LG UT75  TV Review

The LG UT75 has poor HDR brightness. It's not bright enough to display HDR content properly. Bright highlights don't stand out at all, and overall, this TV doesn't provide an impactful HDR experience.

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

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

Although the TV is slightly dimmer in Game Optimizer, it's not noticeable.

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

• HDR Picture Mode: Game Optimizer
• Panel Brightness: 100
• Contrast: 100
• Color: 50
• Color Temperature: Warm 50
• Dynamic Tone Mapping: HGiG

The TV has bad SDR brightness. It's not bright enough to overcome glare in a well-lit room, so it's best suited for dark or dimly lit rooms.

These measurements are after calibration with the following settings:

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

If you need a similarly priced TV with better SDR brightness, consider the Samsung DU7200/DU7200D.

The LG UT75 has awful contrast, and other similar entry-level TVs like the Samsung U8000F, Samsung Q7F 2025, and the Panasonic W70B have much deeper blacks. Blacks are raised and look gray most of the time, and the TV lacks a local dimming feature to improve its contrast. The step-up model to this one, the LG UT8000, has much better contrast but still lacks a local dimming feature.

The TV doesn't have a local dimming feature, so there are no lighting zones. This means there's no blooming around bright elements against a dark background, 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 across the screen.

Switching to Game Optimizer doesn't result in any noticeable difference in dark scene performance.

The LG UT75 has bad black uniformity, since the entire screen is blueish and cloudy.

The LG UT75 has poor SDR color volume. It lacks the color volume in DCI-P3 to fully display dark colors, and the TV doesn’t come close to showing light colors as well as it does pure white. This is even more pronounced in the wider BT.2020 color space, where its coverage is less than half overall.

The TV's HDR color volume is bad. It does a poor job at displaying dark colors due to its awful contrast, and the TV isn't nearly bright enough to display colors at high luminance levels.

The TV has just alright pre-calibration SDR accuracy. Reds and greens are overrepresented in dark shades of gray, and blues are overrepresented in most shades of gray. The color temperature is much cooler than our target of 6500K, so the image is too blue. Gamma is close to our target of 2.2, but dark scenes are much brighter than intended, and moderately lit scenes are a bit too dark. Fortunately, the TV has very good color accuracy in SDR, but whites and lighter shades of most colors are inaccurate.

The TV has outstanding accuracy after calibration. The white balance is much better now, with only reds, greens, and blues overrepresented in dark shades of gray. The color temperature is now essentially perfect, and gamma is a bit closer to our target of 2.2, although dark scenes are still too bright. Color accuracy is even better, but there are some minor inaccuracies with blues.

See our full calibration settings.

The LG UT75 has mediocre HDR accuracy before calibration. Blues are very overrepresented in all shades of gray, which makes the TV's color temperature significantly cooler than 6500K. It has decent color accuracy overall, but there are numerous inaccuracies in most colors.

The TV has great HDR accuracy after calibration. There's still a bit too much blue in darker shades of gray, and not enough blue in some mid-grays. However, its color temperature is much closer to 6500K and no longer looks too cool. Color accuracy is much better now, but there are still some minor inaccuracies across its range of colors.

The TV has okay PQ EOTF tracking. Blacks and near-blacks are noticeably raised, but the TV follows the curve very closely until it approaches its peak brightness. With content mastered at 600 and 1000 nits, there's a gradual roll-off near the TV's peak brightness to retain detail in highlights. With content mastered at 4000 nits, the roll-off is much more gradual.

The TV's low-quality content smoothing is good. Details are preserved well, but there's still some noticeable macro blocking in dark scenes.

The TV does an okay job at upscaling low-resolution content like DVDs or lower-resolution streams. Details aren't overly soft, but finer details are very hard to make out.

Sharpness processing was calibrated with no over-sharpening for low-resolution content, with the following settings:

• Sharpness: 17
• Super Resolution: High

If you want a similar TV with better upscaling, check out the Sony BRAVIA 3.

The TV's gradient handling is adequate. There's some noticeable banding in dark grays, dark reds, dark blues, and bright greens, and dark greens have significant banding.

This TV has low input lag when set to Game Optimizer, which ensures a responsive gaming experience.

The TV supports all common resolutions up to 4k @ 60Hz. It displays chroma 4:4:4 properly with any signal as long as the input label is set to PC, which is important for reading clear text from a PC.

This TV doesn't support VRR to reduce screen tearing. The newer LG UA77 adds VRR support, but since it's still limited to a 60Hz refresh rate, it's not very useful, and you'll still see tearing.

The LG UT75 has bad pixel transitions at its maximum refresh rate of 60Hz. It's very slow overall, and there's a lot of overshoot, which leads to noticeable blur and inverse ghosting.

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

The TV has bad pixel transitions at 60Hz. It's very slow overall, and there's a lot of overshoot, which leads to noticeable blur and inverse ghosting.

The LG UT7570 is a 60Hz TV, so it only supports up to 4k @ 60Hz on the PS5. Unfortunately, it doesn't support 1080p or 1440p @ 120Hz. It has Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), so it'll automatically switch to Game Optimizer when the TV detects a game console as its input device, which gives you the lowest possible input lag for games.

The LG UT7570 is a 60Hz TV, so it only supports up to 4k @ 60Hz on the Xbox Series X|S. Unfortunately, it doesn't support 1080p or 1440p @ 120Hz, and it doesn't support Dolby Vision. It has Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), so it'll automatically switch to Game Optimizer when the TV detects a game console as its input device, which gives you the lowest possible input lag for games.

