LG Electronics said this week it’s bringing an extremely useful Dolby Atmos feature to its top 2025 OLED and Mini-LED televisions, and there’s a possibility they may even get it before its 2026 TVs launch.
The company first announced Dolby Atmos FlexConnect for its 2026 TVs, such as the LG G6, W6 and C6 OLED models, and it was thought that the functionality was going to be one of their major selling points. It still will be, of course, but it won’t be exclusive to this year’s TVs. If you own an LG G5 or C5 OLED TV from last year, or the QNED9M Mini-LED TV, you’ll also be able to enjoy the feature through a coming upgrade.
Dolby Atmos FlexConnect is basically a kind of room calibration feature that enables more flexible home theatre audio setups, because users don’t have to worry about speaker placement. The speakers broadcast their location to the TV, and the technology will adjust various frequencies and timings to ensure accurate spatial audio positioning, regardless of where they are located. In theory, it means you can place your Dolby Atmos speakers just about anywhere in the room and still enjoy that immersive, surround sound experience.
It allows for some weird combinations based primarily on aesthetics rather than practicality, so someone might have just a single rear speaker instead of two, or place multiple speakers on the right side of the room because that’s where they best fit in.
LG said Dolby Atmos FlexConnect supports 22 possible speaker configurations, and will be compatible with its M5 and M7 speakers, plus the W7 subwoofer.
The wireless audio feature will be rolling out to the three 2025 TV models through a forthcoming update, but it hasn’t said when it will happen. However, the company usually pushes out updates pretty soon after it announces them, so it’s possible that the 2025 models could get support before any of LG’s new TVs find their way to the stores.
A couple of caveats, though. TV owners must be mindful that LG will only support its own speakers (at least for now). So, although there are other FlexConnect speakers available to buy, such as TCL’s Z100, they won’t work with LG’s TVs. Though it is possible that LG may add support for third-party systems at a later date. That may be disappointing, because the M5 and M7 are both quite pricey, with the latter competing with premium models such as the Sonos Era 300 Dolby Atmos speaker.
Strangely, it seems that LG has either omitted, or simply forgotten to mention the wireless M5 OLED TV. The M5 is essentially the same as the G5, only it comes with a Zero Connect box, which means you don’t have to run all of your cables (except for the power cord) to the TV. It would certainly be strange if LG decided not to implement Dolby Atmos FlexConnect, because it would seem as if any wireless sound system is a perfect match for a wireless TV concept. It’s also odd because the LG C5 does get support, despite being a less premium model.
It's also worth noting that the M5 was replaced with the new W6 wallpaper OLED TV this year, which will get support for Dolby Atmos FlexConnect.
