Black Friday weekend deal alert: Both Amazon and Best Buy made huge cuts to the price of the LG OLED G5 for their Black Friday sales, and the offers are still available, even a day later. I’ve tested tons of OLED TVs at CNET, and this one delivers the brightest picture I’ve ever seen. Right now, you can grab it for 38% off at Amazon and at a $1,400 discount at Best Buy. Best Buy is also throwing in a $100 gift card with your purchase.
I’ve tested dozens of the best TVs over the years. My CoD session helped cement my opinion of the G5 as the best OLED I’ve ever tested.
Why? One reason is this model’s exceptional, best-in-class brightness that brings visuals to life: It’s the brightest OLED I’ve ever seen in the CNET TV lab. Its clarity ensured I could see both the bright and dark parts of the screen — in a way the other TVs I’ve tested couldn’t reproduce. For instance, it was harder for enemies to hide in the shadows, because the TV rendered shadows more crisply.
Brightness for the win.
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Picture quality is so important when it comes to gaming because some of the latest advances, such as HDR10 and Dolby Vision, help to elevate the gaming experience in a meaningful way, and the G5 can take full advantage of these. Zooming around the Protocol map from Black Ops 6, it was the clarity of the G5’s images that struck me. I toured the grounds of this map’s old naval fort — the sky was a brilliant blue and the buildings popped up out of the sea — everything looked more lifelike, the way it would if you were actually wandering around there on a fall afternoon.
As part of my testing, I compared the LG G5 against four other TVs, including the new Samsung S95F, the LG C5 and two LCDs, all connected to the same Xbox. (With five screens playing at once, it felt like I was starring in my own personal esports event.)
That brightness I saw on the G5? That’s thanks to LG’s new four-stack panel, which literally stacks two blue OLEDS (and a red and a green) on top of each other for its dazzling light output.
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