The TV supports 100 percent color gamut specifications for BT.2020, DCI-P3, and Adobe RGB. Very few movies meet the BT.2020 specification, but I tried a few that do, such as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and From the inside outboth on Disney+. Each one looked incredibly colorful.

Micro RGB, macro image quality

Photography: John Brandon

As a first test of the new micro RGB technology, I ran the usual Spears & Munsil Benchmark tests. Skin tones looked phenomenal, easily besting the Hisense UR9, Sony Bravia 7 II, and TCL RM9L in terms of tonal variation. Lighter skin tones didn’t look washed out and there was nice color differentiation.

One scene with a fence had bright green grass in the background, something that’s often less obvious with an older LED or QLED TV. A Yellow Flower struck me as more vibrant than any art TV I’ve tried recently. Sunset scenes looked incredibly vibrant, proof positive that the micro RGB technology is working overtime. However, OLED still has the advantage in contrast, more clearly showing black trees in the foreground of a dark mountain.

With this TV, the picture modes impact what you see in terms of contrast and brightness. The Filmmaker mode was more accurate, but the Vivid and CinemaHome modes worked better at bringing out browns, purples, and other darker colors. Only in those modes did the white fog on a snowy mountain look distinct and clear.

To test the contrast of the movies, I watched Awake on netflix and The Creator in the Fandango at Home app, because each one has dark scenes that turn regular LED screens into mush. Interestingly, in the Vivid mode of this LG, a bicycle scene is displayed in Awake It looked better than what I’ve seen on an OLED TV in terms of contrast, perhaps with too much saturation. LG has dozens of color temperature, tint, and white balance settings, so I was able to reduce saturation. In The CreatorA pre-dawn scene looked very blue and visible from the ocean. Tron: Ares on Disney+ it outperformed the Hisense UR9 in terms of deep blacks and reds, but only in vivid picture mode.