LG UT7570 [UT75, UT7590] TV Review

The LG UT7570 looks okay overall for a budget TV and is very similar to last year's LG UQ7590. It has thin bezels on all three sides and a thicker bottom bezel. Although it doesn't look as good as LG's more costly TVs, it's still not bad for the price.

The TV comes with two plastic feet. They're set wide apart and can't be adjusted, so they take up a lot of space, and you'll need a large cabinet for the larger sizes. The stand lifts the display about 2.91 inches above the table, so most soundbars fit underneath without blocking the screen.

Footprint of the 65-inch model: 54.57" x 12".

The inputs are housed in a much smaller box than the LG UQ7590, which gives the back of the TV a cleaner look. Since the inputs are located in the middle, they're hard to reach if you have the TV wall-mounted. Unfortunately, there are no clips or anything to help with cable management.

The TV has decent build quality overall. It's mostly made of plastic, so it's light and feels a bit cheap, but the two feet hold the TV well enough that there are no major issues with stability. Unfortunately, our unit does have some uneven assembly near the top of the screen, so there's a small gap between the screen and the borders of the TV.

The LG UT75 has awful contrast. Blacks are raised and look gray when highlights are also on the screen, and the TV lacks a local dimming feature to improve its contrast. The step-up model to this one, the LG UT8000, has much better contrast but still lacks a local dimming feature.

The TV doesn't have a local dimming feature, so there's no blooming around bright objects or subtitles during dark scenes.

This TV doesn't have a local dimming feature, so it can't adjust the backlight of individual zones to brighten up highlights without impacting the rest of the image. This means that there are no distracting flickers or brightness changes as bright highlights move across the screen.

Switching to Game Optimizer doesn't result in any noticeable difference in dark scene performance.

The LG UT7570 has inadequate HDR brightness. It's not bright enough to display HDR content properly. Bright highlights don't stand out, and overall, this TV doesn't provide an impactful HDR experience.

These measurements are after calibrating the HDR white point, with the following settings:

• HDR Picture Mode: Cinema
• Panel Brightness: 100
• Contrast: 100
• Color: 50
• Color Temperature: Warm 50
• Dynamic Tone Mapping: Off

Although the TV is slightly dimmer in Game Optimizer, it's not noticeable.

These measurements are after calibrating the HDR white point with the following settings:

• HDR Picture Mode: Game Optimizer
• Panel Brightness: 100
• Contrast: 100
• Color: 50
• Color Temperature: Warm 50
• Dynamic Tone Mapping: HGiG

The LG UT75 has great PQ EOTF tracking. Blacks and near-blacks are raised, but the TV follows the curve very closely until it approaches its peak brightness. With content mastered at 600 and 1000 nits, there's a gradual roll-off near the TV's peak brightness to retain detail in highlights. With content mastered at 4000 nits, the roll-off is much more gradual.

The TV has disappointing SDR brightness. It's not bright enough to overcome glare in a well-lit room, so it's best suited for dark or moderately lit rooms.

These measurements are after calibration with the following settings:

• Picture Mode: Dark Space, night
• Brightness: 100
• Color Temperature: Warm 50
• Gamma: 2.2

The LG UT7570 has an okay color gamut, but it's not wide enough to display saturated colors in HDR. It has very good coverage of the commonly used DCI-P3 color space, but all colors are undersaturated and very inaccurate. These results are with an aggressive 75% stimulus level. With a more realistic 50% stimulus, color accuracy is much better.

The TV has inadequate coverage of the wider Rec. 2020 color space, with undersaturated colors and poor accuracy. With a 50% stimulus, the TV performs better.

The TV's color volume is mediocre. It does a bad job at displaying dark colors due to its awful contrast, and the TV isn't nearly bright enough to display colors at high luminance levels.

The TV has just alright pre-calibration SDR accuracy. Reds and greens are overrepresented in dark shades of gray, and blues are overrepresented in most shades of gray. The color temperature is much cooler than our target of 6500K, so the image is too blue. Gamma is close to our target of 2.2, but dark scenes are much brighter than intended, and moderately-lit scenes are a bit too dark. Fortunately, the TV has very good color accuracy in SDR, but whites and lighter shades of most colors are inaccurate.

The TV has outstanding accuracy after calibration. The white balance is much better now, with only reds, greens, and blues overrepresented in dark shades of gray. The color temperature is now essentially perfect, and gamma is a bit closer to our target of 2.2, although dark scenes are still too bright. Color accuracy is even better, but there are some minor inaccuracies with blues.

You can see our full calibration settings here.

The LG UT7570 has good gray uniformity. The edges and corners of the screen are darker than the center, and there's some noticeable dirty screen effect towards the middle of the screen. On a very dark or near-black screen, its uniformity is fantastic, with only the corners being slightly darker than the rest of the screen.

The LG UT75 has disappointing black uniformity, since the entire screen is blueish and cloudy.

