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There are few things as exciting as buying a new TV, but it can also be a daunting process thanks to the myriad brands, models, technologies, specs and features available.

You'll be pleased to hear, then, that What Hi-Fi? is here to help. Our team of expert reviewers has decades of combined experience and hundreds of TV reviews under its belt and has rigorously tested the latest and greatest TVs from all of the top brands. All of our reviewing is conducted in our dedicated testing facilities, so we are uniquely positioned to direct you to the best TVs and away from the also-rans. You can read more about our  TV testing process  at the bottom of the page.

We're looking for a TV that provides as-the-director-intended picture quality, exciting but clear sound, a user-friendly operating system that features all of the major streaming services, plus support for the latest gaming features – and all at an accessible price. The sets in this list are those that get closest to that vision of televisual perfection.

Of course, things never stand still in TV land, and new, 2024 televisions will soon be available in shops. We will be reviewing all of these new TVs over the coming weeks and months (we have already reviewed Samsung's new S95D and QN900D , and a full LG C4 review is in the works), and some may soon appear on this list, but it is worth noting that launch prices tend to be very high and our performance-per-pound (bang-for-buck) mantra means that some of last year's sets could remain on here even after their successors have arrived.

The quick list

You can see a quick breakdown of all the TVs in this list with a short summary of what they’re best at and why we think they’re worth your money in the table below. If you want more detail you can click the photo of a TV to go to the in-depth entry, where we offer a more comprehensive breakdown of the specs, features and real-world performance.

Sony's A80L OLED was the surprise package of last year and still the TV we most readily recommend thanks to its awesome performance-per-pound credentials.

Amazon's Omni QLED range offers loads of features for a low price – and a surprisingly sophisticated performance, too. At full price, it's very good – when discounted, it's amazing.

The 42-inch C3 OLED TV from LG is yet another superlative performer for movies and games alike, and it's now been discounted to a more accessible level.

The 48-inch version of the LG C3 OLED is every bit as capable as its smaller sibling and has a nicer design. It's usually better value, too, costing only a little more.

Sony's second-generation QD-OLED is a very special TV that is super-bright and vibrant but still subtle and authentic. It sounds great by TV standards, too.

Available in sizes 55-inch and larger, the TCL C845K is the new benchmark for affordable TVs, offering not only a spec sheet that puts flagships to shame but a super performance, too.

If you're a US buyer on a strict budget and still want a large, fully featured and competent TV, Amazon's Omni QLED is the way to go.

The Samsung QN900D is the best 8K TV we've ever tested. It does a great job of making the content you already watch look better than ever before, though a lack of native 8K content is still an issue.

4th April 2024: Added the Samsung QN900D as ' best 8K TV '

I'm What Hi-Fi? 's TV and AV Editor, and I've been testing TVs and home cinema products (as well as hi-fi kit and headphones) for over 16 years. I've always been a massive TV nerd and got into reviewing so I could find the best TVs and recommend them to others. I firmly believe that great quality shouldn't cost a fortune, so I get just as excited about great-value sets as I do the flagship models. Overall, I'm looking for a picture performance that delivers movies and TV shows as intended, a great gaming experience, an app-packed and intuitive operating system, and good sound – though I also believe that any great TV should be combined with a great, dedicated sound system.

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Why you can trust What Hi-Fi? Our expert team reviews products in dedicated test rooms, to help you make the best choice for your budget. Find out more about how we test.

Below, you can see our picks of the best TVs currently available. Every set has been tested by our team of product experts to ensure it delivers great performance and value, so you can trust our buying advice.

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The Sony A80L was the TV surprise of the last year. It's based on 'traditional' OLED technology (i.e. it's not a QD-OLED or MLA model) so we broadly thought we knew what to expect, but it stunned us during our extensive test by offering a picture performance with a near-perfect balance of the spectacular and the subtle. It sounds good by TV standards, too, and the feature set will be strong enough for all but the most hardcore of gamers.

The A80L looks very similar to the A80K it replaces, which is fine but the design is starting to look a little bland. It's a little thicker than rivals such as the LG C3, but partly that's down to its actuator-based sound system, which vibrates the whole screen in order to generate sound.

Around the back are four HDMI sockets, two of which are HDMI 2.1-spec and support 4K/120Hz, VRR and ALLM. One of these is also the eARC port, and if you use that to connect a soundbar or AVR you'll have just one left for a games console or gaming PC. The TV also lacks support for Dolby Vision gaming, despite Dolby Vision being present for movies and TV shows.

The seemingly effortless way that the A80L combines the spectacular with the subtle is quite extraordinary. The neon lights and holographic billboards of Blade Runner 2049’s downtown LA pop from the overall gloom of the city in brilliant fashion, but skin tones are handled with realism-boosting nuance and the seemingly hundreds of slightly different shades of grey that make up the bark of the tree at Sapper Morton’s farm are made clear to see.

The TV’s ability to subtly recreate different shades doesn’t come at the expense of dynamism, and contrast extremes such as the intro text at the start of the film emerge brightly from the pure black background. There’s a rare purity to highlights, too, such as Love’s white jacket and the light panels above her head in the records room of the Wallace Corporation.

All of these qualities combine to make an image that’s brilliantly solid and has a lovely three-dimensional feel. Detail is outstanding, too, with skin and clothing textures and complex patterns all reproduced in crisp fashion but without artificial sharpening or exposure.

Through our extensive suite of tests, our only complaint is that a bit of dark detail is missing when watching SDR content.

In terms of sound, the A80L is a bit bass-light, but that does mean that it stays composed even through our Blade Runner 2049 stress test. And while we would of course prefer deeper and weightier bass, the A80L sounds very good by the standards of TVs – particularly those at this level. Put it in the Cinema sound mode and the spaciousness of the delivery is very impressive, yet this spaciousness combines with the sort of focus that can really only come from having the sound literally coming from the screen.

The relatively high quality of the A80L's sound should be a serious consideration for anyone who is looking at spending this sort of money and is determined to not add a dedicated sound system (which, for what it's worth, is very much what we recommend).

The Sony A80L is a little long in the tooth now, and it may well be toppled in the not-too-distant future by its own replacement (which is presumably on the way but is yet to be announced) or a rival from another brand (the LG C4 , perhaps). It's worth noting, though, that any new TV will launch at a comparatively high price compared to the now-discounted A80L, which could remain our top pick for a while as a result.

Read the full Sony A80L review

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Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED QL50F601

It’s fair to say that the standard of budget TVs has dropped significantly in recent years. Salvation is at hand, though, and from a slightly unlikely source – Amazon.

We first reviewed the 65-inch version of its Omni QLED range and discovered a TV with a surprisingly sophisticated performance to go with its surprisingly comprehensive feature set. It just missed out on five stars, but knowing how much variation there can be between different-sized versions of the ‘same’ TV, we decided to take a separate look at this 50-inch model – and we're glad we did.

This is a TV that's very good value at its full price of £650 / $530, but even so, you shouldn’t pay that much for it. That’s because it's frequently discounted by large amounts. We have seen it go as low as £400 / $350, but find it for anything under £500 / $500 and you've unearthed a bargain.

What makes the Omni QLED appear to be such a bargain is its specification, which includes a QLED panel with full-array local dimming, support for every current HDR format, gaming features such as VRR, ALLM and even Dolby Vision gaming, and the app-packed and user-friendly Fire OS operating system (which can be fully operated via Alexa, of course).

But what's most impressive about the Omni QLED is the considered and consistent nature of its performance. Too many budget TVs attempt to dazzle you despite not having the requisite ability and they end up looking awful as a result. The Omni QLED, on the other hand, works within its limits: it's not going to knock your socks off but it gets all of the basics right and delivers a picture that's true to what the creator intended. It’s natural in a way that means you don’t question the delivery and instead focus purely on what you are watching, and that’s a more impressive feat than you might imagine, particularly at this level.

On the sound front, the Omni QLED is a simple stereo affair, and all the better for it. Instead of attempting fancy processing, it simply provides a clean, clear and direct audio performance that's ideal for general TV content. You're advised to add a soundbar for movies, though.

Read the full Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED review

LG OLED42C3

LG's C-series OLED TVs are always the company's most popular, and the 42-inch C3 is the baby of last year's range. It's got a slightly less bright panel than the larger C3 models and it doesn't feature MLA or QD-OLED tech (which hasn't yet made it down to this sort of size), but it does boast the same exceptional feature set – including that vast array of gaming features – as well as the best overall picture quality available at this size. It's cheaper than its rivals, too, especially now that discounts are common.

The 42-inch C3 has a different design to its larger siblings that makes it look more like a monitor or bedroom TV. The biggest design difference is that it has two blade-like feet rather than a pedestal.

Outside of that, it retains the same core features we love about the C3 range as a whole. Specifically, it features the same Alpha 9 Gen 6 processor as every other C3 (and G3) and identical connectivity, including four HDMI 2.1 ports that support 4K/120Hz, VRR and ALLM. It can also handle Dolby Vision gaming (right up to 120Hz, in fact) and it has a superb HGiG mode that makes it a doddle to achieve better results with many HDR games. This awesome feature set combines with the set's terrifically low input lag of 12.9ms with 60Hz signals (that figure will be roughly halved for 120Hz gaming), compact size and excellent picture quality to make it the best gaming TV you can buy as well as the best  42-inch TV overall.

