While LG’s OLED TVs have been beloved of serious AV and home cinema fans for more than a decade, despite rocking some actually rather good proprietary Nanocell colour technology LG’s LCD TVs just haven’t struck the same sort of enthusiast chord.
My personal guess on why this might be the case is that bar a couple of QNED91 screen sizes last year, LG has consistently used contrast-limited IPS LCD panel technology rather than the VA alternative. LG has announced today, though, that it is on a mission to get AV fans to take its LCD TVs much more seriously with the introduction of a new premium ‘QNED Evo’ range.
LG’s 20225 LCD TV range will include new premium ‘QNED Evo’ models with new colour technology, … [+]
These QNED Evo TVs will be built around three new highlight features. First they claim to use a proprietary new wide colour gamut technology. Second, they’re able to receive high resolution, high frame rate images wirelessly, and thirdly, they boast new ultra-powerful AI-enhanced picture and sound processing.
Getting into these QNED Evo strengths in more detail, the improved colour gamut available on the whole 2025 QNED evo line up is achieved by a new Dynamic QNED Color Solution system that enables light from the backlight to be expressed in pure colours, rather than its light having to be passed through Quantum Dots as happens with LG’s regular QNED TVs. LG claims this new Dynamic QNED Color Solution has been certified by independent testing organisation Intertek at 100% for colour volume – meaning it can display the colours of original image masters without distortion.
Wireless video without compromise
A new QNED9M Evo series, meanwhile, will get the “True Wireless 4K” technology. This is the same system originally introduced with LG’s 2024 premium M series of OLED Evo screens, allowing cable-free transmission of video up to 4K in resolution with up to 144Hz refresh rates without, it’s claimed, any loss of picture quality or transmission ‘lag’. The system has even been certified for AMD FreeSync Premium support.
The so-called Zero Connect Box that transmits this wireless video is claimed to be capable of delivering its signals with total stability over large distances, meaning that as well as your TV no longer needing to have lots of cables going into it, your sources no longer have to be placed close to your TV.
New processing generation
The new Alpha 8 AI processor in the Evo QNED TVs is claimed to improve AI’s impact on picture and sound performance by a whopping 70% and more over its predecessor, delivering more advanced upscaling and analysing the filmmaker’s intent to better handle picture noise and present faces, objects, text and backgrounds more naturally.
The Dynamic Tone Mapping system used to optimise the way the QNED Evo TVs portray HDR10 sources apparently also now operates to a much finer degree, breaking the image down into much smaller areas of local analysis. LG is keen to stress, too, that the overall results of its improved picture processing are designed to look especially good at the sort of ultra-large screen sizes that have surged in popularity over the past year or so.
On the audio front, the new AI system in the QNED Evo TVs can convert 2-channel sound sources into virtual 9.1.2 mixes, as well as being able to separate vocals from background sounds to make dialogue clearer.
The rise of AI continues
The QNED Evo TVs will boast a couple of other key new LG TV developments, too, including shipping with a new AI Magic Remote, which among other things includes a new AI button you can use to quickly access content tailored specifically to the current TV user profile.
The general level of AI personalisation is improved, too, by a Voice ID feature that can tell who’s using the TV just by recognising their voice and switch to that individual’s personal content and setting profile; a Generative AI Gallery that lets you design custom images simply by providing the TV with a few key parameters; and customised picture and sound modes that can be set up to suit the tastes of different members of your household.
Pressing the AI button briefly guides users to relevant keywords and TV features, while in countries that support large language models (the US and South Korea) a long press of the AI button enables personalised searches based on advanced instructions. So, to use an example suggested by LG in its press information on the QNED Evo TVs, you could say “Recommend movies to watch on my trip to Paris”, with the AI able to understand the complex context of the question and suggest movies set in the French capital.
LG hasn’t yet confirmed full details of all the screen sizes and specific series names that will make up the new QNED Evo part of its 2025 TV range. Nor do we know at this point if the first step with VA panels it took in 2024 will continue/be expanded for 2025’s QNED Evo models. The press information does say, though, that the line up will include sizes ranging from 40 all the way up to 100 inches in size.
Keep an eye on my channel for more details on LG’s 2025 TV range in the coming weeks.
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