What They Say
Vincent Teoh of HDTV Test has reviewed the LG miniLED QNED99 8K TV set which has 1800 dimming zones (60 x 30). He found that despite the number of dimming zones, there are still artefacts from the backlight dimming algorithm. Colour accuracy was fairly good with a deltaE value of 1.89. 3:2 pulldown was good and motion was good. Adding BFI improves the motion resolution, but with noticeable flicker.
Upscaling is good, and sharpening is not as aggressive as Samsung sets. Jaggie suppression was good.
Peak brightness was 1293 cd/m² after calibration at 10% and 537 cd/m² with a full screen. Bright HDR scenes looked good. Gradation is good, but not as good as Sony. The Dolby Vision home mode looks better than the cinema mode as it is brighter, so the backlight quirks are not so evident.
Response times are very good with 14.5ms input lag at 2160P60 and 6.6ms at 1080P120. It supports auto low latency mode, but not VRR. It has four HDMI 2.1 ports. There was an elevated grey level on games and it seems that engaging ALLM disables the backlight dimming. However, the mode can be disabled.
8K video was tested and worked fine from YouTube 8K videos. 8K resolution was supported but chroma resolution is between 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 because of subpixel addressing.
What We Think
In conclusion, Teoh said that although this is the best LCD TV that LG has ever produced, it is not as compelling as UltraHD OLED sets available at the same kind of price. He also thinks that there are better LCD TVs that use VA panels, rather than the LG’s IPS technology. (BR)