The OLED42C3 features the same panel as other 42-inch OLED TVs such as the Sony XR-42A90K . This panel is less bright than the one used for the best and brightest larger OLED TVs, and that's before you even consider the new MLA and QD-OLED technologies.

That said, it's still more than bright enough for almost all scenarios, and the perfect blacks and pixel-level contrast control make the image exceptionally dynamic. What's more, there is an inherent advantage that 'small' 4K TVs have over their larger brethren – pixel density. Because the pixels are more tightly packed, sharpness is increased, and the crispness of the OLED42C3’s delivery actually makes its 65-inch sibling look a bit soft.

Even against other 42-inch OLEDs that have the same inherent picture traits, the C3 comes out on top. This is a bold, impactful TV that delivers images with superb solidity and dynamism, but it's also very consistent and never makes you aware of the picture processing in play.

Unfortunately, it's not the same story on the audio front. Like its larger siblings, the 42-inch C3 still suffers from a rather dull delivery. It's perfectly fine for everyday TV, but it doesn’t have the punch, weight or dynamic range to satisfyingly deliver a movie soundtrack. A soundbar is a must.

While the C3 is still a top-notch OLED now, the new C4 will soon be in shops and we're expecting it to be quite an upgrade in terms of brightness. You may want to wait for that, but it is worth noting that it will be very expensive at launch, potentially making the heavily discounted C3 even more appealing.

Read the full LG OLED42C3 review

If you're a keen gamer, the LG C3 should be right at the top of your list. Not only do its general picture qualities lend themselves very well to gaming, it also supports every advanced gaming feature you could ask for across all four of its HDMI sockets. I know from experience that this 42-inch version makes a great gaming monitor – as long as your desk is deep enough.

LG OLED48C3

LG’s C-series has been a near-perfect intersection of performance, features and price for years, and not just compared with other LG OLEDs, but with TVs in general.

The 48-inch C3 looks different to both the 42-inch and 65-inch models that we have also tested. While the 42-inch model has desktop-friendly feet, this 48-inch version has the same compact pedestal stand as its larger siblings. That makes it less fussy about placement but does also make it a little harder to find space for a soundbar.

And while the 65-inch model boasts an astonishingly lightweight and minimalist chassis, much more of this 48-inch version's rear is covered by the plastic enclosure that contains the set's processing hardware, connections and speakers. That said, the 48-inch C3 is still only 4.7cm thick at its chunkiest, which is pretty slim by modern TV standards.

Moving on to features, you simply won't find a better-specified TV at this size. While neither MLA nor QD-OLED technology have made it below 55 inches yet, the C3 uses the best 48-inch OLED panel currently available from sister company LG Display. This panel can't be pushed as bright as that of the larger models (apparently because of how tightly packed the OLEDs are) and the 48-inch C3 goes plenty bright enough.

All four of its HDMI sockets are 48Gbps 2.1-spec affairs that support 4K/120Hz, VRR and ALLM, and it supports Dolby Vision gaming and has a really well-implemented HGiG setting that makes it a doddle to get more accurate HDR with many modern games.

In action, the 48-inch C3 delivers precisely the sort of bold and brassy picture presentation we’ve come to expect from the C3 range. Brilliantly bright and punchy one second, subtle and considered the next, this is a TV that delivers precisely what's required at all times.

It produces an image that’s really solid and has a three-dimensional feel, too. In fact, the increased pixel density of having a 4K resolution squeezed into a 48-inch space means this smaller C3 looks significantly sharper than its 65-inch sibling (though also slightly less sharp than the 42-inch model). The C3 boasts superb contrast, too, which further contributes to the solidity of the image, and the inky blacks of OLED plus the C3’s particularly bold approach make for an image that’s packed with punch.

This 48-inch C3 actually sounds a little more upfront and engaging than its siblings did when we reviewed them, with a little more punch to effects and a degree of dynamic range. However, it's all too easy to provoke the set into bassy distortion that's horribly distracting, and the presentation is often cluttered and uncultured. LG just can't seem to get the sound right with its TVs.

There are very few TVs that sound good, though, so we almost always recommend adding a soundbar. Follow that advice and the 48-inch C3 is comfortably the best TV at its size.

As is the case with the 42-inch model, the 48-inch is about to be succeeded by the C4, which is expected to be a fair bit brighter and will feature a new processor. The C3 should stick around for the best part of a year, however, and likely at a discounted price, so it could remain in this list for a while yet.

Read the full LG OLED48C3 review

The A95L is the successor to the  A95K , arguably the  best TV  of last year if you don't take price into account. One of the two first  QD-OLED  TVs launched, it trumped its  Samsung S95B  rival by deploying its brightness-boosting, vibrancy-adding Quantum Dots in a more considered and authentic fashion – and by offering a far superior sound system to boot.

The promise of second-generation QD-OLED panels is an even brighter and more efficient performance, but we were just as excited to find out how the team at Sony could refine the performance further with an extra year of experience with the new panel technology. Having now put the Sony A95L up against pretty much every other TV you might be considering, we can safely say that it is, with very little doubt, the very best TV you can currently buy.

Playing the super-bright Pan 4K Blu-ray, the A95L's additional brightness and colour vibrancy over the step-down Sony A80L and even the MLA-boosted Panasonic MZ2000 are immediately clear in the first scene's streetlamps and headlights, which are reproduced with a more intense and accurate yellow glow. The A95L also reproduces the moon over London with greater brightness and some subtle pink shading and texture detail that its rivals miss.

There's no loss of black depth, though, with the grimy streets of Victorian London being both oppressively dark and packed with shadow detail. What's more, the A95L also reproduces colours expertly in these darkest parts of the picture so that skin tones remain accurate and lifelike where other TVs allow them to go a bit pale.

The brighter highlights combine with OLED's perfect, inky blacks to increase contrast, which helps to reinforce edges and textures, in turn increasing the solidity and three-dimensionality of the picture. Thankfully, this is also combined with supreme subtlety, so the lights shining on a tiled wall reveal all sorts of subtle shades on the A95L, and as Peter peers into a bottle in Mother Barnabus's office, the little ship inside is resolved with fabulous fine detail and excellent solidity.

What's perhaps most impressive is the way that the A95L achieves all of its pop and dynamism without eroding subtlety or authenticity in the way that Samsung's S95C QD-OLED is occasionally guilty of.

While less-bright HDR movies and SDR content don't show off the A95L's advantages quite as strongly, it's still a cut above its rivals with everything we watch during testing, particularly in terms of colour vibrancy and accuracy.

For sound, the A95L uses a very slightly tweaked version of the 2.2-channel actuator-based sound system of the A95K. Two actuators vibrate the whole screen in order to produce sound, backed up by two regular woofers that add bass. This results in a level of directness that other TVs can't match, with dialogue that literally comes from the screen.

What's surprising is the way this sound system also extends the sonic presentation far to the sides and above the set, creating a very impressive pseudo-Atmos effect. On top of that, the sound is crisp, clear and detailed. Some extra bass weight and depth would be nice, but this is still very good sound by TV standards.

At launch, the A95L was lacking the UK catch-up apps and Dolby Vision gaming, but these issues have since been sorted through software updates. So, really, the only flaw of note remaining is that there are still only two HDMI 2.1 sockets, one of which inconveniently doubles as the eARC port.

Otherwise, the Sony A95L is an absolutely stunning performer that should be right at the top of the list for those lucky enough to have a very large budget for their next TV.

Read the full Sony A95L review

While most brands these days have OLED models (in one form or another) at the top of their TV ranges, others maintain that Mini LED is the flagship TV technology of now and the near future. One of these Mini LED proponents is TCL, and the C845K is its current flagship model for the UK and Australia (US buyers, check out this alternative ).

The C845K's backlight features (in the case of the 65-inch model tested) 576 individual dimming zones and a 2000-nit claimed peak brightness figure. These figures are huge for a TV in this price range and significantly higher than those of many backlit models costing significantly more. That backlight shines through Quantum Dots rather than LCDs, too.

Of course, eye-catching specs don't necessarily equate to an eye-catching performance (which is why we spend days testing each TV in our dedicated test rooms), but the C845K broadly delivers on its promise.

For starters, movies and TV shows leap off the screen with an intensity that no TV at anything like the same price can match. In fact, the C845K makes many much more expensive TVs and even some flagship models – particularly OLEDs – look a bit dull by comparison.

Combining all of that brightness with Quantum Dots makes for a spectacularly vibrant picture performance, but TCL's processing also delivers surprising subtlety when required.

By and large, the TCL controls its backlight very well, but a slightly cloudy look does occasionally creep into shots and scenes that contain a particularly stark combination of very bright and very dark content. Broadly speaking, though, the C845K's blacks are excellent for a TV at this level, combining impressive depth and plenty of shadow detail. It's also an exceptionally sharp and clear performer with 4K content, and while its handling of 24p motion isn't quite as refined as that of more premium models, it's generally natural and free from nasty side effects.

The C845K's combination of awesome brightness and brilliantly vibrant colours works really well with games, and two of its HDMI ports support VRR, ALLM and 4K/120Hz. All told, you won't get a better gaming TV at this price unless you are prepared to go much smaller.

The sound isn't quite as impressive as the picture, but the TCL still sounds much better than you would expect for the money – and better than many much more premium TVs. It's loud, spacious and weighty, but with good clarity, so ticks most boxes, though it obviously can't compete with a good entry-level soundbar, which we heartily recommend that you also budget for.

