My review unit’s remote features Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, LG Channels, and both Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa shortcut buttons you can push to give voice commands.
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For instance, it does include the traditional number pad that most won’t have any need for unless you’re still inputting numerical TV stations, as well as six pre-installed shortcut buttons. It has what I would consider to be a “middle of the road” amount of the number of buttons it doesn’t hold a candle to sheer quantity that Sony likes to cram into its remotes, but it is significantly larger than the overly minimalist approach that Roku, Samsung, or Vizio remotes take. The remote itself is pretty comfortable to hold thanks to its curved design and pistol-like grip which I assume was chosen to complement the motion controls. Hitting any of the directional buttons on the remote automatically disables the motion controller, but if you swing the remote around with any speed it will pop back up, so keep that in mind. I don’t want the mouse-like cursor flying around on screen while I’m trying to do something, but thankfully you can largely ignore this feature if you don’t want to use it. Some people definitely like it but I personally think it feels kind of dated. LG’s smart TV interface, WebOS, supports traditional button-based navigation as well as motion controls with the remote. It’s not only a different shape (it’s slightly curved) but has gyroscopic motion control functionality similar to that of the Nintendo Wii. The remote on the LG C1 is certainly unique in the television landscape.
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In addition to the HDMI inputs, the C1 also has a cable connection, headphone port, ethernet, USB Type A, digital optical output wirelessly, it supports both Bluetooth and WiFi 5. Given that the C1 is just $100 more expensive than the Samsung QN90A, you can probably understand why I was a bit miffed that the Samsung only had one HDMI 2.1 port. One HDMI port faces the back of the television while the three others are off on the left side the middle of those three ports supports eARC.
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It has four HDMI ports, all of which support HDMI 2.1 – and therefore 4K at 120Hz for PS5 and Xbox Series X. The port selection on the C1 is as good as you can ask for these days. It completely hides cables so that all you see from the front is that stunning display. The rear of the foot has a compartment that opens up and allows you to feed your cables through it and down the back of your media stand. The added benefit of the center-foot stand design is that it can hide impressive cable management, and the C1 offers that in spades. LG’s C1 has a much wider center foot than the Vizio OLED or Samsung QN90A, but it’s still much smaller than the width of the display. The center-foot design tends to be heavier, but more flexible.
The wide-set, twin-foot design found on the Sony A80J OLED, for example, means that TV won’t fit on smaller media stands where the C1 can find a home. On that note, the base of the C1 is a single center stand design, which I personally prefer over the popular two-foot design because it means that this television is more compatible with a wider range of media stands. Even attaching the base is a task that requires extra care. Taking it out of the box and getting it into position, especially the 65-inch version, is definitely a two-person job and needs to be done with extreme caution. OLEDs, in general, are more susceptible to damage than any other type of television because they are so thin and they can’t be gripped or held from anywhere except the bottom and back because of it. One thing to keep in mind with this TV is that it is fragile. Most TVs at least have a bottom bezel where the company likes to slap its logo, but in this case, LG chose to put its logo on the stand itself rather than clutter up the display area. There are no bezels other than the tiniest little bit of the 3mm frame you can see. From the front, all you see is a gorgeous display. It’s incredibly thin across nearly the entire display – about 3mm – and only shows any kind of thickness on the rear lower third, where the processor, speakers, and power delivery are neatly hidden away. Like pretty much all OLEDs, the LG C1 looks stunning.
But while Sony edges out LG on pure picture quality thanks to its software, and Vizio tends to offer more affordable pricing, with the C1, LG continues to show what ideal balance in a 4K TV really looks like. Standing on the precipice of 2022, OLEDs are considered the pinnacle of modern television technology when it comes to delivering perfect blacks, outstanding color, and top-tier pixel response time.