LG OLED A1 Series 65” Alexa Built-in 4k Smart TV (Open Box)

Hoping to share from my trial and error.. and save you some time. I purchased Samsung QLED & returned, Sony OLED Bravia & returned, and finally got the TV I was looking for with this one (LG OLED). In the market for a new tv, went to Best Buy and the Store sales rep sold me on getting OLED technology. Got the Samsung because it was cheapest.. But was also cheapest quality. Got it home. mounted it. Said this ain’t it. Took down. Returned it. At store another two hours. Said I want the best, don’t want to come back. Got sold on Sony Bravia OLED. Very expensive but figured it would be worth it. Got home, mounted it. picture quality was average at best. Super complicated to change the settings. User interface was rough. Said what did I just buy. Took down carefully cause thin tv could break. Remembered store rep said LG OLED was second to Sonys OLED quality. So I looked on Amazon, read reviews, and bought LG OLED for half the price than the Bravia. Tv got here mounted it, and the picture was twice as good as the Bravia. Had built in AI that automatically adjusts and maximizes picture to my Apple TV without having to change a ton of settings like Bravia. User interface intuitive and so simple - universal remote moves like a mouse on computer and took over Apple TV control automatically. Learn from my sore muscles. Don’t waste your time buying and mounting the others. Get this first and get most advanced picture in market for best value.

If I could, I'd give it a 4.5/5. Since my complaints aren't that important I gave it a 5/5. Just an awesome-looking panel. 4k HDR content is so crispy and really pops. I have it mounted to a wall using this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TZBBPFY?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details and usually use an Amazon 4k Firestick for content playback (but when Jellyfin gets an official WebOS release soon I'll be using that). From my pictures you can see the mount doesn't block any ports/plugs so I got lucky there. Would recommend this mount. Being an OLED, the near-instant refresh of pixels does make things look jittery without TruMotion enabled (couldn't find any black-frame insertion option), but I found setting TruMotion to "Natural" gives the best results without being an overkill soap-opera effect. I leave it on for all content (animation included). It's not perfect, but it's better than turning it completely off. As for picture settings, I find "Vivid" the best out of the bunch. The other options make the image almost look like a weird color filter on top of the media that makes blues more yellowish, and darkens everything. I assume this will be fixed in future updates though, since I bought it so close to release... The remote is fine. but I haven't played with it too much yet. Just wish it had fast-forward/rewind/play/pause buttons somewhere. WebOS (LG's smart tv OS) is fine I suppose. This is my first experience with it. My only dislike of it is that your apps are quite small compared to the other content panels it displays on the home page (weather, sports news, sponsored media, etc.). But it runs at a decent speed. Even their browser isn't terrible and comes with (optional) ad-blocking which is a nice touch. It has the option to do an speaker output + the tv speakers, which is interesting. Honestly the TV speakers aren't terrible, but their clarity isn't amazing. I much prefer leaving only my speaker output on (optical out to a speakerbar) and not using the TV speakers at all, as the hybrid mode muddles the clarity too much for my liking. The WiFi speed is weirdly not that high (on LAN), at least when testing in the browser (as seen in the picture I attached). For comparison, I held my phone (Galaxy S9) in front of the TV and got ~304 Mbps up/down. I'm planning on wiring this later (it has an Ethernet port), but I didn't really notice any huge hitches playing local content anyways (over Jellyfin) so this probably isn't too important. Just odd.. The only really strange thing I've seen so far was an odd glitch effect on a few select scenes with people who're moving and far away from the camera. It's hard to describe, and only happened maybe twice while I was watching Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2. It looked like the people themselves flickered while the rest of the screen was fine. My best guess is the AI picture was having trouble with them being so far away from the camera in that scene. I haven't seen that happen on any other content yet, so maybe that movie itself was bad...

