I anticipated early this year that the LG C8 OLED would end up being my pick for TV of the year. LG's E8 arrangement OLED was the main TV to hit my test seat in 2018 and since I expected the C8 arrangement would convey comparative picture quality and client experience for less cash, it felt like a sure thing. Since I've gotten an opportunity to test the most elite from Sony, Samsung, TCL, and Vizio, I'm satisfied to authoritatively report that the LG C8 arrangement OLED is Digital Trends' pick for best TV of the year – and likely for at any rate the principal half of 2019, as well.
Without a doubt, the more affordable LG B8 arrangement OLED is an exceedingly convincing decision too – who doesn't prefer to set aside extra cash? Be that as it may, for a little premium, the C8 offers a compelling mix of the best picture quality we've tried to date, smooth structure, prevalent handling, decision in screen size, and accessibility.
The LG C8-Series won our honor for the best results of the year. Ensure and look at all our different determinations for Best Products of 2018.
MEET YOUR NEW TV
On the off chance that you get yourself the destined to-be-pleased proprietor of a shiny new LG C8 OLED TV, call a companion or five over before unpacking the TV. There's nothing very like the experience of unpacking an OLED TV – the amazingly slender profile never gets old, notwithstanding for those of us who have experienced the procedure a few times in the course of recent years – and we think it is something best shared. You'll need those amigos around when you light the TV up out of the blue, as well.
LG C8 OLED TV
Riley Young/Digital Trends
Setting up a C8 OLED is simple, thanks partially to another stand structure, yet in addition on the grounds that the TV is so light and in light of the fact that LG's WebOS 4.0 is among the most natural TV working frameworks accessible today. Except if you're going to divider mount this TV, you can hope to ogle at the C8's fantastic picture in around 10 minutes.
With four HDMI inputs (HDMI 2 for HDMI ARC), you have enough space for an amusement support or two, link/satellite box, 4K Ultra HD Blu-beam player, or whatever else you might want to associate. Given such a large number of link and satellite administrations offer web applications for spilling membership TV administrations, you could likely simply skirt the link or satellite box and utilize that contribution for something different.
LIVING WITH THE C8 OLED
Discussing gushing: If you were contemplating interfacing a Roku or Fire TV gadget or doing the vast majority of your spilling through a gaming console, we'd ask you to rethink. Some portion of what makes the LG C8 OLED such an extraordinary TV is WebOS 4.0 and all the gushing applications and highlights that accompany it. On account of LG's ThinQ A.I. reconciliation, the TV can be controlled with either Google Assistant or Alexa-empowered brilliant speakers, voice control is accessible through the TV's remote, and bolster exists for HDR10, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos (went through HDMI ARC) when accessible from good gushing applications. It's difficult to locate an outsider bit of equipment that can pull off each one of those traps and do it so flawlessly.
WebOS 4.0 is likewise showing signs of improvement at finding what you need to watch and where to watch it. While it required a significant stretch of time to make up for lost time to any semblance of Roku, LG's substance seek framework currently restores a wide exhibit of survey choices dependent on memberships. It hasn't yet made sense of how to survey spilling live TV administrations like Sling TV and DirecTV Now for their live and on-request programming choices, yet we have trust that is a component we'll find sooner rather than later.
LG C8 OLED TV
LG C8 OLED TV
LG C8 OLED TV
LG C8 OLED TV
On the off chance that there's any piece of LG's C8 OLED TV that doesn't feel fabulously cutting edge, it's the remote control. Remaining to a great extent unaltered in the course of recent years, LG's Magic Motion remote is beginning to lose its shine. The Nintendo Wii-like movement viewpoint stays helpful for accelerating username and secret word passage, however that is the point of confinement of its advantage over increasingly ordinary up-down-left-right-enter cursor-based route. Without a doubt, the Magic Motion offers the last as a choice, yet every time the remote is gotten, the little pink pointer shows up on screen and doesn't vanish until different catches are squeezed – a minor disturbance, however irritating regardless.
The remote likewise feels superfluously jumbled with catches. Do we truly require numerical keys these days? Put our offer in for a progressively in vogue, rearranged, and thinned down remote in 2019!
