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The design of the LG 65QNED866QA is not really inspiring, no different from the LG\u00a0QNED81<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0The device looks very ordinary, with a dark gray back panel and a dark titanium-colored plastic frame.\u00a0The crescent base is the only bright design accent.\u00a0This base supports the TV screen about 8 cm from the furniture surface to leave room for the soundbar.<\/p>\n Although it must be borne in mind that between the two ends of the sickle there is only a little more than sixty centimeters.\u00a0If the soundbar is wider, it must be positioned completely in front of the TV base.\u00a0All cable connectors look sideways and down, without causing inconvenience when mounting the LG 65QNED866 TV on the wall using the VESA mount.<\/p>\n The TV is equipped with one TV tuner for digital TV (DVB-T2\/C\/S2) and a CI+ slot.\u00a0Therefore, it is not possible to watch one and record another channel at the same time.\u00a0LG provides Apple Airplay 2 and Google Cast for YouTube and Netflix.\u00a0The media player supports major formats, subtitles and HDR.\u00a0Only Xvid and DTS are not supported.<\/p>\n In addition to the existing sports alerts, there are two nice new features.\u00a0Multi View allows you to view two sources at the same time.\u00a0As promised, these features are now somewhat expanded.\u00a0The Always Ready function allows the TV to work when you are not watching it.\u00a0You can put clocks, photos, pictures or a media player on the screen.<\/p>\n Here, the Alpha 7 Gen 5 processor should be slightly inferior to the Alpha 9. The new Dynamic Tone Mapping Pro is especially missing, and this is noticeable in HDR.\u00a0But the chip provides good deinterlacing, excellent noise reduction for both random noise and MPEG noise, as well as high-quality scaling that allows you to bring out a lot of details.<\/p>\n The LG 65QNED86 TV delivers pretty decent motion clarity, but it’s a bit below expectations despite the 120Hz panel.\u00a0Adjusting the Trumotion parameter in the settings allows you to increase the clarity of movement, but with a possible loss of detail.\u00a0The Motion Pro setting activates the black frame insertion (BFI) option, but at a frequency of 60 Hz.\u00a0This causes too noticeable flicker, and sometimes exacerbates the delay.<\/p>\n For the 65QNED866QA, LG has opted for\u00a0ADS\u00a0, an IPS variant with a wide viewing angle and moderate contrast.\u00a0The panel shows good uniformity in both dark and bright images.\u00a0It has a slight dirty screen effect, with dark vertical stripes sometimes visible when panning bright images.<\/p>\n The ANSI contrast ratio is, as expected, relatively low at 1070:1.\u00a0The mini LED backlight can be dimmed in 15×12 (180) segments.\u00a0This increases the ANSI contrast ratio to 2280:1, and in some test patterns even to 11700:1.\u00a0But due to the low native contrast, it is difficult to avoid ghosting with such a small number of zones.\u00a0The Filmmaker mode is well calibrated.<\/p>\n The 65QNED866 TV supports HDR10, HLG and Dolby Vision IQ, but not HDR10+.\u00a0The ADS panel with mini LEDs provides more brightness.\u00a0In the 10% window, the measured peak is 1130 nits, and in a completely white field, the screen shows 570 nits.\u00a0QNED technology also provides a wide color gamut of 91% P3 and 68% Rec.2020.\u00a0That is, HDR content is displayed quite strongly.<\/p>\n How big is the influence of the ADS panel?\u00a0First, you lose quite a lot of nuance in the shadows.\u00a0Dark images become flatter.\u00a0And bright objects really create a clear halo, or make visible the borders of blackout zones.\u00a0This combination is not ideal for this kind of content.\u00a0But in bright frames, the TV shows beautiful colors.\u00a0The Alpha7 processor supports Dynamic Tonemapping, and it’s best to leave it enabled.<\/p>\n The 65QNED86’s ADS panel offers a surprisingly good viewing angle, both in terms of contrast and color.\u00a0But definitely don’t sit too high or too low in front of the screen.\u00a0In this case, a very clear haze is visible in the image.\u00a0Keep the center of the image at eye level.<\/p>\n Output latency (input lag) of 14.8ms (4K@60) and 6\/2ms (2K@120) is in line with LG’s best models.\u00a0HDMI 2.1 ports provide ALLM and 4K@120.\u00a0For VRR, there is HDMI VRR and AMD Freesync, but no NVIDIA G-Sync like on the\u00a0LG C2\u00a0, for example .\u00a0Dolby Vision 4K@120 games are supported (for Xbox Series X).\u00a0On the game bar, you can see the frame rate of the console, whether ALLM is activated, and you can also go to the game menu, where LG offers all sorts of options for display settings.<\/p>\n WebOS 22\u00a0has\u00a0a small update that further tweaks the home screen.\u00a0Keep in mind that older (2021 and earlier) devices will not receive new versions of webOS.\u00a0The latest webOS update especially cleaned up the main screen of QNED86 TVs.\u00a0All the tiles in the top half are gone.\u00a0Now there’s just a big webOS banner with icons at the top right for the EPG, search feature, settings, notifications, and your profile.<\/p>\n The center is still recommendations without the possibility of customization.\u00a0At the bottom of the screen are applications that you can select yourself and organize.\u00a0Other lines include a home control panel and connectors, frequently viewed channels, sports alerts, and a web browser.\u00a0webOS 22 runs very smoothly anyway.<\/p>\n The Magic Remote is an essential part of using the QNED86 series TV.\u00a0You simply move the pointer around the screen by pointing at it with the remote control.\u00a0The slightly rounded remote fits comfortably in the hand, but the buttons require too much pressure.\u00a0The remote has a numeric keypad, the buttons of which can be programmed as hotkeys for your favorite applications.<\/p>\n At the bottom are four buttons for Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and LG Channels.\u00a0There is a general microphone button and separate buttons for Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa.\u00a0This remote is slightly different from the model found on the LG G2\u00a0, for example,\u00a0because it doesn’t have NFC to quickly connect your smartphone and TV, although it’s fairly easy to do so via the LG ThinQ app.<\/p>\nFunctions<\/h3>\n
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