**Experience with LG's 65-inch OLED TV (A1) - First Impressions**

I recently had the opportunity to pick up my LG's 65-inch OLED TV, which I was excited to test out. However, I found that it took me a while to get into standard mode, and even then, I couldn't find an option for ISF Expert in some areas of the settings menu. This got me thinking about how this TV performs in different modes.

**ISF Expert Mode - A Great Starting Point**

Once I finally managed to access ISF Expert mode on my home screen, I was pleased to see that it warmed up the color temperature to a more accurate level. However, if you don't like the color temperature, you can always switch back to standard mode. One thing that caught my attention was how slowly the TV responded when navigating through its settings menu. This sluggishness is noticeable, especially compared to other LG TVs.

**HDR Video Playback - Slow Performance**

I decided to test out an HDR video on YouTube, which I knew would push this TV's capabilities. Unfortunately, the performance was underwhelming due to slow response times and limited options for adjusting HDR settings. When I pulled up a Dolby Vision title on Netflix, the TV automatically selected Cinema Home mode, which is a good start. However, I noticed that the TV didn't allow me to turn off cinematic movement, which is a feature I prefer.

**Customizing Picture Settings**

To customize picture settings, I went into the service menu and turned off brightness settings. This allowed me to adjust motion smoothing settings in advanced settings. When I pulled up a standard definition (SDR) title on Netflix, such as Cocomelon, the TV had already picked ISF Expert Bright mode, which was convenient.

**Dolby Vision Playback - Another Slow Experience**

When I played a Dolby Vision title on Netflix, the TV automatically selected Cinema Home mode again. However, I noticed that cinematic movement was locked in and could not be turned off. To fix this, I had to go into general settings and turn off AI brightness settings as well as auto genre selection. Finally, I went back to picture settings and turned off clarity to see how the TV processes motion without any assistance.

**First Impressions of the LG 65-inch OLED TV**

Overall, my first impressions of the LG 65-inch OLED TV are mixed. While it's clear that this is an OLED TV with deep black levels and great contrast ratio, I'm not a fan of its sluggish performance in certain areas of the settings menu. The AI-powered features, while convenient, sometimes feel like they're holding me back. On the other hand, picture quality is what matters most to me, and in that regard, this TV seems to deliver.

