LG 4K OLED TV review: The best televisions your Aussie dollar can buy

WHEN it comes to buying the best of the best in televisions, there’s only one option. And this is it.

I LOVE my TVs, although I’d be lying if I told you I could tell the difference in quality when just casually watching different expensive TVs. But there’s finally one TV technology that stands above the rest. It’s called 4K OLED, and yes, I can already hear you asking what the hell that is.

4K is something I’m sure most people have heard a lot about by now. It refers to the resolution of your TV display, with 4K packing in four times the amount of pixels that full high-definition does. This means that the picture is four times sharper, can display four times the detail and is four times clearer than your typical full high-definition TVs. At the moment, 4K is the highest resolution available on consumer TVs.

Now OLED is a bit more difficult to explain and is the technology used to display the picture. To put it very simply, OLED’s backlighting is achieved by putting electricity through organic materials that light up as a specific colour, rather than having a constant backlight across the whole display. This is something no other technology directly does, and produces significantly better colour, blacks and contrast than other display types. It’s simply the best TV technology available at the moment.

You might want a soundbar to go with your new TV.

So what do you get when you combine the two? You get LG’s new 55-inch and 65-inch 4K OLED TVs, which start at $5999 for the smaller size and go up to $9999 for the flagship model.

Let’s start with the design. With TVs front and centre in most homes, it’s important that they look good. LG’s latest certainly fills that bill, being slightly curved and ridiculously thing. The lack of bezel around the edges also looks great, but we think Samsung still makes the best physical looking TVs.

Sound is provided by a Harman/Kardon 20-Watt speaker system which is excellent in comparison to most built in television speakers. But if you’re spending the big bucks on a getting the perfect display, you’ll want to compliment it with a good soundbar and home theatre system.

Using the TV is great, too. LG’s remote is Nintendo Wii like and menus are much more intuitive than older smart TVs.

When it comes to the picture, there is simply nothing that compares. If you walk into a Harvey Norman or JB HiFi and they try to convince you that any other TV looks better, they’re flat out lying to your face. The use of OLED makes colours and blacks look head and shoulders better than anything else available. Everything looks great - from cartoons or sport to big 4K blockbusters on Netflix.

Think of it this way: when you’re in the city, the lights of the city ruin the black of the sky and make it harder to see stars, but when you’re out in the country, the perfect black sky lets you see all the stars. That’s how it works with TVs as well, the blacker the background, the richer and more pronounced the other colours are.

The blacks of OLED are so perfect, that when you have the screen entirely black, you can’t tell whether it’s actually on or not.

But again, all of this quality comes at a price. The fact that there is very little 4K content might deter people from diving in for such an expensive TV just yet too. But if you are willing to part ways with $6-10k on a TV, there is no better option than LG’s latest.