It goes without saying, but earning a spot on our list of the best TVs isn’t easy. A TV has to compete against dozens of competitors in over 10 different categories like color saturation, color accuracy, brightness, contrast, motion handling, and more.
Over the past few years, the top spot has been taken by some truly impressive TVs like the LG C3 OLED, Samsung QN90C, Sony A95K OLED and, currently, the Hisense U8N. But, according to our latest lab tests, the crown could go to LG with the LG G4 OLED.
We recently put the G4 OLED through our testing process and its results are extremely impressive. It delivers some of the best color accuracy and vibrancy of any TV we’ve ever tested, and thanks to its LG Display META 2.0 OLED panel with micro-lens array technology, it delivers Mini brightness levels. -LED.
We’ll have to see how the TV holds up in a day-to-day viewing environment, but based on the lab results, it looks like the LG G4 OLED is a frontrunner for the title of best TV of 2024.
LG G4 OLED test data comparison
| LG G4 OLED | Samsung S95D OLED screen | Sony Bravia9 | |
| SDR Brightness (10%, in nits) | 358.47 | 276.05 | 498.16 |
| Delta-E (lower is better) | 1.4041 | 3.5085 | 1,7971 |
| Rec. 709 Range Coverage | 133.26% | 99.80% | 99.16% |
| HDR Brightness (10%, in nits) | 1487.61 | 1777.15 | 2554.87 |
| UHDA-P3 range coverage | 97.29% | 99.97% | 95.32% |
| Rec. 2020 Range Coverage | 72.91% | 89.73% | 78.02% |
| Input lag (ms) | 9.2 | 9.2 | 17.1 |
What you see here is the LG G4 OLED competing against Samsung and Sony’s two flagship TVs, the Samsung S94D OLED and the Sony Bravia 9 Mini-LED, respectively. These are, in my professional opinion, the three best performing TVs of 2024, and you can see how tight the competition is between the three.
What strikes me when looking at the test data is the LG G4’s color saturation, SDR brightness, and color accuracy out of the box.
What strikes me, looking at the test data, is the LG G4’s out-of-the-box color saturation, SDR brightness, and color accuracy. HDR brightness is a category that will always be won by Mini-LED TVs (though hats off to Samsung’s flagship QD-OLED for posting such a high number), but the G4’s 1,487.61 nits is more than double what we saw from LG’s G series three years ago.
What this should prove to you is that LG Display’s MLA technology is the real deal. Yes, Mini-LED and QD-OLED are still brighter, but they compromise on color accuracy or contrast. The G4 OLED is the happy medium that should deliver high brightness, good contrast, and high color saturation.
So, will the LG G4 OLED be the best TV of 2024?
If you’ve ever read one of our many TV reviews, you know that our lab tests play a major role in a TV’s performance, but they aren’t everything. We also look at half a dozen other factors such as the ease of use of the smart platform, the sound quality of the TV’s built-in speakers, the accuracy of motion processing and scaling, and as gaming performance, as well as minor details like remote control design.
We also consider price/performance when deciding which TV deserves the crown of best TV. Not everyone has several hundred thousand dollars for MicroLED TVs, so we only give this award to TVs that are realistically priced.
However, based on all these factors, I think Samsung and Sony have every reason to be concerned about the G4 OLED. We’ll need to do more anecdotal testing before we can make a final decision, but our testing data shows that the G4 OLED has the right pieces to take the top spot.
Stay tuned for the full LG G4 OLED review, released right here in the coming week.
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