LAS VEGAS—While RGB LED TVs are the biggest topic in home entertainment at CES 2026, they aren’t the only game in high-end home entertainment.
LG has been producing excellent OLED TVs for over a decade, and it just unveiled a new one at the show: the W6. I got a close look at it at LG’s preview suite, and it’s an impressively bright, colorful, and thin panel that’s also almost completely wireless.
The W6 is an OLED TV that measures just 9mm thick, or less than 0.4 inches. That’s incredibly thin and can be mounted almost flush against the wall with even slimmer mounting hardware. It’s no surprise that LG calls it the “wallpaper TV,” which is what the W in W6 stands for.
The Zero Connect box is that little black box in the lower-left corner. (Credit: Will Greenwald)
W could also stand for “wireless,” because the W6 offloads almost all of its wired connections and much of its electronics to a separate Zero Connect box that streams audio and video to the panel from up to 30 feet away. All the W6 needs is a single, easily concealable cable to provide power. At the preview suite, one of the W6 TVs on display was mounted on a nearly clear board to show off the mounting hardware, and the power cable disappeared behind a narrow etched pattern.
The W6’s picture also looks stunning, but that’s not surprising. It uses the same OLED panel as LG’s new G6 TV, which is the follow-up to one of my favorite TVs of 2026, the LG G5. The G5 is the brightest OLED TV I’ve fully tested so far, and LG claims both the G6 and W6 can get even brighter thanks to their Brightness Booster Ultra image processing that can squeeze out even more light by judiciously allocating power. It’s also very colorful, though unlike the Micro RGB evo TVs announced last month, LG doesn’t claim the W6 can cover the full BT.2020 color space. Even so, OLED panels almost universally have excellent color, and they can control each individual pixel’s light output to prevent the haze of light bloom often seen on LED TVs.
(Credit: Will Greenwald)
LG manages to pack speakers into the W6’s thin form, and you’ll be able to take advantage of them even if you use a soundbar or surround speakers, thanks to LG Sound Suite, which the company unveiled in December.
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Sound Suite is a series of speakers that connect wirelessly to the W6 using Dolby Atmos FlexConnect. You can connect the 13.1.7-channel H7 soundbar, the M5 and M7 satellite speakers, and the W7 subwoofer to the W6 in multiple configurations, and FlexConnect will automatically calibrate and adjust its spatial audio processing based on where each component is placed, and incorporate all of them and the W6’s own speakers into how it puts out sound.
What makes the system so interesting is that you don’t need to worry about putting satellites in traditional surround sound locations, like behind the couch or far to the sides. They don’t even need to be symmetrical, and FlexConnect can adapt. I got a look at the mobile app-based setup process for LG Sound Suite, and it seemed to be both simple to use and surprisingly accurate in where it detected each speaker’s position after moving them.
You won’t need a W6 to use LG Sound Suite, though. It’s a completely different wireless setup than the Zero Connect box, and many other LG TVs will be compatible with the speakers. LG Sound Suite will work with the G6 and C6 OLEDs, plus all of LG’s Micro RGB evo TVs, QN85 and higher LED TVs, and 2025’s C5 and G5 OLEDs.
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While the wireless design means it can look incredibly clean and elegant on the wall, I would caution gamers about it. I couldn’t exactly test this just-announced TV at the event (and I didn’t pack my equipment for it), but last year I tested two Samsung TVs that use similar wireless boxes, The Frame Pro and the 8K QN990F. They showed input lag of up to 24 milliseconds with a 1080p120 signal and up to 37 milliseconds with a 4K60 signal. That’s about three frames, and too much lag for serious gamers.
To be fair, they were preproduction units at the time, but the lag was significantly higher than three other non-wireless preproduction TVs (the QN80F, QN90F, and S95F), which showed input lag of less than one frame, and which were in line with the final versions of the QN90F and S95F I fully reviewed later that year. The technology might have been improved since then, or LG might have a more responsive system for it, but until I can test it myself, I wouldn’t count on any wireless TV for gaming.
LG hasn’t announced pricing or availability for the W6, but as the company’s new flagship OLED model, it’ll probably be very expensive. I have confirmed that it won’t be as expensive as the last wallpaper OLED TV the company attempted, the 2019 W9, which was $6,999 for 65 inches and a whopping $12,999 for 77 inches. And that wasn’t even wireless! It was tethered to a huge soundbar.
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I’m PCMag’s home theater and AR/VR expert, and your go-to source of information and recommendations for game consoles and accessories, smart displays, smart glasses, smart speakers, soundbars, TVs, and VR headsets. I’m an ISF-certified TV calibrator and THX-certified home theater technician, I’ve served as a CES Innovation Awards judge, and while Bandai hasn’t officially certified me, I’m also proficient at building Gundam plastic models up to MG-class. I also enjoy genre fiction writing, and my urban fantasy novel, Alex Norton, Paranormal Technical Support, is currently available on Amazon.
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