LG Micro RGB Evo Review: Brilliant, Bright, Not Budget-Friendly

Stunning colour prime if you tweak the representation modes. Contrast and brightness rival OLED and QLED. Exceptional power implicit the settings.

The mute and input buttons are hard to find connected the remote. Achieving the champion representation prime requires a batch of tinkering with settings. VRR gaming mode did not enactment with a caller gaming laptop. Artwork lacks texture.

Television Tech is perpetually evolving, with micro and mini RGB LEDs arsenic the latest innovation to deed screens. Both micro and mini RGB technologies enactment by emitting tiny red, green, and bluish lights to execute much colour accuracy, amended opposition and brightness, and richer blacks than what you’d get from accepted LED and OLED TVs. The caller LG Micro RGB Evo mightiness good marque you question your OLED acquisition from a fewer years ago.

I tested the 75-inch LG Micro RGB Evo—the smallest exemplary successful the flagship line—that retails for $5,000. It's besides disposable successful 86-inch ($7,000) and 100-inch ($8,000) sizes. The RGB TV marketplace is rather crowded, making it pugnacious to cognize which to consider: There’s the Samsung Micro RGB R95H ($3,000 for the 65-inch model), the TCL RGB Mini-LED RM9L ($6,000 for the 85-inch model, the smallest successful the line), the Hisense UR9 RGB MiniLED ($2,200 for the 65-inch model), and the Sony Bravia 7 Mark II ($2,600 for the 65-inch model).

The second 2 are cheaper due to the fact that they usage mini RGB tech alternatively than micro. The 2 presumption are not interchangeable: Mini RGB uses somewhat larger LEDs than micro, theoretically affording little power implicit surface show to mini models. But whether the LED cousins output a notably antithetic ocular effect is up for debate.

After investigating each of the aforementioned TVs, I tin attest that the LG and Samsung Micro RGB models are so superior to the remainder successful presumption of representation quality. The question, then, is whether the LG Micro RGB Evo is worthy much than some the Hisense and Sony models, which are priced overmuch lower. In my opinion, it depends connected the settings you use.

Setting Up and Learning Settings

The TV looks fantastic, with acheronian grey bezels and an different all-black design. If you determine to equine one, the Micro RGB Evo tin beryllium flush against the wall. I opted for the TV basal because, astatine 88.6 pounds, this is nary featherweight TV. In fact, I needed a manus lifting it into place. But setup was a cinch; the pointy legs popped easy into spot with 2 screws. The TV acceptable nicely connected a modular basal I usually usage for a 65-inch television.

There are 4 HDMI 2.1 ports connected the back, including 1 for eARC passthrough audio. There’s besides 1 Ethernet port, 1 integer optical, a coaxial connection, and 2 USB 2.0 ports. The tv uses Wi-Fi 5, which is highly compatible and accelerated but isn’t arsenic precocious arsenic Wi-Fi 6 oregon Wi-Fi 6E. For comparison, the Hisense UR9 uses Wi-Fi 6E.

Unlike caller Sony, Hisense, and TCL models, LG hasn’t switched to Google TV; instead, it uses its ain WebOS, present successful mentation 26. It’s an acquired taste, and 1 I’m not definite I’ve acquired. There are mode excessively galore default apps installed, and you’re astir apt lone going to request the accustomed suspects similar Apple TV, Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, and possibly a fewer others. I besides didn’t request aggregate escaped transmission apps oregon a webcam app.

It took maine a fewer days to get comfy utilizing the remote, which is not backlit. The cursor tends to leap astir the surface until you deed different button, which allows you to set the speed. The Home fastener is situated off-center, making it pugnacious to find successful the dark. There’s nary evident input button; instead, you person to property and clasp a fastener successful the precocious near to prime inputs. And to mute, you person to clasp down the measurement button, which doesn’t really mute the connected speakers.

LG offers rather a fewer bully representation enhancements and other settings that I would expect connected a flagship exemplary astatine this price. For example, you tin acceptable the TV to crook connected erstwhile you participate the country and crook disconnected erstwhile you leave, and some features worked perfectly for me. You tin disable thing called Live Plus arsenic a information perk—it means the TV won’t cognize what you ticker and won’t marque recommendations. Voice power utilizing the LG bot was mostly helpful, allowing maine to alteration settings specified arsenic opposition oregon brightness. When I searched for an older movie called Malice, however, I was amazed the bot didn’t suggest Tubi oregon Plex arsenic escaped options and alternatively stuck with paid rentals.

The TV supports 100 percent of the colour gamut specs for BT.2020, DCI-P3, and Adobe RGB. Very fewer movies really conscionable the BT.2020 spec, but I tested a fewer that do, specified arsenic Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Inside Out, some connected Disney+. Each looked amazingly colorful.

Micro RGB, Macro Picture Quality

As a archetypal trial of the caller micro RGB tech, I ran done the accustomed Spears & Munsil Benchmark tests. Skin tones looked phenomenal, easy beating retired the Hisense UR9, the Sony Bravia 7 II, and the TCL RM9L successful presumption of tonal variation. Lighter tegument tones didn’t look washed out, and determination was a bully differentiation successful color.

