The LG C6 OLED 2026 is a mid-range OLED TV released in 2026. Unlike previous years, LG is releasing multiple versions of their popular C Series OLEDs in 2026. This review is for the 42, 48, 55, and 65-inch C6, which come with a slightly updated OLED-EX panel similar to the 2025 LG C5 OLED. Larger sizes of the C6 are called the LG C6H OLED; it's available in 77 and 83-inch sizes and comes with a more advanced tandem OLED panel featuring LG's Hyper Radiant technology. The C6 is powered by the α11 Gen 3 processor and ships with webOS 26, but LG promises software updates for five years after launch through its Re:New program. The TV supports Dolby Vision HDR, but not the newer Dolby Vision 2 format, and like previous years, LG doesn't support DTS audio passthrough or HDR10+. It also supports a wide range of gaming features, including HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on all four ports and a maximum 165Hz refresh for PC gaming.
Our Verdict
The LG C6 is an excellent TV for mixed usage. It truly shines in a dark room thanks to its nearly perfect contrast, with deep, inky blacks and no haloing around bright highlights. It's no slouch in a bright room, either, as it gets bright enough to handle some glare during the day. It's a fantastic choice for gaming thanks to its wide range of gaming features and nearly instantaneous response time, resulting in crystal-clear motion with no blur around fast-moving objects. It also has great colors and good motion handling, but like all OLEDs, there's noticeable stutter when watching content.
Inky blacks and no haloing around bright highlights.
Incredibly wide viewing angle.
Good peak brightness in SDR.
Colors are bright and vibrant in most scenes.
Very noticeable stutter due to the TV's fast response time.
Just okay reflection handling.
The LG C6 is an amazing TV for use in a home theater. It looks amazing in the dark thanks to its nearly perfect contrast. Blacks are deep and inky, with no distracting haloing around bright areas or subtitles. Unfortunately, there's some minor overshoot in shadow details that causes a slight halo effect around some objects. It has great color reproduction, but bright, saturated colors are a bit washed out in brighter scenes. It gets bright enough to bring out small highlight details in HDR. Unfortunately, there's noticeable stutter in slow panning shots, and it doesn't support DTS audio formats.
Inky blacks and no haloing around bright highlights.
Colors are bright and vibrant in most scenes.
Small highlight details are bright enough to stand out well.
Cleans up low-quality content incredibly well.
Very noticeable stutter due to the TV's fast response time.
Doesn't passthrough DTS audio formats.
Minor overshoot in shadow details.
Dithering issues in low APL scenes in Dolby Vision.
The LG C6 is a good TV for use in a bright room. It has good peak brightness but just okay direct reflection handling, so glare from bright lights and windows can still be distracting. On the other hand, ambient light has no noticeable impact on color volume or contrast.
Good peak brightness in SDR.
Colors are bright and vibrant in most scenes.
Ambient light has no impact on picture quality.
Just okay reflection handling.
The LG C6 is a great TV for watching sports. Fast action is very clear thanks to its nearly instantaneous response time, so there's almost no noticeable blur. It looks good in a bright room thanks to its high peak brightness, but glare can be distracting in a really bright room. It has a fantastic viewing angle, so you can easily share the big game with a large group of friends without fighting over the best spot. Finally, it has good gray uniformity, with very little dirty screen effect in the center.
Incredibly wide viewing angle.
Good peak brightness in SDR.
Colors are bright and vibrant in most scenes.
Cleans up low-quality content incredibly well.
No unwanted transition artifacts.
Just okay reflection handling.
The LG C6 is a fantastic TV for gaming. It has a wide selection of gaming features, including VRR support to reduce tearing and HDMI 2.1 bandwidth. It supports a high refresh rate for console gaming, and it reaches an even higher refresh rate for PC gaming without compromising on image quality. Fast action is crystal clear thanks to its nearly instantaneous response time, with almost no distracting ghosting or other motion artifacts. There's some minor inverse ghosting in shadow details, though.
Low input lag.
Nearly instantaneous response time.
Colors are bright and vibrant in most scenes.
Wide selection of gaming features.
The LG C6 has great brightness. Its SDR brightness is good, so it overcomes glare in most moderately lit rooms. Its HDR brightness is also great, so small and medium-sized highlights stand out well. It struggles when more of the scene is supposed to be bright at once due to the TV's automatic brightness limiter, though.
Good peak brightness in SDR.
Small highlight details are bright enough to stand out well.
Since the LG C6 is an OLED, it displays remarkably deep and inky blacks with no blooming around highlights.
