LG UQ75  TV Review

The LG UQ75 looks okay overall for a budget TV. It has thin bezels on all three sides and a thicker bottom bezel. Although it doesn't look as good as LG's premium TVs and OLEDs, it's still not bad for the price.

The V-shaped feet support the TV well, but they take up a lot of space, so you'll need a large cabinet for the larger TV sizes. The stand lifts the display about 3.1" above the table, so there's plenty of room to place a soundbar in front without blocking the screen.

Footprint of the 65-inch model: 49.2" x 11.9".

The back of the TV is very plain. The inputs are housed in a central electronics box that sticks out from the panel, and they're easy to access. Sadly, there's no cable management at all.

The LG UQ75 Series has decent build quality overall. It's made of a mix of plastic and metal panels, with no significant issues in its assembly. Like most TVs, there's some flex to the back panels, but this isn't an issue. There are some noticeable black spots and pinching along the top of the screen; these issues are especially noticeable in dark scenes.

Unfortunately, this TV has a terrible contrast ratio. Blacks are raised when any bright highlights are visible on the screen, causing shadow details to appear washed out. There's also no local dimming feature to improve it.

This TV doesn't have a local dimming feature, so there's no blooming around bright objects or subtitles in dark scenes, but the entire screen looks washed out when bright highlights are on the screen.

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. But this means that there's no distracting flicker or brightness changes as bright highlights move between zones.

Switching to Game Mode makes no noticeable difference in dark scene performance, as shadows still look washed out.

Unfortunately, the LG UQ75 TV has poor peak brightness in HDR. Bright scenes look flat and dim, and since it lacks a local dimming feature, bright specular highlights don't stand out at all.

These measurements are after calibrating the HDR white point, with the following settings:

• Picture Mode: Cinema
• Panel Brightness: 100
• Adjust Contrast: 100
• Color Temperature: Warm 50
• Dynamic Tone Mapping: Off

Switching to Game Mode causes no noticeable change to the TV's peak brightness. Overall peak brightness is still too low for an impactful HDR gaming experience.

These measurements are after calibrating the HDR white point, with the following settings:

• Game Optimizer: On
• Panel Brightness: 100
• Adjust Contrast: 100
• Color Temperature: Warm 50
• Dynamic Tone Mapping: HGiG

The PQ EOTF tracking on this TV is good overall, but there are a few noticeable issues. Shadow details are raised considerably, as the TV can't display true blacks due to its very low contrast ratio and lack of a local dimming feature. Midtones are displayed well, but they're a bit too dim, and there's a sharp cutoff at the TV's peak brightness with content mastered at 600 or 1,000 cd/m². Content mastered at 4,000 cd/m² has a much more gradual curve, preserving fine details but limiting the TV's peak brightness, so midtones are considerably darker than at lower mastering levels.

The LG UQ75 has poor peak brightness in SDR. It's not a good choice for a bright room as it's not bright enough to overcome glare.

These measurements are after calibration with the following settings:

• Picture Mode: Expert (Dark Space, night)
• Brightness: 100
• Color Temperature: Warm 50
• Gamma: 2.2

The color gamut of this TV is just okay. It can't display a wide color gamut, so HDR content looks washed out and dull overall. The tone mapping is also bad throughout when sent a 75% stimulus, which corresponds to content mastered at 1,000 nits, so most HDR content isn't displayed accurately and looks extremely dull and muted. The tone mapping is much better with content mastered at a lower stimulus level, but the overall color gamut is the same:

• DCI-P3 - 50% Stimulus
• Rec. 2020 - 50% Stimulus

This TV has poor color volume. It can't display bright colors at all due to its low peak brightness and small color gamut. Dark saturated colors don't fare any better due to the low contrast ratio and lack of a local dimming feature.

Surprisingly, the LG UQ75 has great accuracy in SDR even without calibrating it. The white balance is decent overall, with no noticeable issues in bright shades, but there's a bit too much blue in darker shades of gray. Color accuracy is excellent for the most part, with no noticeable issues, and gamma is close to the 2.2 target on average. The overall color temperature is a bit warm, but it's not bad.

The TV is easy to calibrate, and the results after calibration are fantastic. It wasn't possible to fully correct gamma, but the remaining issues aren't noticeable.

You can see the full settings used for our calibration here.

The gray uniformity is just decent. There's relatively little dirty screen effect in the center, which is great, but the corners and sides of the screen are worse. The bottom right corner is especially bad, but the other corners are also noticeably darker than the center.

Unfortunately, the black uniformity of this TV is poor. There's significant clouding throughout the screen, and even though LG advertises it to be direct-lit, there are signs of backlight bleed along the top edge. Unfortunately, there's no local dimming feature to improve the black uniformity.

