LG has announced that it’s now taking preorders for its next generation of OLED TVs, the LG OLED Evo G6 and OLED Evo C6. The TVs, which range in price from $1,399 for the 42-inch C6 all the way up to an eye-popping $24,999 for the 97-inch G6, will be available to buy at an unspecified time later this month.
Happily, LG isn’t raising prices for the new TVs, despite supply chain costs that have been rising in recent months due to tariffs and the voracious appetite of AI companies, particularly for RAM and storage. What you get for your money is a pair of 4K TVs with 120Hz-native variable refresh rate panels that are some of the brightest in the business. In the case of the G6, the company has claimed it will be 20% brighter than its predecessor, the G5, already impressively bright, thanks to four-stack OLED panel tech the company started using last year.
That brightness is a big part of why the G5 is our money-is-no-object gaming TV pick. That doesn’t mean the C6 is a bad TV, though. Both TVs will support good TV picture and audio certifications like Dolby Vision (although not Dolby Vision 2) and Atmos, HDR10, HLG, and now, Filmmaker Mode with Ambient Light Compensation – that last one is a feature, developed by the UHD Alliance in collaboration with professional Hollywood filmmakers, that algorithmically compensates for the ambient light in a room in a way that, in theory, correctly represents the artists’ vision.
They’ve each also got built-in AI upscaling via LG’s A11 AI Processor 4K Gen 3. Interestingly, LG downgraded from Wi-Fi 6E to Wi-Fi 5 for both TVs. That won’t necessarily translate to a worse experience for most owners, unless your TV is in an area with lots of Wi-Fi interference and you’re trying to stream from Sony Pictures Core, Sony’s super high-bitrate streaming service. Finally, the G6 will come in five screen sizes, ranging from 55 inches up to a behemot 97 inches, while the C6 starts at 42 inches and goes to 83 inches.
Wes is a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they call him) who has covered technology, gaming, and entertainment steadily since 2020 at Gizmodo, Tom’s Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and most recently, The Verge. Inside of him there are two wolves: one that thinks it wouldn’t be so bad to start collecting game consoles again, and the other who also thinks this, but more strongly.