With those minor bandy noted, we need to state that the C8 OLED is among the most pleasurable TVs to live with accessible today. Just Samsung's Tizen OS could be viewed as much better, and still, after all that it's a matter of inclination over a slender edge.
GET A SOUNDBAR
PAIR WITH A SOUNDBAR
Samsung HW-N950
Samsung HW-K950
Sony HT-Z9F 3.1
Vizio 5.1.4
LG's stand structure for the C8 OLED isn't simply intended to look great while holding the TV upstanding on a TV stand, it's intended to help mirror the sound leaving the TV from down-terminating speakers out toward watchers. It's a cunning thought, and we guess it encourages some with discourse lucidity, however honestly a TV of this bore merits sound quality that coordinates its image quality. Nothing drains the energy out of a perfectly shown motion picture like disappointing sound quality. Honestly, the TV's speakers are fine for viewing the news or a sitcom or diversion appear, however for any sort of charming substance, we recommend tuning in through a soundbar or some other outside speaker framework. Luckily, we have a group of incredible recommendations for soundbars directly here.
In any case, THAT PICTURE, THOUGH!
You've seen the 5-star rating, you've seen the Editor's Choice honor, you've heard that Caleb Denison's relationship with OLED TVs verges on undesirable — yet is the LG C8 extremely that incredible of a TV?
Indeed. Indeed, it is.
I'm mindful that, as a TV commentator, I may put on a show of being an elitist, and I'll be the first to concede I am incredibly fortunate to have work where the most elite TVs mysteriously show up in my office so I can invest for quite a while taking a seat and fundamentally breaking down them. In any case, toward the finish of day, I return home and experience TV like every other person does. My children seize the TV for irritating youngsters' customizing constantly. When I'm fortunate, I get the chance to watch a ball game or two. I like to gorge Ozark and Better Call Saul as much as anybody and, no, I'm not staying there pondering pinnacle luminance in certain HDR unearthly features – well, in any event not constantly. For the most part, I simply like sitting in front of the TV.
LG C8 OLED TV
Riley Young/Digital Trends
It might come as an unexpected that I don't possess an OLED TV. Frankly, one of my fundamental TVs is a plasma that I've had for quite a long while, and I don't watch it frequently in light of the fact that there are continually new TVs coming all through my family unit throughout the entire year. It simply doesn't bode well to spend a cluster of cash on a TV I won't get the chance to appreciate all the time, yet you can wager your breeches that in the event that I was purchasing a TV this year, there is no doubt that it would be a 65-inch LG C8 OLED.
I'm not by any means the only one in my family unit sitting in front of the TV. Other, less in fact keen individuals utilize my TV constantly, so it is basic they are not just fit for finding what they need to watch or changing over to play an amusement on the Xbox One S, however that they appreciate the procedure. LG's C8 OLED offers that agreeability, and I would contend receptiveness is second just to picture quality.
With regards to picture quality, the LG C8 OLED thoroughly runs the show.
With regards to picture quality, the LG C8 OLED thoroughly runs the show. Impeccable dark dimensions meet rich and blasting hues emphasized by astonishing HDR features and 4K goals, giving a profoundly fulfilling and dimensionally captivating TV-and motion picture watching knowledge. The image quality is good to the point that I will regularly skirt going to see a flick at the motion pictures since I'd preferably experience it out of the blue on an OLED TV.
Amid my testing, I set the LG C8 against Samsung's fantastic Q9FN and Sony's profoundly aggressive A9F OLED. The Samsung Q9FN offers an extremely convincing client experience, and it is an a lot more brilliant TV with truly good dark dimensions for a LCD TV and exceptional shading directly out of the container. The Sony A9F is a similarly noteworthy OLED with Sony's great handling backing it up – a TV I would think about a treat to observe each day. All things considered, the LG C8 OLED beat out both contending models as my top pick. The C8 is far more affordable than the A9F, and I'll take WebOS over Android TV quickly. And keeping in mind that the Samsung Q9FN is bolder and more brilliant, I can't make tracks in an opposite direction from the C8's ideal dark dimensions.
