LG Unveils 2025 Premium OLED TVs Featuring Breakthrough Brightness, Advanced AI Features, and 165Hz Gaming Support

LG whetted the appetites of visitors to CES in Las Vegas this week by showing off its 2025 range of premium ‘Evo’ OLED TVs – and as usual, there seems to be more than enough new stuff with the latest M5s and G5. OLED series to keep movie and gaming enthusiasts seriously interested.

For starters, both the OLED Evo M5 and OLED evo G5 lineups will feature LG’s new Alpha 11 Gen 2 processor, which LG says uses more power and much-expanded AI and machine learning capabilities to improve still the image and sound quality compared to the already extremely acclaimed 2024. G4 series.

The second-generation Alpha 11 processor can, for example, more meticulously analyze and refine low-resolution and low-quality images to provide more natural and sharper upscaling results, while new “professional” quality of LG’s long-acclaimed Dynamic Tone Mapping system. offers users and calibrators a new level of color accuracy and detail when customizing and fine-tuning HDR images for all viewing environments.

On the audio side, the latest Alpha 11 processor now includes the ability to output all sound sources, even basic stereo, in an 11.1.2 virtual surround sound setup, with supposedly improved tonal balance and clarity over the virtual configuration 9.1.2 of 2024.

Perhaps the most immediately obvious sign of progress for LG’s premium 2024 Evo OLEDs will come from the brightness of the new M5 and G5 displays. A new Brightness Booster Ultimate system, combining the latest designs of so-called “quad-stack” OLED panels (which use an additional OLED layer to improve brightness and efficiency) with advanced pixel color and light control thanks to to the new Alpha 11 processor, is claimed. to achieve peak brightness three times higher than that achieved by “classic” OLED TVs such as LG’s B-series models.

LG won’t assign an exact number of nits to the increased brightness of the new Evo OLEDs and emphasizes that it will only apply to the G5 and M5 screen sizes of 55, 65, 77 and 83 inches. Although based on the brightness performance of last year’s B4 and G4, we can probably expect a 10% window brightness of around 1,900 nits. And maybe a little more on smaller measurement windows.

LG emphasizes in its preliminary information on the Evo 2025 OLEDs that this additional brightness improves visible details at different brightness levels, while not harming OLED’s reputation for controlling light and color at the pixel level . In fact, LG’s new Evo displays have earned “Perfect Black” and “Perfect Color” verification from independent evaluator UL Solutions, as well as 100% color fidelity verification from Intertek and “Quick Stability with Image Quality” certification from TUV Rheinland.

The M5 and G5 TVs also introduce the ambient light compensation version of Filmmaker Mode to LG OLEDs for the first time, through which the precision-based settings of Filmmaker Mode can adapt in real time to the lighting conditions. changing lighting, ensuring viewers have a consistent HDR experience. no matter how bright or dark their room is.

Game enabled

The big gaming news for LG’s 55, 65, 77 and 83-inch G5s adds support for 4K/165Hz variable refresh rate gaming signals (up from the previous 4K limit /144 Hz), while the M5 series now supports wireless video transmission between their external connection boxes and gaming signal displays at up to 4K/144 Hz.

The M5 and G5 TVs can also handle Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync Premium VRR, and also become the first TVs to receive ClearMR 10000 certification by VESA, further proof of their clarity and smooth motion.

AI on the rise

As I predicted in my article last year about the growing use of AI in TVs, LG talks at length in its information on its new Evo TVs about their AI capabilities. For example, the new AI Picture and Sound Wizard features claim to analyze more than 1.6 billion picture settings and 40 million sound profiles to help users tailor their audio and visual settings to their personal tastes and needs.

The new AI Remote that comes with LG Evo 2025 TVs includes a dedicated AI button that takes you to a new AI Concierge homepage where different users are greeted by name and given personalized recommendations based on their viewing habits. Or, if you hold down the AI ​​button, it activates a new AI Voice ID feature that can recognize the voices of different household members and automatically switch to their personalized content recommendations and settings.

In select territories (US, UK, and South Korea), a new AI Search feature on LG Evo 2025 TVs can leverage an expanded language model to better understand conversation context and detect intent subtleties from the user, the process being further streamlined by access to Microsoft Copilot. . And all territories will benefit from the latest version of LG’s excellent AI Chatbot feature, through which the TV can resolve any potential issues or questions regarding your LG TV without you needing to call LG customer service.

Finally, when it comes to AI features, a new generative image gallery lets you create custom background images simply by giving the software some basic image content terms to work with.

WebOS for years

The latest version of LG’s webOS smart platform now supports cross-platform integration with Home Hub, so it can connect to multiple eco-systems to control more IoT devices. LG is also continuing its webOS Re:New program, where buyers of the new Evo TVs can expect to see their webOS platforms upgraded to new versions for up to five years.

As you’ve probably noticed throughout this article, the big difference between the new M5 and G5 Evo OLED models is that the M5s are designed to be almost entirely wireless, using an external connection/transmission box to send data. video. up to 4K/144Hz and up to Dolby Atmos lossless audio wirelessly to the display.

The 83-inch G5 won the Best of Innovation award at CES 2025, with the 83M5 taking home the title of winner in the Video Display category.

LG has yet to reveal pricing information for its latest Evo OLED TVs, but visitors to CES 2025 will be able to get a glimpse of these new displays starting January 7 at 15004 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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