This is my next TV.
The LG G5 65″ OLED.
For my living room, OLED wins this one, and the G5’s RGB Tandem panel kills the one objection I had left. It doesn’t just match my QN95D’s brightness, it beats it, without ever blooming a halo around a subtitle in a dark scene.”
Per-pixel black or nothing
The Samsung gets astonishingly close, and then a subtitle appears in a dark film wearing its own halo. A backlight blooms; a pixel that switches off doesn’t.
It ends the format arguments
Samsung has spent a decade refusing Dolby Vision and my QN95D inherited the grudge. The G5 plays whatever any app throws at it: test cricket in a bright room, 4K120 gaming, gloomy Scandinavian thrillers at night, no settings safari required.
The brightness excuse is gone
The old complaint against LG OLED was always the same: gorgeous at night, a little timid at 3pm next to a QD-OLED. The RGB Tandem panel roughly doubles peak brightness over a standard OLED.
| Panel | 65″ OLED evo, Primary RGB Tandem |
|---|---|
| Resolution | 3840×2160 (4K) |
| Refresh rate | 165Hz, 4K120 gaming |
| Peak brightness | Over 2,000 nits (RGB Tandem panel) |
| HDR formats | Dolby Vision, HDR10, HLG |
| HDMI | 4× HDMI 2.1, 48Gbps |
| The bright-room buy |
Samsung S90F 65″
₹1,49,999
|
Brighter panel, punchier colourNo Dolby Vision, and Tizen keeps nagging |
|---|---|---|
| The value LG |
LG C5 65″ OLED
₹1,73,990
|
Same processor smarts and format support for ₹35,000 lessHalf the peak brightness of the G5’s RGB Tandem panel |
| The cinephile splurge |
Sony Bravia 8 65″
₹2,66,940
|
The most faithful picture of the threeYou pay a Sony tax for that tuning |
| My pick |
LG G5 65″ OLED
₹2,08,490
|
Per-pixel black without the usual bright-room compromise, plus every HDR formatA ₹35,000 premium over the C5, and some bundles skip the stand for a wall mount instead |
LG C5 65″, if you want the same black levels and format support for ₹35,000 less, and don’t need the extra brightness.
How the G5’s peak brightness actually reads against my living room’s specific afternoon light is a showroom-and-review judgement, not one I’ve made standing in my own room with the set switched on.
That link is an Amazon.in search, not one exact listing: I haven’t pinned a specific product page until I’ve verified it matches this configuration. If you buy through that link I earn a small commission. It costs you nothing and keeps the picks independent. I accept long-term review units; they never buy the pick, and I say so when a unit was loaned.
Do I still need to worry about the S90F’s brighter panel?
Not really anymore. Brightness was the last reason to pick a QD-OLED over LG, and the G5 closes that gap while keeping per-pixel black. The S90F still won’t take a Dolby Vision stream, which weighs more with me than the nits do.
Is OLED burn-in still a worry for daily TV use?
Less than it used to be. Modern panels have pixel-shifting and logo dimming that handle normal viewing fine; it only really bites if you park a news channel’s static logo on screen for months at a stretch.
Is 165Hz overkill if I’m not a console gamer?
Mostly, yes. I’d be buying it for the format support and the black levels either way; the high refresh rate is a nice bonus I probably won’t max out.