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LG OLED evo G5: 45% Brighter, 4K 165Hz and a 5-Year Panel Warranty — This Year's OLED Benchmark?

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LG's New OLED evo Exemplifies Visual Perfection With Striking Brilliance and Unrivaled Blacks, Along With AI Personalization for a Tailored User Experience

LAS VEGAS , Jan. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics (LG) today unveiled its 2025 OLED evo lineup, highlighting a range of advanced TV offerings, including the world's first true wireless OLED evo M5, and OLED evo G5 models. With LG's latest α (Alpha) 11 AI processor Gen2 1 at its core, the latest OLED evo models present unparalleled OLED picture quality with impeccable blacks, exceptional brightness and advanced processing capabilities. Powered by AI-driven personalization, the LG OLED evo offers a customized experience tailored to each user and showcases the pinnacle of OLED innovation for an elevated home entertainment experience.

The latest OLED evo TVs feature LG's upgraded Brightness Booster Ultimate technology, which enhances light control architecture and light-boosting algorithms to achieve brightness three times higher 2 than conventional OLED models. This significant boost in brightness brings fine details into focus across different brightness levels, resulting in a more vibrant and lifelike viewing experience.

LG OLED evo refines every detail to perfection with flawless blacks, accurate color reproduction and stable performance. The latest models achieve top-notch black levels in both bright and dark settings, producing vibrant and accurate colors. These advanced OLED displays have received UL Solutions' "Perfect Black", "Perfect Color" verification and are certified by Intertek for 100 percent color fidelity. The 2025 OLED evo TVs also boast rapid brightness and color temperature stabilization, earning TÜV Rheinland's "Quick Stability with Image Quality" certification. 3 This ensures users experience exceptional picture quality immediately upon powering on the TV. 

New for 2025, LG's latest OLED evo 4K TVs support Filmmaker Mode® with Ambient Light Compensation 4 – an advanced version of Filmmaker Mode developed in collaboration with the creative community. This feature accurately detects the lighting conditions of the viewing environment and automatically adjusts the picture settings to maintain the filmmaker's original intent, delivering a truly cinematic experience in various lighting conditions.

Elevating its reputation as the ultimate choice for gamers, the latest LG OLED evo TVs boast several features tailored to gaming, including the industry's first 4K 165Hz 5 Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), certified by NVIDIA® G-SYNC® and AMD FreeSync Premium. The OLED evo models enhance gaming with tear-free, stutter-free gameplay, minimal input lag and up to 165 frames per second. The OLED evo TVs are the first to receive ClearMR 10000 certification by VESA, ensuring flawless motion and seamless experiences even during fast-paced action sequences.

Powered by the advanced Alpha 11 AI Processor Gen2, the 2025 OLED evo models provide enhanced picture and sound quality. Deep learning algorithms meticulously analyze and refine low-resolution and low-quality images, enhancing them to a higher definition with pixel-level precision for natural and sharper visuals. Additionally, Dynamic Tone Mapping Professional offers expert-level control over HDR10 content for professional creators, allowing precise customization and fine-tuning of images for accurate color and detail representation in all viewing environments.

Complementing the impressive visuals, AI Sound Pro delivers rich, immersive audio with virtual 11.1.2 channels of surround sound, adjusting the tonal balance and clarity for an immersive, tailored listening experience. Designed with personalization in mind, LG's newest OLED TVs boast AI-powered features that understand and adapt to individual audio and visual preferences. By analyzing over 1.6 billion image settings and 40 million sound profiles, the AI Picture/Sound Wizard tailors audio and visual modes for each user, ensuring a truly customized entertainment experience. These AI-driven features represent a new level of smart TV innovation, making the 2025 OLED evo models the most intuitive and user-centric TVs on the market.

The user experience is further elevated with a personalized journey that begins the moment the TV is powered on, courtesy of the AI Remote. AI Welcome greets users by name and provides tailored recommendations based on their preferences and viewing habits, while AI Voice ID adds convenience by recognizing individual voices, automatically switching profiles, and delivering content suggestions that match personal tastes. Finding content on LG's newest OLED evo TVs has never been easier, with AI Search 7 leveraging a Large Language Model (LLM) to understand conversational context and uncover subtle user intentions. Access to Microsoft Copilot further streamlines the process, allowing users to efficiently find and organize complex information using contextual cues. For an even smoother and more engaging experience, the AI Chatbot proactively identifies potential user challenges and offers timely, effective solutions. What's more, the Generative Image Gallery 8 allows users to create custom backgrounds using voice commands, adding a personal and creative touch to the viewing experience.

