LG C1 OLED TV Review: Is this the best all-round OLED TV of 2021?

The LG C1, like previous C models, is the sweet spot in the 2021 OLED TV range from LG and offers a few small upgrades over last year’s CX.

The design of the C1 hasn’t changed much at all from previous generations and has the same stand designs and chassis layout, but this year there are slight colour changes. The stand on our review model was a silver finish with a white rear to the panel that LG calls Vanilla. If you want a dark coloured rear then it is called Meteor Titan. A new remote control was also introduced this year along with new menu designs and a new look WebOS 6.0 smart system which you will either love or hate, more on that later.

The C1 supports most of the HDR formats including HDR10, HLG (Hybrid Log-Gamma), Dolby Vision and Dolby Vision IQ and the excellent Filmmaker Mode that matches industry standards for content mastering. There is no HDR10+ support, but we don’t see an issue with that, given the small amount of content that uses the format.

LG has partnered with NVIDIA and AMD to make LG OLED TVs the only G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync™ Premium certified TVs available to date. There is also a new Game Optimiser set up menu and there are four HDMI 2.1 (40 Gbps) inputs with support for 4K/120, HFR (High Frame Rate), VRR (Variable Refresh Rate), ALLM (Auto Low Latency Mode) and eARC. We also have HGiG (HDR Gaming Interest Group) settings available for HDR gaming.

So is the C1 a major upgrade to the CX? Or even competition to the G1? Let’s find out.

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00:00 - Start
00:03 - Introduction
01:04 - Quick Verdict
04:17 - Design, Connections and Control
05:34 - Measurements - Out of the Box
06:39 - Calibrated
07:37 - HDR Results
09:23 - Performance
12:51 - Wrap up

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