LG 65-inch Class QNED85 Series 4K Smart TV with Alexa Built-in 65QNED85UQA S75Q 3.1.2ch Sound bar w/Dolby Atmos DTS:X, Hi-Res Audio, Meridian, HDMI eARC, 4K Pass Thru w/Dolby Vision

After doing a lot of research, this is the best TV at this price point. It is a mini LED and many compare the picture quality to an OLED. For me, it is better than an OLED because gets super bright, if that is what you need, and I do since it is in a room full of windows. It took some adjustments to get the picture just right, but once I reached the right ones, WOW…it is amazing.

Adjustments to the picture:
It has several preset pic settings, most of which are useless to me. I like a television’s picture, especially colors, to be as close to natural as possible with a little bit of saturation. Therefore, I was REALLY happy that it has Adobe color settings. This was by far the best way to tamp down the reds and make the colors much more accurate, especially orange.

Brightness and clarity:
I am absolutely shocked at how good the brightness is (without cranking it up) and the clarity / contrast. Much of this is aided by the fact that the blacks are really deep black. I’m really impressed with the miniLED’s ability to darken the screen deeply where needed.

The remote is good, if you choose to control it that way. We have always used a Roku box, although you can download apps to the TV that may make this unnecessary. But we are married to the Roku operating system and especially the easy remote. So we disabled “auto start to home” so that it will default to turning on to the Roku input each time…and voila, you have a Roku TV. We never have to use the LG remote. Nice to have the ability to use only one. This was big for us because the other TV that I was considering was the TCL miniLED for that reason. But this LG is a MUCH better television than the TCL–in large part for the picture but also the ability to make WAY more adjustments to the picture than you can with the TCL. On this LG, you can fine tune EACH COLOR.

4K looks amazing and some of the other high def programming is cleaned up nicely by this television. Some programming looks 4K when in fact it is not.

One other feature that is a no-brainer and I am not sure why other companies don’t do this: the feet are adjustable. You can have them set out wide or narrower to work with almost any width table that you set it on.

I am very happy with this television and glad that I was able to fine tune the pic settings to its best potential.

I’ve purchased a few 55″ 4K LG/Samsung TVs in the past few years (and not because they were junk) and I have to say this particular one displays a level of detail like none of the others preceding it. They were all 4K TVs, but immediately after turning this on, it was clear this one represents a whole different level. It immediately made me wonder if my prior purchases were actually “1K, 2K, or 3K TVs” because the level of crisp detail was glaringly obvious – I now feel like I actually have a 4K TV… based on all the hype, THIS is what I was actually expecting… when I bought the first one. At this point, the colors/settings are all tweaked to my liking, which made it even better, but straight out of the box, I just had to watch a bit of something…

I connected it to WiFi in a room where there had been no TV previously, launched NetFlix and started watching “The Old Guard”. (If the word immortals sparks your interest, that is a HIGHLY recommended movie.) About 45 minutes in, during the airplane scene, there was a chrome buckle on some webbing on the right side and I noticed the words on the buckle itself were quite easily read… huh… don’t remember seeing that… pause… over to each of the other 55″ TVs I go, launch, resume, rewind a bit, play… the words on the buckle appear to be there, yet I can’t read them… huh… all 3 TVs, same… back to this TV… yep, they’re definitely there (legible words). Ok, what’s the difference? Quick run through of the settings on the 4 TVs reveals what I thought… the settings are basically identical. Ok, so what’s the difference? The 3 TVs where I couldn’t read the words are all Internet connected via wired Gigabit Ethernet; this new TV is simply connected via wifi, so you would expect the source signal to be lower quality, yet the picture displays such crisp, phenomenal detail. So, what’s the difference? Must simply be this TV. The Mini-LED may have something to do with that.

My opinion is the QNED85 class of the LG TVs is currently the “sweet spot”… very high quality for the kind of money you won’t wish you had invested instead.

And if you’re like me and stopped buying Sony, then stopped buying Samsung, then this one might be ticket for you.

This mini LED TV has been great so far. The blacks are very black and the colors are very vibrant but still very natural. There is no bleeding of white into the black areas of the screen, making it very enjoyable watching darker movie scenes. My son and daughter-in-law hooked up their video game on Thanksgiving and they had fun and the TV performed well – but I’m not a gamer.
Our TV room has several windows and yet the picture is excellent. Even with a large number of people watching, the screen is excellent at viewing from the side, unlike our old HD LED where the colors faded when viewing from the sides.

Our 55″ LG QNED85 has a great picture, very clear and the set up was relatively easy. We mainly use it to watch movies. My main gripe is that the sound quality is very poor. Hard to believe that this advanced smart TV could have such awful sound and none of the sound adjustments make a big difference. So far we have started to use an external blue tooth speaker to bypass the TV sound. You can’t use both together because the blue tooth has a slight lag and is out of sync, but by itself it works ok. It’s beyond me why LG can’t include a decent sound quality.

Awesome picture!

I have never heard the term “VESA,” but apparently the VESA for this TV is ridiculously abnormal. It seems that the only way to really mount this tv is to pony up and buy the special (and expensive) LG wall mount. No normal mount works for this TV, so avoid it unless you do not ever plan to mount it.