The LG B6 OLED 2026, also known as the LG B6G, is an entry-level OLED released in 2026. The direct successor to the LG B5 OLED, it sits below the LG C6 OLED 2026 and the LG C6H OLED 2026. Like the C6, it uses a traditional WOLED panel instead of the more advanced primary RGB tandem panel found on higher-end models. It has the same great selection of features you've come to expect from LG, including four HDMI 2.1 ports, Dolby Vision support, and advanced gaming features like VRR. It's powered by LG's α8 AI Processor 4K Gen3 image processor, and ships with LG's proprietary webOS 26 smart interface, which has a huge selection of streaming and gaming apps and can also be integrated into most smart home platforms. We bought and tested the 65-inch model, but it's also available in 48-, 55-, 77-, and 83-inch sizes.
Our Verdict
The LG B6 OLED is a great TV for most uses. It's best-suited for watching movies or shows in a light-controlled or even dark room, but it's also fine for watching shows during the day, as long as your room doesn't get too bright. It delivers fantastic motion handling when watching content, but like all OLEDs, there's noticeable stutter in slow-panning shots. It's also incredibly accurate out of the box, so you don't have to worry about having it calibrated if you care about an accurate image. It's an excellent gaming TV, with low input lag and incredibly smooth motion, and a wide range of gaming features like VRR and HDMI 2.1 bandwidth.
Inky blacks and no haloing around bright highlights or subtitles.
Wide viewing angle.
Colors are vibrant, lifelike, bright, and accurate.
Very noticeable stutter in slow-panning shots.
Not bright enough to overcome glare in a very bright room.
The LG B6 OLED is an excellent TV for home theater use. It looks fantastic in a dark room thanks to its nearly infinite contrast ratio. Blacks are deep and uniform, without a trace of haloing around bright lights or subtitles. Colors are also bright and vibrant in most content, but they can sometimes look a bit washed out in very bright scenes. It's bright enough to deliver a somewhat impactful movie-watching experience, but very bright scenes can be a bit dull. It cleans up low-quality streaming sources well, and it has very good motion handling when watching content, but like all OLEDs, there's noticeable stutter in slow-panning shots. Finally, while it has great format support overall, it doesn't support DTS audio formats.
Inky blacks and no haloing around bright highlights or subtitles.
Cleans up low-quality and low-resolution content well.
Colors are vibrant, lifelike, bright, and accurate.
Very noticeable stutter in slow-panning shots.
Doesn't passthrough DTS audio formats.
The LG B6 is an okay TV for a bright room. It's bright enough to handle small amounts of glare for daytime viewing, but you should avoid placing it opposite bright windows or placing lights directly opposite the screen. Its glossy coating does little to reduce glare, making dark scenes a bit difficult to see clearly during the day. Ambient light has no noticeable impact on color volume or contrast, which is great.
Ambient light has no noticeable impact on picture quality.
Not bright enough to overcome glare in a very bright room.
The LG B6 is a good TV for watching sports. It has an incredibly wide viewing angle, making it a great choice for a wide seating arrangement, as the image doesn't degrade when you move to the sides. It's also bright enough to handle some glare during the day when watching sports. It has excellent processing and cleans up low-quality streaming channels well. Motion is clear and crisp, with no blur behind fast-moving objects, and there are no unwanted intermediate colors. On the other hand, its built-in speakers can't get very loud, so for big parties you'll want to consider adding a soundbar or speaker system.
Wide viewing angle.
Cleans up low-quality and low-resolution content well.
No unwanted transition artifacts.
Colors are vibrant, lifelike, bright, and accurate.
Not bright enough to overcome glare in a very bright room.
The LG B6 delivers an excellent gaming experience. Games feel incredibly responsive thanks to its low input lag and incredibly clear motion, with no blur behind fast-moving objects. The dedicated gaming mode has no impact on picture quality, and games look stunning thanks to its impressive picture quality. It also has a wide selection of gaming features, including HDMI 2.1 bandwidth and VRR support, but its relatively low 120Hz refresh rate will disappoint PC gamers.
Low input lag.
No ghosting behind fast-moving objects.
Great selection of gaming features, like VRR and HDMI 2.1 bandwidth.
Colors are vibrant, lifelike, bright, and accurate.
The LG B6 has decent peak brightness. It's bright enough to handle moderate amounts of glare, but it's not bright enough to overcome glare from bright lights or windows facing the TV. It delivers an impactful HDR experience overall, but small details don't stand out as well as they should, and bright scenes are a bit dull.
