what's up guys I'm Theo Joe and today
I've got something cool for you it's a
review of one of LG's new OLED TVs this
year the GX or rather g10 series
specifically this is the 65 inch model
with the model number
OLED 65 GX PUA now full disclosure LG
did provide me with this TV to review so
I didn't pay for it myself but it's not
like they're paying me money to do the
review but that will have no bearing on
my opinion though I will point out the
TV I'm coming from was also an LG OLED
that I bought years ago so I'm already
pretty familiar with LG TVs and kind of
prefer them anyway but anyway let's jump
into it the first thing to know is LG
has several OLED model lineups this year
for example there's the b10 series which
is the most affordable then the next
step up is the c10 which has the most
recent alpha 9 processor for AI
upscaling and the G 10 series we'll be
seeing in this video is apparently
essentially the same as the C 10 except
for the form factor then there are even
more expensive models such as the
wallpaper and signature series so about
that form factor the G in the G 10
stands for gallery and that's because
unlike the C 10 the G 10 does not come
with a stand only a wall mount it's
designed specifically to be mounted on a
wall such that it sits flat up against
it with essentially zero gap and it
really does as you can see which is
awesome you can actually buy a stand for
the G 10 separately but at that point
you really may as well just get the C 10
and save the cost difference now
obviously wall mounting a TV will
require additional work and definitely
will require at least two people the TV
is big and heavy over 60 pounds so don't
try to do it yourself
I had a friend help me set it up and
while we were able to do it I would
definitely recommend just hiring a
professional to install it especially if
you don't have wood studs and you'd be
relying on drywall anchors I don't know
how that would work
I do have wood studs though one of which
was fortunately placed right where I
wanted to mount the TV so I feel very
confident in the strength of the mount
from having a couple of the huge
included screws going into studs and it
does seem like the wall anchors included
with the box are just for concrete so if
you are going to be using drywall
anchors you would have to buy them
separately so again you probably want to
just hire professional
for you and of course here's the
obligatory shot of me unpeeling the
plastic off the front when it was all
set up let's get into the fun stuff
though the features so this TV is indeed
4k and being OLED the picture obviously
looks amazing with OLED the contrast
quality you get is really unmatched just
because of the nature of OLED where if
part of the image is supposed to be
black the pixel just turns off so
there's no light bleed from any
backlight of any kind and the viewing
angles are also awesome I noticed there
is basically no color shift even when
viewing at extreme angles one important
feature is the new alpha 9 gen 3
processor which gives it a I upscaling
capabilities apparently LG basically
used a machine learning to create a
database of what certain textures are
supposed to look that like at 4k and
then the processor can use that learned
information to accurately upscale
specific textures and from my
understanding this AI upscaling is
always on it's not a setting because any
time you have a display that is a higher
resolution than the video source it
requires some form of upscaling
so this chip just processes it in a way
that looks better but even though there
is no setting I was able to test the
difference using my Apple TV which I set
to always output at 4k resolution so
when watching something in 1080p the
Apple TV instead does the upscaling to
4k without any of the fancy AI
processing and basically tricks the TV
into thinking it's already 4k so it
doesn't do anything processing on it
then to compare I stream the same 1080p
content using one of the streaming apps
built into the TV so it would upscale it
using AI and I gotta say it really does
make a difference 1080p content up
scaled with AI looks absolutely tack
sharp and really does look like true 4k
I was pretty surprised I'm not sure if
I'll be able to properly get it to show
in the video because when you're close
up it's very subtle you might be able to
see some of these designs in this video
are a bit more defined but in real life
at regular viewing distance it's
definitely noticeable now when it comes
to upscaling 720p content I couldn't
really tell the difference maybe it was
just too subtle but at least with 1080p
it definitely works now there are a few
actual AI settings in the menu though
there is a separate setting called AI
picture Pro which is different from the
AI upscaling and is supposed to improve
faces and text
characters and stuff like that in an
image though I found it hard to notice a
difference with that so I just leave it
on there is also AI brightness which
adjusts the brightness of the image
based on the ambient light and auto
genre selection which adjusts the image
based on type of content if thinks is
being shown for sound there is an AI
sound Pro option but we'll come back to
that there are plenty of other display
features to talk about such as the fact
that the TV is not just 4k but also 120
Hertz native refresh rate and yes it
does have all HDMI 2.1 ports which do
all support up to 4k 120 Hertz so
definitely future-proofed there and one
of the HDMI ports is a arc for
outputting audio via HDMI which is
actually how I connected to my receiver
another cool feature is Dolby vision IQ
which is able to dynamically adjust the
brightness of supported Dolby vision
content using the ambient light sensor
built into the TV so this is different
from that AI brightness mode mentioned
before which I believe just kind of
works all the time or at least in some
picture modes the Dolby vision IQ
feature is specifically for movies and
TV made with Dolby vision and apparently
includes metadata on how bright name
should be and compares that to the light
sensor data and then brightens it more
accurately not necessarily using AI and
from what I've read the cinema Home
picture mode is what actually uses Dolby
vision IQ the TV also supports the new
filmmaker mode as a picture profile
which effectively disables all
