How can AI improve your TV this year? By giving you more personalisation on the TV interface side of things.
Big, bright OLED screens are set to get a little bigger and brighter this year, and possibly a little more able to understand your needs, as LG details what’s to come for its new ranges.
Unsurprisingly, the news is coming from CES 2025, where much of the year’s exciting announcements in technology are happening, covering all sorts of gadgets. And also unsurprisingly, one of the biggest ticket items comes from the world of TVs.
LG is talking up what we can expect with its OLED offerings, and while it will have several options, the OLED Evo will be the best-in-class models to consider, coming in the Evo G5 and Evo M5.
We’re guessing the “5” is named for the year 2025, but everything else largely comes down to the technology, with “Evo” likely meaning evolution.
For 2025 OLED Evo TVs, that will include an upgraded brightness technology LG calls “Brightness Booster Ultimate”, using light control and algorithms to improve the brightness of standard OLED screens that is up to three times higher, improving the vibrancy of the display.
At the same time, black will look better in both light and dark settings, while the 2025 LG OLED Evo TVs will also support a more advanced version of LG’s previous “Filmmaker Mode”, now upgraded to deal with ambient light compensation, effectively adjusting the picture settings inside your viewing environment, dealing with one of the complaints often connected with OLED versus LED TVs.
Typically, when OLED TVs are in a brightly lit room, they don’t deal with the brightness of that room all that well, while LED-backlit screens do. This technology combined with the brightness booster could fix that for buyers once and for all.
Helping all of this is a new processor, LG’s Alpha 11 AI Gen 2, which will also work with sound and picture algorithms to adapt audio and visual settings in films and shows.
However, LG’s AI approach aims to go deeper than this.
The remote’s use of a microphone will allow you to map voices to an ID, switching TV profiles on a user-by-user basis, while support for Microsoft CoPilot AI will connect a chatbot with the TV to help you find what you’re looking for on the TV itself. It’ll cover AI integration for smart home technologies and for custom backgrounds, and to potentially make the 2025 LG OLED experience more personalised with the help of AI.
In terms of what TVs will get this, the gallery-inspired thin frame of the Evo G5 is the first, while an update to last year’s wireless OLED M4 will come in the OLED Evo M5, improving wireless transmission to a fast 144Hz in 4K.
Both ranges are expected to launch in Australia this year, though no pricing has been announced as of yet. That said, they will likely arrive sometime between March and June, which is the typical TV changeover season in Australia, likely alongside some less expensive LG OLED options lacking the Evo brightness boosting and AI personalisation tech onboard.
