Professionals
- Usually sensational image high quality
- Fairly, space-saving design
- Glorious sensible TV interface
Cons
- Would not have the brightness of rival LCDs
- Element loss in brilliant areas
- Occasional color noise
Key Specs
- Evaluation Value: £2700.00
- 55-inch OLED display screen
- Native 4K/UHD decision
- webOS 3.0 sensible TV system
- Freeview Play onboard
- Multimedia playback by way of USB/DLNA/Bluetooth
What’s the LG OLED55B6?
That is LG’s least costly Extremely HD OLED TV for 2016. The £2,700 price ticket will itself be sufficient to win the hearts of many AV followers seeking to make the leap to OLED. Particularly since its relative cheapness appears to have had minimal impression on its image high quality. It might not be as fancy because the fashions larger up within the vary, however this will get the job finished fantastically.
LG OLED55B6 – Design and Construct
A few of LG’s 2016 OLED TVs have been terribly stunning, and the OLED55B6 seems fairly odd by comparability. Its rear stands out a number of centimetres reasonably than simply the few millimetres of LG’s E6 and G6 OLED fashions. Its desktop stand is completed in a reasonably dour black versus the same old gleaming silver. Its OLED pixels don’t profit from being mounted instantly onto a sheet of glass. Total, construct high quality feels disturbingly “regular”.
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However whereas the OLED55B6 may feel and appear pedestrian by LG OLED requirements, it’s really beautiful within the context of the broader flat TV world. Not least as a result of round two-thirds of its rear stays extremely slim, whereas its periphery sports activities a dashing metallic sheen.
The display screen is flat, not curved. In order for you a curved display screen (I’m struggling to consider convincing the reason why you’ll) you’ll want the LG OLED55C6.
LG OLED55B6 – Setup
First, maintain the primary brightness setting inside a really slender band: 49-52. Go under 49 and darkish areas start to lose element and depth. Go larger than 52 and the stunningly wealthy black colors which are OLED’s single largest promoting level are out of the blue infiltrated by low-contrast greyness.
Subsequent, when watching HDR 10 or Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR (the OLED55B6 helps each), don’t be tempted to make use of essentially the most aggressive setting choices, since these make the brightest elements of HDR footage look overexposed.
At all times flip off the TV’s noise-reduction choices when watching native 4K/UHD sources. And eventually, when watching motion pictures at 24 frames a second from Blu-ray/Extremely HD Blu-ray, set the OLED55B6’s movement processing to Customized mode, with its judder and blur elements set to someplace under half their energy.
LG OLED55B6 – Options
The OLED55B6’s single most vital characteristic is its OLED image expertise. This lets each pixel produce its personal mild, whereas LCD forces teams of pixels – or generally, all pixels directly – to share an exterior mild supply.
The end result, as we’ve seen time and time once more, is a mix of gorgeous distinction and immaculate mild precision that present LCD applied sciences might by no means hope to match.
Regardless of being less expensive than its E6 and G6 siblings, the OLED55B6 appears to supply an an identical image specification by way of distinction, brightness, color vary and movement processing – on paper a minimum of. Notably eye-catching are a most brightness of round 650 nits (far forward of something LG’s 2015 OLED vary might handle), and a color efficiency that delivers round 94% of the so-called DCI-P3 color spectrum utilized in industrial digital cinemas.
The OLED55B6’s specs are comfortably in extra of these wanted for ‘Extremely HD Premium’ certification, a regular the AV trade devised to spotlight one of the best UHD and excessive dynamic vary performers.
LG’s choice to hold the Dolby Imaginative and prescient model of HDR, with its further layer of knowledge offering scene-by-scene optimisation, looks as if a canny transfer. Articles suggesting a format conflict between Dolby Imaginative and prescient and the extra widespread HDR10 system are overblown, nevertheless it’s nonetheless reassuring to know {that a} TV helps each. Particularly since Dolby Imaginative and prescient produces a tangible efficiency profit.
The OLED55B6’s sensible options cowl the same old mixture of streamed multimedia from networked DLNA-capable and Bluetooth gadgets, plus entry to LG’s decently expansive array of on-line apps and content material sources.
On-line highlights embrace Sky’s Now TV platform, HDR and UHD-capable variations of Netflix and Amazon, plus entry to the catch-up TV providers of all of the UK’s most important terrestrial broadcasters courtesy of the Freeview Play platform.
Freeview Play helps you to entry its on-demand content material both by way of separate channel apps, or by way of a helpful digital programme information, the place you possibly can scroll backwards and forwards in time.
The LG webOS interface makes navigation easy. This stays essentially the most slick, environment friendly and pleasant sensible TV system that the TV world has to supply, regardless of not altering a lot since 2015.
There may be one characteristic the OLED55B6 surprisingly doesn’t embrace: 3D. This may not hassle many individuals, given the apparently dwindling fortunes of 3D as a home-entertainment format, however there are definitely a number of AV followers who received’t be blissful on the concept of the OLED55B6 rendering their 3D disc collections redundant.
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