LG QNED92A  TV Review

The LG QNED92A has good brightness in HDR. Small specular highlights stand out well, and most bright scenes are bright enough to deliver an impactful HDR experience. It only struggles with extremely bright scenes.

Results in 'FILMMAKER' mode with LED Local Dimming on 'High':

• Hallway Lights: 738 cd/m²
• Yellow Skyscraper: 344 cd/m²
• Landscape Pool: 245 cd/m²

Results 'FILMMAKER' mode with Dynamic Tone Mapping enabled:

• Hallway Lights: 688 cd/m²
• Yellow Skyscraper: 345 cd/m²
• Landscape Pool: 307 cd/m²

There's a slight decrease in peak brightness when you switch to Game Optimizer to reduce input lag. It's still bright enough to deliver decent HDR brightness, with bright specular highlights in most scenes and very high full-screen brightness.

Results in 'Game' mode with LED Local Dimming on 'High':

• Hallway Lights: 670 cd/m²
• Yellow Skyscraper: 189 cd/m²
• Landscape Pool: 222 cd/m²

Results 'Game' mode with Dynamic Tone Mapping enabled:

• Hallway Lights: 715 cd/m²
• Yellow Skyscraper: 342 cd/m²
• Landscape Pool: 417 cd/m²

This TV has great peak brightness in SDR. It's bright enough to overcome glare in a bright room from windows or lights. The local dimming feature artifically dims dark scenes, though, so it's best-suited for brighter content.

The LG QNED92A has fantastic contrast. The local dimming feature is extremely effective at boosting contrast, so shadow details remain dark even when bright highlights are visible in the scene. The panel's native contrast is good overall, but blacks are more noticeably raised in more complicated scenes where the local dimming can't keep up.

Similar to the LG QNED90T, there are some oddities with the way LG has implemented local dimming. In SDR, the 'High' setting delivers the best results, with the highest peak brightness and the best contrast. In HDR, however, the TV defaults to 'Low,' and that's what delivers the best results. The results in this review use a mix of both settings depending on what's best for that mode. See our settings page for more information.

The LG QNED92A has okay zone precision. There's a noticeable halo effect around bright spots in the scene, including when watching with subtitles.

We encountered a strange processing bug with the TV during our lighting zone precision test, where the backlight would start flickering. The flickering persists at any local dimming setting (except off), but we weren't able to reproduce it outside of this test slide. Let us know if you encounter the issue with real content.

The zone transitions on this TV are just decent. Its processor can't keep up with fast-moving objects, so the leading edge is darker than the body, as the TV isn't turning on the zones quickly enough. It's also sluggish to turn the zones off, as bright objects leave a zone, leaving a trailing halo behind it. There's also some noticeable flicker as things move between zones.

There's a bit more haloing when the TV is set to Game Optimizer, but outside of that, there's no visible difference in dark scene performance.

The black uniformity on this TV is great. With local dimming disabled, black levels are raised more, giving the TV more of a bluish tint, but it's still fairly uniform with just a few warm spots. Enabling local dimming nearly completely eliminates this, though, and the backlight is very uniform except around bright highlights.

The LG QNED92A has decent color volume in SDR. It struggles a bit with brighter shades of green and red, but there's very little difference in color coverage at different lightness levels. It has good coverage of the DCI-P3 color space.

The color volume in HDR is just decent. It displays low luminance colors well, thanks to its local dimming feature and high contrast, and most colors are bright and vibrant.

The LG QNED92A has just okay accuracy out of the box in SDR. Gamma tracking is close to the 2.2 target, but very bright and very dark scenes are crushed a bit. Color dE is very low overall, with a few issues in saturated reds and cyan, and the overall color temperature is a bit warm. The white balance is disappointing, as blues are underrepresented especially in brighter scenes.

This TV is really easy to calibrate and delivers fantastic accuracy after calibration. The white balance and gamma tracking are both nearly perfect, with no remaining issues. Saturated reds are still a bit off, but it's not noticeable, and all other colors are nearly perfect.

See our full calibration settings.

The HDR accuracy before calibration is just okay. The white balance is decent, with just a few noticeable issues, but the overall color temperature is a bit too cool. Color accuracy is okay, with noticeable mapping areas across the board.

Unfortunately, this TV doesn't benefit much from a calibration in HDR. White balance and color dE are both slightly lower after a full calibration, but they're both still noticeably off, and the color temperature barely moved.

The LG QNED92A has good PQ EOTF tracking. Shadow details are displayed well thanks to the local dimming feature, but midtones are crushed a bit. It clips at the TV's peak brightness with content mastered at 600 or 1,000 nits, but there's a more gradual rolloff with content mastered at 4,000 nits, which preserves some brightness gradients.

The TV's low-quality content smoothing is good. It does a great job reducing macro blocking and pixelization from low-bitrate streams, but there's some loss of fine details.

This TV has very good sharpness processing when upscaling lower resolution content. The image is sharp and clear, and text is easy to read.

The LG QNED92A has great gradient handling. There's some very slight banding in all shades, but it's not really noticeable.

The LG QNED92A has very low input lag when set to Game Optimizer with 'Prevent Input Delay' set to 'Boost,' resulting in a very responsive gaming experience.