OLED evo's user-friendly webOS interface provides a personalized and streamlined experience to access content and settings more easily. The new home screen is faster, more convenient and increasingly personalized with enhanced UI and categories. Additionally, webOS now supports multi-platform integration with the Home Hub, seamlessly connecting with multi ecosystems, ThinQ and Google Home, for control of various IoT devices. By bringing together these versatile ecosystems and broadening cross-platform capabilities, users can effortlessly manage and control their smart home ecosystem through a single, intuitive interface on their LG's latest smart TVs. Extending benefits beyond the initial purchase, the webOS Re:New program allows LG Smart TV owners enjoy the most up-to-date TV experience for the next five years.

LG has presented the first-ever OLED TV capable of transferring audio and video wirelessly, transforming the home entertainment experience with unmatched audiovisual performance. As the world's first true wireless OLED TV, the latest M5 series delivers wireless audio and video transmission at up to 144Hz 6 without latency or loss in picture and sound quality. Certified by NVIDIA G-SYNC®, this wireless OLED TV ensures a tear-free, stutter-free gaming experience, even during fast-paced action at 4K 144Hz. Building on this innovation, LG has extended its advanced wireless audiovisual technology to QNED TVs, bringing its core value of technological excellence and cutting-edge innovation to more customers.

LG's OLED evo models have been recognized for their customer value and performance improvement, earning multiple awards including the CES 2025 Best of Innovation Award (for 83G5 models) and the Honoree title (83M5 model) in the Video Display category.

Visitors to CES 2025 will have the opportunity to explore how LG is elevating the home entertainment experience with its latest innovations from January 7-10 at the company's booth (#15004, Las Vegas Convention Center). To stay up to date with all of LG's announcements at CES, visit the website and LG Global YouTube channel.

1 Equipped on G5 and M5 series 2 Applies to 65/55/77/83-inch G5/M5 models, compared to the same sizes of conventional OLED models (B5 series) with a 10% window 3 65-inch M5/G5/C5 series model has received this certification 4  This feature works on models equipped with a light sensor 5 4K 165Hz VRR is available on 55/65/77/83-inch G-series models. 6 Available in US and Korean market at the initial launch. 7 Available in US,,UK and Korean markets at the initial launch. 8 Wireless transmission refers to the transferring of video and audio signals between a TV screen and the Zero Connect Box. Visually lossless, based on internal test results with ISO/IEC 29170-2 and measurement results may vary depending on connection status.

About LG Electronics USA

LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $68 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, and vehicle components. LG is an 11-time ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year. The company's commitment to environmental sustainability and its "Life's Good" marketing theme encompass how LG is dedicated to people's happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. For more information, visit  www.LG.com .

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Specifications

Processor
Alpha 11 AI Gen2
Brightness
Brightness Booster Ultimate — ~45% brighter than prior gen (per LG)
Gaming
4K 165Hz · VRR · NVIDIA G-SYNC · AMD FreeSync
AV formats
Dolby Vision · Dolby Atmos
Sizes
55 / 65 / 77 / 83 / 97 inch
Warranty
5-year panel warranty
Availability / Price (official)
Announced CES 2025 · US launch 2025-03-11 · price per LG regional sites

Sources

Specs and launch info are cited from official sources; the analysis is our own original writing.

At CES in January 2025 LG unveiled its 2025 OLED evo lineup, with the G5 as the flagship gallery-mount series; it launched in the US on March 11, 2025. The opinions and analysis here are our own; specs are cited from LG's official press release (see sources). Core configuration: an Alpha 11 AI Gen2 processor; Brightness Booster Ultimate that LG cites as ~45% brighter than the prior generation; 4K 165Hz with VRR plus NVIDIA G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync; Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos; sizes from 55 up to 97 inches; and a 5-year panel warranty.

Our take: the most noticeable upgrade is brightness. OLED has long been knocked for bright living rooms, and a higher peak via Brightness Booster Ultimate makes daytime viewing and HDR highlights far more flattering — picture quality sits at the top of consumer TVs. For gamers, 4K 165Hz with G-SYNC/FreeSync and low latency is a genuine sweet spot, excellent with a PC or current consoles. The 5-year panel warranty directly addresses long-standing OLED burn-in worries and shows real commitment. But it is expensive — the same budget buys a larger or cheaper mid-tier Mini-LED, and OLED's long-term burn-in risk still exists in extreme use even with a warranty. In short: for top-tier picture, dark-room cinema and high-refresh gaming, the G5 is the benchmark; if you just want a large, bright, value living-room TV, Mini-LED is more pragmatic.

An honest note: pricing, size availability, warranty terms and launch timing follow LG's regional sites and channels; some specs (peak refresh rate, brightness figures, warranty scope) can vary by size and region, so verify the local product page before buying.

Pros

  • A big brightness jump makes OLED look great even in bright rooms
  • 4K 165Hz with G-SYNC/FreeSync delivers top-tier gaming
  • A 5-year panel warranty directly answers OLED burn-in concerns

Cons

  • Flagship pricing is high — the same budget buys a bigger Mini-LED
  • OLED burn-in risk still exists under extreme use
  • Peak brightness and refresh vary by size and region — check before buying

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