LG 42-Inch Class OLED evo AI 4K C5 Series Smart TV w/Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, HDR10, AI Super Upscaling 4K, Filmmaker Mode, Wow Orchestra, Alexa Built-in (OLED42C5PUA, 2025)

High quality OLED. Brilliant picture. Although the sound is adequate, to complement the high quality picture, I would strongly suggest adding a sound bar. Very easy to set up, and user friendly remote control.

The media could not be loaded. Why did you pick this product vs others?:I like it a lot better than my Samsung TV that it replaced. My PS5 looks amazing on it. Currently playing armored core 6 and the visuals are outstanding. Set up was pretty user-friendly. Sound is a lot better than most. You get what you pay for and this TV isn’t cheap but it’s definitely quality. 5 stars from me

Total TV game changer. Unbelievably great picture. I thought this 65 inch tv would be too big for sitting 8 feet away but the 4K upscaling allayed that fear. I almost wish I had gotten the 77 inch. Spent a few hours playing with the settings. Hint: What I read from another reviewer is spot on - Set mode to Cinema and brightness to 50. Also, scroll down to recent input, then hit the back button on the remote to get your complete list of inputs, e.g., HDMI 1, HDMI 2, Live TV, etc. Sound is much better than my LG OLED B2 model, so I won’t be getting a sound bar, especially since I set optical out to my receiver when I would listen to headphones. I turned the TV’s SIMPLINK (HDMI-CEC) off (Settings>General>External Devices>HDMI Settings>SIMPLINK), so that whenever I turn the TV on it won’t automatically turn on the receiver via my HDMI ARC cable which connects the TV and receiver. Connected my Blu-Ray player to the receiver and receiver to TV. Still got the Dolby Digital disc playing surround with ARC off, so being off really had no other effect. Settings icon on remote, scroll up to the gear icon for Settings>General>External Devices>Universal Control Settings to see additional info.

Junk! I think we got a bad TV. It cost us $105.00 to send it back. Never again! HDMI connection issues even with 3 brand new HDMI cables. It would on see on device at a time. You’d have to keep unplugging and plugging in whatever HDMI you wanted to use at the time. Total hassle.

I'd give this 4 or 5 stars for the TV but the manuals for it from LG are beyond pathetic. You have to find websites to help you figure out options you may want. If you want to just plug it in and have it be acceptable, this ain't for you. If you want a good manual for the manufacturer, this ain't for you. I found and downloaded the manual on their site (because, of course it does not come with one that is of any use). And the online details almost nothing. The little quick set up manual is the most pathetic of any I've ever seen. Tiny print. Hardly worth looking at.As for good screen display set up, I looked at a lot of recommendations online. Those suggesting a number of setting changes recommend filmmakers mode. One guy recommended Cinema mode with lower brightness on leds to get good image and color. First night with it I watched a hockey game and none of the standard presets looked good (between standard, sports, gamer, vivid). All too bright too vivid, too unreal looking. Ended up turning off power saving because it was always too bright for my room no matter what. It could not adjust itself down enough. Ended up, after reading that one persons recs on Cinema mode with LEDs output turned down to 50%. That got it to a very good place with good color, excellent brightness, and it looked fantastic on another hockey game and movie test on Apple TV.Now for the remote. I suggest you get a standard LG tv remote. We have one. It is so vastly better than the model that comes with it. Not even a simple button to get to selecting which HDMI input. The old, basic, non floating around your screen cursor models work far better. And you can turn that function off. But you know what does? A basic LG remote that does not have that function but has FAR more obvious and simple buttons. I got an LG tv for our conference room at work. Non LED and a 1/4th the cost four years ago. On that model, you can turn off the Magic mousing feature, whatever they call it.To recap. Gonna be a great TV. Pretty good sound quality even without a sound bar or hifi set up. Once I get settings dialed in, I will like it. None of the default set up choices presents an acceptable picture to me. Too bright, too vivid, even on standard mode. Going to take a lot of fiddling or get a pro to come to your house. Serious.Anyway, summary.TV great. Or I expect it to be.Manuals, utterly pathetic. And since there is no easy mode, that's bad.Remote. Unacceptably poor, few functions, very unintuitive.About me. Life long tech nerd with a lot of experience. This TV and manuals and remotes would suck for a novice.