LG - 65" Class 85 Series QNED Mini-LED 4K UHD Smart webOS TV

I haven't bought a new TV in a decade, so my amazement is skewed, but I am amazed by this TV! It's the first 4K picture for my household, and it's got the Dolby Vision and HDR with the full-array backlight dimming feature, so it's a huge difference. I paired it with a new LG Soundbar, and even wirelessly connected via bluetooth, the LG Sound Sync is maybe my favorite feature because it sounds cinematic and the TV and soundbar power on off in sync (which was the biggest flaw in my previous setup with auto-power settings). I chose LG because I have an LG TV from 12-14 years ago that still has a great picture, but the TV I replaced is a 10 year old Samsung that I was never as happy with. Plus, I bought other Samsung appliances around that same time, and lets just say that because of a simple little ice maker component, I will never ever buy any device or appliance made by Samsung for as long as I care to hold this grudge (7 years so far). I upped my budget to choose the Mini-LED type simply because I've been watching TV with the terrible edge-lighting shadows on my Samsung, and it just recently started exhibiting a glowing defect that looks like the Star Trek logo at the bottom of darker scenes. OLED was beyond my budget and my TV is in a bright sunny room so I was worried I needed more brightness than an affordable OLED could provide. I can't say much about the webOS. I have the newest model Apple TV 4K and it's still far better than my first impressions of the LG webOS, so I'm not going to bother installing anything on there. I just want the power button on my Apple TV remote to turn the TV on and it does that perfectly without any other setup hassle. The first thing Apple TV did was tell me that I now a have a TV that supports Dolby Vision (I made sure to use a new HDMI 2.1 cable) and everything looks noticeably better. The one thing that got me worried, which I want to put here because it did go away - the TV right away wanted to update itself, of course. I don't know if my update failed or if it had to do two consecutive updates, but it apparently waits until you turn the TV off and back on to run the update, and so both times I came back to the TV on the first evening, instead of going straight to my Apple TV Home Screen, it showed a webOS logo and a spinning progress indicator for almost 10 seconds before going to the HDMI input. This loading screen must be some kind of firmware update mode that doesn't activate the mini-led, because while I'm looking at this loading indicator taking forever, the background looks like terrible edge-lighting. The second time it did this, it said 'Update complete' before it went to Apple TV, and then fortunately the third time I turned the TV on, it went quickly to Apple TV. Shew! Mounting was a hassle, it might have been worth it to pay for professional installation even though I'm an avid DIYer. It's suprisingly heavier than my old TV even though it's way thinner, and I put it on a flush-mount to get that nice sleek look, but then it was extremely difficult to connect all the wires. I gave up on connecting the optical wire and the ethernet cable that are towards the bottom facing down, but I found that the bluetooth connection to the LG Soundbar was perfectly sufficient for now and wifi is just fine if I'm going to be using the Apple TV anyway. It might have been easier to have a third person connect all the cables while two of us were holding it and then put it on the wall and try to wrap and tuck the excess cabling back behind it. Or sacrifice the flush mount, but it looks so good!

The picture quality is absolutely beautiful. LG is very easy to use. This is my third LG that I have added to our home.

incredible, picture Is amazing, sound is clear and great. nice sleek design. lg knocked It out of the park with this one. had a budget and did a good amount of research before deciding on this one and I am not disappointed one point. was worth every penny.