LG C8 OLED TV
Riley Young/Digital Trends
Obviously, it is difficult to compose an OLED TV audit without tending to the worry of consume in and picture maintenance, so given me a chance to rehash what I wrote in my LG E8 OLED TV survey:
There are a couple of watchers for whom the LG E8 OLED is certainly not a solid match. Here are a couple of personas that fit that profile:
In the event that you turn on a news channel like CNN or Fox News and leave that station playing actually throughout the day, a few days seven days, at that point you need a LED/LCD TV. OLED isn't worked for that sort of utilization. In the event that you do treat an OLED TV that way, you will get a kind of consume as a result and will see the apparition of a news ticker laying over all that you watch – it's dreadful.
The equivalent goes for the individuals who play one computer game title with a similar static pictures on-screen for quite a long time at any given moment, a few days seven days. No OLED for you. Go get a LED/LCD TV. May we recommend one of these?
Assuming, in any case, you watch a ton of blended substance – regardless of whether you do camp on a solitary channel or computer game for a few hours every day – the LG C8 ought to completely be in your main three TVs for thought. It's incredible in any room, in pretty much every utilization case situation.
Guarantee INFORMATION
LG offers a one-year guarantee on parts and work. This is a TV for which one should need to consider a service contract add-on, considering most TVs will in general break in the second year on the off chance that they are going to break by any means. More data on LG's guarantee for this TV can be found here.
OUR TAKE
The LG C8 OLED TV is the best TV you can purchase this year on account of outstanding picture quality, superb usability, rich highlights, and a moderately agreeable value point.
Is there a superior option?
For those requiring an exceedingly brilliant TV and those worried about consume in, a top-level Samsung QLED or LG Super UHD TV make strong alternatives. For the most flawlessly awesome execution, be that as it may, the LG C8 OLED TV is the most blazing ticket around the local area.
To what extent will it last?
LG claims its OLED TV boards offer a 100,000-hour half-life. It's a sure thing one would need to buy a more up to date TV to make up for lost time with the most recent advancements well before the C8 OLED's execution begins taking a plunge. We figure this TV will awe proprietors for somewhere around 7 years before their eyes begin to meander.
Would it be a good idea for you to get it?
Truly. On the off chance that the LG C8 OLED is inside your methods, completely purchase this TV.
Without a doubt, the more affordable LG B8 arrangement OLED is an exceedingly convincing decision too – who doesn't prefer to set aside extra cash? Be that as it may, for a little premium, the C8 offers a compelling mix of the best picture quality we've tried to date, smooth structure, prevalent handling, decision in screen size, and accessibility.
The LG C8-Series won our honor for the best results of the year. Ensure and look at all our different determinations for Best Products of 2018.
MEET YOUR NEW TV
On the off chance that you get yourself the destined to-be-pleased proprietor of a shiny new LG C8 OLED TV, call a companion or five over before unpacking the TV. There's nothing very like the experience of unpacking an OLED TV – the amazingly slender profile never gets old, notwithstanding for those of us who have experienced the procedure a few times in the course of recent years – and we think it is something best shared. You'll need those amigos around when you light the TV up out of the blue, as well.
LG C8 OLED TV
Riley Young/Digital Trends
Setting up a C8 OLED is simple, thanks partially to another stand structure, yet in addition on the grounds that the TV is so light and in light of the fact that LG's WebOS 4.0 is among the most natural TV working frameworks accessible today. Except if you're going to divider mount this TV, you can hope to ogle at the C8's fantastic picture in around 10 minutes.
With four HDMI inputs (HDMI 2 for HDMI ARC), you have enough space for an amusement support or two, link/satellite box, 4K Ultra HD Blu-beam player, or whatever else you might want to associate. Given such a large number of link and satellite administrations offer web applications for spilling membership TV administrations, you could likely simply skirt the link or satellite box and utilize that contribution for something different.
