LG G5 OLED TV Bumps Brightness Even Higher – Video

This new high-end TV looks like an early contender for the best picture quality of 2025.

Hey guys, I appreciate picture quality a lot, and this TV right here might be the best picture quality I’ve ever seen. This is the LG G5. Now I haven’t had a lot of time to see it. It’s a brand new television, but this OLED TV looks great from what I’ve seen. So the big difference between the G5 and the G4 from last year is brightness. LG said it has improved the brightness level by 40%. Now I’ll be able to test that later. I’m gonna have to take the word for it now, but looking at it here in LG’s. Demo suite, it does look really bright and of course the impact in combination of the brightness with the black levels of OLED, so the blackness of the screen really really dark even in a room with high ambient light. Now that’s pretty important. This isn’t the brightest room, but there is some lighting here and I can see that the black levels are preserved despite the fact there’s some lighting in the room and you get a really great combination of the contrast because of that better black levels and again they’re saying they’re better than last year at. Rejecting that ambient light and preserving that excellent contrast, so I was able to briefly look at the picture quality on the G5, and I gotta say it’s really impressive from what I saw. Now this is not a real review side by side comparison with his competitors. It’s a single look of me at the television, but it is really bright. I was watching in vivid mode, which is the brightest picture quality mode. The more accurate modes of cinema are gonna be a little bit less bright, but all told, it looks like it lives up to that improved brightness and of course that excellent black. Levels. I’m pretty excited about all that. They also added 165 Hz refresh rate which for gaming could lead to some improvement. But long story short, it’s very similar to the G4 from last year, except for that improved brightness and uh in-room ambient light rejection. Now this TV is available in 55 up to 97 inches, but only the 83, 77, 65, and 55 inch sizes preserve all of those picture quality benefits. It’s gonna be expensive, no pricing yet coming out a little bit later this. Year, so we’ll see how it tests against the best OLED TVs out there later this year. So this is not the only TV that I checked out here at LG. They also have their transparent TV from last year. It’s now on the market for about $60,000 so you know, pull out your wallets. This is the really cool technology that can go from being completely see through to rolling up a little panel of black to make it look more like a regular TV, really like a designer first television. Still amazing technology, but. Incredibly expensive. They also have their M5 series, which is their wireless display technology, so they’re saying picture quality exactly the same as the G. It’s gonna be more expensive, of course, because it uses a separate box to send the signals from your game console, your cable box or whatever to the TV wirelessly. So they’ve improved that wireless technology a little bit. They say that now you can put that box in a cabinet, which is pretty cool as long as there’s no metal in the cabinet, and that will allow the transmission to take place between the box and. The TV again looks really exactly like an HDMI cable from the demo that they had set up here. Pretty cool for that. LG is also announcing the C5 series of OLED TVs. That was my favorite high-end TV for the money last year, very similar to the 2024 model, although they do say just like the G, it’s a little bit brighter, so we’re gonna check that out as well. It’s also available in a wider range of screen sizes. That’s a lot of OLED TVs from LG here at CES 2025. Can’t wait to check them out a little bit later this year.