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LG’s latest midrange OLED TV, the Evo C6, continues the line's long-standing tradition of offering a great picture in a sleek package for much less than its flagship counterpart. It puts out a bit more light than its predecessor, the Evo C5, with excellent color performance and plenty of streaming features. It has weaker Wi-Fi, which is strange, but otherwise it’s the same excellent TV with a slightly brighter panel. At $2,699.99 for the 65-inch model I tested, it isn’t cheap, but it's currently discounted to $1,799.99, which is just over half the price of LG’s premium G6 and our Editors’ Choice for high-end OLED TVs, the Samsung S95H (both $3,399.99 for 65 inches, respectively). Paying more for the Samsung will get you a brighter picture, faster Wi-Fi, and a fancy spatial audio sound system, but if that’s too pricey for you, the Evo C6 is an excellent alternative that replaces the Evo C5 as our Editors’ Choice for OLED value. If you can still find the C5, though, don’t be afraid to pick it up instead.
Design: Slim, Sleek, and Familiar
Physically, the C6 is largely unchanged from the C5. The panel is completely bezel-free, sporting only a narrow metal band around the edges and a small rectangular bump on the bottom center to house the TV’s infrared receiver. Otherwise, it’s all screen without a hint of a frame. The TV sits on a rectangular metal stand (or you can wall-mount it).
Around back, the OLED’s incredibly thin profile is broken by a rectangular enclosure that takes up about half the panel area and holds all of the TV’s electronics. The permanently attached power cable extends down from the middle of the enclosure, while the rest of the connections can be found on the left side, facing left. They include four HDMI ports (one eARC), two USB ports, an optical audio output, an Ethernet port, a 3.5mm IR blaster port, and an RF antenna/cable connector.
The remote is a deceptively simple rectangular black wand with a large, circular navigation pad featuring a clickable scroll wheel in the middle. Menu and navigation buttons sit around the pad, with volume and channel rockers below them and dedicated service buttons for Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Haystack News, LG Channels, Netflix, and the webOS app store further down. The remote has built-in motion sensors and can serve as an air mouse for the TV, moving an on-screen cursor with a waggle.
Features: Lots of Streaming, But Middling Wi-Fi
Like the G6, the C5, and pretty much all current LG TVs, the C6 uses LG’s WebOS smart TV platform. It’s a capable, feature-filled interface that covers all major streaming services, including Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Crunchyroll, Disney+, Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube, plus local streaming from almost any smartphone, tablet, or computer with Apple AirPlay, Google Cast, and Miracast/WiDi.
The TV provides hands-free access to LG’s own AI voice assistant, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. The C6 can serve as a hub for both Google Home and Matter devices, connecting them to your home network and letting you control them by voice. Gemini and Copilot are specifically for getting information and searching for content, though, and you won’t get the same Gemini Home smart home control features you would with a TV running Google TV. The TV and compatible smart home devices must be controlled by speaking to LG's voice assistant, which isn't as conversational as Gemini. It's still useful, but it's a different experience than Gemini, so it can feel incongruous if you already use Gemini Home through a smart speaker or smart display.
The Evo C6 is a 4K OLED TV with a 120Hz native refresh rate (VRR up to 165Hz) and high dynamic range (HDR) support in Dolby Vision, HDR10, and hybrid log gamma (HLG). It has an ATSC 1.0 tuner for over-the-air TV, but not ATSC 3.0 for 1080p and 4K broadcasts. It shares the same strange downgrade as the G6, featuring only Wi-Fi 5 instead of Wi-Fi 6E on the C5 and G5. Wi-Fi 5 is perfectly fine for streaming 4K HDR video in most situations, but it isn’t as fast or resilient as Wi-Fi 6E, and doesn’t use the 6GHz band for more airwave room.
Performance: A Bit Brighter Than Before
I test TVs using a Klein K-10A colorimeter, a Murideo SIX-G signal generator, and Portrait Displays’ Calman software, and by the numbers, the C6 does not disappoint. Out of the box, in HDR Filmmaker mode with an HDR10 signal, the TV shows a peak brightness of 1,015 nits with an 18% white field and 1,552 nits with a 10% white field. That’s a modest step up from the C5 (944 nits 8%, 1,269 nits 10%), though it doesn’t hit the light levels of flagship OLED models like the LG G6 (1,566 nits 18%, 2,460 nits 10%) or the Samsung S95H (1,634 nits 18%, 2,460 nits 10%). A midrange OLED TV breaking 1,000 nits with the larger white field is excellent, and like the slightly dimmer C5 before it, the C6 looks figuratively stunning even if it’s not literally blinding. Like all OLED TVs, the C6 has perfect black levels with pixel-level light control, so there is no light bloom along high-contrast edges like mini-LED TVs have.
Colors are great on the C6, as the above chart shows. It depicts the TV’s measured color levels with an SDR signal in Filmmaker mode compared against Rec.709 broadcast standard color levels, with HDR10 and Dolby Vision signals in HDR Filmmaker mode compared against DCI-P3 digital cinema standards. SDR colors are just about perfect, which is an easy feat for most TVs now. More impressively, it offers just about perfect Dolby Vision colors, and mostly spot-on HDR10 colors showing only slightly warmer than ideal magentas and greener than ideal cyans. Without any calibration, this is top-notch color accuracy.
Viewing Experience: A Gorgeous OLED Picture
Considering its predecessor’s performance, it’s no surprise that the C6 looks fantastic. Nature footage in BBC’s Planet Earth II looks vibrant and lifelike, with rich colors and strong contrast. Blue waters and green leaves in the "Islands" episode are varied and well-saturated without looking overblown. The fine details of fur and bark can be clearly seen, whether brightly lit by sun or darkened by shade.
The party scenes in The Great Gatsby show off the C6’s excellent contrast. Black suit jackets look dark while preserving their cuts, contours, and textures, and the whites of shirts, lights, and balloons are bright enough to stand out against them. Skin tones are well-balanced, though perhaps a touch oversaturated in the brighter Cinema Home mode than the more subdued Filmmaker Mode. They both look very good, and the best choice will depend on the lighting in your room and whether you would prefer a bit more pop or a more film-like look.
Demonstration footage on the Spears & Munsil Ultra HD benchmark disc also looks fantastic. Wintery landscapes show plenty of highlight detail, with clouds and snow clearly visible against white skies. These shots are a bit dim because they light up almost the entire panel with white, but those are the only times when light is an issue, and they’re still watchable. Very sunny shots that don’t completely fill the screen, like sunny scenes of rock formations with blue skies, look quite bright. And, as expected, the pixel-level brightness control afforded by the C6’s OLED panel means not a trace of light bloom can be seen in torture test shots of colorful objects against completely black backgrounds.
Gaming: FreeSync, G-Sync, and 165Hz VRR
The C6’s 120Hz panel supports variable refresh rate (VRR) at up to 165Hz and features AMD FreeSync Premium and Nvidia G-Sync compatibility, which should please most gamers. It’s also very responsive. Using a Leo Bodnar 4K Video Signal Lag Tester, I measured an input lag of 12.8 milliseconds with a 4K60 signal and 4.6 milliseconds with a 1080p120 signal (both times in Game mode). That’s less than a frame in each case, so the C6 qualifies as good for gaming. If you want even better performance, the premium Samsung S95H showed input lag of 4.8ms at 1080p120 and just 9.2ms at 4K60, earning our PCMag Lab Award for fastest gaming TV.