Read the full TCL C845L review

Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED QL65F601

Unfortunately, the TCL C845K isn't available in the US, but the 65-inch version of Amazon's Omni QLED is a decent alternative.

You won't be surprised to learn that while this is a flagship product for Amazon, it’s still very much a value-oriented proposition. What might surprise you is how much of an all-rounder it is, delivering a very solid picture and sound performance and a very good feature set for the money.

This isn’t a performance in the same league as that offered by flagship sets from the big boys, of course – but the quality and balance that have been achieved at this level is very impressive.

Colours are vibrant and punchy when they need to be but subtle and pale when that is what’s called for. Skin tones at times look just a little richer than is perhaps entirely true to life, but only marginally so, and they certainly don’t look unnatural when viewing the TV in isolation.

A common problem with affordable TVs is that they attempt to dazzle you without having the hardware or processing quality to back it up, and that often actually highlights the limitations of the set. That's not the case with the Omni QLED, which takes a more considered approach across the board, resulting in an overall performance that's less striking than some but much more natural and consistent than most. This balanced approach means you're rarely if ever distracted by what the TV is doing and so can remain fully engrossed in what you're watching.

Inevitably, Amazon’s Omni QLED isn’t perfect. It doesn’t have the pure peak brightness to provide a dazzling rendition of the latest and greatest HDR movies, but that’s understandable at this level. However, while detail levels are decent, they could be better, particularly in darker images, even at this price.

Motion is a slight issue, too. If you avoid the heavier active processing options (which you should), there's no soap opera effect or unpleasant fizziness, but motion is a bit smeary. This is a common issue with affordable non-OLED TVs and the Omni QLED is better than most in this regard, but it's a shame that it is present at all.

Amazon has kept things simple on the audio front, avoiding the temptation to attempt fancy Dolby Atmos processing and the like, and once again we feel that is a wise decision. Yes, the sound is narrow and small in scale compared with that offered by more premium TVs – and there is no attempt to push sound outwards to the sides or up from the television’s chassis – but it is also direct and clear.

On the features front, you're getting a 4K QLED display with the app-packed and user-friendly Fire OS operating system with baked-in Alexa control (you can turn the TV's mics off entirely if you prefer). Somewhat surprisingly, VRR and ALLM are also supported, though 4K 120Hz is off the menu.

All told, by getting the basics right in terms of picture and sound quality while providing an impressive feature set for the price, the Omni QLED makes itself an easy TV to recommend to US buyers on a tight budget.

Read our full Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED review

Samsung QN900D

The wait for actual, real, worthwhile 8K content continues, but the QN900D proves that there is value in buying an 8K TV even now. That's because it uses next-level AI-enhanced upscaling to make everything you watch now look better than before.

During our extensive testing, all of the 4K content we watched looked sharper and more detailed through the QN900D than with any TV we've previously tested. This isn't 'real' detail, per se, because the TV is adding the extra picture information, but it does it in such a way that's entirely convincing and never looks unnatural. On the contrary, it's often the organic elements of a picture – trees and grass, for example – that benefit most readily from the QN900D's enhancements, coming across as more solid and more three-dimensional.

The QN900D is extremely capable in other ways, too. Its Mini LED backlight is one of the best we've seen, for starters, and as long as you stick to the excellent 'Movie' preset it delivers near-OLED blacks, hugely bright highlights and superb overall contrast. Its Quantum Dots enable stunning colour vibrancy, too, but Samsung has also been careful to tune the QN900D for naturalism and cinematic accuracy.

This combination of picture traits helps to make the QN900D an exceptional gaming TV, and its input lag is a super-low 11ms even with all of that clever upscaling in play. The set also has four HDMI 2.1 sockets, all of which support 4K/120Hz, VRR and ALLM.

Those HDMIs, along with the TV's other connections (including the power socket), are housed in a dedicated One Connect box that can be nestled into the stand behind the TV or placed away from it, with a single, very thin cable then connecting box to screen. This makes for an exceptionally neat set-up, particularly if wall-mounting. It also allows the TV itself to be supremely thin – a uniform 1.3cm (0.5 inches).

The downside to this super-thin design is that it likely hinders the sound, which lacks volume, impact, forward projection and bass control. A TV such as this really must be combined with a dedicated sound system.

Other issues of note are some distracting behaviour from the backlight when in the 'Standard' picture preset, a lack of Dolby Vision support, some unintuitive elements to the Tizen operating system and, of course, that lack of native 8K content. It's also a very expensive set at launch, though we do expect the price to fall quite quickly and significantly.

Ultimately, while we think buying a great 4K TV is still the best way to go for the vast majority of people, for those with deep pockets and a desire to both glimpse the 8K future and potentially be ready for it once it arrives wholesale, the QN900D has to be considered.

Read our full Samsung QN900D review

LG Z3: while we don't recommend buying an 8K TV at this stage (primarily because there's essentially no native 8K content to watch), if you simply must have 8K and you want an OLED, the LG Z3 is your best (and only) option.

Samsung S95C: Samsung's flagship QD-OLED model is a technical tour de force that dazzles with its combination of self-emissive OLEDs and colour-boosting Quantum Dots. It's not the most subtle performer, but if you want a TV that will knock your socks off, this is it.

Philips OLED808: this Philips isn't quite as accomplished as the Sony A80L in the picture quality department, but it's close, and it has one thing that no non-Philips TV has – Ambilight. This unique tech sees the on-screen action extended onto the wall around the TV in the form of coloured light.

Hisense 43A6KTUK: if your budget is very limited or you're simply looking for a cheap TV for a second room, this Hisense could be for you. While it won't blow you away, it offers a surprisingly balanced and satisfying performance for very little money.

How to choose a TV

There’s no single TV that’s perfect for everyone, but your ideal TV is almost certainly on this page. You just need to figure out your budget, how big you can / are able to go, and what technologies are important to you.

Only you know your budget and space (although you will find a handy guide to choosing the right size of TV further down this page), but we can help on the technology side.

The biggest thing to consider is the panel technology . OLED now rules the roost at the premium end of things and is hugely popular thanks to its perfect blacks and pixel-level contrast control. LCD is still a huge deal too, though, particularly at the budget end of the market that OLED currently can’t touch. There are plenty of premium LCD-based TVs that are great, too, most notably Samsung’s top QLEDs , which combine Quantum Dots with Mini LED backlights to deliver the brightest, most vibrant pictures possible.

You also need to consider whether the TV you’re looking at has all of the streaming apps you want. While some apps, such as Netflix and Prime Video, are now commonplace, there may be an app that you love that’s less common. The Crunchyroll anime app is a good example. It’s also sadly the case that some streaming apps don’t work as they should on certain TVs. For example, many Google/Android TVs support Disney+, but not with Dolby Atmos . That’s why we manually check not only that every major app is present, but that it’s working at its best.

Serious gamers also need to check that their prospective new TV supports all of the latest gaming features . The most technically advanced and therefore rarest of these is 4K/120Hz , but VRR and ALLM are also worth looking out for. There are a number of TVs on this list that support all of these features, but we have a dedicated best gaming TVs guide for those to whom gaming is the primary concern.

Finally, you need to really consider sound , but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t consider a TV that doesn’t sound good. Confused? That’s understandable, but the disappointing truth is that even the best-sounding TV is far behind a decent soundbar for audio quality, so we always recommend focusing on picture quality when buying a TV and budgeting for a dedicated sound system to go with it. We do know that’s not an option for everyone, though, so we do of course test a TV’s speakers as thoroughly as its screen. If the audio quality matters a lot to you, you’ll find all of the necessary info below. There’s also a TV in this list that’s serious about Dolby Atmos sound.

How we test TVs

A modern TV is a complex, all-singing, all-dancing bit of kit, so we take days to thoroughly test each model.

The bulk of our testing involves feeding various movies and TV shows into the TV on test and its closest rivals (we have a stockroom full of reference models) simultaneously, using a 4K Blu-ray player such as the Pioneer UDP-LX500 and an HDMI splitter. Here, we're testing all aspects of picture quality using DVDs, 1080p Blu-rays and 4K Blu-rays, in both HDR and SDR.

We don't simply accept a TV's out-of-the-box settings, of course. We don't go down the route of professionally calibrating the TVs we test (you shouldn't have to have your TV professionally calibrated in order to see it at its best), but we do spend hours testing and adjusting the picture settings and processing modes – using a mix of test patterns and real-world content – until we're confident that we're getting the best performance possible.

We of course test streaming as well, both in terms of how the TV handles streamed content, which is lower in bit-rate than content from discs, but also in terms of the streaming apps that the TV supports. We manually check that every major app – from Netflix to All 4, Prime Video to Spotify – is not only present, but also outputting in the video and sound formats that it should. Just because a specific app is present doesn't mean it's delivering in all of the formats (Dolby Vision and/or Atmos, for example) that it should. In fact, experience tells us that it often isn't.

For gaming, we connect both a PS5 and Xbox Series X so we can see how the TV's qualities translate to games and check which advanced gaming features it supports and on which HDMI inputs. Is 4K/120Hz supported? How about VRR ? Is there a Dolby Vision game mode? Is there an HGiG preset for more accurate HDR tone mapping? We check all of these things, and measure input lag using a Leo Bodnar device.

