As someone who has the 86 IPS and then later got the 82 VA, I would like to give my thoughts and some insight into this TV for anyone reading later. First off, once “Dynamic Contrast” was turned OFF; they’re both beautiful TV’s that both displays 1440@120 and 4k/60/100/120 4:2:2 perfectly from a GTX1080 HDMI 2.0. Doom on a PC at 4K@120 is WOW!! I would have paid MORE for a non smart TV, but LG did very well on the WebOS.

Waiting for VRR/Freesync update, no option yet on my equipment as of 03.21.10 update, but I do see the freesync stats menu when I spam the Green button, so its coming soon or I need HDMI 2.1 to use/test this.

As for the Sound. Not so good, until I ran the ‘AI sound tuner’ and set it to the AI sound mode, then the speakers sound REALLY good! This is coming from an audiophile that has 9 channels, 18 speakers, 3 subs, ~2200 watts of sound system connected to this. Even sounds good for movies at night when I don’t want to wake up the dead. Call me impressed.

Both are great TV’s with different purposes, while they share the same OS, features and beautiful picture; they are NOTHING ALIKE. Even the POWER LIGHT is different…

The IPS is best used in bright living rooms and with wider seating, VA is best viewed straight on; but we all know this by now. The VA panel still looks really good even at extreme angles but the IPS wins greater than ~15 degrees off axis. They BOTH have GLOW/SPOTS above ~20 backlight (rubbing the spots into the rest of the screen helped on the IPS); they both had some edge bleeding, that was mostly fixed running a CC between the frame and panel breaking the extra glue pushing on the panel. The IPS glows grey, the VA glows blue. The VA does better on ‘Star Wars movies’ but its NOT OLED black, just ~10% better than the IPS.

Where the two TV’s are REALLY DIFFERENT is in their motion. The IPS must have a better pixel response time as there is (to me but not others) noticeable ‘frame stutter’ in movies/TV but PC gaming seems much sharper/clearer ‘in fast motion’. I tried EVERY motion setting possible to get movies smooth without artifacts but could not; ‘cinema clear’ is the BEST for movies on the IPS period. Where as, on the VA movies/TV is butter smooth on every setting, but at 120hz PC gaming I can see ‘some’ blurring in motion and on Doom (on a level with a lot of black) I can see the ‘VA black smearing’ in motion as well. Not terrible and it’s still 120hz mind you, but the VA black smearing is there and the IPS does not have that motion blurring. GTA like gameplay looks great on both even at 4k@60. Mind you, I use ‘Game Mode’ with a PC, or the native TV apps for all my testing.

Final thoughts. If you ONLY game the IPS might be better for you. If you want better Movies and smoother motion get the VA. If you want deep deep blacks, go pay double for OLED.

I am 100% happy I picked these over the 85" Sony 900h I was on edge about.

Enjoy, these are both GREAT TV’s and I am being super critical; but, that is why you are here, and read this far as well! :)