Inky blacks and no haloing around bright highlights.
The LG C6 has great colors. Colors are bright and vibrant in most scenes, and it has great coverage of the wider HDR color spaces. It has great accuracy out of the box in SDR, but its HDR accuracy is just decent, and there are significant color errors out of the box. Unfortunately, very bright colors are slightly washed out.
Colors are bright and vibrant in most scenes.
Inaccurate colors in HDR before calibration.
The LG C6 has good motion handling. It's judder-free from most sources, but there's some micro judder when watching 24p movies from a 60p source, like a cable box. It has an extremely fast response time, and there are no transition artifacts like unwanted intermediate colors. Unfortunately, like all OLEDs, there's very noticeable stutter in slow panning shots.
No unwanted transition artifacts.
Removes judder from most content.
Very noticeable stutter due to the TV's fast response time.
Minor overshoot in shadow details.
The LG C6 is extremely responsive in its low-latency 'Game Optimizer' mode. It has incredibly low input lag and a nearly instantaneous response time, resulting in incredibly clear motion at any refresh rate. It also supports a wide range of resolutions and refresh rates.
Low input lag.
Nearly instantaneous response time.
Note: We're in the process of improving our tests related to image processing, but this score should give you a general idea of how a TV performs overall with its image processing capabilities.
The LG C6 has excellent processing. It does an amazing job cleaning up low-quality content, with very little loss of fine details. Low-resolution content is upscaled well, and gradients are displayed nearly perfectly. It also has great EOTF tracking, ensuring most content is displayed close to the brightness levels intended by the content creator.
Cleans up low-quality content incredibly well.
Performance Usages
Changelog
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Updated Apr 20, 2026:
We corrected a mistake with our 4:3 input lag measurements.
- Updated Apr 20, 2026: Review published.
- Updated Apr 16, 2026: Early access published.
- Updated Apr 02, 2026: Our testers have started testing this product.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We bought and tested the 65-inch LG C6 (OLED65C6); these results are also valid for the 55-inch size. The 42-inch model lacks LG's Brightness Booster technology and isn't as bright. There's considerable confusion around the 48-inch model, and based on early reports, it seems like it might use a more advanced tandem panel and perform closer to the LG C6H OLED instead.
Unlike previous years, LG is releasing multiple variants of the C Series. The 77- and 83-inch sizes are called the LG C6H OLED instead, and these sizes feature a different panel with a tandem WOLED structure and LG's Hyper Radiant technology. There's also a budget model called the LG CS6 OLED available in a 55- and 65-inch size that performs differently.
Note that the last three letters in the model number (PUA in this case) vary between retailers and individual regions, but there's no difference in performance.
| Size | US Model | Brightness Booster |
|---|---|---|
| 42" | OLED42C6PUA | No |
| 48" | OLED48C6PUA | Yes |
| 55" | OLED55C6PUA | Yes |
| 65" | OLED65C6PUA | Yes |
Our unit was manufactured in February 2026.
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The LG C6 OLED 2026 is a fantastic TV overall, but it's a very minor incremental upgrade over previous years, with only a slight increase in brightness over the LG C5 OLED. With its steep launch price, most people are better off getting an older model while they're still available and heavily discounted, like the C5 or the Samsung S90F OLED.
For more options, check out our recommendations for the best OLED TVs, the best gaming TVs, and the best TVs for watching movies.
The LG C6 OLED 2026 is very similar to the LG C5 OLED, improving in a few small areas that most people won't notice. The C6 gets a bit brighter with some content, especially when more of the scene is bright at once in HDR. The C6 also has slightly brighter colors. Gradient handling is much better on the C6, resulting in significantly less banding in areas of similar color.
The LG G5 OLED is much better than the LG C6 OLED 2026. The G5 gets a lot brighter in HDR, so bright highlights stand out better, and bright scenes are more impactful overall. The G5 also looks better in a bright room thanks to its better anti-reflective coating, and it's brighter in SDR to overcome glare. This also results in significantly brighter, more vibrant colors on the G5.
The LG C6H OLED is a bit better than the LG C6 OLED 2026, but they don't compete directly as they're available in different sizes. Aside from the size difference, the C6H is considerably brighter, especially when more of the screen is supposed to be bright at once. The C6H also displays a wider range of colors in HDR, and pure colors are brighter and more vibrant.
The Samsung S90F OLED and the LG C6 OLED 2026 trade blows in a few different ways, so the best one ultimately depends on your needs. The S90F stands out in a bright room, where its better anti-reflective coating effectively eliminates glare. This coating also reduces picture quality, though, so if you're in a moderately lit room where glare isn't an issue, the C6 looks better.