Not bright enough to overcome glare in a very bright room.
Since the LG B6 is an OLED, it has perfect black levels. Blacks are deep and inky when viewed in a dark room, with no backlight glow or haloing around bright parts of the scene.
Inky blacks and no haloing around bright highlights or subtitles.
The LG B6 has very good colors. It has excellent accuracy out of the box with just a slightly warm color temperature that most people won't even notice. Colors are bright and vibrant, especially when watching SDR content. HDR content that pushes the TV to its limits is a bit worse overall, though, and bright colors are a bit washed out.
Incredibly accurate before calibration.
Colors are vibrant, lifelike, bright, and accurate.
Bright colors are slightly washed out.
The LG B6 has very good motion handling when watching content. It removes judder from most sources, resulting in a smooth frame timing; there's no micro judder, and there are no unwanted intermediate colors or edge artifacts. On the other hand, like all OLED TVs, there's noticeable stutter in all slow-panning shots, and unfortunately, its motion interpolation feature is inconsistent at best, and doesn't do much to smooth out motion.
No unwanted transition artifacts.
Removes judder from most content.
Very noticeable stutter in slow-panning shots.
The LG B6 OLED delivers an incredibly responsive gaming experience. It has low input lag, resulting in a responsive feel, and like all OLED TVs, it has a nearly instantaneous response time, so there's barely any ghosting behind fast-moving objects. It's not perfect, though, as there's some overshoot/undershoot when it goes between a really dark shade and a bright one. It supports VRR to reduce tearing, and it has a high refresh rate that allows you to take full advantage of the latest gaming consoles. It doesn't support refresh rates above 120Hz, though, which may disappoint PC gamers.
Low input lag.
No ghosting behind fast-moving objects.
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 B6 has excellent image processing. It does a great job cleaning up low-quality streaming services, and older content on DVD is upscaled well. It also processes HDR feeds properly, with nearly perfect PQ EOTF tracking and no noticeable banding in most shades.
Cleans up low-quality and low-resolution content well.
Exceptional HDR brightness accuracy.
Performance Usages
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We bought and tested the 65-inch LG B6 (OLED65B6GUA), and the results are also valid for the 48-inch, 55-inch, 77-inch, and 83-inch models. There's also a variant of this TV known as the LG B6E OLED, which we've purchased and tested as a separate review. This is the second B6 TV to be released in LG's lineup. The original LG B6 OLED 2016 can be identified by the different model number, "B6PUA" instead of "B6GUA", and is a completely different TV.
| Size | US Model |
|---|---|
| 48" | OLED48B6GUA |
| 55" | OLED55B6GUA |
| 65" | OLED65B6GUA |
| 77" | OLED77B6GUA |
| 83" | OLED83B6GUA |
The label on our unit shows that it was manufactured in Mexico in May 2026.
Popular TV Comparisons
The LG B6 OLED 2026 is a great TV, but it offers nearly identical performance to its predecessor, the LG B5 OLED. It's one of the cheapest OLED TVs that you can buy in 2026, with the same deep, inky blacks that you'll find on more expensive models. It's also incredibly feature-rich, with a great smart interface and a wide selection of gaming features. It's also starting to show its age, and as higher-end models have added new RGB tandem panels that pushed colors and brightness to new heights, there's a more significant difference between the B6 and its more expensive siblings, like the LG C6 OLED 2026 and the LG G6 OLED, than ever before. So while it's still a great entry-level model for dark room viewing, it's not nearly as versatile as competing OLEDs.
For more options, check out our recommendations for the best OLED TVs, the best movie TVs, and the best budget TVs.
The LG C6 OLED 2026 is considerably better than the LG B6 OLED 2026. The main difference between them is brightness. The C6 is bright enough to overcome significantly more glare during the day, so sports and other bright content are a lot easier to see. Movies are more vibrant and impactful on the C6, and small details stand out a lot better.
The LG B6 OLED 2026 is nearly identical to the model it replaces, the LG B5 OLED 2026. The B5 gets a bit brighter when more of the screen is bright at once, like when watching sports. The B6, on the other hand, has a different panel structure that's better for PC gamers, as text can sometimes be a bit easier to read, with less color fringing.
The LG B6 OLED 2026 and the LG B6E OLED are essentially the exact same TV. The B6 comes with the more advanced Magic Remote, which can be used as a virtual pointer to make it easier to navigate menus. The Magic Remote is also required for a few extra smart features, like the room correction feature for the speakers and AI voice recognition, so the B6E doesn't support those unless you buy the Magic Remote separately.