post-processing of an image so the movie
will look as close to the original as
possible as opposed to something like
the vivid picture mode or other picture
profile that might boost saturation
sharpness or use motion smoothing and
alter the true look of the film speaking
of smoothing yes there are settings for
that too and be warned they are enabled
by default called true motion though you
do have several options here including a
custom user mode I'm not a fan of motion
smoothing but I did find the cinema
clear mode to be very subtle and not
even noticeable and I know using motion
smoothing is like sacrilege because it
can make stuff look really weird but in
some cases because OLED panels have such
low persistence meaning the pixels
switched so fast at lower frame rates
like 24 frames per second it can
actually sometime
make a video look choppy where wouldn't
on inferior displays so I might just
keep it on cinema clear going forward as
long as I don't notice it's even on for
gaming yes this TV has that cover to the
g10 supports both g-sync and freesync
though freesync apparently will be
available later with an update along
with variable refresh rate and there's
also a specific picture mode called game
which is optimized for low latency I
guess by reducing image processing
because TVs are typically notorious for
input lag normally and yes the game mode
does make a huge night-and-day
difference in input lag to the point
where I would not be able to play on
anything but game mode the TV also
supports so-called auto low latency mode
which will further reduce your input lag
if your game console or computer
supports it as far as I know the ps4
does not but the Xbox one s and X do as
long as you enable it in the console
settings you can see here then when you
do go to play it will pop up saying low
latency mode is enabled so you know and
apparently the latency does go down to
one millisecond which is impressive
so to be clear your console doesn't need
to support low latency mode to use the
TV's game mode that's just extra and the
low latency mode did seem to have a
further subtle improvement but it was a
little bit harder to tell alright as for
sound quality I think the internal
speakers do sound pretty good I don't
personally use them because I have a
surround sound system which I think
sounds even better but you won't be
disappointed if you use the internal
speakers like you saw before there is a
setting called
a I sound Pro which supposedly improves
the audio but that is disabled here
because I'm using external speakers but
when I did try using the internal
speaker it did sound better and clearer
with the AI sound Pro but I'm not sure
if it's just because it made it a bit
louder there's also a feature called ai
acoustic tuning that uses the microphone
in the remote to calibrate the speaker
based on the room and you can then
choose from a few different modes as for
other audio features it does support
Dolby Atmos built-in and also the
ability to use external wireless
Bluetooth speakers as surround sound
speakers which is cool alright now let's
talk about webOS which is the name of
the operating system for the TV or the
user interface basically I really do
like the UI and LG
TVs and this one is pretty similar to my
old TV from 2015 just a bit different
you can control everything using the so
called magic remote it comes with and
I'd say the main button you'll be using
is the button with the house which
brings up the list of apps and also if
you press the middle scroll wheel it
brings up a cursor that you can use to
click on everything and you can actually
just tilt the control around to point
out whatever you want it just uses
accelerometers to detect position and
the remote connects through Wireless not
infrared by default so the remote
doesn't have to be in line of sight for
it to work so don't think that you need
to like hold out your arm and point it
at the TV to use it and I found they
really improved the point of
responsiveness since my old TV this one
seems much more instant and responsive
anyway you'll see a list of apps like
Netflix Hulu YouTube and you can scroll
to the end go into edit mode to move
them around also if you go to the LG
content store you can search for
additional apps like Plex for example
that might not be installed by default
and you can uninstall apps you don't
want the thing that's nice about all
these apps is they all work with the
magic remote - so it's way easier to
search for stuff using the TV apps
because you can just use the cursor to
type and select things on the screen one
really cool app that comes installed is
the art gallery app which will rotate
through different paintings and images
and show it with a picture frame and
since the TV is so completely flat
against the wall it almost really does
look like a picture hanging on the wall
it's pretty cool also on the app bar not
really sure what it's actually called on
the left side you'll see more shortcuts
for example there's a search feature
where you can search for something I
believe across all apps that you have
installed there's also a home dashboard
which will show you all sorts of stuff
connected to the TV in one way or
another such as all the different HDMI
inputs or media servers on your network
though you can just use the input button
on the remote - it also has Apple
airplay or you can add support for smart
home devices and control them through
the dashboard to the TV shortcut will
take you to live TV if you have either
antenna or cable hooked directly into
the TV but there's also what are called
LG channels which are basically like
Internet TV channels some from
well-known stations like ABC or NBC News
stuff like that and they just show up in
the channel list as IP channels and seem
to behave the same as other traditional
channels now one thing I don't like that
I need to point
is that by default when you open up the
app list from the remote there will be a
stupid obnoxious ad all the way to the
left hand side that shows up every time
you open the menu and it seriously was
bugging me until I found the little
setting inconspicuously called home
promotion you can disable which gets rid
of it seriously if there's one thing I
hate its advertisements built-in your
freaking television but at least you can
