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Picture Perfect

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LG’S GX series for 2020 sits in the middle of the company’s OLED TV range, just above the CX series, and right below the WX (for Wallpaper—ultra thin and designed for, you guessed it, wall-mounting). But at 20mm deep, GX series sets are also very thin, and while they come with a wall-mounting bracket, it doesn’t include legs for a table-top mount, though that option is available at a modest extra cost. The GX series has built-in Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa voice control, and it also adds a Gallery feature that can display stationary artwork surrounded by a faux frame inside its otherwise nearly invisible bezel.

Each HDMI input (four in total) on the 65-inch 65GXPUA model that LG sent us to review is 2.1, a version that isn’t yet needed for existing sources except perhaps for some games designed to operate at a native 120Hz refresh rate. The 65GX also has HDMI eARC, which can pass lossless higher-resolution audio from the TV back to your A/V receiver or processor and includes an ATSC 3.0 tuner to accommodate coming advances in over-the-air TV broadcasting such as 1080p, 4K, HDR, expanded color, and Dolby Atmos audio.

Gamers will appreciate that the GX series includes ALLM (Auto Low Latency Mode—switches automatically to Game or

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