LG G6 OLED TV Review: The New Benchmark for Premium Television in 2026

LG’s flagship OLED delivers stunning picture quality with breakthrough brightness and reflection handling that finally makes OLED viable in bright rooms

The LG G6 OLED TV is a fantastic TV, delivering superb picture quality, unbeatable gaming performance and features, and an intuitive smart TV platform. After spending weeks testing the 65-inch model priced at $3,399, it’s clear that LG has addressed nearly every criticism leveled at last year’s G5 while pushing OLED technology into new territory.

The Technology Behind the Magic

The LG G6 features the all-new Primary RGB Tandem 2.0 panel, an advanced version of the Primary RGB Tandem OLED panel that debuted in the G5 last year, featuring a new enhancement called “Hyper Radiant Colour” that extends high brightness benefits to additional factors including colour and contrast.

The G6 uses a new-gen Primary RGB Tandem 2.0 OLED panel with a new Alpha 11 AI Gen 3 processor to help deliver better picture quality and performance. This processor adds up to 5.6x faster NPU performance, along with 50% CPU and 70% GPU processing increases over the outgoing Gen 2 model.

The result? LG claims up to 4,500 nits of peak brightness in specific HDR highlights, something that directly challenges high-end Mini LED TVs that have dominated the brightness conversation.

Bright Room Performance: The Game Changer

The standout feature of the G6 is its ability to perform in challenging lighting conditions. The real game changer is its reflection handling, which does a fantastic job of limiting mirror-like reflections while maintaining better black levels than the Samsung S95F, which was rated as the best OLED TV for bright-room viewing until now.

The “Reflection Free Premium” technology allows the display to showcase perfect blacks in both light and dark viewing conditions with less than 0.5% screen reflectance, essentially eliminating the impact of ambient light. Critically, the G6 features a new and improved anti-reflection coating designed to significantly cut down reflections to around half of what was seen on the G5, and this is not a matte screen—the G6 remains glossy, meaning you still get the depth, contrast and richness OLED fans expect.

Aiding the G6’s performance in bright viewing conditions is the new Ambient Filmmaker Mode setting, which uses an internal sensor found in the TV to detect the level of sunlight in the room and make adjustments to the picture to ensure optimal viewing.

Picture Quality: Punchy Yet Natural

Picture quality on the G6 is excellent, delivering punchy, vibrant colors that appear more natural and accurate than its predecessor, while also delivering powerful contrast with rich blacks and refined brightness. Detail is exceptional, with crisp textures, while motion handling is smooth and natural.

The G6 features superb 12-bit colour and 13-bit luma channel processing with vastly improved gradation and posterization performance, addressing one of the key weaknesses identified in the G5 at launch.

However, the new processor introduces a Super Resolution algorithm that aims to enhance not just edges but textures as well, though in practice results are mixed—with high-quality HD content the improvement is subtle to the point of being invisible, while with lower-quality sources such as DVD the processing can be somewhat aggressive and may even accentuate compression artifacts.

Gaming Performance: Built for Enthusiasts

The LG OLED evo G6 will be the first TV in the world to support 120Hz cloud gaming and feature ultra-low latency Bluetooth controller connectivity. For console gamers, the G6 delivers everything expected from a premium gaming display with minimal input lag and excellent motion clarity.

Design and Build Quality

The G6 continues LG’s Gallery series aesthetic, designed to mount flush against the wall like a piece of art. The 65-inch G6 has a price tag of £3000 / $3399 / AU$4999, making it cheaper in the UK and Australia than the G5 was at launch (£3300 / $3400 / AU$5299), while US launch pricing has remained unchanged.

What’s Missing?

None of LG’s 2026 models support Dolby Vision 2, and LG has said that G6 will not receive it via a firmware update either, with the first Dolby Vision 2 content expected to arrive in the second half of 2026 at the earliest. For future-proofing enthusiasts, this may be a concern.

Sound performance is what we would expect to find and has been tweaked this year to improve on some of the weaknesses from previous models, though serious home theater users will still want to pair the G6 with a dedicated sound system.

The Verdict

Overall, the LG G6 is the TV to beat in 2026 and a Best-in-Class flagship. In the competition against Samsung S95H, Philips OLED911 and other 2026 flagship TVs, LG G6 is an excellent choice for those who demand top-tier picture quality, whether you watch in a darkened room or a bright living space, and regardless of whether your primary content is film, sports or gaming.

The G6 improves on its predecessor, the LG G5, especially for bright-room viewing and real-world color reproduction, while bringing across everything liked about last year’s model, though it could still improve in a few areas such as the sound.

For anyone shopping for a premium OLED TV in 2026, the LG G6 represents the current pinnacle of the technology. Its combination of exceptional brightness, industry-leading reflection handling, and superb picture quality across all content types makes it worth every penny of its $3,399 asking price. The days of OLED being relegated to dark rooms are officially over.

Pros:

• Exceptional brightness for an OLED (up to 4,500 nits peak)
• Industry-leading reflection handling with glossy finish
• Superb color accuracy and contrast
• Excellent gaming performance with 120Hz cloud gaming support
• Improved processing over G5

Cons:

• No Dolby Vision 2 support
• Built-in sound could be better
• Super Resolution can be aggressive with low-quality sources
• Premium pricing (though competitive for the category)

Rating: 9.5/10