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LG OLED vs. OLED evo: Which Goggle box should y'all buy?

LG OLED vs. OLED evo: How does next-gen OLED compare?

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1 of this year's most anticipated TV innovations, LG OLED evo promised a brighter prototype and ameliorate colour range than existing OLED screens. And unlike the previous LG TV lineups, the new panel would be reserved for just the top-shelf LG G1 OLED TV.

That ways the G1 (G for Gallery Serial) should perform differently from the rest of the LG 2021 TVs. Last year, we lamented how the LG CX OLED TV and LG GX OLED Telly shared similar picture quality despite the price difference.

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Still, the visitor'southward non-evo OLED console fabricated for some of the best TVs nosotros've ever tested. LG biggest obstacle in advancing its screen technology is its existing success. And then how do standard LG OLED vs. OLED evo truly compare? This face-off looks at all central factors, including our Tom'due south Guide TV testing results and anecdotal viewing feel.

LG OLED vs. OLED evo: Price and sizes

Surprisingly, OLED evo is more affordable than the previous LG OLED panel at the Gallery Series level. The 65-inch model we tested in our LG G1 OLED Idiot box review costs $2,999 – $500 less than the 65-inch LG GX OLED did when information technology first came out. The 65-inch configuration of the G1 costs $2,999 (opens in new tab), while the smaller 55-inch model costs $2,199 (opens in new tab) and larger 77-inch size costs $4,499 (opens in new tab).

LG'southward standard OLED panel is on the LG C1 OLED Television. We haven't reviewed the CX replacement notwithstanding, but we know the screen sizes and price. As you'd await, it's less expensive than the G1 with OLED evo, starting at $1,499 (opens in new tab) for a 48-inch model. The 55-inch configuration costs $ane,799 (opens in new tab), while the 65-inch model costs $two,499 (opens in new tab) and the 77-inch version costs $3,799 (opens in new tab). There's even a 83-inch model ($five,999 (opens in new tab)), making the non-evo panel available in a larger size choice than OLED evo. Big screens are hot in demand right now.

	LG C1 OLED Boob tube	LG G1 OLED evo Telly
48-inch	$1,499	North/A
55-inch	$one,799	$2,199
65-inch	$ii,499	$ii,999
77-inch	$3,799	$4,499
83-inch	$5,999	Northward/A

While you tin can find last year's LG TVs on sale right now with some of the best cheap Boob tube deals, the G1 and C1 won't encounter discounts until nosotros approach the holiday flavour.

LG OLED vs. OLED evo: Display

OLED evo is technically LG's second-generation OLED panel. Although the standard LG OLED hasn't changed much since the introduction of HDR in 2015, it's all the same considered the one of all-time panels the consumer TV manufacture offers.

Any given Telly pixel consists of red, blue and light-green colors, which combine to create the millions of colors needed for a picture. In OLED, these pixels also provide the moving picture'southward low-cal. According to LG, each of the cocky-emissive pixels in OLED evo produces more light per pixel than earlier. It also claims a better red and blue effulgence and an added green element.

While maintaining the high-contrast clarity of current OLED panels, LG OLED evo introduces a new luminous element that looks to ameliorate the overall brightness and colour range. OLED already excelled in picture contrast, but LCD screens take had it beat in brightness, making the latter technology a better choice for daytime viewing in naturally-lit rooms.

LG OLED vs. OLED evo: Test results

But exercise these alleged improvements really make a deviation? In our serial of proprietary Goggle box tests, the LG G1 OLED TV with OLED evo didn't evidence as significant improvements as we'd expected. The scores were among the best nosotros've ever gathered, merely compared to last twelvemonth'due south LG GX OLED Tv set, evo didn't show evo-lutionary. Instead, information technology looked more like an incremental improvement.

In terms of color accurateness, OLED evo earned a Delta-E score of 1.64. Any effect of 2.0 or lower is good with the lower scores being meliorate. Information technology'due south a very slight improvement over the GX (ane.73).

At that place's no improvement at all in evo's coverage of the color gamut compared to regular LG OLED. The G1 produced 133.92 percent of the Rec 709 color space (which exceeds the basic color standard by a significant margin) but the LG GX's score was superior, producing 134.42 per centum.

OLED evo finds some redemption in the tested brightness. The LG G1 OLED reached a max brightness of 412.05 nits, which isn't all that much amend than the GX (388.88) but makes evo 1 of the brightest OLED panels to ever confront the Tom'south Guide TV tests.

LG OLED vs. OLED evo: Operation

We tested the LG GX and LG G1 just a few weeks apart, so with the anecdotal viewing experience of last yr's set up fresh in our minds, we could recognize the visual differences between last year's panel and this year'southward OLED evo display.

We had concerns over how the LG OLED's brightness would concord upward in rooms lit by window calorie-free. From what we experienced in anecdotal viewing, the evo panel alleviated our worries. We watched the war pic Greyhound, which is filled with ominous, low-light scenes out in the Atlantic Body of water. The effect is lots of piffling variations of black hues. The GX struggled with those subtle differences, specifically in textures, merely the G1 handled the crisp details of Tom Hanks' captain compatible and the crashing waters masterfully.

Both evo'south advancements to brightness and color range probable contributed to the visible improvements nosotros saw. There wasn't much room for comeback in motion handling and color accuracy, but the G1 maintained the pic prowess we witnessed on the GX.

LG OLED vs. OLED evo: How much better is evo?

The quantitative differences of LG OLED vs. OLED evo bear witness LG innovated its OLED panel this year. Merely the innovations aren't as farthermost as we expected. It feels like a smidge meliorate than an average almanac refresh. This might be disappointing for people who review dozens of sets each year, but is no small feat for how far Tv set technology has come.

Next-gen OLED is a good sign for the direction Boob tube screens are going. Not only is it more affordable, but it addresses 1 of OLED"s biggest challenges: brightness. There are brighter TVs, sure, just you'd have to shop LCD instead.

We still need to check out the LG C1 OLED with standard LG OLED to see how it stands upwards to G1 with OLED evo. Nosotros'll update this story when the test results are in.

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Kate Kozuch is an editor at Tom's Guide covering smartwatches, TVs and everything smart-home related. Kate too appears on Play tricks News to talk tech trends and runs the Tom's Guide TikTok business relationship (opens in new tab), which you should exist following. When she's non filming tech videos, you can observe her on an exercise wheel, mastering the NYT Crossword or channeling her inner celebrity chef.