We almost always recommend combining any new TV with a dedicated sound system – at least a soundbar but preferably an AV amplifier and speaker package – but we appreciate that for many people that simply won't do, so we do of course test and rate the built-in sound system for clarity, tonal balance, spaciousness, detail, dynamics and plenty more besides.

All of this testing is conducted by our expert reviewers, who have decades of combined TV reviewing experience, in our state-of-the-art testing facilities in London. This gives us complete control over the testing process, and because all reviews are conducted by a team rather than an individual reviewer, we ensure consistency and fairness.

What size TV should you buy?

While it might be tempting to think that bigger is better, the size of set that’s right for you is closely dependent on how close to the screen you’ll be sitting, and the resolution of the source material you’re watching.

Luckily, an organisation called SMPTE (which stands for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) has published detailed guidelines on exactly how far you should sit in order to optimise the performance of your TV.

If you’re sitting the correct distance from your TV, you’ll see lots of detail, good edge definition and smooth, clean motion, but if you’re sitting too close to the screen, then you’re going to see more picture noise and artefacts.

On the other hand, sit too far away from the TV and you’ll struggle to pick up all the picture detail your TV has to offer.

The following distances are a good place to start:

42-inch TV – 1.28m (4.2ft)

43-inch TV – 1.32m (4.3ft)

48-inch TV – 1.46m (4.8ft)

50-inch TV – 1.52m (5ft)

55-inch TV – 1.68m (5.5ft)

65-inch TV – 1.98m (6.5ft)

75-inch TV – 2.29m (7.5ft)

85-inch TV – 2.59m (8.5ft)

Here's a full guide on how to calculate the right viewing distance for your TV .

Should you buy a 4K or Full HD TV?

This question is pretty much moot now, as the vast majority of TVs are now 4K. It's actually rather hard to find Full HD (1080p) models, even at relatively small sizes.

If you're buying a TV below 32 inches and can save a lot of money on a Full HD model, by all means go for it (4K won't be a huge benefit at that sort of size anyway), but otherwise 4K is both worthwhile and, in all likelihood, your only option. Here's how 4K vs 1080p resolutions differ.

Should you buy an 8K TV?

You can now buy 8K TVs from a number of brands, including Samsung, LG and Sony.

It's important to note, though, that almost no native 8K content is available. If you buy an 8K TV and want to show off its ridiculously high resolution, you'll have to do so using nature, scenery and space footage from YouTube. At this stage, no streaming services have even hinted at launching 8K content, and it seems unlikely that an 8K disc format will ever materialise.

For those reasons, it's hard to recommend that most people pay the extra for an 8K TV at this stage. That said, if you've got deep pockets and want to be as ready as possible for the potential 8K content of the future, there's no real harm in going for an 8K TV now, particularly as models such as the Samsung QN900B make current 4K content look better than ever.

Should you buy an HDR TV?

High Dynamic Range is without a doubt a much bigger deal than 8K, and certainly something you should consider before buying your next TV.

Essentially, the higher the dynamic range (brightness and colours), the more lifelike the picture. HDR offers greater subtlety and depth of gradations of colours, plus stronger contrast.

There are various types of HDR out there, and with different TV brands backing different variants, it can be a minefield trying to find the best option. Allow us to explain.

First up is HDR10 , which is essentially the core HDR format that every HDR TV should support.

HDR10 is a static HDR format that applies the HDR values on a scene-by-scene basis (i.e. whenever the camera cuts to a new scene). Dolby Vision , on the other hand, applies this image information (called metadata) on a frame-by-frame basis. This dynamic form of HDR, when implemented properly, has the potential to improve upon the standard HDR10 presentation.

HDR10+ is a rival format to Dolby Vision. Created by Samsung, it also uses dynamic metadata but, whereas Dolby Vision is licensed, HDR10+ is a free, open format that any company can deploy as it sees fit.

Of these two 'dynamic' HDR formats, Dolby Vision is by far the most prevalent, both in terms of TVs and content, and if you have to choose between one and the other, that's the one we'd recommend. That said, you can now buy TVs from the likes of Philips and Panasonic that support both Dolby Vision and HDR10+.

Finally in our rundown of HDR formats is HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma), which was developed specifically for broadcasting by the BBC and Japan's NHK. It's used to deliver all of the HDR content offered by the BBC and Sky, so can be considered very important. Luckily, it's now almost as common as standard HDR10 in TV spec lists, so you should have little problem finding a model that supports it.

What inputs and outputs does your TV need?

These days, it's all about HDMI , which is used to connect everything from set-top boxes to video streamers, Blu-ray players to games consoles. Thanks to ARC/eARC (Audio Return Channel / Enhanced Audio Return Channel), a single HDMI connection can even be used to output sound to an AV receiver or soundbar at the same time as it receives a video signal.

Currently, three HDMI connections is standard on budget TVs, while four is the norm for mid-range and premium models.

The specification of the HDMI connections tends to differ depending on the price of the TV, too, with premium models now commonly getting at least one or two HDMI 2.1 sockets. These have greater bandwidth than their HDMI 2.0 counterparts and can support advanced formats such as 4K@120Hz and 8K@60Hz. Fancy gaming features such as Auto Low Latency Mode and Variable Refresh Rate are often supported via HDMI 2.1 (and some HDMI 2.0) sockets, too, though not always. It's sensible to check the specs thoroughly if there are particular features you're after.

After HDMIs, USB ports are the most abundant on modern TVs. You can use these to keep devices charged (often particularly useful for stick- or dongle-style streamers), and some TVs allow the connection of flash drives and hard drives for the recording of live TV content.

On the subject of live TV, you can expect practically every TV to have an aerial socket via which it can receive Freeview broadcasts, but many also have a satellite connection. Be warned, though; the presence of a satellite connection doesn't guarantee that there's a Freesat tuner on board. Without one, you'll receive only a patchy and disorganised selection of satellite TV channels.

Other useful connections include optical and stereo outputs , which can be used in lieu of HDMI ARC to connect legacy audio equipment. Headphone outputs are still fairly common, too, though Bluetooth is also supported by most TVs now and some models now feature the latter but not the former.

Lastly, while some TVs feature composite inputs (often via an adapter), most – even at the budget end – have phased out legacy connections such as SCART . So those clinging on to old video cassette recorders, for example, should be aware of that.

Which TV smart features and streaming apps do you need?

As with 4K, it's now hard to buy a TV that doesn't have a smart platform packed with streaming apps. Almost every TV will have Netflix and Amazon Prime Video on board, and Disney+ is fast approaching a similar level of ubiquity. Apple TV (which is great for pay-as-you-go movies as well as the Apple TV+ subscription service) is becoming increasingly common, too.

You'd have thought that BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, All 4 and My5 would be present on every TV available in the UK, but there always seems to be one brand that's lacking (it was LG in 2020, Sony in 2021, Sony again and Philips in 2023) so do check before you buy if any of those are important to you.

Other apps that are less common but potentially worth looking out for include BT Sport, Now, Britbox, and music apps such as Spotify and Tidal.

What is the best smart TV platform?

There are numerous TV operating systems out there, and which one your TV uses has a massive bearing on what it will be like to use and live with, so which is best?

While there's not necessarily a simple answer to this and each platform has its pros and cons, on balance, LG's webOS is probably the best TV operating system right now. Its selection of streaming services is more or less flawless, and every app has been optimised to work at its best. It's quick and intuitive, too.

Samsung's Tizen platform used to be the best but it's become increasingly convoluted and unintuitive in recent years. Hisense's VIDAA operating system, on the other hand, is getting better all the time and should now be seen as a positive feature.

Unlike the above, Google TV (and the older Android TV) is built into TVs from various brands, including Sony, Philips and TCL. It's broadly good and always getting better, but recent Google TVs have lacked UK catch-up apps and there's often a slightly disjointed overall user experience, with the Google TV OS feeling as if it's been slapped rather unceremoniously on top of the TV's own menu system.

Amazon's Fire OS platform, which many will have experienced via a Fire Stick streamer, is also now on various TVs, mostly at the cheaper end but soon also Panasonic's flagship OLED model. It pushes Amazon's own content a bit, but every third-party app you could want is there and the whole platform is very user-friendly.

Should you buy an OLED, QLED or LCD TV?

LCD TVs , which require a backlight usually made up of white LEDs to show a picture on the LCD panel, are available in a wide variety of screen sizes and, thanks in part to the technology's low cost of production, at affordable prices.

OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) is a panel technology that uses self-emissive particles – so there's no need for a backlight. This allows OLED TVs to be unbelievably slim, while also offering convincing pitch-dark blacks, strong contrast and superb viewing angles. LG, Sony, Panasonic, Philips and now Samsung are the big brands with OLED TVs in their line-ups and, broadly speaking, they're excellent.

QLED (Quantum-dot Light-Emitting Diode), meanwhile, is Samsung’s rival technology to OLED. A QLED TV is an LCD TV but with a quantum dot coating over the backlight. However, the quantum dots (tiny semiconductor particles) in current QLEDs do not emit their own light. So QLED TVs, like conventional LCDs, rely on a backlight. The advantages of a QLED TV? You tend to get brilliantly vibrant colours, plus bright, sharp and crisply detailed images. Samsung's QLEDs have got better and better over the years, existing as a fine alternative to OLEDs TVs. Interestingly, though, Samsung has now launched its own range of OLED ( QD-OLED ) TVs.

