Lab – LG 65G3: a peak in brightness never seen on an Oled TV!

The LG 65G3 is the first television to use the new Oled Evo panel with an MLA (Micro-Lens Array) microlens filter, also known as the Oled Meta panel from the manufacturer LG Display. This filter has more than 5,000 microlenses per pixel, i.e. more than 42 billion microlenses on the entire panel. A stratospheric figure that optimizes the luminous flux and avoids light loss inside the panel itself. We have published a complete dossier on this technology. The LG 65G3 is therefore the first television equipped with this technology to arrive in the laboratory and the least we can say is that we are not disappointed. At this stage, the new Oled televisions equipped with microlenses are already calling into question the interest of Mini-Led models, one of the only advantages of which over Oled is their higher peak brightness.

We measured peak brightness in Vivid picture mode with just 3% window. The peak brightness reaches 1840 cd/m². This is simply the highest luminosity measured in our laboratory. On the other hand, in this image mode, the luminance curve is not respected at all and the television systematically displays an image that is too bright.

Of course, the Vivid mode does not respect the original image at all. The color temperature is whimsical and far too blue, while the colors are totally wrong. We measured a delta E of 30, very, very far from the delta E of 3 below which the colors are considered faithful. In fact, the colors are way too saturated. Example, a pale green will turn into an almost fluorescent green.

Filmmaker mode for near-perfect HDR and ever-impressive brightness

In Filmmaker image mode, the peak brightness measured at 1460 cd/m² is the highest ever recorded on an OLED television in calibrated mode. In comparison, last year’s LG 65G2 was content with 998 cd/m² while the brightest Oled TV so far was the Panasonic 65LZ1500 with 1101 cd/m². QD-Oled televisions from Samsung (S95B) and Sony (A95K) display a peak brightness of around 1000 cd/m².

As with many manufacturers, the Filmmaker mode makes it possible to obtain a simply perfect image, with colors very faithful to those sent by the source and to the director’s vision.