Picture quality is beyond anything I've seen... anywhere... ever. I've had 4K monitors and TVs for a while, but this is my first OLED and it did not disappoint. The sound quality is jaw dropping. I have no idea how they did it, but somehow the internal speaker produce surround sound. The remote has Disney+, Netflix, and a couple other streaming services as single-press buttons on the remote for easy access. It also comes with a free streaming TV/movie service (with commercials), called Pluto. I got Disney+ just because of this TV, and started rewatching movies and series that are just completely different on this quality level. For best quality, you need ZERO outside light sources. Night + all lights out = spectacular presentation. It's thin... absurdly thin. I was terrified I was going to break it just trying to pick the thing up to put the legs on.

To start with, you have to be home when Amazon delivers this item. Amazon failed to deliver it on time and called me an hour later to reschedule. I lost a days work and half a day of time I could have spent doing something else. Then they said I rescheduled. That is not true. They failed on delivery scheduling. The TV itself so far is AWESOME. It was easy to unpack and set up. YOU MUST FOLLOW THE UNPACKING AND SET UP DIRECTIONS. My girlfriend and I managed it quite well. The packaging alone weighs as much as the TV. So it feels heavy in the box, but the TV itself is about half that weight. Plug in and turn on all your devices so the TV can find them and set them up. It's mostly plug and play. The Application setup was a little tedious but we managed. I would invest in new HDMI cables that are manufactured for 4K or 8K HD. It makes a difference based on signal bandwidth frequency and noise. So far this is well worth the investment for the viewing experience. I'll revisit this review as time goes by.

This TV has an excellent picture and sound quality. It was is very easy to operate using the recent technology available. I really like that I can cast from my iPad or Android phone on the TV. I definitely would recommend purchasing this TV. I considering purchasing the 48 inch for my bedroom!

Well it happened. Great TV for about 3 years, then they pushed an update. Now I can’t use the TV at all without agreeing PAGES of privacy policy. They removed my ability to use the TV AT ALL without agreeing to whatever new arbitrary terms they decided to write in 2025. I will never be purchasing another LG product again.

THE CONS: The lG WebOS is poorly designed. The home screen has Ads and suggested movies, I find this pointless because I don't need those suggestions from the TV, the apps provide enough promotional content. The integrated LG free TV app cannot be removed. In fact, many APPS cannot be removed so you are forced to move them further down the list. Overall it's just busy with extras you don't need. LG just let me see only what I want. If you purchase the TV and do not have cable and only stream, sometimes if you push the wrong button on the remote it will goto "LiveTV" and you will get static (google how to turn this off) This brings me to the remote, there is no pause button. and it should be backlit (at this price point) so you can see buttons in low light. The remote projects a cursor onto the screen but if this happens when you try to rewind you often jump too far back or forward in the show. Overall it could use a lot of improvement for users that just steam apps. THE PROS: The image quality is amazing, It's mesmerizing. For the price point, I think it's a bargain. The TV pairs with my LG soundbar and once its paired you can use the TV remote to control sound. I hope with future OS upgrades they will improve the experience, I recommend the TV even if I do have issues with the OS.

It's my first tv of this size and my first lg...my last tv (which is in my bedroom) is a samsung. I was a little nervous about this..I debated on putting it on the wall and even bought a stand for the wall. But since I rent my apartment I decided not to. So the stand for the wall I am returning, and I found a stand made by Sanus that works. I called sanus and they recommended that I don't get this stand, the bstv1-b1. Because of how the tv was built. They told me to buy another tv...in their defense the guy didnt know I had bought the tv already and he was very helpful. But I put on in there and so far no problems. I've had the tv a month now. The stand is very heavy. It goes by a different name on sanus website I think its WSTV-b1. Anyway, in the pic I have the two legs on the tv that it came with because when I was putting on the attachment for the tv stand I had it standing on those. I'll take them off later but they are in no way holding up the tv, that stand swivels and is very, very sturdy and has a steel base.

The TV itself is amazing. If you are like me, you don't have cable, and you are very dependent on streaming live TV through apps, there is a very limited selection of apps through LG's store. You'll find all your premium streaming apps like Netflix, Disney, Hulu, etc. but you won't see things like Fox or CBS Sports apps you might use to stream live TV.

The Tv is even better in person than I expected. My only issue is that the legs are pretty weak and placing them wrong can lead to them snapping off. I had to buy a metallic stand to attach to the back as a replacement. Other than that the tv itself is amazing!