disable it oh and there's also another
setting in the menus called do not sell
my personal information yes please
anyway we can talk more about the
settings which can be accessed by
pressing the gear button on the remote
first it will bring up a quick settings
menu that you can edit with a limited
number of settings you can add to this
though I wish you were allowed to add
any of the settings you want it then you
can access the full settings from here
I'm obviously not going to get into all
the settings but you can see the basics
here like you can choose between
different picture profiles and customize
them too and you can change them quite a
bit however you want everything from the
color gamma to white balance or changing
that trumotion setting or a noise
reduction all sorts of stuff one thing I
noticed is that when the input device is
using Dolby vision or HDR like I am with
my Apple TV you actually get a different
set of picture modes that weren't
available before I assume this is
because the picture mode settings
wouldn't do the same thing when applied
to an HDR video and you'll know you're
in HDR mode because the top right there
will be a pop-up that says either HDR or
Dolby vision when that type of video
signal is being sent to the TV also
worth noting is when you change the
picture mode for one input device like
HDMI one it will remember each device
separately having different picture
settings which is nice also as a fun
fact I found out there is a super-secret
Diagnostics menu which can be accessed
by going to the channel menus then with
the channel tuning option highlighted
you press 1 1 1 1 1 and then shows you
all sorts of information about the TV
such as firmware and hardware versions
and info about Wi-Fi and HDMI connection
and if you are currently on an HDMI
input you can select HDMI mode to see
even more crazy info most of which I
have no idea what it means but it's
still cool and this is how I check to
make sure the Apple TV was putting out a
4k signal even though I was watching
1080p content when I
comparing that upscaling because it
shows you the resolution frame rate bit
depth variable refresh rate info all
sorts of stuff finally in the settings
for anyone worried about oled burnin
there is a menu called OLED screen saver
which has several features to help with
that by default the TV will use a screen
saver anyway if the content on the TV is
static for two minutes
but these features help further so
there's what's called screen shift which
will slightly shift the image every once
in a while so pixels are less likely to
just show the same as that color the
whole time and it's not noticeable at
all I think it just moves it a few
pixels I've never actually noticed it
happen there's also a logo luminance
adjustment which detects static logos on
the screen and apparently dims them like
for cable news shows though I don't
really watch live TV so I wasn't able to
get an example of it in action and
finally the TV uses what's called pixel
refresh which apparently happens every
time you turn off the TV after watching
for many hours where somehow refreshes
the pixels to prevent ghosting the TV
will just look like it's off so you
won't even notice but apparently makes a
big difference all that being said
though you probably don't have to worry
about ghosting or image retention even
in the 4 plus years I've had my old
Oland I never had burnin and the only
time I had some image retention was when
I left my Nvidia shield on a menu for
like 8 hours and the screensaver didn't
kick in and then there was a slight
ghosting for about a day before it went
away
and from what I understand it's actually
really hard to get permanent burnin on
an OLED so nothing like the old plasmas
the final feature I could talk about
briefly is the voice control the TV
seems to come with 2 voice assistants
namely LG's built-in assistant and the
Google assistant and you can give the TV
command by holding down the middle
microphone button and then talking into
it and based on the command either the
LG assistant or Google assistant will
respond for example you can ask it to
search for Star Trek on Netflix and the
LG assistant will show you the results
for that search specifically for Netflix
you can also ask it to open a specific
app which it will do for other searches
that aren't TV related like what's the
weather tomorrow the result will be
given by Google assistant I don't know
how often I'll actually use this
considering I have a ton of Google home
devices around already but it's still
nice so that pretty much covers what I
think are the most
and features and overall I think this TV
is awesome I mean I was already a fan of
LG TVs considering I've owned one for
years so take that as you will I was
mostly impressed by the upscaling I
really do think it does a great job on
improving 1080p content it's not like a
miraculous difference or anything
especially when sitting at a distance
but I do think it could make some high
quality HD content pass as 4k this is
also my first wall-mounted TV and I
think it looks cool it makes the room
seem a bit more open despite the TV
being 10 inches larger than my previous
one that had a stand though obviously
being wall-mounted is a bit tougher to
get the wires connected in the back
there again you could always go with the
C 10 model which is apparently pretty
much the same just with a stand also
when you get a TV like this you are
pretty much future proof for a while it
has 4k at 120 Hertz so you're definitely
set for the next gen gaming consoles and
it supports the gaming features like low
latency variable refresh rate York and
all that also one feature the g10 has
that the c10 apparently does not is ATSC
3.0 aka next-gen TV which is an upcoming
upgrade to the over-the-air antenna base
TV that will be able to do things like
4k among other things though that won't
really be rolled out for a while in most
places so yeah I think that pretty much
covers everything thanks again to LG for
sending me this TV to a review and keep
and let me know in the comments if you
have any questions I'll try to respond
when I can if you guys want to watch
another review you can check out my
review of the iPhone 11 Pro that came
out last year I'll put that link right
there so thanks so much for watching
guys and I'll see you in the next video