The viewing angle is very good. This is a great TV for use in a wide seating arrangement, as you can move around with the TV on and still enjoy a consistent image from the sides. There's very little color shift or washout from the sides, but the brightness fades at a moderate angle, so people sitting to the sides see a faded image compared to those sitting in front.

The reflection handling of the LG UQ75 is just decent. The semi-gloss coating doesn't do much to reduce the intensity of direct reflections.

The LG UQ75 has just alright gradient handling in HDR. There's noticeable banding in all darker shades, and green is especially bad, even in bright shades.

The smoothing algorithms on this TV do a good job overall. It's great at smoothing out macro-blocking and pixelization when streaming from low-quality sources, but it doesn't preserve details very well, and there's some loss of fine details.

The LG UQ75 has just alright sharpness processing. Upscaled content looks a bit blurry, text isn't sharp, and small details are lost. These results are with the following settings:

• Adjust Sharpness: 20
• Super Resolution: High

The TV has an RGB sub-pixel layout, which helps with text clarity when using it as a PC monitor. You can read more about text clarity here.

The LG UQ75 has a slow response time, resulting in a long blur trail behind fast-moving objects. Shadow details look even worse, but even bright details are blurry. There's also a noticeable double-image caused by the TV's low fixed-frequency backlight flicker. If you like this TV but need something with a faster response time, check out the 2024 LG UT7570.

Unfortunately, this TV uses pulse width modulation (PWM) to dim the backlight, and it flickers at a low frequency, causing noticeable image duplication. At max brightness, the flicker isn't nearly as noticeable, as instead of a full square wave with equal on/off cycles, the brightness only dips down briefly at 120Hz. If you're sensitive to flicker, this will still bother you, but it reduces image duplication.

This TV doesn't have an optional backlight strobing feature, also known as BFI. Instead, the backlight always flickers at 120Hz, which helps reduce persistence blur but introduces severe image duplication below max brightness.

There's an optional motion interpolation feature on this TV, but it's limited and not very effective overall. It struggles even in slow-panning scenes, and there are significant motion artifacts even in simple scenes.

This TV's slow response time helps with stutter, as there's very little of it when watching low frame rate content.

This TV can remove judder from any source. 24p sources like a Blu-ray player or streaming box with a 'Match Frame Rate' feature work perfectly as long as you have Real Cinema enabled. 60p sources, on the other hand, are only judder-free if you enable motion interpolation and set De-Judder to '10'.

Unfortunately, this TV is locked to a 60Hz refresh rate and doesn't support any VRR features to reduce tearing.

This TV has incredibly low input lag, resulting in an extremely responsive gaming experience.

The LG UQ75 supports most common resolutions, but it's limited to 60Hz on all of them. Chroma 4:4:4 or RGB signals are displayed properly on all supported modes, which is necessary for clear text from a PC.

This TV can't take full advantage of the PS5, as it lacks high-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 ports and it doesn't support any advanced gaming features like VRR.

This TV can't take full advantage of the Xbox Series S|X, as it lacks high-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 ports and it doesn't support any advanced gaming features like VRR.

This TV doesn't support any advanced HDR formats like Dolby Vision or HDR10+, so you're limited to the standard HDR10 format. It also only has two HDMI inputs, which is very limiting.

This TV supports eARC to pass uncompressed audio formats from a connected player to your home audio system or a soundbar. Unfortunately, unlike higher-end 2023 LG models, it doesn't support any DTS formats, which are often used for the main audio track on physical media like Blu-rays. This means that you'll need to connect your player directly to your home theater system for the best audio instead of using ARC or eARC.

Unfortunately, the frequency response on this TV is poor. Although most TVs don't produce much bass, it's even worse on this TV, and the low-frequency extension (LFE) is very high. Above the LFE, the frequency response is well balanced up until the mid-treble range, so most dialogue is clear and easy to understand. It doesn't get very loud, though, and there's noticeable compression at max volume.

The speakers on the LG UQ75 produce very little distortion, especially at moderate volume levels. It increases a bit at max volume, but it's decent overall.

The LG UQ75 runs the 2022 version of LG's webOS smart interface, but it's quite a bit slower than most TVs on the market.

Like most TVs on the market, there are ads throughout the smart interface, and you can't fully disable them. You can limit ad tracking and remove ads from the home screen using the 'Home Promotion' setting in the 'Home Settings' menu, but this doesn't remove ads completely.

The built-in webOS smart interface has a huge selection of streaming apps.

This TV comes with LG's classic remote with lots of buttons instead of the point-and-click Magic Remote found on higher-end models. It's compatible with the Magic Remote, so you can buy one separately and use it.

There's a single button centrally located at the bottom of the TV. You can turn the TV on or off with the button, change inputs or channels, and control the volume.

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