A country with a obstruction had agleam greenish writer successful the background, thing that is often little evident with an older LED oregon QLED television. A yellowish angiosperm looked much vibrant to maine than conscionable astir immoderate creation tv I’ve tested recently. Sunset scenes looked incredibly vibrant, impervious affirmative that the micro RGB tech is moving overtime. However, OLED inactive has the precocious manus connected contrast, much crisply displaying achromatic trees successful the foreground of a acheronian mountain.

With this TV, the representation modes interaction what you spot successful presumption of opposition and brightness. Filmmaker mode was much accurate, but Vivid and CinemaHome modes worked amended to marque browns, purples, and different darker colors pop. Only successful those modes did a achromatic mist connected a snowy upland look chiseled and clear.

To trial movies for contrast, I watched Awake connected Netflix and The Creator connected the Fandango astatine Home app, due to the fact that each has acheronian scenes that crook mean LED displays into mush. Interestingly, successful Vivid mode connected this LG, a bicycle country successful Awake looked amended than what I’ve seen connected an OLED tv successful presumption of contrast, with possibly a spot excessively overmuch saturation. LG has dozens of colour temperature, tint, and white-balance settings, truthful I was capable to standard backmost the saturation. In The Creator, a predawn country looked nicely bluish and disposable by the ocean. Tron: Ares connected Disney+ bushed retired the Hisense UR9 successful presumption of heavy blacks and reds, but lone successful Vivid representation mode.

For vibrancy, you mightiness beryllium conscionable arsenic good served connected the Hisense UR9, which volition prevention you a batch of money. On the Hisense, a moody country successful The Last Duel connected Disney+ looked much realistic and vivid, arsenic did a country successful Project Hail Mary that showed rings astir a planet. The movie Hoppers was much colorful and vivid connected the LG Micro RGB Evo—but this mostly agleam movie would look large connected an iPhone.

I utilized Google Cast to watercourse the archetypal Dune movie done the HBO Max app, and it worked perfectly, providing Dolby Atmos surround. The movie Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die didn’t watercourse correctly utilizing Hulu via AirPlay connected an Apple iPad 12.9, though. LG is looking into why.

Older movies connected Tubi and Plex often don’t look large connected newer televisions, but I recovered immoderate clarity settings that helped; a intelligence thriller from the ’90s called Blink had a crisper look than I’ve seen connected adjacent immoderate caller creation televisions that usage LED.

Making Colors Pop for Games, Sports, and News

To trial games, sports, and news, I started with Subnautica 2 connected the Xbox Series X. The TV recognized the Xbox and automatically enabled Game Optimizer mode, cranking up the refresh complaint to 120 Hz for amended latency and performance. The colors looked perfectly astonishing successful this game, showing rocks flecked with greenish and bluish nether the ocean, but lone erstwhile I switched to Vivid oregon CinemaHome representation modes.

The Game Optimizer mode looked amended connected Senua's Saga: Hellblade II due to the fact that it improved opposition during a shipwreck level precocious successful the game. The h2o connected the main character’s arms looked ace realistic; connected little precocious televisions, the aforesaid country had looked washed retired and gray. Forza Horizon 6 connected Xbox besides looked vivid and bright, but it was lone erstwhile I switched to a gaming laptop that I noticed immoderate show improvements: The LG Micro RGB Evo supports a autochthonal 165-Hz refresh complaint and debased latency for gaming. One 007 First Light speedboat country was jaw-droppingly colorful, with low-latency power and exceptional clarity.

The Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) mode should enactment 330 Hz for gaming, thing LG calls Motion Booster. But with that mode enabled, I kept seeing weird flickering and rainbow effects successful Crimson Desert and each different PC crippled I tried. The mounting for that is buried successful a menu, and portion disabling it solved the issue, it bumped maine backmost to the 165-Hz refresh rate. LG representatives told maine they are looking into the issue.

For sports, I watched respective World Cup 2026 matches utilizing the YouTube TV app and was impressed by the colour accuracy of the jerseys and the shot movements, which had hardly immoderate blur. A unrecorded CNN broadcast looked a spot excessively vivid until I ramped down immoderate settings. Ironically, the mode that helped the astir was Game Optimizer, giving the overly bold colors a flatter look.

I besides tested the screensaver mode, which is similar the fund mentation of viewing artwork. The LG Micro RGB Evo doesn’t person a matte finish, and LG Gallery+ requires a subscription that’s $5 per period for astir 4,500 curated paintings and different images. I loaded immoderate shipwreck paintings, and they lacked texture and realism but did look vibrant and colorful.

Ultimately, the LG Micro RGB Evo is connected par with an OLED tv arsenic agelong arsenic you tweak the settings, but it’s not rather arsenic impressive. It besides costs doubly arsenic overmuch arsenic the Hisense 65-inch UR9, but I don’t deliberation you’ll get treble the quality. The LG’s colors are vibrant and bold, but to execute a location cinema look, you person to standard backmost immoderate of the settings for amended opposition and brightness. Once you tweak those, the LG Micro RGB Evo truly starts to shine. If the extremity is to upgrade to 1 of the champion Micro RGB models around, you can’t spell incorrect with this LG—just beryllium acceptable to wage a batch much for what you’ll get successful a rival model.

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