The TV supports all common formats up to a maximum refresh rate of 144Hz. It displays chroma 4:4:4 properly, which is important for clear text from a PC.

This TV supports VRR across a wide refresh rate range, which helps reduce tearing when the frame rate fluctuates.

The TV's CAD at the max refresh rate of 144Hz is just okay. It performs best in brighter scenes, and most of those transitions are fairly quick with no noticeable overshoot and little blur. It struggles more coming in or out of shadow details, and those transitions are very slow, causing more noticeable blur.

Dropping down to 120Hz increases the TV's total deviation a bit, but it's still okay. There's noticeable blur when gaming at 120Hz, like on a console, and it's more noticeable in darker parts of the scene.

Unfortunately, dropping down to 60Hz increases the total deviation considerably, and almost all scenes look bad. There's no noticeable overshoot or inverse ghosting, but the TV is just extremely slow to transition between shades.

This TV 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.

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 switching to Game Optimizer to get the lowest input lag.

There's noticeable stutter on this TV, especially in slow panning shots.

The TV removes judder when watching 24p movies or TV shows when the Real Cinema setting is enabled, even from sources that can only send a 60Hz signal, like a cable box.

This TV has a decent cinematic response time when watching content, but there's still some noticeable blur behind fast-moving objects when watching movies, shows, or sports. It's most noticeable when transitioning to or from near-black shades.

This TV doesn't use pulse width modulation (PWM) to dim the backlight, but it does flicker at all brightness levels. The flicker frequency is extremely high, though, and shouldn't be noticeable.

The TV has an optional backlight strobing feature, commonly known as black frame insertion. It's supported at both 60 and 120Hz, and the pulse timing is pretty good, so unlike many other TVs, there's no apparent image duplication.

This TV has an optional motion interpolation feature, which works to improve the appearance of motion by creating extra frames between each source frame. It's not great overall, and there are noticeable artifacts in both slow and fast action scenes. It also stops interpolating entirely when the action gets too intense. While this helps reduce the appearance of processing artifacts, the sudden change in frame rate can be quite jarring.

The glossy coating on this TV does almost nothing to reduce the intensity of direct, mirror-like reflections.

There's no noticeable increase in black levels when watching this TV in a bright room.

Unfortunately, this TV has mediocre overall reflection handling. Direct reflections are bright and distracting, and there are noticeable diffraction artifacts with a slight rainbow smear.

The perceived color saturation in a bright room is very good. Ambient light has almost no impact on color saturation.

The LG QNED92A has a sub-par viewing angle. The image degrades noticeably when you're watching it from the sides, with a noticeable loss of contrast and a significant red color shift. This makes it unsuitable for a wide seating arrangement, as only people sitting directly in front of the screen will see a clear image.

The LG QNED92A has mediocre gray uniformity. There's not that much dirty screen effect in the center, which is great for watching sports, but the sides of the screen are noticeably darker.

The TV uses a BGR (Blue-Green-Red) subpixel layout instead of the traditional RGB layout. This doesn't cause any issues for video or gaming content, but it can be a problem for PC monitor use, as it impacts the text clarity, although not everyone will notice this.

The TV uses some form of quantum dot color converters to produce red and green light, so colors are well separated, but they're not as pure as some higher-end models.

This 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, like 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. LG has supported DTS on most of their 2023 and 2024 models, but they've dropped support across their entire lineup in 2025.

The LG QNED92A has a somewhat premium design, with a metal frame and feet, but the back is mostly made of plastic. It has very thin bezels on three sides, but there's a noticeable gap between the sides and the first pixels.

The stand consists of two metal feet set near the sides of the TV, and there's no alternate mounting point to accommodate a smaller table.

Footprint of the 65-inch model: 49.0" x 13.4" x 3.5".

The back of the TV has a basic, less-premium look to it. The inputs are housed in two sections on the left side of the TV (when looking at it from the front). As they're inset into the TV, they're a bit hard to reach when the TV is wall-mounted, but at least they face down or to the sides, so you won't need any angle adapters for HDMI cables. Unfortunately, there's nothing to help with cable management.

The LG QNED92A has good build quality, but there are a few issues. The back panel has a decent amount of flex, which isn't as well-built as the metal backing on the LG QNED90T. Unfortunately, there are also some noticeable specs behind the glass panel that are visible on the screen.

The LG QNED92A ships with the 2025 version of LG's proprietary smart interface, webOS. LG promises at least four years of webOS updates on their TVs as part of their Re:New program, and you get updated versions of the operating system once a year.

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.

The TV comes with LG's new Magic Remote. Like the old version, it can be used as a pointer, or you can use the traditional buttons to control the TV. Unfortunately, LG ditched the number pad on this new remote, so you can't assign quick launch shortcuts anymore. There's also no dedicated input button, so you have to use the home dashboard to switch inputs.

• Remote (with 2x AAA batteries)
• User manuals

The frequency response on this TV is mediocre. It has a fairly well-balanced sound profile, so dialogue is clear and easy to understand as long as you don't turn the volume up too high. It's not very loud at max volume.