The LG C5 OLED offers stunning picture quality and a sleek, minimalist design for a truly immersive experience – and it’s currently discounted across several retailers.
LG C5 OLED TV
The LG C5 OLED boosts dazzling brightness and color.
It features an ultra-slim body, with material choices that evoke premium.
It’s priced relatively high for the nominal upgrades over last year’s model.
I would argue that the most crucial aspect of any television set is its picture quality. Never mind its smart capabilities, brand prestige, or super-high refresh rate. For human beings, at first glance anyway, the visual stimulus overrides all else.
This is why when you walk into Costco, you are arrested by the exquisite images flashing on a bunch of big-screen TVs set to “Retail Mode”, peacocking their 4K beauty. First impressions are always based on appearance.
By that criterion alone — picture quality — LG’s 2025 C5 OLED ranks among the best OLED TVs you can buy today. That sounds like a matter-of-fact statement, but I stand behind it because as soon as I fired up our review unit for testing, I knew it was a win. It’s that good this year. (And if you’re in the market for one this season, chances are high that you’ll be able to pick one up for more than $1,300 off.)LG C5 OLED TV
The LG C5 OLED TV delivers a stunning picture and sleek design with welcome upgrades across the board.
75-inch TCL QM6K 4K QD-Mini LED Google TV (2025 Model):
$848 (save $152)
65-inch LG C4 Series 4K 120Hz OLED Evo Smart TV (2024 Model):
$1,297 (save $1,403)
55-inch Hisense CanvasTV Series 4K QLED Google Smart TV (2024 Model):
$798 (save $202)
77-inch LG C5 Series OLED Evo AI 4K Smart TV (2025 Model):
$1,997 (save $1,700)
85-inch Samsung Neo QLED QN90F 4K Mini LED Smart TV (2025 Model):
$2,298 (save $1,500)
The C5 has a unique construction and a futuristic aesthetic. For one thing, it has one of the thinnest screens I’ve ever seen — at a mere 0.25 inches thick. When lifting it out of the box, my colleague and I were wary of handling the edges of the screen because they seemed so delicate. The lower section of the panel is more substantial, something to grab onto while setting it up.
It’s as if LG’s engineers were shooting for “more screen, less panel” in this year’s design, an angle they pulled off successfully. It’s almost four times thinner than the trendy Frame TVs on the market, but that only accounts for about two-thirds of the screen’s surface area.
I’d like to give a shout-out to whoever designed the packaging for this model. When you open the cardboard box top, you immediately find the remote control in its own little sleeve, with batteries preinstalled. The base plate (stand) and all its components are in another styrofoam box, which makes it easy to pull out and get going. (These are things you notice when you unbox a few too many 65-inch TVs.)
Other fine details distinguish the C5, such as the black marble pattern on the back of the screen, and tiny square silicone pads on the bottom of the base plate that prevent the TV from scooting.
