LG - 48" Class C6 Series OLED evo AI 4K Smart webOS TV (2026)

Great TV and perfect for your desk as a PC monitor if you grab the 48 inch one. 4K resolution, 165hz in gaming mode, and 10bit color. The blacks are pitch-dark, the colors pop like crazy, and running high frame rates on a screen this crisp makes standard monitors feel obsolete. It's easily one of the best TV's on the market if you want reference-grade picture quality. Don't forget to grab an HDMI 2.1 48gbps cable with your setup.

This one will be long but I think it's necessary for context why I decided to return this and I am overall unhappy with LG oleds lately. The TLDR is: this has uniformity issues, worse VRR flicker than non-tandem w-oleds, crawling dither that looks like film grain, and the 165hz mode has black crush and increased vertical banding. I wanted to like this, but it's just disappointing more than anything. I am no stranger to LG oleds. I had an LG CX 48in for 4 years and now use a G4 55in as a PC monitor, but I have also tried a C5 42in and their 32GS95UE monitor as well. The CX was as close to perfect as it gets, but every other LG I have used or tried since then has had some kind of compromises or issues that show up in day-to-day use that I can't get over. The G4 55in has cyan tint on the left and right sides of the TV that can't be calibrated out, and the tint follows your head around the screen. This is at a distance of 5-6ft, and since I prefer warm color temperatures, it exacerbates the issue. I figured I just got unlucky with the panel lottery, and since I got it from LG's partner store I was stuck with it and they wouldn't replace the panel. After about a year of suing the G4, I wanted to downsize from 55in so I tried out a C5 42in. Sure enough, the blue/green tint was there on all edges of the screen. White was never uniformly white, and that tint showed up in games and movies whenever there were light colors on the screen. So, I stuck with the G4. Once I heard the C6 48in was a tandem w-oled panel this year, and would be substantially brighter and more colorful than the 42in, I decided to give it a try. Again though, there is cyan tint on the left and right sides of the screen that impacts games and movies alike when lighter colors are on the screen (think clouds in the sky going from blue/green to white to blue/green). Using the standard or vivid presets (or changing to a cool color temp) can help mask it, because those are more blue, but it never really disappears. The further you get from the screen the more it blends in and becomes harder to spot but I can see the tint even at 10ft away. I tried to capture this with a picture, but it's hard to do with my camera and so much worse in person. What's worse this year though is the vertical banding and the VRR flicker on this tandem panel. On the CX, G4, and C5 I never noticed VRR flicker outside of game menus. With this C6 48in though, it's so much worse than before and I can easily spot it in games even when I have relatively stable FPS with a 9800x3d and 5090. This is closer to my experience with qd-oleds and the main reason I avoided them in favor of w-oleds for the better VRR handling. After about 100 hours of use and multiple automatic compensation cycles, the vertical banding didn't improve much but it's possible it could even out a bit more after the longer pixel refresh runs after 2000 hours or so. I'm not willing to gamble and wait that long. I play a lot of horror and sci-fi games and it's a bit distracting. If you mostly play bright colorful games you might not have an issue. The diagonal dithering from the 4 and 5 series has been changed to something akin to film grain. If you are just watching tv shows and movies from a distance this is basically impossible to spot, but if you use it as a PC monitor or sit from around 3-5ft away you might spot it. The closer you get to the screen, certain colors seem to crawl, especially noticeable on Windows dark mode and things like discord, it looks just like film grain. Still, neither dithering method bothered me in practice because I sit far enough away. Just thought I would mention it for those who don't like the diagonal lines and like to sit really close to the screen. Dithering isn't gone, it's just different. Finally, the 165hz mode on PC has issues. There is significant black crush, near black color handling seems worse, and it introduces even worse vertical banding than when the TV is at 120hz. The 144hz mode on my G4 and on the C5 also had these same issues to a degree, but it is worse on this TV, maybe because of the tandem panel. So, I returned it for all of those reasons. Which is annoying because the CX was goated, but since then it seems to have gone downhill with LG oleds in my experience. I prefer glossy, but with uniformity seemingly getting worse each year for LG and VRR flicker being more pronounced, I may as well go with a qd-oled like the S95H instead to avoid most of the problems I brought up in this review. Hopefully that helped someone else, but maybe your luck will be better than mine if you want to give it a shot.

The picture on this TV is great. Response time and refresh rate is fantastic for gaming. Alot of people are upset about ads and privacy but you have the option to turn off ads and most of the privacy stuff. The remote boxed with this TV is subpar, you have to hold one button for a few seconds to bring up your input list and to mute it. Recommend buying remote from previous years on amazon for $20.

So this is a comment on both the tv and LG. I got this tv and I loved it. Had it for 45 days and lg sent out an update that corrupted the hdmi port software. Now tv displays blue and green at times and one hdmi port bleeds into another. LG customer supports (who really struggled with English as a second language) recommendation was to turn off HDR/deep color (a major selling point of the tv). Will update review pending final resolution, but until then I cannot recommend this tv.

This TV is amazing. Super smooth 165hz PC gaming monitor, great TV, amazing colors, OLED blacks, brightness, etc. Not sure it gets any better than this.