LIVING WITH THE C8 OLED
Discussing gushing: If you were contemplating interfacing a Roku or Fire TV gadget or doing the vast majority of your spilling through a gaming console, we'd ask you to rethink. Some portion of what makes the LG C8 OLED such an extraordinary TV is WebOS 4.0 and all the gushing applications and highlights that accompany it. On account of LG's ThinQ A.I. reconciliation, the TV can be controlled with either Google Assistant or Alexa-empowered brilliant speakers, voice control is accessible through the TV's remote, and bolster exists for HDR10, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos (went through HDMI ARC) when accessible from good gushing applications. It's difficult to locate an outsider bit of equipment that can pull off each one of those traps and do it so flawlessly.
WebOS 4.0 is likewise showing signs of improvement at finding what you need to watch and where to watch it. While it required a significant stretch of time to make up for lost time to any semblance of Roku, LG's substance seek framework currently restores a wide exhibit of survey choices dependent on memberships. It hasn't yet made sense of how to survey spilling live TV administrations like Sling TV and DirecTV Now for their live and on-request programming choices, yet we have trust that is a component we'll find sooner rather than later.
LG C8 OLED TV
LG C8 OLED TV
LG C8 OLED TV
LG C8 OLED TV
On the off chance that there's any piece of LG's C8 OLED TV that doesn't feel fabulously cutting edge, it's the remote control. Remaining to a great extent unaltered in the course of recent years, LG's Magic Motion remote is beginning to lose its shine. The Nintendo Wii-like movement viewpoint stays helpful for accelerating username and secret word passage, however that is the point of confinement of its advantage over increasingly ordinary up-down-left-right-enter cursor-based route. Without a doubt, the Magic Motion offers the last as a choice, yet every time the remote is gotten, the little pink pointer shows up on screen and doesn't vanish until different catches are squeezed – a minor disturbance, however irritating regardless.
The remote likewise feels superfluously jumbled with catches. Do we truly require numerical keys these days? Put our offer in for a progressively in vogue, rearranged, and thinned down remote in 2019!
With those minor bandy noted, we need to state that the C8 OLED is among the most pleasurable TVs to live with accessible today. Just Samsung's Tizen OS could be viewed as much better, and still, after all that it's a matter of inclination over a slender edge.
GET A SOUNDBAR
PAIR WITH A SOUNDBAR
Samsung HW-N950
Samsung HW-K950
Sony HT-Z9F 3.1
Vizio 5.1.4
LG's stand structure for the C8 OLED isn't simply intended to look great while holding the TV upstanding on a TV stand, it's intended to help mirror the sound leaving the TV from down-terminating speakers out toward watchers. It's a cunning thought, and we guess it encourages some with discourse lucidity, however honestly a TV of this bore merits sound quality that coordinates its image quality. Nothing drains the energy out of a perfectly shown motion picture like disappointing sound quality. Honestly, the TV's speakers are fine for viewing the news or a sitcom or diversion appear, however for any sort of charming substance, we recommend tuning in through a soundbar or some other outside speaker framework. Luckily, we have a group of incredible recommendations for soundbars directly here.
In any case, THAT PICTURE, THOUGH!
You've seen the 5-star rating, you've seen the Editor's Choice honor, you've heard that Caleb Denison's relationship with OLED TVs verges on undesirable — yet is the LG C8 extremely that incredible of a TV?
Indeed. Indeed, it is.
I'm mindful that, as a TV commentator, I may put on a show of being an elitist, and I'll be the first to concede I am incredibly fortunate to have work where the most elite TVs mysteriously show up in my office so I can invest for quite a while taking a seat and fundamentally breaking down them. In any case, toward the finish of day, I return home and experience TV like every other person does. My children seize the TV for irritating youngsters' customizing constantly. When I'm fortunate, I get the chance to watch a ball game or two. I like to gorge Ozark and Better Call Saul as much as anybody and, no, I'm not staying there pondering pinnacle luminance in certain HDR unearthly features – well, in any event not constantly. For the most part, I simply like sitting in front of the TV.
