LG Gallery 2026  TV Review

The LG Gallery TV has bad peak brightness in HDR. It's not bright enough to bring out bright highlight details at all, and bright scenes are dull and flat. Overall, it simply doesn't deliver an impactful HDR experience with any content.

These settings are with the most accurate, post-calibration settings, with Dynamic Tone Mapping disabled. Enabling this setting doesn't increase the peak brightness at all.

• Hallway Lights: 220 cd/m²
• Yellow Skyscraper: 270 cd/m²
• Landscape Pool: 120 cd/m²

The TV is slightly brighter in Game Optimizer, but it's not a significant difference. It's still nowhere near bright enough to deliver an impactful HDR experience.

These settings are with the most accurate, post-calibration settings in Game Optimizer, with Dynamic Tone Mapping disabled. Enabling this setting doesn't increase the peak brightness of the TV, but does increase the brightness of some details in certain scenes.

• Hallway Lights: 292 cd/m²
• Yellow Skyscraper: 329 cd/m²
• Landscape Pool: 219 cd/m²

This TV's peak brightness in SDR is sub-par. It's bright enough to handle some glare in moderately-lit rooms, but can't overcome bright lights or open windows on sunny days.

The TV is considerably dimmer when it's in the Gallery+ mode, reaching a maximum peak brightness of only 84 cd/m².

The LG Gallery TV has poor contrast, and it doesn't have a local dimming feature to improve it. Blacks are always raised, causing dark scenes to look washed out.

There's no local dimming feature, so there are no lighting zones. This means there's no haloing around bright elements against a dark background or subtitles, but the entire image looks gray and washed out.

This TV doesn't have a local dimming feature, so it can't adjust the backlight of individual zones to brighten up highlights without impacting the rest of the image. This means that there are no distracting flickers or brightness changes as bright highlights move between dimming zones.

Switching to Game Optimizer doesn't result in any noticeable difference in dark scene performance. Blacks are still terrible and look gray in any content.

The black uniformity of this TV is decent. There's no local dimming feature, so it's entirely dependent on the native contrast of the panel. There's some minor clouding throughout the screen, but it's not bad.

The color volume on the LG LX7B is okay. Most SDR content is displayed well, but it can't display the full range of reds and greens in content mastered in the DCI-P3 color space. Its coverage of the wider BT.2020 color space is disappointing. Colors are also slightly washed out in lighter scenes.

The LG Gallery TV has mediocre color volume in HDR. It can't display a wide range of colors in HDR, so most content is dull and lifeless. There's also a noticeable loss of saturation in brighter content, and it can't display dark, saturated content well due to its low contrast ratio.

The pre-calibration accuracy on this TV in SDR is great. The only noticeable issue is the slightly cool color temperature, but other than that, the errors are very minor and not noticeable. There's a bit too much blue and green in all shades of gray, but again, it's very minor, and most people won't notice it.

This TV is easy to calibrate in SDR and looks nearly perfect after. There are no noticeable issues at all.

See our full calibration settings.

This TV has sub-par HDR accuracy before calibration. The white balance is a bit off, but not too bad, with just a bit too much blue in most shades. The color temperature, on the other hand, is extremely cool, and the TV has a very noticeable blue tint in HDR. HDR color mapping is actually pretty good overall, but there are significant luminance errors.

Unfortunately, even after a full calibration, the HDR accuracy on this TV is still just okay. The color temperature is better, but still noticeably cold, and the luminance errors in most colors are still there. The white balance didn't improve much, either.

The PQ EOTF tracking on the LG LX7B is mediocre. Near-black shadow details are considerably raised by the TV's low contrast ratio, and brighter mid-tones are slightly dimmer than they should be. There's also a fairly sharp cutoff near the TV's peak brightness, which causes a loss of details in bright parts of the scene.

This TV does a good job cleaning up low-quality content like most streaming services or older cable TV channels. It smooths out issues like macro blocking and posterization well, but there's some loss of fine details in the process.

This TV does a mediocre job upscaling low-resolution content like DVDs. The image is noticeably soft, and fine details like text are hard to make out.

The HDR gradient handling on this TV is decent. There's some slight banding in darker shades of gray, green, and blue, but everything else looks great.

The input lag on this TV is decent. It's fairly responsive when gaming, but it's limited by the low max refresh rate of 60Hz. The input lag outside of Game Optimizer is considerably higher, so navigating menus on external players feels sluggish.

The LG LX7B supports all common resolutions up to 4k @ 60Hz. Unfortunately, it doesn't support any higher refresh rates, even at a lower resolution. It displays chroma 4:4:4 properly with any signal, which is important for reading clear text from a PC.

The LG Gallery TV supports VRR to help reduce screen tearing. Unfortunately, it's not very useful, as the refresh rate range isn't wide enough to work with Low Framerate Compensation (LFC), so you'll see tearing if your framerate drops below 48Hz. It'll help when the framerate isn't perfectly stable, but in most games, you'll see tearing in busier scenes.

