Extremely clear, incredibly crisp

BILLED BY ITS makers as a masterpiece in the world of television, the new LG OLED E6T TV transforms a living room into a perfect small theatre with several display-enhancing technologies that the Korean electronics giant labels “perfect” as in Perfect Picture on Glass and Perfect Black. 

The 4K Ultra HD television is certainly easy on the eyes and good for viewing 4K and new-technology HDR content.

The OLED display is well known for its sharpness, brightness and vibrant colours and has combined with 4K Ultra High Definition of 8.3-million pixels or 3840x2160-pixels.

The E6T comes in a sleek design too. Under the Picture-on-Glass design, the TV’s OLED module is applied directly to the glass back panel for a clean, ultra-slim profile. To be more specific, the OLED panel is just 2.57 mm in width and when it’s merged with a mirror, measures a mere 6.5mm. The Picture-on-Glass and “Perfect Angle” designs allow the TV to have an up to 180-degree viewing angle. The screen can be viewed from any position in the room even at 180 degrees to the side.

An outstanding development is the level of blackness achieved via the OLED panel technology. OLED has self-lighting pixels, as opposed to backlighting used in LED/LCD TVs. As a result, the pixels of the OLED panel can switch on and off individually, creating a pure black canvas and only producing light where it’s required. And the very deep level of blackness means that the colours are spectacular.

The display technology that allows each pixel to produce light by its own is combined with an anti-reflection film to reduce light reflection from the outside so the TV can display a jet-black colour while also presenting life-like colours under LG’s concept of “Perfect Colour”. These technologies are great for watching 4K Cinema 3D content and provide sharp and realistic pictures on the Ultra HD screen.

The technology means watching movies is a real cinematic experience. When watched in a dark room, the Perfect Black technology allows the TV screen to perfectly merge into the darkness of the room in dark scenes.

The OLED panel also allows the TV to achieve an infinite contrast ratio, displaying brilliant whites to the deepest black to produce a sense of realism.

The E6T’s display is further enhanced with OLED HDR technology for watching new HDR content. HDR or High Dynamic Range technology enhances graduation of contrast in the light and dark areas of an image as well as the colour to create a new level of realism. HDR content has been made possible through the advancement of cinema cameras in the last few years, capturing scenes in multiple ways and blending them together. In this way images are filmed at high and low exposures and are combined to form a HDR image, closer to what the human eyes actually see.

Best of all, the E6T can play both HDR-10 and Dolby Vision content. The Dolby Vision technology further enhances HDR content. And Netflix now streams Dolby Vision content.

Thanks to its enhanced motion clarity, the E6T is also good for viewing fast sports action. LG says the pixels of its OLED display turn on 1,000 times faster than LED/LCD TVs so the fast moving scenes have minimum blur.

Apart from the outstanding picture, the E6T has very good sound too thanks to its Sound Bar Stand design. Its bottom is a soundbar system so you don’t have to buy a separate one. Best of all, the sound system is designed by Harman/Kardon and it has 40 watts of output power. The 2.2-channel sound system has good bass and generates great surround effects.

The E6T has built-in digital TV tuner and I connected it to an outdoor antenna and it received all the digital TV stations with clear and sharp pictures.

The TV runs on LG’s webOS 3.0 to provide Smart TV functions with a web browser, YouTube and several other apps. A keyboard and mouse can be connected and the TV used for browsing web pages like a computer and for enjoying YouTube clips.

I don’t have 4K UHD and HDR content so I tested the TV by using the built-in YouTube app to watch 4K and HDR 4K clips. Viewing was spectacularly sharp on both but the HDR 4K clips found on YouTube side were much better. For example, when I watched a clip that showed an emerald green forest, even the moss looked sharp. Details of dark areas could be seen clearly. Reflections of trees in a running creek could be seen clearly as well as the gravel under the water.

Through my Platinum account with TrueVisions, I was able to watch major football matches from the English Premiere League. Here again, the pictures were bright and colourful and there was no motion blur. Last Saturday night, I watched the match between Barcelona FC and Real Madrid CF of the Spanish La Liga on beIN Sports 2 (677). I also caught Italy’s Calcio Serie A and French Ligue 1 matches during the test.

Of course such perfection does not come cheap. The LG OLED E6T has a suggested retail price of Bt249,990.

 

Key Specs

- Display size: 65 inch

- Resolution: 4K (3840x2160)

- Back light type: Self emitting

- Design: Picture on Glass

- Stand type: Sound bar stand

- Smart TV: webOS 3.0

- Web browser: |HTML5 supported

- CPU: Quad core processor

- Dimming: Pixel dimming

- HDR: OLED HDR

- Sound output: 40 watts in 2.2 channels

- Connectivity: 4 HDMI, 2 USB 20, 1 USB 3.0, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, LAN port

- Smart share: Network file browser, Miracast, Intel WiDi, smartphone remote app

- Dimensions: 1461mmx 893mm x 56.7mm without stand and x 200mm |with stand

- Weight: 22.8 kgs without stand, 24.8 kgs with stand