**The Perfect Price for an OLED TV**

In conclusion, the perfect price for a 65-inch OLED TV is a personal decision that depends on individual priorities. If you value the best possible picture quality and don't mind paying a premium for it, then LG's C1 series might be the way to go. However, if you're looking to save some money and can sacrifice some aesthetic appeal in favor of lower prices, then models like the A1 might be worth considering. As always, I'll be keeping an eye on how this TV performs over time and will update my review accordingly.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI made a gutsy callat the beginning of this year,and now it's time to find outif I was right or wrong.Welcome back, everyone.I am Caleb Denison, and todaywe're going to unbox set upand get first impressions of theLG A1 OLED. Now that gutsy callI was talking about earlier,we named this TV the Best Tech Of CES 2021.Now, you have to remember, we were inthe midst of a hardcore pandemic.TVs were hard to come by.The idea of an inexpensive OLEDmaking OLED availablefor more people seemed likesomething pretty special.Of course, now things aren'tall that different.Still kind of pandemic out there and TVprices are actually going up.Also, we have Vizio coming in with the TVat exactly the same price.So where does that leavethe LG A1 OLED?We're going to find out.But before we do, we've got to getthis thing out of the box, set it upand see what we're working with.Before I bust out the box knifeand the screwdriver,let me know down in the comments,is the A1 OLED on your radar?Are you willing to give up a few fringebenefits for a less expensive OLED TV?Let's talk about thatand while you're down thereclick like and subscribe.Because why? Because I asked you to.Would you just please do it?Do I have to have a reason?Of course I don't. Just likeand subscribe to this video.Now, et's get to it.All right, here's everythingthat came in the box, pretty expectedexcept for the two feet.Normally with an LG OLED we see apedestal style stand. Screws for the feet,we've got the old magic motionremote making an appearance again.Bexel batteries.Nothing beats a bexel.This would be your cable management.This would hide the cablesthat you plug into the TV.And this would be the product literaturethat we swiftly remove.Time to install the feet and I like thatthey labeled them A and B instead of leftand right, becauseleft and right changesdepending on how you have the TV oriented.You've got two little spikes herethat are going to go in,match up the shape of the footwith the impression on the TV,and then there are three screws to go in.So a little more screwing than usual.I don't mind that.And then two of them are going to actuallygo up into the center of the footand the other one is just outside.And here we go back in the TV shot.We've got a little bit of a plasticto remove from here,which is par for the course.What I noticed while we were puttingthe feet in, though, this little cut outright here looked a lot like the cut outthat we saw on the LG CX OLED,and C1 OLED, and C9 OLED as well.And as a matter of fact, it is in fact,the entire chassy seems exactly the same.I double checked that.We pulled the C1 stand that we haveand put it in here and it fit.So if you wanted to bypass the legs,which let's be honest with you,is one of the cost cutting measures here,you could put in a C1 or CX stand,possibly even a C9.Don't quote me on that.I'm not sure, but they appear the same.Now, I bet there are a lot of youout there who own CXs or C1s,you wall mounted your TV. That standis probably just sitting in your box.I’d put it on eBay.Now, keep in mind,this stand is like thirtythirty five pounds or somethinglike that's going to be expensive to ship.But when I went on eBay,I didn't see a ton of theseout there for sale,and they were only C9s, no CXs or C 1s.So I don't know, maybe make a few bucksfor those who buy the A1 OLEDand want the nicer stand.Also, keep in mind,it has that little scoop in the frontthat will affect the audio a little bit.To what degree? I'mnot sure. Don't quote me.LG would not recommend this.I'm almost positive about it.It's just something I noticed. OK,anyway, moving on.One thing that is differenton the back of this TV is the factthat there are only three HDMI inputs,and those HDMI inputsare not full fledgedHDMI 2.1 inputs.There is an eARC port on here.We will connect an XboxSeries X at some pointand take a look at what the TV can do.Just keep in mind that another thingthat you're giving up with the A1 versussome of the other allegedthat LG sells is one HDMI input.Other than that, it'sall pretty much par for the course.So we're going to go aheadand put this littledecorative plate on strip of some plasticand take a look at the front of the TV.Oh, no.Perfect.And here we are with the front of the TV shotand as with most LG OLEDs there'sreally not much to talk about here.I guess the feetare the obvious thing, right?They're not as premiumlooking as the centralized stand.Also, the build quality's not fantastic.They have little plastic pegs on themto help you line them up.And I broke those off on one of the feetwhen I was installing them.So that's not great.Otherwise, you're talking about an OLED TV,no bezels to speak of.Absolutely stunning thin profile.It still looks the OLED partin all other ways.So with that out of the way,let's turn this thing on.So we powered up the TV and LG Web OS.We've seen this before,but in case you're not familiar,it's going to want to check your location.You can go ahead and put that in.By the way, in the backgroundis going to be a computerized voicewalking through all of thisuntil you actually get to shut it off.At that point, it'sgoing to connect to the Internet and then,holy cow, the termsand conditions run deep.Folks, there's a lot to this stuff.I mentioned this in every unboxing.Know what you're agreeing to.A lot of this stuff,if you turn it off, it's going to turn offpersonalized recommendations.So the sponsored contentand the recommended contentis going to be kind of random.On the other hand,your data is a little bit more private,so make the callthat you want to make.Anyway, from there, it's going to sensethe devices that are connected to the TVsso make sure you've got themconnected and turned on.After that, if you've got cableor a TV tuner, it'll integratethat into the channel selectionthat's available.Talk more about that in a second.LG account, I always skip this.It doesn't seem