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LG C5

Owners keep the C5 for picture quality that holds up as a daily driver, even while some learn to live with a remote and app layer that feel like afterthoughts.

Read from 79 owner accountsUpdated September 23, 2026Compare it

What keeps coming up

Picture quality is the clearest praise here: owners across different room setups and brightness levels describe the C5 as the sweet spot in LG's own lineup, holding its own against pricier models.

Recurring in 10 of 79 accounts · See accounts

What keeps coming up against it

Remote design is divided. Some owners find the new remote small and easy to use, while others miss labeled buttons like input, find the shape more fragile, or fall back to an older remote entirely.

Recurring in 6 of 79 accounts · See accounts
Life with it

The remote and the smart TV apps are where the adjustment happens. Some owners get used to the smaller remote quickly, others end up pairing a universal remote or keeping an older LG remote around because the input button lost its label. App performance is inconsistent too: some report zero issues running apps and streaming in 4K, while others run into blocked content or apps behaving oddly.

Reliability & repairs

Long-term durability accounts are thin beyond that. Most of what owners share is about upgrading from older sets, comparing it to competitors, or first-impressions on brightness rather than multi-year wear, so there isn't much here yet on how the C5 performs several years in.

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

What owners praise

  • picture quality9 of 13who raised it
  • value for price5 of 7who raised it

Where owners are split

  • screen cleaning3 for · 1 against · 2 mixedof 6 who raised it
  • remote design3 for · 2 against · 1 mixedof 6 who raised it
  • burn-in risk0 for · 2 against · 2 mixedof 4 who raised it
  • app usability2 for · 2 against · 0 mixedof 4 who raised it
  • screen size2 for · 0 against · 2 mixedof 4 who raised it

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.

20 more subjects came up from fewer than 4 owners each, which is not enough for a fair reading. To see how it stacks up, compare it with another machine.

Does it still kick?

2 weeks3 months6 months1 year2 years

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

Where this came from

Where this came from

Public discussions we read and summarised in our own words. Nothing here was submitted to Still Kicks.

Counted from public accounts by people who said they own it, and summarised by Still Kicks in its own words. Not a manufacturer claim, a lab test or an estimate.

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