There’s just one fly in LG’s ointment: the Samsung Q9FN. It’s similarly priced and excels in its own ways. It doesn’t have the lighting precision, but it can get almost as dark, and a whole lot brighter too – that’s a huge dynamic range. For those homes with numerous windows or bright lights, the Samsung manages a more versatile picture. The storage humidity shows the lower and upper humidity limit, which ensures safe storage of the display. Storing it outside these limits might damage the display. If only all smart TVs were this intuitive; Android TV (favoured by Philips and Sony Bravia TVs) has a lot to learn. The closest alternative is the launcher bar system used by Samsung, but even that isn’t as silky-smooth nor snappy as webOS.

The internal speakers do some good spatial work, offering a good spread of sound as Quill splashes around the planet of Morag. It doesn’t project the sound forward to the viewer particularly well – everything stays rather in the same vertical plane as the TV screen – but there’s a feeling of movement as the geysers blast columns of water around Quill. The bottom end notes don’t quite hit you in the chest, but your ears still feel it even if the rest of your body doesn’t. We’ve compared Samsung’s premium Q9FN range to LG’s C8 series, and there isn’t much between them. The C8 just edges it due to the TV’s more rounded performance, but the there truly isn’t much in it. Opt for either range and you won’t be disappointed.

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