to be worth anything.And then it's going to suggest appsthat you can install, which is worthless.You can do this at any time.And plus these three apps are preinstalledpretty much anyway.And then it bounces you to Internet TV.This is powered by Pluto.What's going to happen is it's goingto start playing automaticallyas if you've got free Internet TV channelsand you do sort of except for eventuallythis preview is going to run outand you're going to have to downloadthe Pluto app to continue.I'll let you decidewhether you want to do that or not.But I will say thatany of the cable channelsthat you may have access toor any of the broadcast channels throughan antenna can be lined upalong with all of these free Internetchannels in one single guide.Now, as part of this process, I expectedthe TV to update itself and it didn't.So I went into settingssupport software update,automatic updates was not turned on.So I turned it on, as you see here.And the update is in progress.This should be done shortly,but I want to make sure that I havethe latest firmware for this TV.Also, this is a good timeto mention that HBO Maxis now available on this TV,whereas it has not been before.So it's good to see thataddition has finally made it to WebOS.So my position on WebOS is that I'm a little over it.I don't like all of the sponsored content.It's basically a gigantic ad.I've talked about this before.Specifically with the QNED99.But the fact of the matteris, I still manage to prefer itover Vizo’s Smart cast.And I mention thatbecause when you're comparing the VizioOLED to the LG OLED the smart TV platformis one of the big differences.And so I would rather have WebOS than Vizio’s Smart castto be honest with you, even though itlacks Chromecast functionality.Now it's time for picture settings.And, you know, I feel like I just did thisbecause I did with the QNED99 from LG.But we'll go into allsettings, pick picture.This is a little sluggish.You're just goingto have to bear with me here.Go down to expert bright space,which is my go to pickjust when getting things started.I test the TV and both ISF ExpertDark and Brightby the way. Once we've done thatfor at least a home screen,I'm going to go in to YouTube and checkSDR and HDR settings.All right. So I've got anSDR pulled up on YouTube. We press pause.We'll do HDR here in a second.Go into all settings.And even though I picked ISF Brighton the home screen, I'm in standardmode here. So let's go into thatpick up ISF Expert to get things started.You'll notice the colortemperature warms right up.That's closer to accurate.If you don't dig it, that's OK.You can use standard if you want.Now let's pull up an HDR video.So we've got an HDR videopaused on YouTube.We'll go into settings.And man, is this sluggish.This is way slower than most of LG's TVs.We're in the standard HDR mode.There is no ISF option here.We have cinema home and cinema.Now, I mentioned this before.Cinema at home is going to comewith a default motionsmoothing on, whereas cinema will not.You can actually undo that in other areasof the settings if you want to.But I'm going to go aheadand go with Cinema Homebecause it's a little bit brighterand make the necessary adjustmentsso that I can get motionsmoothing disabled.To do that, I'll go into the servicemenu under general and turn offa brightness settings.I don't want that on anyway,but it's also going to let me adjustsome motion smoothing settingsthat we're locked into cinemahome earlier. So we'll go intoadvanced settings, run down to clarity,and we should see that truemotion is on cinematic movement,but it's unlockedso that I can actually turn it off.Now, cinematic movement is not terrible.It's the best motion with the least amountof soap opera effect.But I generally turn that offto get started with my testing.So we're in Netflix now.I’ve started an SDR title,one of my favorites, Cocomelon.We'll pull up the picture settings,and I'm very pleased to seethat it has already pickedISF Expert Bright mode.So there's nothing that I need to do.Once I've made a selection on an appfor SDR, it's going to carry over.I assume that we're gonnasee the same for Dolby Visionas we did with HDR in YouTube.Let's go find out.Now we've got a Dolby Visiontitle pulled up onNetflix, we’ll go into our picture settings.And man, did I tell you how slowand sluggish this is.It's driving me crazy. Sorry about that.I just will stop complaining.It's automatically picked cinema home,which is a nice start.But I am concerned that cinematic movementis going to be locked in.And sure enough, it is.So, as you can see there, it'sbeen disabled. Again to take care of that,go into general, AI Service,turn off the AI brightness settings,and I'm also going to turn offauto genre selection.I don't like any of these AI processers.They just don't work well for me.Then we’ll go back to picture settings,go into Advanced Settings,go to Clarity, and go all the way down hereand turn this off. Now look, I know a lotof you guys don’t want to turn that off,again I just do this to see how the TVprocesses motion without any assistance.If you like motion smoothing, go for it.OK, so first impressions.Well, it's definitely an OLED TV,I mean, if you couldn't tellfrom the super thin profile, you’d knowas soon as you turn it onbecause of the deep black levels.As far as aesthetic trade offs, Idon't feel like they're that significant.You know, if you save a little bit moneybecause it's not as fancy looking,that's fine, because, again,it's still an OLED TV.I'm not a fan of how sluggish it is.I feel like whatever chip is runningWebOS is not doing it justice.That's a little bit of a slog,but I can forgive it for that, too,especially if you can just plugin a Roku device or a Chromecastwith Google TV to bypass it entirely.It's really going to come downto picture quality.And I think we're going to be picking somenits here, literally and figuratively.I think we're goingto need to look at how it handlesshadow detail and peak brightness for HDR.Little stuff, right?Ultimately, this is goingto be a tough call.How much more do you getwhen you step up to, say, the C1as opposed to saving money with the A1?I can't wait to find out.So be sure to come right backfor the full review.Thanks, as always,for watching, everybody.I'm really curious,what is the perfect price for youfor a 65-inch OLED, at which pointyou just go take my money?Let me know about that downthe comments, like and subscribe,and here's two othervideos I think you'll like.\n"