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LG’s evo TVs Brighter w/Improved Picture Quality
 
The LG G1 Series OLED (evo) is an important step forward for OLED TVs. With exceptional picture quality, a gorgeous form factor, and industry-leading gaming support, the G1 is an outstanding high-end TV that delivers on the demands of those for whom only the very best will do. evo offers higher brightness than any previous OLED TVs, potentially solving one of the few pain points buyers might be concerned with. For another, color accuracy has been further refined. LG says evo is a combination of fine-tuned OLED materials that produce more precise wavelengths of red and blue, along with a new green layer that moves the green wavelength of light closer to where it should be and sharpens the wavelength peak. LG also points to the fact that its picture processing has a lot to do with the brighter performance. 
 
LG has not provided details of how the increased brightness is achieved nor have the spec’d what the increases are. A recent review put the typical brightness at 800 nits and the max brightness at ­­­­1,000 nits. It appears that LG is using a proprietary color gamut to achieve the increase. One could surmise that by using the highest energy segments of the color spectrum and focusing on green instead of blue together with white, LGD is able to increase the efficiency of the device without changing the material. Clearly, LGD will use the most efficient material available. Other aspects of the improvement include the myriad of choices, LG provides in selecting the picture settings.
 

• AI Picture Pro -- Claims to detect the types say a movie versus a TV show — then switch to the correct picture mode automatically. It can also perform scene detection — say a dark scene versus a city scene — and applies deeper processing to optimize the picture. Enabling this feature promises to enhance shadow detail in dark scenes and provide amped-up detail in tight patterns to avoid the moiré effect, among all kinds of other trickery. The feature increases the brightness in YouTube clips and cleaned up the picture quality as well. The feature is useful for more heavily compressed YouTube content, less so for premium streaming titles from the likes of Disney + and HBO Max.  The G1’s processor already does a great job, so the impact of AI Picture Pro depends on the quality of content being watched.
• AI Sound Pro -- upmixes audio signals to a 5.1.2 Atmos signal, for the TV, and for any connected device, like a soundbar or receiver. LG G1 sounds very good … for a TV and few TVs deliver more robust, dynamic sound. Clarity is never an issue, and the G1 provides more bass than expected for such a thin panel. For AI Sound Pro, the virtual surround effects seem to wash out some of the sounds that should have been anchored to the screen. Users will need to play around with this feature to see if they like it. The G1 has an AI. acoustic sound tuning feature that adds a bit more bass and sparkle to the TV’s onboard sound. 
• Picture settings – LG TVs have different modes, ISF Dark Room mode, ISF Bright Room, ISF Bright, which  defaults to a cooler color temperature, for better daylight viewing, Cinema User mode. For a brighter picture than reference standard SDR, users can turn the G1’s “Peak Brightness” setting to high and get a picture bright enough for most daytime viewing situations. In HDR mode, using color temp of Warm 50 seems to work best. Cinema Home allowed the G1’s AI brightness feature to be turned on, whereas Cinema does not. The differences between the two were only perceptible in certain dark scenes. Dolby Vision presents a different situation altogether. ISF modes are not an option and therefore Cinema User and Cinema Home — are suggested. With the color temperature was set at warm 50, and AI Brightness on, TruMotion (motion smoothing) is set to Cinematic Movement — a new setting which is supposed to remove judder without introducing soap opera effect — and changing that setting was locked out. The brighter Cinema Home setting turns out to be subjectively superior. 
• Picture quality. -- the G1 Gallery Series is an important evolution in OLED for LG. Cable/Satellite TV is low resolution and fairly compressed. It takes some serious processing muscle to make it look even decent on a 65-inch TV. The G1’s processor is likely the best at smoothing out gradients and minimizing macro-blocking —noisy blocks with compressed content. The visual experience became increasingly magnificent as the quality of the input increases. Netflix in HD with no HDR, improved brightness, and the resulting vivid contrast the G1 produces, even in Cinema mode, made video look as natural as the vistas featured within it. 4K HDR content, especially on 4K Blu-ray, but on YouTube as well, looked better than any other TV. Colors are rich° and bright when called to be, HDR highlights extremely poignant, blacks are perfectly inky with solid shadow detail, and banding — or contouring as it is often called — was virtually non-existent.
• Gaming -- LG is the only TV maker so far that offers four HDMI 2.1 ports, support for both G-Sync and FreeSync Premium, and the kind of gaming-specific picture adjustments — all located in one place — that gamers need and want for the best gaming experiences. As of right now, LG’s OLEDs deliver everything the new next-gen gaming consoles have to offer in the best way possible.

 
Source: Digital Trends