Hi, I’m Carl with Abt, and in this video we’re gonna give you a closer look at a
budget, 4k TV from LG that’s worth considering for your home theater.
This is the 65UM6900 and it’s a surprisingly good, highly affordable TV. Most of the time,
when you hear, “65 inch TV under 600 dollars” you can expect a picture that’s okay at
best. Not with this one. I was pleasantly surprised as soon as we got some 4k content
on the screen. That’s not to say this doesn’t have some shortcomings, but I think the good
outweighs the bad with this model. And I’ll address those things as we go on.
The design is exactly what you’d normally get at this price point. You get a slightly
thicker bezel, the TV overall is deeper, and it comes with a very basic, two footed pedestal
design that does what it’s supposed to, hold the TV upright, and nothing more. There’s
no cable management anywhere, but these are the little sacrifices you make to get the
TV down to an affordable level. Thankfully they didn’t skimp so much on the picture.
For inputs you get two HDMIs on the side and one on the back, all HDCP 2.2 compliant, with
number 2 having an audio return channel. Then there’s two USBs, one on the side and one
on the back, an ethernet jack, optical audio output, a shared component/composite and an
antenna input. So it’s a pretty full input set that you don’t always find on some of
the lesser expensive TVs. And it’s got wi-fi, but no bluetooth. And with that wi-fi, you
also get compatibility with google home and amazon alexa. All you need to do is hook up
a compatible device like a home mini or echo dot and now you’ve got the option to use
voice commands to operate the TV. Now, let’s get back to the picture. This
one was much better than I thought it was gonna be. The intro screen, which is normally
pretty black on the nicer LG TVs, was grayer on this one so I didn’t have high hopes
when I initially turned it on, but once we got through the setup and had some higher
quality footage up, it showed much better black levels. It’s an IPS panel so the
slightly grayer picture wasn’t unexpected, but I was surprised by how dark this one gets.
On HDR content you see some nice details in the shadows and bright areas of the screen.
Colors were mostly accurate too. I found the reds to be a little on the orange side, but
still acceptable for the price point. Plus, you can go into the picture menu and change
around settings to get it to a point where you’re happy, as not everyone likes exactly
the same aspects of an image. You’ve got noise reduction options on here just like
you do on their NanoCell and OLED TVs and there’s plenty of pre-set calibrations to
choose from if you don’t want to go into the menu and make those finer adjustments.
The only aspect of the picture wasn’t overly impressive was the motion. With TruMotion
turned on the picture was definitely smoother, but then you were getting a very noticeable
soap opera effect. I normally prefer watching with any motion enhancement turned off on
any of my TVs, but when I turned it off on this set, the picture got really jumpy during
scenes with fast action. But good news for any gamers out there, this TVs got some incredible
input lag times. In our tests with 1080p at 60hz we were getting times just under 11 milliseconds.
Unfortunately, we don’t have an accurate way to test at 4k yet, but those numbers should
be even better. And another positive, this uses LGs webOS,
which has been my favorite operating system for a while now. It’s just as smooth to
use on this TV as it is on most of the others in LGs lineup, just without the use of their
magic remote. The one that comes with the UM6900 is definitely on the more basic side,
but it still gives you shortcut buttons to Netflix, Prime Video, and then there’s a
Movies button that brings up a list of available movies on a variety of different apps on the
TV. You can find all our current pricing at the
link below, but we’re generally gonna have this model available for around 600 dollars,
which for what you get, is a phenomenal deal. But again, check the link for all our current
prices because you never know when it’s gonna go on sale. If you’re a gamer looking
for a big TV with some great input lag numbers.
this is gonna be a model you definitely want to check out.
Or if you're just somebody that's just looking for a big TV that gives you a great
picture at a low price.
Again, check this one out. Thanks, as always, for watching you guys. We appreciate it.
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