The LG C5 OLED is much better than the LG B6 OLED 2026. The most noticeable difference between them is the peak brightness. The C5 gets considerably brighter, especially when more of the screen is bright at once, like when watching sports. This makes the C5 the far better choice for bright room viewing. This increase in brightness also benefits home theater users, though, as small details in movies stand out much better and movies look more vibrant in general.
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 B6 has decent peak brightness in HDR. Small highlight details stand out okay, but they're not nearly as bright as they should be. Very bright outdoor shots are significantly dimmer, though, and there's a slight decrease in brightness over time. Overall, while it's still decent with most real content, it's not nearly as bright as higher-end models like the LG C6 OLED 2026.
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 unfortunately doesn't actually do much to increase the brightness of most real scenes on this TV.
- Hallway Lights: 726 cd/m²
- Yellow Skyscraper: 518 cd/m²
- Landscape Pool: 261 cd/m²
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Switching to the 'Game Optimizer' mode results in slightly lower 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 slightly increases the brightness of some scenes without affecting the overall peak brightness of the TV.
- Hallway Lights: 730 cd/m²
- Yellow Skyscraper: 410 cd/m²
- Landscape Pool: 288 cd/m²
The LG B6 has mediocre peak brightness in SDR. It's not bright enough to overcome significant glare during the day, especially when more of the screen is bright, 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 haloing when bright elements are surrounded by deep blacks.
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The LG B6 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 halo effect around bright objects.
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The TV has great color volume in SDR. It displays almost all of the DCI-P3 color space, and there's almost no change in color volume between scenes. It struggles with content mastered in the BT.2020 color space, though, especially with saturated reds and greens.
| Volume ΔE³ | DCI-P3 Coverage |
BT.2020 Coverage |
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| L10 | 90.51% | 60.35% |
| L20 | 94.48% | 63.57% |
| L30 | 93.17% | 62.03% |
| L40 | 94.51% | 66.08% |
| L50 | 93.99% | 67.15% |
| L60 | 93.74% | 67.27% |
| L70 | 93.71% | 67.83% |
| L80 | 91.88% | 64.95% |
| L90 | 90.82% | 64.85% |
| L100 | 95.05% | 88.60% |
| Total | 93.30% | 66.77% |
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The TV has decent color volume in HDR. Saturated colors in dark scenes are displayed perfectly thanks to its nearly infinite contrast ratio. The TV's WOLED panel relies on a white subpixel to boost peak brightness, though, which causes bright colors to be a bit washed out.
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The LG B6 has excellent accuracy in SDR before calibration. There are very few noticeable issues out of the box. Reds are slightly overrepresented, resulting in a slightly warm color temperature, but it's not too noticeable. Gamma tracking is nearly perfect, and grays are displayed well. It also has excellent color mapping, with no noticeable issues at all.
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The TV is very easy to calibrate, and it delivers a nearly perfect image in SDR after calibration. The color temperature is nearly perfect, and any remaining inaccuracies aren't noticeable at all. Since it's already very accurate out of the box, though, there's very little benefit to having it calibrated.
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The LG B6 has fantastic accuracy in HDR before calibration. The white balance and color temperature are both nearly perfect, with only a few minor differences that most people won't even notice. It has excellent color mapping, with just a few very minor issues in blues.
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The TV has fantastic accuracy in HDR after a full calibration. The white balance is better, and the color temperature is nearly perfect, but these were both excellent before calibration, and most people won't even notice the benefits of calibrating it in HDR. Unfortunately, the average color error didn't improve with calibration.
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The TV has fantastic PQ EOTF tracking. Smaller details are displayed at almost the exact brightness level intended by the content creator. Content mastered at 600 and 1,000 nits is displayed almost perfectly, with no additional tone mapping. Content mastered at 4,000 nits rolls off more gradually as it approaches the TV's peak. This preserves gradients in bright scenes, but limits how bright small details can get.
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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 an excellent job upscaling DVDs and other low-resolution content. The image is clear and easy to make out.
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The TV has great gradient handling. There's some banding in dark shades of green, but it's not too distracting.
The TV's input lag when using the Game Optimizer picture mode is very low in all supported formats, ensuring a very responsive gaming experience.
Its input lag is a lot higher outside of its gaming mode, or when motion interpolation is enabled, so there's a noticeable delay when navigating menus using an external player.
