LG 75QNED91
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15/03/2022 20:08
The first impression I had of the QNED 91 was that it is absolutely massive, this being my first 75" TV with 55" being the previous one. And actually it is the screen that has probably made the biggest positive impression on me.
And while that is a good thing, I expected a little more from this premium LG TV in the sound department (more on that below).
I wasn't enamoured with the way the panel goes up and down in its brightness in particular. You get blinded by the light in a bright scene irrespective of the natural lighting or room lighting, and that's really jarring. When it then gets down to a dim scene, the difference and the way in which the lighting is scaled down is uncomfortably sudden. Following some research into the matter, I changed some display settings and this resulted in a dramatic improvement in picture quality. So you will need to tweak the settings from what you get out of the box.
The image quality when watching 4K content is amazing, much better than anything I have seen before and so immersive due to the size and sharpness brought about by the QNED technology. I have used 4K content off USB, Netflix and YouTube, all being very impressively displayed.
Sound is a bittersweet point. I stopped using my soundbar with this TV because the inbuilt sound is loud enough in all directions, but I just can't find a setting that would allow the output to be a good match for the surround sound output (feeling) on my 2.1 soundbar. AI Sound probably comes closest to it but it does some very weird things when songs (or nursery rhymes!) are playing, as the voices sound almost "disjointed" from the music. Very unusual and not enjoyable at all. So, I've just had to set it to a very basic Standard setting which I feel is robbing me of something integral that I should be able to enjoy.
At RRP, you are squarely in OLED territory, and well beyond the high-end LED territory or even QLED. So what it boils down to, I guess, is the viewing environment. In a well lit room, this TV should be a better option than OLED. And in that, it is top of the tree, if you can get over the sound challenges.
Of course, the big caveat here is that the sound related shortcomings that I have identified should hopefully be fixable via software updates, so here's hoping LG addresses them and makes this a much more compelling proposition than it already is.
I would recommend it as a high-end TV that you will enjoy the experience of owning.
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Livingston , Spojené království
Age: 38
Gender: Female