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The best TV 2024, chosen by our reviewers for all budgets

From premium OLED sets to great-value bargains, and everything in-between

• Best overall
• Best budget
• Best mid-range
• Best cheaper OLED
• Best premium OLED
• Best for versatility
• Best for sport
• Most immersive
• Best for sound
• Also consider
• How to choose
• How we test
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The list in brief ↴ 1. Best overall 2. Best budget 3. Best mid-range 4. Best cheaper OLED 5. Best premium OLED 6. Best for versatility 7. Best for sports 8. Most immersive 9. Best for sound

It isn't easy to find the best TV – there are so many options with elaborate screen tech and jargon-filled features – but the good news is that an excellent home cinema experience has never been more affordable.

This guide will help you find the best TV in your budget range, based on our extensive testing experience with these sets. We'll cut the overwhelming number of options down to just the most worthwhile, from cheap options to cutting-edge flagship sets. To make our choices, we're balancing picture quality, features, sound quality, price, and size options. If you're looking for something specific, you might prefer to head straight to our guides to the best gaming TVs , best TVs under £1000 or best OLED TVs – but here, you can get an overview of everything.

We're confident you'll find the best TV for you in this list – if you don't see a model you have in mind here, bear in mind we may still have tested it, it's just that we think the TVs in this guide offer better value.

The quick list

Want to cut to the chase and find out which TVs are the best? Below, you’ll find a roundup of our choices. You can also jump to a more detailed review of every pick, along with our price comparison tool to help you find the best deals.

The best TV for most people

The Samsung S90C does it all. Excellent picture, brilliant gaming performance, great built-in sound, and provides a more budget way into the world of QD-OLED.

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The best budget TV

This is the best image quality you can get at such an affordable price. Its vibrant colors and Dolby Vision support give you all you need for movies.

The best mid-range TV 

Samsung's top QLED may have a mid-range price but it is packed with loads of premium features, including precise LED backlight tech for a bright picture and gaming enhancements.

The best cheaper OLED TV

LG's entry-level OLED TV from 2023 provides stunning picture quality and gaming features that equals more premium models, but it's less bright than pricier TVs.

The best premium OLED TV  

With superb brightness levels thanks to QD-OLED technology, punchy colors and stunning contrast, the Samsung S95C is a knockout. It does come at a price, though.

The best TV for versatility

Gaming, picture quality, an intuitive smart TV platform, and a wealth of sizes from a smaller 42-inch to a large 83-inch; the LG C3 covers all the bases in a way that few TVs do. 

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The best bright TV for daytime sports

Samsung's QN90C hits far higher brightness levels for watching on sunny days than almost any other set. It also handles motion well, and is great for gaming too.  

The best TV for total immersion

This is an excellent OLED TV in its own right, but it also includes Ambilight, which makes the screen feel even bigger than it is by seemingly extending to the wall.

The best TV for sound quality

Looking for a TV that offers genuinely immersive Dolby Atmos sound without a soundbar? The Panasonic MZ2000 offers better audio (and picture) quality than almost anything else.

I've been testing and reporting on TVs since 2017, but my experience writing about and reviewing screen technology stretches back to 2010. I love seeing all the latest TV releases as they come through our testing rooms, and I shape this guide by working with our reviewers and editors, to agree which TVs we think best fit different needs, or represent the best value.

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1. Samsung S90C

Our expert review:

Specifications

Reasons to buy, reasons to avoid.

✅ You want QD-OLED for relatively cheap: The Samsung S90C gives you a brighter OLED screen than the LG C3, and fantastic picture quality, for the same price as C3. 

✅ You need lots of HDMI 2.1 ports: HDMI 2.1 is available on all four of the S90C's HDMI ports, supporting 4K 120Hz for unbeaten connectivity. 

❌ You want the brightest OLED available: Both the Samsung S95C and the LG G3 offer higher brightness levels than the S90C. 

❌ You want an 80-inch TV: The 83-inch model uses a different screen type that's far less bright – we wouldn't recommend it. Get the 83-inch LG C3 instead , which has Dolby Vision.

The Samsung S90C takes the top spot on our best TV list because it does it all; excellent picture quality, sleek design, brilliant gaming performance and it gives you access to QD-OLED technology for the cheapest it's ever been. With prices dropping over time too, this gives you real OLED bang for your buck.

With excellent contrast levels, dynamic and punchy colors and deep, rich blacks that we come to expect from an OLED, we found in our review that the S90C's extra brightness compared to the LG C3 ( further down this list ) or Sony A80L really adds an extra layer, despite these TVs all costing the same. Its sharpness levels and detail are also a sight to behold. One thing to note, though, is that the 83-inch model uses a regular OLED screen that's much less bright, and we would recommend getting the 83-inch LG C3 instead.

Not just a beautiful TV, the Samsung S90C is also a gamers' paradise. With a refresh rate of 144Hz, it has four 2.1 HDMI ports that all support ALLM and VRR as well as 4K 120Hz. It also has a gaming hub so you can tweak setting easily to get the most out of your games. Add to this built-in sound quality that beats almost all other TVs, including LG's OLEDs, you get a complete package with the S90C.

It's not totally perfect (the lack of Dolby Vision support is a shame), and higher-priced OLEDs such as the Samsung S95C ( at #5 in this list ) and LG G3 can beat it for brightness. But in terms of what you get at this budget level, the Samsung S90C is real value for money and is the best TV for most people.

Read the full Samsung S90C review

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2. Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED

✅ You like a colourful picture: The Omni QLED, despite its budget price, offers plenty of vibrant colour, particularly through HDR sources.

✅ You're on a budget: Packed with plenty of features and performance, the Omni QLED offers more than enough bang for your buck. 

❌ You want the best built-in audio: Although respectable enough, the Omni QLED's sound is not the most immersive around.

❌ You want the most responsive smart TV platform: Fire TV offers a lot of recommendations, but navigating it does feel clunky, with no easy way to get around menus.

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED is a bargain TV with lots to offer. We found that it has a surprisingly vibrant picture, thanks to Dolby Vision and HDR10+ support, and good gaming performance, all at an incredible price. In terms of value for money, the Omni QLED is a winner.

Using a QLED panel with local dimming, the Omni QLED's colours are punchy and vibrant, especially with HDR sources. It also has a natural-looking image that gives the set a more premium look in terms of picture quality than many of its affordable rivals. Although its black levels aren't the best and its contrast isn't the richest, the picture you get for the money is great.

As for gaming features, it doesn't have 120Hz support, but the Omni QLED does have Dolby Vision gaming, something not common at this price. It also supports ALLM and VRR. When we measured its input lag time, the Omni QLED yielded a result of 10.4ms, which rivals a lot of TVs that are far more premium. 

The Amazon Omni QLED naturally can't match the elite models here, but when it comes to value, the picture, performance and features you get are well beyond its budget price.

Read our full Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED review

The best mid-range TV

3. Samsung Q80C

✅ You want good brightness and colour: Although QLED is not as bright or colourful as a mini-LED, the Q80C offers arguably the best bang for your buck in the entire Samsung Q80C range. ✅ You want a great gaming TV: Offering extensive gaming features across all four HDMI ports and an all-around great performance, the Q80C is an excellent gaming TV.

❌ You need a wide viewing angle: Backlight issues and blooming around objects starts to happen when the Q80C is viewed from more than 30 degree angle. ❌ You want Dolby Vision: As is a problem with all Samsung TVs, the Q80C does not support Dolby Vision HDR for your movies or gaming.

The Samsung Q80C is one of the brand's best mid-range TVs in its 2023 lineup, sitting above all other LED and QLED TVs, but below mini-LED TVs and OLEDs. But, that doesn't mean it's compromising on features or picture quality. It boasts bright colourful images, a suite of gaming features, and a great-value price tag. 

When it comes to image quality, the Q80C provides some of the best images we've seen from a mid-range TV. Offering bright-but-natural colours, excellent 4K sharpness and detail, and surprisingly good black levels for an LED TV, the Q80C's picture is a real winner. In our review, we said the Q80C's picture looked "consistently convincing and compelling". There are some issues with the viewing angles, where quality fades when viewed at a more than 30 degree angle and there are some backlight limitations, but it doesn't stop the Q80C's picture from being brilliant overall.

Gaming is another real highlight of the Samsung Q80C thanks to its gaming features and performance. It has 4K 120Hz support across all four HDMI ports, VRR and AMD FreeSync Premium, and HGiG capabilities as well. There's also Samsung's Game Hub included for all things gaming, with select cloud gaming services. When it comes to performance, we measured the input lag at an impressively low 9.7ms in Game Mode, plus the added bonus of a rich, detailed and colourful QD picture as well. The Q80C also has an effective sound system, which – while lacks bass – has crisp dialogue levels and excellent Object Tracking System (OTS).

While the Samsung Q80C isn't perfect, namely its disappointing design and backlight limitations, it's still an excellent TV in terms of value for money and is the best mid-range option on the market. 

Read our full Samsung Q80C review

✅ You want OLED picture quality: With deep blacks and punchy colors, the LG B3 has an outstanding picture despite being LGs' entry-level 2023 OLED.

✅ You want excellent gaming performance: The LG B3 offers 4K 120Hz support, Dolby Vision gaming and VRR and ALLM connectivity and a handy Game Optimizer mode.