Due to the TV's response time, there's some stutter when watching movies or TV shows that's most noticeable during slow panning shots.

The LG UT75 does an unremarkable job of reducing stutter with its motion interpolation feature. When bringing 24fps content up to 30fps, stutter is reduced. However, the feature has poor consistency, which gives motion an uneven cadence that can be noticeable in shots with slower camera movements.

The TV gives a judder-free experience with 24p and 25p sources like a Blu-ray player and from the TV's native apps when the Real Cinema setting is enabled. Unfortunately, it doesn't remove 24p or 25p judder from 60Hz sources like most cable TV boxes and older streaming devices that lack a setting to match the outputted signal to the frame rate of the content you're watching. Furthermore, the duration of frames is quite inconsistent, so motion is choppy when you're watching movies or shows being sent in 60Hz.

The LG UT75 is completely free from micro-judder with all 24p and 25p content.

The TV has a disappointing response time, so there's very noticeable blur behind fast-moving objects when watching content.

The LG UT75 has poor color transitions. The edges of fast-moving objects remain consistent with the center, which is fantastic. However, color transitions aren't clean because subpixels don’t change evenly. This creates unintended intermediate colors, which greatly affects color consistency and purity in fast-paced scenes. For example, any blue object moving around the screen has a very apparent yellow around it.

The TV uses pulse width modulation (PWM) to dim its backlight, which introduces flicker that can bother people who are sensitive to it. Unfortunately, it flickers at a slow 120Hz in all picture modes and at all brightness levels, so it can cause headaches and eye strain if you're sensitive to flicker.

The TV doesn't have an optional backlight strobing feature, commonly known as black frame insertion (BFI), to help reduce persistence blur.

The LG UT7590 does a poor job of handling direct reflections. It barely lessens the intensity of bright light sources, so the reflections on the screen are very bright. If you have a light-colored surface opposite the screen, you will see the entirety of that surface reflected on the screen. Since reflections are quite distracting on this TV, and it’s a dim TV to begin with, it’s not a good option for bright rooms.

The LG UT7590 does a fantastic job retaining its black levels in a bright room. Blacks are barely raised as more light is added to your room, so you get very similar blacks regardless of your lighting. However, if you have a pale wall opposite the screen, you will see it reflected on the screen due to its poor reflection handling. Furthermore, the TV has awful black levels to begin with, so you never see deep blacks on this model.

The LG UT7590 does a decent job reducing the intensity of indirect reflections, but they're still quite noticeable in a room with more than one or two lights on. Fortunately, there's no artifacts like rainbow smearing.

The TV has sub-par color saturation when used in a well-lit room. There’s barely any difference with the vibrancy of colors whether you’re in a dark room or a bright one. However, the TV has limited color volume to begin with, so colors lack vibrancy regardless of your lighting conditions. Unfortunately, the TV has such poor reflection handling that you have a hard time even seeing the image in a room with ambient lighting.

The TV has a very good viewing angle. Colors wash out, and there's some brightness loss the further you move off-center, but the image remains mostly consistent when viewed from the sides of the screen. This makes it a good option for a wide seating arrangement.

The TV has acceptable gray uniformity. The edges and corners of the screen are darker than the center, and there's some noticeable dirty screen effect towards the middle of the screen. On a very dark or near-black screen, its uniformity is fantastic, with only the corners being slightly darker than the rest of the screen.

The TV has an RGB sub-pixel layout, so it doesn't have any issues rendering text when used as a PC monitor.

The TV uses color filters to produce red and green light, but there's very little separation between those colors, which contributes to the TV's inability to display a wide range of colors.

The TV is limited to HDMI 2.0 bandwidth on all three ports. It doesn't have an ATSC 3.0 tuner, so 4k over-the-air isn't possible.

The LG UT7570 has eARC support, 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.

The LG UT75 Series looks okay overall for a budget TV and is very similar to last year's LG UQ7590. It has thin bezels on all three sides and a thicker bottom bezel. Although it doesn't look as good as LG's more costly TVs, it's still not bad for the price.

The TV comes with two plastic feet. They're set wide apart and can't be adjusted, so they take up a lot of space, and you'll need a large cabinet for the larger sizes. The stand lifts the display about 2.91 inches above the table, so most soundbars fit underneath without blocking the screen.

Footprint of the 65-inch model: 54.57" x 12".

The inputs are housed in a much smaller box than the LG UQ7590, which gives the back of the TV a cleaner look. Since the inputs are located in the middle, they're hard to reach if the TV is wall-mounted. Unfortunately, there are no clips or anything to help with cable management.

The TV has decent build quality overall. It's mostly made of plastic, so it's light and feels a bit cheap, but the two feet hold the TV well enough that there are no major issues with stability. Unfortunately, our unit does have some uneven assembly near the top of the screen, so there's a small gap between the screen and the borders of the TV.

The LG UT75 runs the 2024 version of LG's proprietary smart interface, webOS. The interface is easy to use and supports user profiles, so you can customize the home page for different users. Unfortunately, navigating the menus is very slow, and it can sometimes take up to six seconds to open a new menu. LG has promised at least four years of webOS updates, so this TV should get webOS 25 in late 2025.

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

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.

You can use the single button on the bottom center of the TV to switch inputs, change channels, adjust the volume, and power the TV on/off.

• Manuals
• Remote
• 2x AAA batteries
• Power cable

The TV's frequency response is sub-par. Like most TVs, bass is non-existent. The sound is well-balanced at moderate listening levels, so dialogue is clear, but it sounds progressively worse as the volume increases. Since the TV doesn't get very loud, it's best suited for a quiet environment.