We buy and test dozens of TVs yearly, taking an objective, data-driven approach to deliver results you can trust. Our testing process is complex, with hundreds of individual tests that take over a week to complete. Most of our tests use specially designed test patterns that mimic real content, but we also use the same sources you have at home to ensure our results match the real-world experience. We use two main tools for our testing: a Colorimetry Research CR-100 colorimeter and a CR-250 spectroradiometer.
Test Results
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The LG C6 OLED has great peak brightness in HDR. Small highlight details are bright enough to deliver an impactful viewing experience, but it's considerably dimmer when more of the scene is bright at once. It's quite a bit dimmer than the LG C6H OLED.
The posted results are with the TV in its most accurate picture mode with 'Dynamic Tone Mapping' and 'Expression Enhancer' disabled. Below are the results with DTM turned on, which increases the brightness of most real scenes, but it's not as accurate.
- Hallway Lights: 1,106 cd/m²
- Yellow Skyscraper: 900 cd/m²
- Landscape Pool: 341 cd/m²
Results with 'Dynamic Tone Mapping' enabled and 'Expression Enhancer' set to 'Brightness':
- Hallway Lights: 1,195 cd/m²
- Yellow Skyscraper: 773 cd/m²
- Landscape Pool: 346 cd/m²
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Switching to the 'Game Optimizer' mode results in slightly higher peak brightness than the calibrated picture mode.
The posted results are with the TV in 'Game Optimizer' mode with 'Dynamic Tone Mapping' and 'Expression Enhancer' disabled. Below are the results with DTM turned on, which significantly increases the brightness of most real scenes, but it's not as accurate.
- Hallway Lights: 1,185 cd/m²
- Yellow Skyscraper: 969 cd/m²
- Landscape Pool: 542 cd/m²
Results with 'Dynamic Tone Mapping' enabled and 'Expression Enhancer' set to 'Brightness':
- Hallway Lights: 1,198 cd/m²
- Yellow Skyscraper: 971 cd/m²
- Landscape Pool: 547 cd/m²
The LG C6 OLED 2026 has good peak brightness in SDR. It's bright enough to overcome some glare in a moderately lit room, but it struggles a bit in bright rooms. It's also noticeably dimmer when more of the scene is bright at once, like when watching sports.
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The TV has a nearly infinite contrast ratio, giving it perfect contrast. Due to OLED's self-lit pixels, it displays bright highlights next to perfect inky blacks, making it very impressive in a dark room.
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Since OLEDs don't use lighting zones and instead have individual pixels that can be lit up to their maximum brightness next to pixels that are turned off, there's no blooming when bright elements are surrounded by deep blacks.
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This TV is an OLED without a backlight, so its self-lit pixels give it the same performance as a TV with perfect local dimming and no zone transitions. We still film the zone transition video so you can see how it compares to an option with local dimming.
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Because OLEDs can turn off individual pixels, the TV has perfect black uniformity with no blooming or halo effect around bright objects.
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The LG C6 OLED 2026 has excellent color volume. It displays all of the DCI-P3 color space, but has just decent coverage of the wider BT.2020 color space.
| Volume ΔE³ | DCI-P3 Coverage |
BT.2020 Coverage |
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| L10 | 98.52% | 67.77% |
| L20 | 99.40% | 69.36% |
| L30 | 99.17% | 68.38% |
| L40 | 99.57% | 71.63% |
| L50 | 99.56% | 72.59% |
| L60 | 99.57% | 72.88% |
| L70 | 99.43% | 70.81% |
| L80 | 99.15% | 67.92% |
| L90 | 98.97% | 69.53% |
| L100 | 99.35% | 93.46% |
| Total | 99.37% | 71.42% |
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This TV has great HDR color volume. Thanks to its nearly infinite contrast ratio, it displays dark, saturated colors in shadow details extremely well. It struggles a bit more in brighter shades, though, as it relies on its white subpixel to boost highlight details. This causes some colors to appear a bit washed out.
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The LG C6 OLED 2026 has excellent SDR accuracy before calibration. The white balance and overall color temperature are fantastic, with no noticeable issues at all. The color accuracy is a bit off, though, with noticeable issues in all saturated colors. Gamma tracking is nearly perfect, but brighter scenes are slightly raised.
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This TV has fantastic accuracy after calibrating it in SDR, and it's easy to calibrate. The white balance and gamma tracking are nearly perfect, and the color temperature is extremely close to the target. Colors are much more accurate after calibration, with no noticeable issues.