LG C8 OLED TV
Riley Young/Digital Trends
It might come as an unexpected that I don't possess an OLED TV. Frankly, one of my fundamental TVs is a plasma that I've had for quite a long while, and I don't watch it frequently in light of the fact that there are continually new TVs coming all through my family unit throughout the entire year. It simply doesn't bode well to spend a cluster of cash on a TV I won't get the chance to appreciate all the time, yet you can wager your breeches that in the event that I was purchasing a TV this year, there is no doubt that it would be a 65-inch LG C8 OLED.
I'm not by any means the only one in my family unit sitting in front of the TV. Other, less in fact keen individuals utilize my TV constantly, so it is basic they are not just fit for finding what they need to watch or changing over to play an amusement on the Xbox One S, however that they appreciate the procedure. LG's C8 OLED offers that agreeability, and I would contend receptiveness is second just to picture quality.
With regards to picture quality, the LG C8 OLED thoroughly runs the show.
With regards to picture quality, the LG C8 OLED thoroughly runs the show. Impeccable dark dimensions meet rich and blasting hues emphasized by astonishing HDR features and 4K goals, giving a profoundly fulfilling and dimensionally captivating TV-and motion picture watching knowledge. The image quality is good to the point that I will regularly skirt going to see a flick at the motion pictures since I'd preferably experience it out of the blue on an OLED TV.
Amid my testing, I set the LG C8 against Samsung's fantastic Q9FN and Sony's profoundly aggressive A9F OLED. The Samsung Q9FN offers an extremely convincing client experience, and it is an a lot more brilliant TV with truly good dark dimensions for a LCD TV and exceptional shading directly out of the container. The Sony A9F is a similarly noteworthy OLED with Sony's great handling backing it up – a TV I would think about a treat to observe each day. All things considered, the LG C8 OLED beat out both contending models as my top pick. The C8 is far more affordable than the A9F, and I'll take WebOS over Android TV quickly. And keeping in mind that the Samsung Q9FN is bolder and more brilliant, I can't make tracks in an opposite direction from the C8's ideal dark dimensions.
LG C8 OLED TV
Riley Young/Digital Trends
Obviously, it is difficult to compose an OLED TV audit without tending to the worry of consume in and picture maintenance, so given me a chance to rehash what I wrote in my LG E8 OLED TV survey:
There are a couple of watchers for whom the LG E8 OLED is certainly not a solid match. Here are a couple of personas that fit that profile:
In the event that you turn on a news channel like CNN or Fox News and leave that station playing actually throughout the day, a few days seven days, at that point you need a LED/LCD TV. OLED isn't worked for that sort of utilization. In the event that you do treat an OLED TV that way, you will get a kind of consume as a result and will see the apparition of a news ticker laying over all that you watch – it's dreadful.
The equivalent goes for the individuals who play one computer game title with a similar static pictures on-screen for quite a long time at any given moment, a few days seven days. No OLED for you. Go get a LED/LCD TV. May we recommend one of these?
Assuming, in any case, you watch a ton of blended substance – regardless of whether you do camp on a solitary channel or computer game for a few hours every day – the LG C8 ought to completely be in your main three TVs for thought. It's incredible in any room, in pretty much every utilization case situation.
Guarantee INFORMATION
LG offers a one-year guarantee on parts and work. This is a TV for which one should need to consider a service contract add-on, considering most TVs will in general break in the second year on the off chance that they are going to break by any means. More data on LG's guarantee for this TV can be found here.
OUR TAKE
The LG C8 OLED TV is the best TV you can purchase this year on account of outstanding picture quality, superb usability, rich highlights, and a moderately agreeable value point.
Is there a superior option?
For those requiring an exceedingly brilliant TV and those worried about consume in, a top-level Samsung QLED or LG Super UHD TV make strong alternatives. For the most flawlessly awesome execution, be that as it may, the LG C8 OLED TV is the most blazing ticket around the local area.
To what extent will it last?
LG claims its OLED TV boards offer a 100,000-hour half-life. It's a sure thing one would need to buy a more up to date TV to make up for lost time with the most recent advancements well before the C8 OLED's execution begins taking a plunge. We figure this TV will awe proprietors for somewhere around 7 years before their eyes begin to meander.
Would it be a good idea for you to get it?
Truly. On the off chance that the LG C8 OLED is inside your methods, completely purchase this TV.
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