LG – 77″ Class GX Series OLED 4K UHD Smart webOS TV

Awesome tv Phenomenal picture specially with all the natural light I have coming in my living room I would highly recommend this TV

Very happy with my first OLED TV purchase. Having LED tv’s I was concerned with the brightness levels but this has an amazing picture and sits super flat against the wall.

I purchased a few big screen tv’s over the past year and returned them all. I was worried ablit spening $3500 on this tv and having “buyers remorse”.
I have absolutely, unequivocally 0 buyers remorse. The color is amazing , the motion is fluid, the blacks are like a black hole, and elements (fire and water) make you feel them.
The operating system is the new OS and is far superior to the operating system of the CX. If like I was, your debating between the CX and GX (and can afford a little extra money) go with the GX.
The pictures below are of my actual mounted TV, not stock pictures. And I don’t even have the protective plastic film taken of yet.

Before my review, here is a quick summary of how I made the decision to buy this particular TV. After doing a bunch of research, I narrowed my search to 77″ LG GX and the 65″ Sony A90J (both selling for the same price at the time). I went back and forth for a few days but ended up choosing the GX based on how far away we sit from the TV (around 15″) and a general consensus that no one ever regrets going bigger. I also took a hard look at the 2021 version of this TV (the G1) but could find only minor differences: slightly newer chipset, “brighter panel”, and a new version of WebOS. Although I rarely use WebOS (we almost exclusively stream through an AppleTV), I do appreciate the minimal design of the older version of WebOS included with the GX and the fact that you can turn off the ads. Most importantly, the 2021 G1 was out of my price range and unavailable for purchase.
I paid to have the unit wall mounted using the included mount and also had them add power behind the TV. It was well worth the $200 cost. It looks beautiful on the wall and frames the area very well. There is only a minor gap to the wall, maybe a finger-width. Unless you plan on hooking up no wires to the TV (including a power cord), you will most likely have a small gap as well.
My previous TV was my 13-year-old Pioneer Elite Kuro 5010 plasma, a top-of-the-line TV at the time which still performed well but had no support for 4K. I can’t underestimate what a difference it is going from 50″ to 77″ and from 1080P to 4K, especially with how far we sit from our TV. We actually sit even farther away when eating dinner in our dining area and the larger TV is a vast improvement.
Because we are using the new 4K Apple TV almost 100% of time which defaults to DolbyVision, no calibration was needed. I have it hooked up to the LG SP8YA soundbar and overall, the setup is very simple and clean. In fact, we are able to use the sleek Apple TV remote almost exclusively (unless we want to watch live TV via our HD antenna, which is rare). The picture quality is amazing and I’ve never felt like the TV wasn’t bright enough. In fact, sometimes I feel it is too bright and am tempted to turn the OLED Light settings down. So I’m definitely not regretting my decision to go with the GX instead of the “brighter” G1. I will say, we tend to watch TV in the evenings and have no windows directly facing the TV.
As far as features, we don’t really use WebOS (since we use our Apple TV for all streaming) so I can’t speak to how well it performs. It has Airplay, but I’ve disabled it since we AirPlay directly to the soundbar (for audio only) or to the AppleTV (audio & video). It also has voice recognition but I found that it was too sensitive, even when adjusting the sensitivity in the settings. Speaking of that, it has a slider bar to adjust sensitivity, but the bar literally only has two positions – all the way to the right or to the left. So it’s more like a giant on-off switch than a slider. Hopefully they address that with a firmware update. The only other feature I’m excited to try is the NextGen ATSC 3.0 over-the-air signals when some finally come out in my area, hopefully in late June. Some reviewers may feel differently, but I love the included Magic Remote. I would have no problem using it exclusively if we weren’t using the minimal AppleTV remote instead.
Overall, I’m very satisfied and would recommend purchasing this TV before they are all gone while the price is so low (and hopefully Best Buy is still including the free $350 gift card w/ purchase). I really don’t think the 2021 version is different enough to justify the additional cost and if you plan to use WebOS, the 2020 version of the software would be better for those who prefer minimal design and no ads.