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This TV has decent accuracy in HDR before calibration. The white balance is decent, with a few issues in midtones but nothing too noticeable, and the color temperature is just a bit cool. Color accuracy is mediocre, though, as reds are noticeably undersaturated, and there are significant luminance mapping errors.
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This TV has excellent accuracy in HDR after a full calibration. The white balance and color DE are both significantly lower, with fewer luminance mapping errors, but some colors are still noticeably off. Unfortunately, the color temperature didn't improve at all after calibration.
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The LG C6 has great PQ EOTF tracking. Most content is displayed extremely close to the target luminance. There's a slight roll off near the TV's peak brightness for all content, which preserves gradation in bright parts of the scene. This roll-off is slightly more gradual for content mastered at 4,000 nits.
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This TV has excellent low-quality content smoothing. It does a fantastic job of reducing macro blocking and pixelization, and there's very little loss of fine details.
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The TV does a fantastic job upscaling DVDs, standard definition streams, and other low-resolution content. Oddly, the 'Super Resolution' feature doesn't seem to do anything.
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The new 13-bit processing pipeline on this TV results in fantastic gradient handling with content mastered in HDR10, and it's a considerable improvement over the LG C5 OLED. There's almost no noticeable banding in any shade.
Like the LG C6H OLED, though, it struggles more with content mastered in Dolby Vision, especially in low APL scenes. This results in slightly more noticeable banding and a slight dithering effect in some scenes.
- Green Knight - Dolby Vision
- Green Knight - HDR10
This TV has incredibly low input lag, ensuring a very smooth and responsive gaming experience.
4:3 @ 60Hz:
- 640x480: 27.0 ms
- 800x600: 32.2 ms
- 1024x768: 26.7 ms
If you don't want to use the 'Game Optimizer' Picture Mode, you can instead simply toggle the 'Game Optimizer' setting while staying in 'Filmmaker Mode,' and the input lag is nearly the same.
Filmmaker Mode with Game Optimizer Enabled and the Input Label Set to 'PC':
- 60Hz: 21.9 ms
- 120Hz: 13.6 ms
- 165Hz: 4.9 ms
The TV supports all common resolutions up to 4k @ 165Hz, and it supports chroma 4:4:4, which helps with text clarity from a PC.
This TV supports FreeSync and HDMI Forum VRR and is certified as G-SYNC compatible, ensuring a nearly tear-free gaming experience from any VRR-enabled source. It works well across the TV's entire refresh rate range and supports sources with low framerate compensation (LFC), which ensures your games remain nearly tear-free even when your frame rate drops very low.
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The TV's CAD at its maximum refresh rate of 165Hz is fantastic. Pixels transition to their target RGB level almost instantly, so fast motion is very sharp. Unfortunately, there's some very minor overshoot in shadow details.
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The TV's CAD at 120Hz is outstanding. It displays fast-moving objects without noticeable blur, so fast motion is clear. There's still some overshoot in near-black transitions, but it's not as bad as it is at 165Hz.
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The TV's CAD at 60Hz is fantastic. Most transitions from one RGB level to another are nearly instantaneous. It's a bit sluggish in near-black scenes, but it's not too bad.
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The LG C6 is fully compatible with everything the PS5 offers, like 1440p @ 120Hz and 4k @ 120Hz, as well as HDMI Forum VRR. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so you don't have to worry about switching to 'Game Optimizer' to get the lowest input lag.
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This TV is fully compatible with everything the Xbox Series X|S offers, including 1440p @ 120Hz, 4k @ 120Hz, HDMI Forum VRR, FreeSync Premium Pro, and Dolby Vision gaming. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so you don't have to worry about manually switching to 'Game Optimizer' to get the lowest input lag.
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Adding motion interpolation to increase the frame rate of 24p content to 30 fps does a decent job at reducing stutter. There's still noticeable stutter, but the feature is very consistent, ensuring a smooth frame pacing.
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This TV removes 24p and 25p judder from native apps and external devices that send a 24Hz or 25Hz signal, like an Apple TV with the 'Match Frame Rate' feature enabled. The TV also properly removes judder from 24p content that's being sent to it in either 60p or 60i. However, it doesn't remove 25p judder from 60p signals, and frames are held for an inconsistent duration, which causes motion to look jittery.
To remove judder on this TV, the Real Cinema setting must be enabled. Unfortunately, this setting is locked when OLED Motion Pro (BFI) is enabled, so movies and TV shows aren't judder-free when BFI is enabled, since the BFI feature only flickers at 60Hz.