❌ You'll watch in a bright room often: This is the least bright OLED in this list, which means it's susceptible to reflections when watching during the day, or with bright lights on. A mini-LED TV for the same price would be better for daytime viewing. 

❌ You need the best built-in sound: While its respectable, the B3's sound system is definitely not as punchy as other TVs available, like the Samsung S90C

The LG B3 offers an entry-level OLED option, but doesn't compromise far on picture quality or gaming performance. Its features rival plenty of other OLEDs on the market, and you don't have to fork out as much to get sumptuous image quality. 

Superb contrast levels with deep blacks and dynamic colors combine to give the B3 a picture that feels more premium than the price tag it comes with. It offers Dolby Vision HDR support and when used, movies and TV shows look fantastic with it. It doesn't have high brightness levels however, with the LG C3, Samsung S90C and even the Sony A80L beating it. It still handles reflections well despite this in reasonable controlled environments, but for bright room viewing, such as sports during the day, something like the Samsung QN90C ( #8 in this list ) overcomes reflections much more easily.

With LGs' Game Optimizer feature included, the LG B3 is a real dark horse for gaming. The ability to tweak so many settings while playing really means you can tailor your gaming experience to whatever game you're playing. It also has 4K 120Hz, VRR, ALLM and Dolby Vision gaming support. It's a little disappointing that this is only on two of its four ports, but that's okay for the more casual among us.

The B3 does have a distinctly average built-in sound system, though, and its stand doesn't feel the right quality when compared to its price tag, but there is still plenty on offer here to make the LG B3 a real consideration if you're looking to upgrade your TV and make your way into the world of OLED.

Read our full LG B3 review

The best Premium OLED

5. Samsung S95C

✅ You want spectacular picture quality: With wonderfully bright colors and phenomenal contrast ratio, the S95C is a beautiful TV for movies, TV or gaming. 

✅ You want extensive gaming features: 144Hz refresh rate, four 2.1 HDMI ports, a super low 9.2ms input lag time and an excellent gaming hub makes the S95C a great choice for gaming.

❌ You don't want to fiddle: Some of the initial picture presets need tweaking to get the best picture out of the Samsung S95C.

❌ You want the cheapest QD-OLED: The Samsung S90C, although not as bright, gives you QD-OLED quality for less. 

The Samsung S95C is Samsung's flagship QD-OLED from 2023, and offers everything you'd look for in a TV; exceptional picture quality, extensive gaming features, beautiful design and great built-in sound. It's no surprise that QD-OLED is becoming more popular with TVs like the S95C around.

The picture quality of the S95C is breath-taking. Thanks to QD-OLED, colours are punchy, dynamic and bright. Contrast levels are superb, with black levels and shadow detail feeling rich and deep. We found that some of the initial picture presets will need tweaking to get the picture just right, but once that's done you won't be disappointed with the results.

The Samsung S95C is not just beautiful in picture but also in design. A sleek, stylish frame and ultra-slim trim means the S95C looks fantastic, especially when hung on the wall thanks to its razor thin depth. It also comes with a separate box called the One Connect for connections, so there's one cable running to the TV with picture and power – very tidy.

With all this and excellent gaming performance, why isn't it top of the list? That title goes to the S95C's more budget sibling, the Samsung S90C. The S90C doesn't offer quite the same brightness levels as the S95C, but it's cheaper and still offers fantastic all-round performance, so the S90C takes the top spot. Don't get us wrong though; the S95C feels every bit as premium as it should if you push your budget further.

Read our full Samsung S95C review

✅ You like a wide choice of sizes: Ranging from 42-inch to 83-inch, the LG C3 can fit anywhere in the house, from desk to cinema room.

✅ You want a TV for movies and gaming: The LG C3 has very strong picture quality, and gaming features to cover every avenue. 

❌ You'll watch in bright rooms: The middling brightness means it can struggle with sunlight or reflections – the Samsung S90C at #1 in this guide is brighter at the same price, or the Samsung S95C ( #5 in the guide ) is nearly twice as bright.

❌ You have the LG C2: While there are some improvements, the LG C3 does not give enough of a jump from its predecessor, the C2, to warrant an upgrade.

The LG C3 covers a lot of bases when it comes to what you look for in a TV; it has great picture quality, a host of gaming and smart TV features, and it comes a wide array of sizes that should suit whatever your needs, whether it's your new PC monitor or you want it to cover most of your wall to get that cinematic experience.

The LG C3 offers excellent detail within its picture and deep black levels that make it look brilliant when watching moves or TV shows. As we noted in our review "colours look bright without being garish" and the picture was "perfectly crisp". There also isn't much need to tweak any picture settings; out of the box, the LG C3 looks fantastic, but there are plenty of options to tweak if you need to experiment.  

Gaming features are stocked here, with Dolby Vision, VRR, ALLM, AMD FreeSync and Nvidia G-Sync support and 4K 120Hz across all four 2.1 HDMI ports. Game Optimiser also enables you to play around with settings to get gaming on the C3 just right as well. And, with a wide array of sizes available from 42-inch to 83-inch, everywhere from the bedroom to the living room should be covered with a suitable size.

With so many features and options under its belt, the LG C3 is a versatile TV for sure. However, the Samsung S90C, one of the C3's closest rival, takes the crown for best overall TV with improved brightness and a better built-in sound than the LG C3 at the same price. But, if you're not a Samsung fan or you need smaller than 55 inches, it's hard to argue against the LG C3.

Read our full LG C3 review

The best TV for sport

7. Samsung QN90C

✅ You want a great TV for daytime viewing: With its high brightness and anti-glare screen coating, it looks good even when placed in well-lit rooms.

✅ You want a TV for gaming: The QN90C’s four HDMI 2.1 ports all support 4K 120Hz and variable refresh rate from a PS5 or Xbox Series X.

❌ You want the best TV and money is no object: The Samsung S95C ( #5 in this list ) offers even better contrast, and is arguably the ultimate home cinema option.

❌ You want a simple TV: The Samsung's fullscreen menus are more overwhelming than really feels necessary.

The QN90C is a 2023 mini-LED (or as Samsung calls it, Neo QLED) TV, which means that it offers higher screen brightness compared to OLEDs by places layers of extra-tiny LEDs behind its pixels. Coupled with an anti-glare screen to reduce light reflections to a minimum, it's our pick for daytime sport viewing, because in a bright room with sunlight streaming in, higher brightness means the images cut through any reflections, so you can actually see what's going on. In our review, we measured the peak brightness at over 1,700 nits – this is higher than any OLED TV we've ever tested, and is well over twice as bright as the LG C3, for comparison.

Not just for sports fans, the TV also comes with a whole host of gaming features including HDMI 2.1 across all four of its HDMI ports and a variety of cloud-based gaming features with support for Xbox, Nvidia GeForce Now and more.

Although not the most budget of options and lacking Dolby Vision support, the QN90C's fantastically bright picture certainly gives it the edge over other TVs in well lit rooms. And it's not just about that brightness – in our review, we were impressed with motion handling (which is great for sport), as well as detail and its deep black tones for movies. If you want a more affordable equivalent to this, consider the Hisense U8K – it's not quite as bright, and its processing isn't quite as advanced, but neither is too far off, and it's a lot cheaper. But the QN90C is still the king.

Read our full Samsung QN90C review

The most immersive TV

8. Philips OLED808

✅ You like the look of Ambilight: It makes the picture feel even bigger and more immersive. No other TV brand has this tech built in.

✅ You want a powerful, all-round performance: Philips' OLED808 has vibrant, punchy, contrast-rich, exceptionally sharp pictures and excellent gaming performance.

❌ You a comprehensive game mode: Although it does have a game mode, the OLED808 feels bare in comparison to other TVs from LG, Samsung and more.

❌ You have multiple cutting-edge gaming devices: Only two of the OLED808’s HDMI ports support all the latest gaming features.

The Philips OLED808 is one of the few TVs that we can confidently call glamorous. This is Philips' latest OLED TV and it's eye-catching in a whole bunch of ways. It has an incredibly thin screen and high-quality metallic finish offset, which gives a spectacular effect when using Philips’ Ambilight technology.

If you've not heard of Ambilight before, then it's lighting tech that uses rear-mounted LEDs to cast coloured light onto the wall behind the TV that can match the pictures you’re watching. During testing, we found the Ambilight to follow the action on screen perfectly. You can also set the Ambilight to follow audio if you're streaming music through the TV or a solid colour to set the mood.

But the OLED808's picture quality might be even more striking than its design – and that's saying a lot. Lush, vibrant colours and outstanding black levels balance with one another, leading to amazing contrast levels. Through HDR sources, the OLED808 looks remarkable. It may not be the brightest TV out there, both the Samsung S90C and S95C have it beaten, but the OLED808's picture is so beautiful we can forgive it.

Gamers will be happy thanks to support for 4K 120Hz signals, VRR, ALLM and Dolby Vision gaming (something that was missing on last year's OLED807), which makes this an excellent choice for gaming. One downside is that HDMI 2.1 is only two of its four HDMI ports and its game mode is bare compared to others from brands such as LG, Samsung, Panasonic and more, but the OLED808 is still a great gaming TV. 

