To be honest, the TV's speakers aren't bad, but their clarity isn't amazing. I prefer to just leave the speaker output on (optical output to the speaker bar) and not use the TV's speakers at all, as the hybrid mode distorts the clarity too much for my liking. The speed of WiFi is strangely not that high (on the local network). , at least when tested in the browser (as can be seen in the attached image). In comparison, I held my phone (Galaxy S9) in front of the TV and got 304 Mbit/s up/down. I plan on plugging it in later (it has an ethernet port), but I haven't noticed any major issues playing local content (via Jellyfin) anyway, so it probably doesn't matter too much. Just weird. The only really weird thing I've seen so far is the weird glitch effect in a few select scenes where people are moving and far from the camera. It's hard to describe and it only happened twice while watching Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. The people themselves seemed to flicker while the rest of the screen was fine. I think the AI image struggled with being so far from the camera in this scene. I haven't seen that happen with any other content, so maybe the movie itself was bad.

Pros
  • TV & Video
Cons
  • Very expensive