Unfortunately, the TV's CAD at its max refresh rate of 60Hz is poor. Motion is incredibly blurry in almost all scenes, but it's slightly better in bright areas. There's some minor overshoot in shadow details that causes low levels of inverse ghosting, but it's not too bad.

This TV doesn't support a 120Hz refresh rate.

The maximum refresh rate supported by this TV is 60Hz, so these results are identical to the Max Refresh Rate test.

The LG LX7B is a 60Hz TV, so it only supports 4k @ 60Hz on the P55 and can't take full advantage of the PS5 Pro. It has Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), so it'll automatically switch to Game Optimizer when it detects a game being played, which gives you the lowest possible input lag for games.

This TV only supports 4k @ 60Hz Xbox Series consoles. It has Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), so it'll automatically switch to Game Optimizer when it detects a game being played, which gives you the lowest possible input lag for games. It doesn't support Dolby Vision.

Despite the TV's slow response time, there's still some noticeable stutter when watching content. It's especially noticeable in slow-panning shots.

Unfortunately, the TV's motion interpolation is largely ineffective at reducing stutter in slow-panning shots. While it reduces the frame hold time slightly, the feature is incredibly inconsistent, creating an uneven number of intermediate frames. This results in choppy, uneven motion, even with low levels of interpolation.

This TV can only remove judder from content played at a native 24p/25p rate or from the native apps. It can't detect and reverse a 3:2 pulldown from content sent via a 60p signal, like an older cable box or a streaming device with the match frame rate feature disabled. This results in uneven motion from those sources, as some frames are held on the screen longer than others.

There's no micro judder on this TV.

Unfortunately, the TV's response time when watching content is bad. Motion is incredibly blurry, especially in faster action scenes or when watching sports.

Transitions are uneven, which causes some noticeable intermediate colors in fast scenes.

This TV uses pulse-width modulation, also known as PWM, to adjust the backlight intensity. It flickers at a very low frequency, which can make both people sensitive to it and causes noticeable image duplication. This flicker is present at all backlight levels, in all picture modes.

There's no optional backlight strobing feature on this TV. It always flickers at 120Hz.

The matte anti-reflective coating does an excellent job of reducing the intensity of direct reflections. Windows and lights opposite the screen are barely noticeable.

Ambient light has a noticeable impact on black levels, and blacks aren't nearly as deep as they should be in a well-lit room.

The total amount of reflected light off the screen is decent. It handles direct reflections fairly well, and there are no diffraction artifacts like rainbow smearing.

Low-luminance colors are noticeably washed when watching this TV in a bright room.

This TV's viewing angle is okay. Colors remain relatively stable even when you move to the sides, but contrast rises quickly, and the image appears washed out. This makes it an unsuitable TV for a wide seating area.

The gray uniformity of the LG LX7 is just okay. The screen is noticeably patchy, with a bright spot in the center and dark patches surrounding it. This is noticeable in all content, but especially when watching sports.

The TV uses a KSF phosphor coating to produce red light, with high peaks on reds and blues. This model does have good separation between colors, giving it solid color purity. It uses a VA panel, but with an RGB subpixel layout, which helps when displaying text from a PC.

This TV has only a basic selection of inputs, with three HDMI 2.0 ports, an ATSC 1.0 tuner, and two USB ports. It supports optical audio out and eARC for audio connectivity.

This TV supports eARC, which allows it to pass uncompressed high-quality audio from a connected source to your home theater system or soundbar. Unfortunately, it doesn't support any DTS formats commonly used on Blu-rays.

Unlike higher-end LG TVs, this one doesn't support Dolby Vision.

This TV has a fairly basic design. Like other Art-style TVs, the bezels around the screen can be replaced to match your decor. The bezels have a uniform thickness on all four sides, which means they're a bit thicker than most other TVs, but it still looks good.

The blade-style feet support the TV well and can be placed in either the high position shown in the review or in a lower position.

Footprint of the 65-inch stand: 43.1" x 12.4".

The stand lifts the screen about 3.8 inches above the table in the high position, leaving room for any soundbar to fit without blocking the screen. In the low position, it lifts the screen about 2.3 inches above the table instead.

There's a nice textured pattern on the back that gives the TV a more premium look. The inputs are very hard to reach, but there are grooves in the back to help with cable management.

The TV is designed to be wall-mounted with the included slim wall mount, which can be installed either horizontally or vertically. It's also compatible with a standard VESA mount if you want to use your own mount, instead.

The LG Gallery TV has excellent build quality. The stand is entirely made of metal and supports the TV well. The bezels are also made of metal and feel premium, and the TV is well-built overall with no obvious issues.

The LG Gallery TV ships with webOS26, LG's proprietary smart interface. As this TV is part of LG's Re:New program, it'll eventually receive software updates to newer versions of webOS for the next few years.

Unfortunately, like almost all TVs on the market, the smart interface contains ads, and you can't disable them.

• Mounting hardware
• Remote
• Wall mount template
• Power cable

The TV was initially tested with firmware version 43.11.87.

This TV has a poor frequency response. It's not very loud, and there are noticeable compression artifacts at max volume. Voices sound a bit muddy overall, and with very little deep-bass response, there's no thump or rumble.