The TV has a very good viewing angle. Colors wash out, and there's some brightness loss the further you move off-center, but the image remains mostly consistent when viewed from the sides of the screen. This makes it a good option for a wide seating arrangement.

The LG UT7570 has good reflection handling. Its semi-gloss screen finish significantly reduces the intensity of indirect reflections, like when glare from a ceiling light isn't directly facing the screen. Unfortunately, the TV's handling of direct reflections is only okay, so reflections caused by something like a lamp positioned in front of the screen are distracting.

The TV's gradient handling is adequate. There's some noticeable banding in dark grays, dark reds, dark blues, and bright greens, and dark greens have significant banding.

The TV's low-quality content smoothing is good. Details are preserved well, but there's still some noticeable macro blocking in dark scenes.

The LG UT7570 does an okay job at upscaling low-resolution content like DVDs or lower-resolution streams. Details aren't overly soft, but finer details are very hard to make out.

Sharpness processing was calibrated with no over-sharpening for low-resolution content, with the following settings:

• Sharpness: 17
• Super Resolution: High

If you want a similar TV with better upscaling, check out the Sony BRAVIA 3.

The TV has an RGB sub-pixel layout, so it doesn't have any issues rendering text when used as a PC monitor.

The TV uses color filters to produce red and green light, as confirmed by the TV's spectral power distribution (SPD).

The LG UT7570 has an only decent response time, so there's some noticeable blur behind fast-moving objects.

The TV uses pulse width modulation (PWM) to dim its backlight, which introduces flicker that can bother people who are sensitive to it. Unfortunately, it flickers at a slow 120Hz in all picture modes and at all brightness levels, so it can cause headaches and eye strain if you're sensitive to flicker.

The TV doesn't have an optional backlight strobing feature, commonly known as black frame insertion (BFI), to help reduce persistence blur.

The TV has an optional motion interpolation feature to improve the clarity of motion, but it doesn't work very well. It does an okay job of smoothing out slower panning shots, but the TV struggles with fast-moving scenes, and there are distracting artifacts around fast-moving objects.

Due to the TV's slower response time, there's only some minor stutter when watching movies or TV shows, and it's only noticeable during slow panning shots.

The TV gives a judder-free experience with 24p sources like a Blu-ray player and native apps when the Real Cinema setting is enabled. Unfortunately, it doesn't remove 24p judder from 60Hz sources like most cable TV boxes and older streaming devices that lack a Match Frame Rate feature unless you set De-Judder to '10'.

This TV doesn't support VRR to reduce screen tearing.

This TV has incredibly low input lag when set to Game Optimizer, which ensures a very responsive gaming experience with very little delay between your actions with your controller or mouse and the action on-screen.

The LG UT7570 supports all common resolutions up to 4k @ 60Hz. It displays chroma 4:4:4 properly with any signal as long as the input label is set to PC, which is important for reading clear text from a PC.

The LG UT7570 is a 60Hz TV, so it only supports up to 4k @ 60Hz on the PS5. Unfortunately, it doesn't support 1080p or 1440p @ 120Hz. It has Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), so it'll automatically switch to Game Optimizer when the TV detects a game console as its input device, which gives you the lowest possible input lag for games.

The LG UT7570 is a 60Hz TV, so it only supports up to 4k @ 60Hz on the Xbox Series X|S. Unfortunately, it doesn't support 1080p or 1440p @ 120Hz. It has Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), so it'll automatically switch to Game Optimizer when the TV detects a game console as its input device, which gives you the lowest possible input lag for games.

The TV is limited to HDMI 2.0 bandwidth on all three ports.

The LG UT75 has eARC support, which allows it to pass uncompressed high-quality audio from a connected source to your home theater system or soundbar. Unfortunately, it doesn't support any DTS formats commonly used on Blu-rays.

The TV's frequency response is sub-par. Like most TVs, bass is non-existent. The sound is well-balanced at moderate listening levels, so dialogue is clear, but it sounds progressively worse as the volume increases. Since the TV doesn't get very loud, it's best suited for a quiet environment.

The TV's distortion performance is satisfactory. Distortion is audible near and at max volume, so you need to listen at lower volume levels for no distortion.

The LG UT75 runs the 2024 version of LG's proprietary smart interface, webOS. The interface is easy to use and supports user profiles, so you can customize the home page for different users. Unfortunately, navigating the menus is very slow, and it can sometimes take up to six seconds to open a new menu.

Unfortunately, like almost all TVs on the market, the smart interface contains ads, and you can't disable them.

The TV has a great selection of apps, so finding your favorite content is easy. You can also cast content from your phone onto the TV or play videos directly from a USB stick.

This TV comes with LG's classic remote with lots of buttons instead of the point-and-click Magic Remote found on higher-end models. It's compatible with the Magic Remote, so you can buy one separately and use it.

There's a single button on the bottom center of the TV that you can use to switch inputs, change channels, adjust the volume, and power the TV on/off.

• Manuals
• Remote
• 2x AAA batteries
• Power cable