Read our full Philips OLED808 review

The best TV for sound

9. Panasonic MZ2000

✅ You want an all-in-one home cinema: If you hanker after a home cinema system with immersive audio bells and whistles, you'll get it here.

✅ You want a TV with versatile picture: The MZ2000 looks great in both light and dark rooms, thanks to its brighter OLED panel with MLA and heat-sink tech. 

❌ You own a dedicated Dolby Atmos sound system: You’ll be wasting your money if you already have a full-blown Dolby Atmos home cinema system.

❌ You want a full board of 4K 120Hz HDMI inputs: Avid gamers might want to look elsewhere for 4K 120Hz inputs on every port.

While TVs aren't known for their sound quality, the Panasonic MZ2000's 360° Soundscape Pro audio performance is on par with an upper mid-range Dolby Atmos soundbar based on our testing. In terms of built-in sound, no other TV on the market is going to beat the Panasonic MZ2000. 

The Panasonic MZ2000 not only offers a meaty, powerful sound with plenty of bass, but also a delicate touch that leads to a perfect balance between treble, mid, bass and speech levels. It also features a 'Space Tune' setting that maps the sound to the viewing environment to add even more immersion, making the most of its Dolby Atmos capabilities, reproducing surround effects to an excellent level. 

As part of Panasonic's OLED range, the MZ2000 also offers pixel perfect imagery thanks to its Master OLED Ultimate panel, which utilises OLED, MLA and heat-sink technologies to create an image that is truly breath-taking. Outstanding black levels and contrast, rich, vibrant colours and a natural image all showcase the MZ2000's incredible picture.

Why is the Panasonic MZ2000 not higher up the list? Quite simply, its price. Although it is an incredible TV, the MZ2000 is noticeably pricier than a lot of its competition such as the LG G3 and Samsung S95C. With the difference in price, you could get one of the best soundbars to add extra depth to those two other brilliant TVs. But, if you want a picture-perfect TV and you have the money, the MZ2000 is a showstopper.

If you're looking for a more affordable option, the Sony A80L is the best mid-range OLED TV for sound, and the Samsung QN85C is also strong for audio quality.

Read our full Panasonic MZ2000 review

More TVs to consider

If you're looking for an elite TV for wall-mounting, the LG G3 is one to strongly consider. Its overall performance is close to the Samsung S95C, and it comes with a special 'Zero Gap' wall bracket in the box that means it sits… well, flush to the wall. Very slick, and a great looking TV. However, the S95C edges it out of this list overall, because we love the One Connect box (also a huge boon if you're wall-mounting) and it's a slightly better performer overall. But definitely read our full LG G3 review if you know you'll wall-mount and you want a high-end TV.

For bright TVs suitable for daytime sport viewing, we recommended the Samsung QN90C and Samsung Q80C in this list, but it's also well worth looking at the Hisense U8K and Samsung QN85C as TVs that split the gap between those two options. Cheaper than the QN90C but not as bright; brighter than the Q80C, but not as cheap – and two great TVs we rated highly. The Hisense U8K is a little brighter, so should maybe be your choice if beating reflections is the priority, while the Samsung QN85C is perhaps better for gamers thanks to its four HDMI 2.1 ports. The QN85C also has better sound. Here's our full Samsung QN85C review and Hisense U8K review to read more about them.

Sony has a selection of TVs that are worth consideration, but have really just been kept out of this list by better-value options. However, Sony's image processing and built-in audio are both excellent, so they're a real connoisseur's choice. The Sony X90L is a superb gaming TV if you have a PS5, because it has some custom features to make the console look its best. The Sony A80L is a beautiful-looking mid-range OLED with better sound than any of its rivals, though it's less bright and notably more expensive than the LG C3 or Samsung S90C usually. And the Sony X95L is a high-end mini-LED TV with very impressive contrast and excellent colours and detail, but it's not as bright as the competition from Samsung, and is very premium priced. Anyone looking for a bright PS5 gaming TV should read our Sony X90L review , anyone wanting a great OLED that doesn't need a soundbar should read our Sony A80L review , and our Sony X95L review will be of interest to anyone looking for an alternative to Samsung's high-end LCD TVs.

At the small and super-cheap end, we recently reviewed the Amazon Fire TV 2-Series, which didn't blow us away, but still offers strong value. It has better sound than a lot of small and cheap TVs, which we really appreciate, and the Amazon Fire TV software is nicer to use than a lot of low-price rivals – but the picture quality was frustrating inconsistent. However, a very cheap TV that you can hear clearly, and makes it easy to find what you want, will definitely be tempting for plenty of people. Here's our full Amazon Fire TV 2-Series review .

How to choose the best TV for you

How we choose the best tvs.

There are plenty of reasons why you might want a TV built specifically for one purpose. Maybe you'd like to find the best TV for sport or the best gaming TV. But if you want to simply find the best TV on the market right now—and don't mind paying for it—there are plenty of excellent displays to choose from. 

In our guide above, we've selected the best TVs you can buy right now. We picked these TVs based on a few key criteria. The first is picture quality, we wanted to be sure images were clear and sharp, no matter whether you're watching 4K content or upscaled content. 

We also wanted to see impressive brightness. Bright images aren't the be all and end all of a great TV, but you need to know your new display will perform well in a variety of lighting environments. 

Value for money is another key consideration. Sure many of the TVs in this list are pricey, but there's a difference between an expensive TV and one that really lives up to that price. Several of the TVs above might be eye-wateringly expensive, but if you have the money to spend, we promise they're worth it. 

Extra features are a bonus, like the Philips OLED808's Ambilight technology. This isn't a must-have, but it does upgrade your watching experience considerably, so we were sure to highlight the added features that we believe you'll genuinely value. 

There's so much to considering when you're choosing the best TV for you, but these are a few of the top considerations we had in mind during our reviews and our selection process for this guide. 

What TVs are coming in 2024?

We've already heard about a lot of exciting new TVs coming in 2024 from LG, Samsung and more and we'll be sure to update this guide when we've had a chance to test them. 

Samsung has lifted the lid on its entire new TV range including the flagship Samsung S95D , which features new anti-glare tech and as well as the Samsung S90D , follow-up to our TV of the year, the Samsung S90C. The S90D introduces two new sizes in 42 and 48-inch (although admittedly not QD-OLED). There's also the mini-LED Samsung QN90D . 

LG has also announced its 2024 lineup including the LG G4 , which again promises even higher brightness than the LG G3 and the LG C4 , LG's mid-range OLED that promises over 1,000 nits of peak brightness and having seen it in person, the brightness boost from last year's LG C3 is there. There's also the LG M4, its wireless OLED.  

Of course, it's not all about LG and Samsung. Philips announced its 2024 TV lineup, including the OLED+959, the first to promise 3,000 nits. Panasonic also unveiled its 2024 TV range, including the flagship Panasonic Z95A , which have its smart TV platform updated to Fire TV .

There have been no announcements from Sony just yet as they tend to come later in the year, but as soon as we get news we'll be sure to update you. As with all these TVs, once we get our hands-on testing we'll update this guide with our impressions. 

How to pick the best TV for you

Looking for the best TV? There are plenty of things to consider before you take the leap. We recommend kicking off with the basics and deciding on your budget.

Yes, you might be able to bump up your budget a little if you find the perfect TV—or find a great deal in the Black Friday sales—but it's a good idea to set a limit to begin with so you don't fall in love with the unrivalled images and features of a TV that's well above your price range.

At this stage, also consider size. We recommend that you literally measure the space you have in your living room. And remember, just because you can squeeze a huge TV into your available space doesn't mean it'll be well-suited. You'll want to think about viewing angels, brightness and whether you'll be able to put a bit of distance between you and the screen so you can enjoy it properly. If you're thinking of wall-mounting the TV using one of the best TV wall mounts , you may want to consider the amount of the space the TV will take up, the depth of the TV, how you want it to move and so on aswell. 

What next? Well, it's a good idea to check out the HDR capabilities of any new TV—we've detailed these under each of the best TVs in our guide—and the smart TV platform each offers. It's also worth considering sound. If you're willing to spend extra cash on a soundbar, you don't need to agonise about audio. However, if you'd like an all-in-one cinema system, consider an OLED TV that delivers great audio as well as a fantastic picture. 

What can smart TVs do?

Smart TVs are internet-connected televisions. That means you can use them to browse through your favorite streaming apps as well as do a few other things such as control smart home devices or browse the internet. A TV that does not have smart capabilities is often referred to as a ‘dumb’ TV because it requires a set-top box or streaming stick to use streaming apps – but there aren't many of these for sale now!

Which brand is best for TVs?

There's no one brand that does TVs better than the others, but there are definitely some TV makes that excel in certain areas more than their rivals. 

As you can probably tell from our list above, LG, Samsung, Sony and Philips tend to be the top-performing brands at the premium end, though all bring out a wide range of models each year. 

There are plenty of LG TVs on our guide right now, with an consitently outstanding picture and plenty of features. This brand certainly makes excellent OLED TVs – in fact, LG Display makes the OLED panels for most other brands. We like that LG offers a wide range of TVs, including different budgets and sizes – the C3 goes from 42 inches all the way up to 83-inches. LG's webOS is one of our favorites, an easy to use operating system that feels intuitive. 

