LG OLED vs. OLED evo: Which TV should you buy?

LG OLED vs. OLED evo: Which TV should y'all buy?

LG OLED vs. OLED evo: How does next-gen OLED compare?

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One of this year's most anticipated Television receiver innovations, LG OLED evo promised a brighter image and improve color range than existing OLED screens. And unlike the previous LG TV lineups, the new panel would be reserved for but the top-shelf LG G1 OLED Goggle box.

That ways the G1 (G for Gallery Serial) should perform differently from the balance of the LG 2021 TVs. Last yr, we lamented how the LG CX OLED TV and LG GX OLED TV shared similar picture quality despite the toll deviation.

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Still, the visitor's non-evo OLED console made for some of the best TVs we've ever tested. LG biggest obstacle in advancing its screen technology is its existing success. Then how exercise standard LG OLED vs. OLED evo truly compare? This face-off looks at all key factors, including our Tom's Guide TV testing results and anecdotal viewing experience.

LG OLED vs. OLED evo: Price and sizes

Surprisingly, OLED evo is more affordable than the previous LG OLED console at the Gallery Series level. The 65-inch model we tested in our LG G1 OLED TV review costs $2,999 – $500 less than the 65-inch LG GX OLED did when it offset came out. The 65-inch configuration of the G1 costs $2,999, while the smaller 55-inch model costs $2,199 and larger 77-inch size costs $4,499.

LG's standard OLED console is on the LG C1 OLED Goggle box. We haven't reviewed the CX replacement yet, but we know the screen sizes and cost. As you'd expect, it'due south less expensive than the G1 with OLED evo, starting at $1,499 for a 48-inch model. The 55-inch configuration costs $ane,799, while the 65-inch model costs $2,499 and the 77-inch version costs $3,799. There's fifty-fifty a 83-inch model ($v,999), making the non-evo panel available in a larger size selection than OLED evo. Big screens are hot in need correct now.

	LG C1 OLED TV	LG G1 OLED evo Television
48-inch	$1,499	Due north/A
55-inch	$1,799	$2,199
65-inch	$two,499	$two,999
77-inch	$3,799	$four,499
83-inch	$5,999	N/A

While you tin find concluding twelvemonth's LG TVs on sale right now with some of the best cheap TV deals, the G1 and C1 won't see discounts until nosotros approach the holiday flavour.

LG OLED vs. OLED evo: Display

OLED evo is technically LG's second-generation OLED panel. Although the standard LG OLED hasn't changed much since the introduction of HDR in 2015, it's still considered the one of all-time panels the consumer Tv set manufacture offers.

Whatever given Boob tube pixel consists of ruby-red, blue and light-green colors, which combine to create the millions of colors needed for a moving-picture show. In OLED, these pixels also provide the picture'due south low-cal. According to LG, each of the self-emissive pixels in OLED evo produces more light per pixel than before. It also claims a better red and blue brightness and an added green element.

While maintaining the loftier-dissimilarity clarity of current OLED panels, LG OLED evo introduces a new luminous element that looks to improve the overall brightness and colour range. OLED already excelled in picture contrast, but LCD screens have had it trounce in effulgence, making the latter applied science a better choice for daytime viewing in naturally-lit rooms.

LG OLED vs. OLED evo: Test results

But practice these alleged improvements actually make a difference? In our series of proprietary TV tests, the LG G1 OLED Television set with OLED evo didn't show as significant improvements as nosotros'd expected. The scores were amid the best we've ever gathered, just compared to final year'southward LG GX OLED TV, evo didn't prove evo-lutionary. Instead, it looked more similar an incremental improvement.

In terms of colour accuracy, OLED evo earned a Delta-E score of 1.64. Whatever consequence of 2.0 or lower is good with the lower scores being better. It'southward a very slight comeback over the GX (i.73).

There's no improvement at all in evo'due south coverage of the color gamut compared to regular LG OLED. The G1 produced 133.92 percent of the Rec 709 color space (which exceeds the basic colour standard by a pregnant margin) but the LG GX's score was superior, producing 134.42 percent.

OLED evo finds some redemption in the tested brightness. The LG G1 OLED reached a max brightness of 412.05 nits, which isn't all that much meliorate than the GX (388.88) simply makes evo one of the brightest OLED panels to ever face up the Tom's Guide TV tests.

LG OLED vs. OLED evo: Performance

We tested the LG GX and LG G1 only a few weeks autonomously, so with the anecdotal viewing feel of terminal twelvemonth's prepare fresh in our minds, we could recognize the visual differences between last year'due south panel and this twelvemonth's OLED evo display.

Nosotros had concerns over how the LG OLED's brightness would agree up in rooms lit past window light. From what we experienced in anecdotal viewing, the evo panel alleviated our worries. We watched the war movie Greyhound, which is filled with ominous, low-low-cal scenes out in the Atlantic Ocean. The result is lots of little variations of black hues. The GX struggled with those subtle differences, specifically in textures, but the G1 handled the crisp details of Tom Hanks' helm uniform and the crashing waters masterfully.

Both evo's advancements to brightness and color range likely contributed to the visible improvements we saw. There wasn't much room for improvement in movement treatment and color accuracy, merely the G1 maintained the picture prowess we witnessed on the GX.

LG OLED vs. OLED evo: How much meliorate is evo?

The quantitative differences of LG OLED vs. OLED evo prove LG innovated its OLED panel this year. Just the innovations aren't equally farthermost every bit nosotros expected. Information technology feels like a smidge better than an average annual refresh. This might be disappointing for people who review dozens of sets each year, just is no pocket-sized feat for how far TV engineering science has come.

Next-gen OLED is a expert sign for the direction Television screens are going. Not but is information technology more affordable, merely it addresses one of OLED"south biggest challenges: brightness. There are brighter TVs, sure, but yous'd have to store LCD instead.

We yet demand to check out the LG C1 OLED with standard LG OLED to see how it stands up to G1 with OLED evo. We'll update this story when the test results are in.

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Kate Kozuch is a senior author at Tom's Guide roofing wearables, TVs and everything smart-home related. When she's not in cyborg way, you tin find her on an exercise bicycle or channeling her inner celebrity chef. She and her robot army will rule the world one day, but until so, reach her at kate.kozuch@futurenet.com.