LG 2025 G5 Gallery Series w/4-Stack OLED Panel, aka Primary RGB Tandem Panel - Blu-ray Forum

b0b · 05-12-2025, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Bernardo A.

RTINGS review is out. Seems like HDR10 playback is botched and viewing angles are worse than G4. Fingers crossed for a quick fix.

Yep, the G5 has serious issues in HDR10:

https://www.avsforum.com/posts/63965642/

https://www.avsforum.com/posts/63965689/

Plus the new undefeatable always-on decontouring filter, undefeatable microcontrast 'enhancement' aka always-on per-pixel dynamic tone mapping, and undefeatable sharpening, which destroy fine details and the original creative intent with no choice for the user to turn them off to get an accurately faithful-to-source image:

Then there's issues that have just been carried over to the 2025 models from the G4/C4, like the diagonal dithering lines issue, which can result in grainy dither noise in some scenes even from further away where your eyes can't resolve the individual lines:

https://www.avsforum.com/threads/wol...hread.3307461/

And other issues:

https://www.avsforum.com/threads/lg-...-test.3302465/

https://www.avsforum.com/threads/lg-...-mode.3308343/

And if anyone says these issues have been solved/fixed, that is categorically false. The recent firmware update improved Dolby Vision, but there are serious HDR10 issues remaining, as clearly shown in the first two links I posted of a G5 that has already been updated with this firmware. Then there's all the other issues I posted, none of which have been fixed, and are unlikely to be, considering many of them have been carried over from the G4 which never got fixes.

Rtings now don't recommend the G5 to anyone due to the HDR10 issues:

https://www.avsforum.com/threads/lg-...#post-63989364

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