Key takeaways

• It's not the latest model in this series, but theLG G3 is an incredible television that has one of the best displays I've ever seen.
• The price tag may have been a little scary when it first came out, but it's now$1,000 less than the initial MSRP.
• It might still be out of reach for many consumers. 

I'll get straight to the point. I test a lot of TVs. When I found out I would be trying outLG's G3 along with one of the company's new soundbars, I knew I would be watching a highly-touted TV.

It didn't disappoint.

Even though it's more than a year old now and LG has replaced it with the G4, this is still an incredible television. It's one of the best-looking TVs I've ever tested, both in terms of the display and the design of the set itself. It packs very impressive audio and a ton of features into its slim design, and any content I tried out looked beautiful.

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The G3 is available in sizes from 55 to 83 inches. For the purposes of this review, I tested the 65-inch. Let's dive into what makes this TV so good.

Right out of the box, I noticed how sleek the G3 is. At only an inch thick and with an almost non-existent bezel, it's designed to sit flush on a wall. Since I was only enjoying it temporarily, I instead opted to mount it on a stand, but it still looked elegant.

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This set has four HDMI ports, all of them HDMI 2.1 eARC. All inputs are in a small cutout on the left side of the TV that I found easy to access. Some TVs place inputs right in the middle, making them difficult to get to, but I didn't have any issues connecting everything I wanted to the G3.

I'm a fan of physical media, so the first thing I usually do when I put a TV through its paces is fire up a Blu-Ray. For this test, I picked a personal favorite movie: "Ghostbusters". I felt like I was watching it for the first time. There are quite a few darker scenes in this movie, and I was able to pick out details I hadn't noticed before. I felt like the G3 handled upscaling better than most TVs I encountered.

To test something a little more modern, I went to Netflix and started the first thing I saw