For years, the pursuit of the ultimate home theatre experience has driven television screens to grow increasingly larger. LG Electronics is taking that literal expansion to a new extreme this year by officially rolling out its 2026 QNED evo Mini LED lineup, which impressively features a massive 115-inch flagship model. Designed to combine ultra-large screen sizes with highly advanced artificial intelligence, this new lineup is built specifically to elevate sports viewing, high-speed gaming, and everyday home entertainment on an unprecedented scale.
AI-Powered Visuals and Audio
Pushing pixels across a 115-inch or 100-inch screen requires serious processing muscle to prevent the image from looking stretched, washed out, or pixelated. To handle this heavy lifting, the premium models in the new lineup are equipped with LG’s α (Alpha) 8 AI Processor Gen 3. This dedicated processor leverages over thirteen years of LG’s OLED expertise, bringing sophisticated light control capabilities directly to the massive QNED panels.
This processing power enables a feature called Precision Dimming Ultra, a technology that orchestrates thousands of individual local dimming zones. This allows the television to precisely control light distribution, keeping bright highlights incredibly crisp while revealing fine details that are usually lost in the darkest scenes. The visual experience is further refined by Dynamic QNED Colour Pro, an optimisation tool that has been independently certified by Intertek to achieve 100% colour volume. This ensures that colours remain rich, accurate, and faithful to the creator’s intent, even when the screen is displaying aggressively bright HDR content during a sunlit sports broadcast. To complement the massive visuals, the built-in television speakers utilise AI Sound Pro to create a virtual 11.1.2 channel surround sound environment, delivering a deeply immersive spatial audio experience without requiring a separate soundbar.
The Ultimate Smart Home Stadium
Beyond just looking incredible, LG clearly wants these expansive screens to serve as the ultimate hub for sports enthusiasts. Powered by the newly updated webOS 26 smart TV platform, the televisions introduce a dedicated Sports Portal. This centralised hub seamlessly consolidates live sports content, current scores, match schedules, and overall league standings into one place, meaning you do not have to constantly switch between different applications or HDMI inputs to follow the action. Furthermore, the system includes a highly practical Sports Alert feature that pushes unobtrusive notifications for your favourite teams directly to the screen. This keeps you updated on real-time scores and upcoming matches even while you are actively watching a movie or playing a game.
Uncompromising Big-Screen Gaming
Historically, massive televisions have struggled to keep up with the rapid response times demanded by modern video games, often resulting in frustrating input lag. LG is addressing this historical compromise head-on by equipping the new QNED evo TVs with serious gaming hardware. The top-tier 115-inch model supports a variable refresh rate (VRR) of up to 165Hz, while multiple models feature AMD FreeSync Premium and Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM) to ensure gameplay remains sharp, highly responsive, and entirely free of lag.
For competitive players heavily invested in fast-paced shooters or racing simulators, a new Motion Booster feature can dynamically raise the refresh rate to an ultra-fast 330Hz on supported models. This practically eliminates motion blur when split-second reactions matter most. If you prefer a simpler setup without a dedicated console, the integrated LG Gaming Portal provides direct access to thousands of cloud-based services and native web games right out of the box.
Personalised and Secure Viewing
To make navigating all this high-end content easier, the webOS 26 platform incorporates highly personalised AI tools. A new Voice ID feature can recognise individual users by their unique voice, automatically loading up a custom home screen tailored to their specific viewing habits. The television also integrates multi-AI capabilities powered by both Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot, allowing you to easily ask complex questions or search for related content without interrupting your current show. Crucially, LG is protecting this deeply personalised ecosystem with LG Shield, an award-winning security architecture that uses advanced encryption to keep your personal data entirely safe.
The 2026 QNED evo lineup spans several distinct models to fit different living spaces and budgets, scaling from the flagship 115-inch QNED90 and 100-inch QNED85 down through the QNED82, QNED8M, QNED80, and the more accessible QNED70. The global rollout begins this month, starting in Korea, the United States, and European markets, with availability expanding to other regions throughout the remainder of the year.