Enabling Quick Media Switching causes judder on this TV when watching 24p content via a 60p signal.
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There's no micro judder with most sources on this TV. It drops occasional frames when watching 24p content sent via a 60p signal, unless you enable Quick Media Switching, but doing so causes normal judder.
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The LG C6 has a nearly instantaneous response time, resulting in incredibly clear motion with almost no blur behind fast-moving objects when watching content. Due to the sample-and-hold nature of OLED technology, there's still some persistence blur at 60Hz, but it's not very noticeable when watching movies or shows.
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This TV doesn't have a traditional backlight and doesn't use pulse-width modulation (PWM) to dim each pixel, but it's not completely flicker-free. There's a slight dip in brightness that corresponds to the TV's refresh rate. This is very different from the PWM flicker on TVs with LED backlights and occurs on every OLED we've tested.
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This TV has an optional black frame insertion (BFI) feature that reduces the appearance of persistence blur at 60Hz. Unfortunately, it can only insert black frames at a 60Hz refresh rate, and there's still some blur present.
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The LG C6 has okay direct reflection handling. The glossy coating doesn't do much to reduce the intensity of bright light sources directly opposite the TV, and they can still be a bit distracting.
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Overall, the total amount of reflected light is excellent. While there are minor diffraction artifacts and bright lights can still be distracting, indirect reflections are barely noticeable, and you shouldn't have any issue with reflections on this TV.
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This TV has good color saturation in a bright room. Ambient light has only a minor impact on perceived color volume.
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The LG C6 has a fantastic viewing angle. There's a slightly noticeable green shift as you move off-angle, but it's not very noticeable. It's a great choice for a wide seating arrangement, as the image doesn't lose brightness, and blacks remain deep when viewed at an angle.
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The LG C6 has good gray uniformity. There's very little dirty screen effect in the center, and the sides are just a bit darker than the center. In near-black scenes, there are noticeable vertical bands, but it's not too bad.
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The LG C6 uses an OLED-EX WOLED panel by LG. Unlike the LG C6H OLED, this isn't a tandem panel, and is instead an older WOLED panel type. This results in a much weaker separation of colors between red and green, limiting color purity.
LG has restructured the subpixel layout even on this older panel type, and the new RGWB is a bit better for text clarity from a PC. It's not perfect, though, as ClearType on Windows isn't well optimized to non-RGB subpixel layouts.
You can see an additional subpixel photo showing other subpixels, as all four are never lit at the same time.
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The LG C6 supports the full 48Gbps bandwidth of HDMI 2.1 on all four HDMI ports. This allows you to take full advantage of multiple high-bandwidth devices, such as if you own both current-gen consoles and a high-end gaming PC.
This TV passes through all Dolby Digital options. However, it doesn't support any DTS audio formats commonly used on physical media.
This TV supports Dolby Vision, but not the newer Dolby Vision 2. It's unclear if LG has any plans to eventually add support for the newer format or not.
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The LG C6 has a sleek and modern design, and LG hasn't changed the design much in recent years. There's no difference in design between this model and the LG C6H OLED.
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The included stand holds the TV well. It only lifts the TV about 2.8 inches, but this is high enough that most soundbars fit underneath without blocking the screen.
Footprint of the 65-inch stand: 18.54" x 9.1".
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The back of the TV is nearly identical to the LG C5 OLED, with a stone-like finish on the panel and a metal box in the center for the TV's electronics. The inputs are on the far left when facing the screen, and they're tricky to access if the TV is wall-mounted. There are channels in the base of the TV and a clip to help with cable management.
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The LG C6 has fantastic build quality. It's a well-built TV with no noticeable issues in its overall construction. Unlike the LG C6H OLED we bought, there's no warp in the screen.
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The LG C6 OLED 2026 TV ships at launch with the 2026 version of LG's proprietary smart interface, webOS. LG promises at least four years of webOS updates on their TVs, and you get updated versions of the operating system once a year.
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There are two settings in the 'Home Settings' menu, namely the 'Home Promotion' and 'Content Recommendation' settings. These settings remove the top banner ads and suggested content from the home screen. This gives your home screen a clean look, but there's no way to remove ads from the apps page.
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- User manuals
- Cable management clip
This TV shipped with firmware version 43.02.66, but 43.02.67 was released while we were testing it. All results have been rechecked with the new firmware.
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This TV has an okay frequency response. The sound profile isn't very well-balanced, as low sounds are a bit overpowering, and dialogue is a bit muted. There's very little low bass, and it can't get very loud.