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LG B9

Owners keep it as the big, bright family-room set that gets them nearly all of a top-end picture without burn-in worries, and most say they would happily live with it as their only TV.

Read from 147 owner accountsUpdated September 24, 2026Compare it

What keeps coming up

Picture quality is the clear praise. Several owners who have compared it side by side with pricier flagship sets say the gap is small in a dark room and invisible once it is the only screen in the house, with HDR highlights and disc playback singled out.

Recurring in 24 of 147 accounts · See accounts

What keeps coming up against it

Price is the clear complaint. Owners call the list price hard to justify, say they only bought at a discount or a mispricing, and advise waiting for a sale rather than paying full price.

Recurring in 4 of 147 accounts · See accounts
Life with it

What keeps delighting people is brightness in HDR: small highlights like sun glints and sparkle on water, plus deep blacks with local dimming that one owner says stay clean of blooming even at full brightness. A few who moved from OLED say their old set looks dull next to it, and several mention the relief of not babysitting static elements or worrying about burn-in. Gaming and movies are both in daily rotation for the owners here.

Screen size is where owners are divided, mostly with themselves. Some regret not going a size up even at eight feet, one wants to trade a 65 for a 77 or 83, and others weigh whether a smaller premium set would serve them better than a bigger one of these. A couple of adjustments come up: one owner sees some blooming on certain subtitles, another notes smearing in games and says whether that bothers you decides the whole purchase.

Reliability & repairs

The picture itself is what owners say keeps working: brightness, contrast and the absence of burn-in are the reasons several give for choosing it over OLED, and nobody in these accounts describes the panel degrading. One owner who used it daily for over six months for games and films reports coil whine as the only fault and otherwise no problems.

Long-term accounts are thin. Most comments come from the first year or so of ownership, and the only wear-related complaint is that single coil whine report. There is not enough here yet to say how the set holds up over several years, or what owners do when something does go wrong.

More detail
What owners praise, where they are split, and the follow-up timeline

What owners praise

Nothing with a clear majority yet. Owners who raised these subjects were split, or too few to judge.

Nothing has a clear majority against it yet. Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.

Does it still kick?

2 weeks3 months6 months1 year2 years

The same owner, asked again at each point. Fills in as owners answer.

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