The LG B6 supports all common formats up to 120Hz. It displays chroma 4:4:4 properly with any supported resolution, which is important for clear text from a PC.
The TV supports all three types of variable refresh rate (VRR) technology to reduce screen tearing. It works across a wide range of refresh rates, including sources that support Low-Framerate-Compensation (LFC), which ensures that your games remain nearly tear-free even when the refresh rate drops below the panel's minimum refresh rate.
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Like all OLED TVs, the LG B6 delivers incredibly clear motion at the maximum refresh rate of 120Hz. There's a tiny bit of overshoot and undershoot when going between a very dark and very bright shade, but it's very minor and doesn't cause any noticeable inverse ghosting.
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Dropping down to 60Hz doesn't impact the TV's CAD much. The overshoot/undershoot in transitions between bright and dark shades is a bit more pronounced, but still not very noticeable. There's also a bit more noticeable blur in fast action, but this is caused by persistence blur.
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The TV is fully compatible with everything the PS5 and PS5 Pro have to offer, including 1440p @ 120Hz and 4k @ 120Hz support, as well as HDMI Forum VRR. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so it automatically switches to Game Optimizer to get the lowest input lag.
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The 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 it automatically switches to Game Optimizer to get the lowest input lag.
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Unfortunately, due to the TV's incredibly quick response time, there's noticeable stutter when watching content. It's especially noticeable in slow-panning or wide shots.
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Adding low levels of motion interpolation helps reduce stutter somewhat. The feature is inconsistent, though, leading to an uneven frame pacing and choppy motion.
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The TV removes judder from most content, ensuring an even frame pacing. It can't remove judder from European content sent over a 60p signal, like a streaming device with the Match Frame Rate feature disabled, though.
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The TV has an extremely quick response time when watching content. Transitions are extremely fast, resulting in no noticeable blur behind fast-moving objects. There's a bit of overshoot and undershoot when going between very dark and very bright shades, but it's not really noticeable in real content.
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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 differs from the PWM flicker on TVs with LED backlights and occurs on every OLED display on the market. It's not noticeable, and most people won't be bothered by this, but it can still bother people who are extra sensitive to flicker.
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It has an optional black frame insertion (BFI) feature that reduces the appearance of persistence blur caused by the TV's nearly instantaneous response time. It can only insert black frames at a 60Hz refresh rate.
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The total amount of light reflected off the screen is decent. Bright lights and windows facing the TV are still clearly visible, and there are minor diffraction artifacts around them.
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Ambient light slightly decreases the perceived color volume, but it's not too bad.
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The LG B6 has an excellent viewing angle. It's not perfect, as colors are washed out a bit from a wide angle, but it's an excellent choice for a wide seating area.
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The LG B6 has decent gray uniformity. There's very little dirty screen effect in the center of the screen, which is great for sports fans. The screen is a bit patchy throughout, though. Like most OLED TVs, there are some faint vertical lines, which are more noticeable in dark scenes, but overall, you'd be hard-pressed to notice them from a normal viewing distance.
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The TV uses a newer WOLED panel which LG calls "OLED SE". It's not as bright or as colorful as the tandem panel found on the LG C6H OLED and the LG G6 OLED, with a weaker separation of colors.
It features a redesigned subpixel structure with an RGBW subpixel order. This subpixel structure helps improve text clarity from a PC, since the red, green, and blue subpixels are in the correct order that a PC expects.
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The TV 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 multiple 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 B6 has a stylish design that looks great in most environments. Its very thin side profile helps deliver a premium look, but the side bezels are thicker than most premium models.
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The blade style feet support the TV well, but take up a lot of space and can't be adjusted.
Footprint of the 65-inch size: 42.1" x 8.6" x 3.3"
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The back of the TV has a nice marble finish that gives it a more premium look. The electronics are all housed in a central box that's separate from the panel. There's a clip on the back of each foot to help with cable management.
Some of the inputs are easy to access, but two of the HDMI ports face straight out of the back. You'll need angle adapters to be able to use them if the TV is mounted close to the wall.
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The TV has excellent build quality. It's a well-built TV with no obvious issues, but it's a bit cheaper overall than higher-end models like the LG C6 OLED 2026.
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The LG B6 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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- Remote (with 2x AAA batteries)
- User manuals
- Cable management clip
This TV was initially tested with firmware version 43.21.51.
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The LG B6 has a sub-par frequency response. The sound profile is uneven, causing some dialogue to sound uneven, and there's very little deep bass. It can't get very loud, either, so it's best-suited for quiet rooms.