Utilising QD-OLED technology to full effect, Samsung sits at the top of our list with the fantastic Samsung S90C. Samsung uses quantum dot technology to bring you brightness and excellent contrast. Like LG, Samsung offers a huge variety of TV sizes and prices. Samsung's smart TV software is Tizen, which we think is good overall. The brand also offers some extras, like its One Connect box with some TVs, and styles that are a little unique – take a look at the various iterations of Samsung's The Frame TVs. 

Sony is another major player in the TV space. Its screens boast stunning picture quality and build quality. Although, like other brands in this list, there's a wide range across the board. One interesting difference about Sony is its really pushed its Cognitive XR processor, a processing chip added to its TVs from 2021 that boosts vision and audio performance. 

Philips TVs don't top our list, but they always feature strongly. Their screens are reliable and bright with some notable cool additions, including Ambilight, a system that projects lights onto the wall behind a TV display. Premium Philips TVs also have a considerable audio boost thanks to a partnership with Bowers & Wilkins. 

Of course you shouldn't feel hemmed in by these four brands – Panasonic offers excellent premium TVs with a focus on image quality in particular, and Hisense and TCL offer great value in the mid-range and affordable end of the market.

Which brand of TV is most reliable?

Again, there's no one answer to this question, particularly in terms of which brand to go for. But one thing worth considering in regards to longevity is the kind of TV tech that's being used. 

For example, OLED TVs do have the possibility of image retention, also known as 'burn-in'. It's where a ghost of a still image stays on the screen – such as a clock or logo from 24-hour news channels. However, these days burn-in is much less of an issue than it used to be . Then again, LED TVs are probably still the better choice for anyone concerned about long-term reliability, since there's no chance of it at all.

Which is better, OLED or QLED?

This is one of the biggest and more contentious TV tech questions of the moment. Luckily we've covered all of the details in our OLED vs QLED guide . 

However, if you're looking for a summary we'd say that QLED is a great option for brightness if you'll watch in bright, sunlit conditions; whereas OLED TVs offer better viewing angles and superior contrast for gorgeous movie-like images, as long as you can control the lighting.

Is LG better than Samsung?

Both LG and Samsung are excellent TV brands and you can't really go wrong with either. However, there are some areas where one TV maker could be a better option than the other.

An LG TV tops our best TVs guide, but Samsung is the market leader for sales overall. If you're looking for the most impressive picture quality out there, regardless of price, nothing currently beats LG's OLED panels for color and contrast.

But Samsung TV's are incredibly bright, particularly in more affordable models. We also love Samsung's lifestyle sets, like The Frame QLED 4K TV (2022), for combining performance with style. And its cheaper TVs, like the Samsung CU8000, are good value for money. 

Is OLED better than 4K?

Luckily, you don't need to decide whether to go with OLED or 4K – you can have both! 4K refers to the resolution (ie, the number of pixels on the screen), while OLED refers to the panel technology (ie, what the pixels are made from).

So you can have 4K screens that are OLED (almost all of them are, apart from some pricey 8K OLED TVs), and you can have 4K screens that are QLED, mini-LED or other tech.

How we test the best TVs

When it comes to reviewing the best TVs, we base our scores on the following criteria that you’ll find in our reviews: picture quality, audio quality, gaming features, smart TV features and ease of use, design, and value for money. We reach these conclusions using both objective measurements and our subjective opinion from viewing the TV. You can read in-depth how we test TVs at TechRadar at that link, or read on for an overview.

Testing picture quality, we start by cycling through the TVs picture presets – Standard, Movie, Sports and so on – to establish where they have strengths and weaknesses, and which is the most accurate. We test these picture modes through several sources including 4K Blu-ray and streaming, HD Blu-ray and streaming, and lower-resolution sources such as DVD and broadcast TV to test a TV’s upscaling effectiveness.

While testing, we’re looking to see how the TV’s processing handles various elements of the pictures. How is motion handled in 24fps movies compared to sports, for example, or how natural the details look when upscaled from lower-quality to higher quality. We’ll test to see whether digital noise reduction processing ruins the look of film grain, and how well a TV handles the digital artefacts and color banding that are common on streaming services. 

We’re also looking for how well a movie handles dark tones, especially if it’s an LCD model, and this includes and backlight blooming from light to dark areas, and any unevenness in the backlight.

When it comes to objective measurements, we use specialized equipment, including a test pattern generator to create measurable signals, a colorimeter to read them, and Portrait Display’s Calman Calibration software to record our results.

The first area we’ll usually test is brightness. We’ll measure a TV’s brightness over different sized, white window patterns, such as 10% (for HDR highlights) and 100% or fullscreen brightness. The 10% window tells us the maximum brightness we can realistically expect a set to achieve in real use, while the 100% window tells us how bright it can go in something like sports where brightness is even for a long time, and is important for understanding how well a TV will beat reflections. We do this to test not only how effective a TVs backlight will be, but also to measure against claimed brightness from manufacturers. When we test brightness, we make sure to do it in a light-controlled room to prevent any interference from other light sources which could affect results.

We also test the color reproduction of TVs, in both SDR and HDR, to test their accuracy to the source material, and how much of the maximum possible color gamut they can show. We’ll also test accuracy not only for color but grayscale tones, to see how accurate a TV’s contrast is, looking in particular at just how true its representation of black tones are. 

For gaming, we use a Leo Bodnar 4K Input Lag Tester to see what kind of latency is added to games by the TVs processing, and we always test this in the Game Mode equivalent. We’ll test other gaming features, such as 4K 120Hz and Variable Refresh Rate support, using a games console for real resting.

It’s worth noting that although we strive to test every TV in matching conditions and with the same equipment, some of our writers have different setups. We only use writers with equipment that is at the same level of accuracy as ours, and they will run the same tests.

The latest updates to this best TVs guide

March 19 2024 Added benchmark charts for every TV, to make it easy to compare performance.

Read more updates

February 26 2024 Expanded on our How we Test section to include more detailed breakdown of what we tests we conduct on the TVs in this guide. 

January 23 2024 Updated FAQ's section with 'What new TVs are coming in 2024?' looking at the latest models that are arriving in 2024. 

December 12, 2023 Replaced LG B3 with Samsung Q80C as 'Best mid-range'. LG B3 became 'Best cheaper OLED TV'.

November 14, 2023 Replaced the Samsung BU8500 with the Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED for 'Best budget TV'. Replaced the Philips OLED807 and Panasonic LZ2000 with their 2023 equivalents, the Philips OLED808 and Panasonic MZ2000, respectively.

October 12, 2023 Updated several products in this list to reflect our latest reviews, and following price cuts and lack of stock of older TVs. Added the Samsung S90C at #1, the LG B3 at #3, moved the Samsung S95C to #4, added the Samsung QN900C at #5, and added LG C3 at #6 .

September 5, 2023 Added more buying advice for each TV in the list, detailing pros and cons for each TV. We removed some alternative recommendation TVs, to keep our suggestions clear.

August 3, 2023 Swapped Samsung QN85B for Samsung QN90C as 'Best TV for sport', based on availability and performance. Checked all other products against our latest reviews.

June 26, 2023 Added this new 'Latest updates' section to help readers know how we've changed the guide recently. Checked all products against our latest reviews.

May 31, 2023 Checked list of products against our latest reviews. Rewrote introduction.

April 14, 2023 Reordered products to reflect latest recommendations. Added new easier navigation features.

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Other on-camera work includes a number of local and national television and radio appearances. Denison is also known for creating consumer buying guides in video and written format for brands like Amazon and the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).

Denison specializes in 4K TV reviews and 8K TV reviews as well as related TV technologies such as OLED, QLED, micro-LED, HDR, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos. Denison also has extensive experience in consumer audio with an affinity for turntables and vinyl records as well as headphones.

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The best streaming services in 2024

Our picks for the best streaming services and cable alternatives for those considering cord cutting

• Best overall
• Best for live TV
• Best new TV
• Best variety
• Best for families
• Highest quality originals
• Best for sports
• Best add-on
• How to choose
• How we test

The best streaming services can keep you entertained for an eternity. Collectively, they house hundreds of thousands of hours of movies and TV shows for you to stream. Continue watching? Yes!

These days, though, streaming services are in a state of flux, with price hikes, password-sharing crackdowns and the introduction of ads. 

These services are just one-half of the streaming equation, though. As the cable box slowly withers away, it's being replaced by smart TVs and the best streaming devices, which include Rokus and Chromecasts. And by testing the best streaming services and devices side-by-side, we figure out the best way to build the ultimate streaming setup with the best selection of content and live channels.

The best streaming service overall

Our expert review:

Specifications

Reasons to buy, reasons to avoid.

Max has everything HBO Max had, and then some, just like how HBO Max enhanced HBO. Now, the most popular Discovery Plus content is added in, so Logan Roy and Guy Fieri sit side by side in the Series section, in a situation nobody ever imagined. All for the same $15.99 that HBO Max cost.

But there are minor headaches, such as all the shows and movies beginning with "the" are grouped together in alphabetical sorting under T.  Which can get confusing. You need to pay more for 4K , too. Fortunately, existing HBO Max subscribers keep 4K and other perks for the first six months of Max's existence. Oh, and the Last Chance section no longer has the dates for when stuff's leaving, and it's hidden in the New & Notable section. Check out our guide to the best HBO Max shows , and the best HBO Max movies to see what it's offering. 

Check our our full Max review .

The best streaming service for value

Peacock is our favorite rising streaming service, as it continues to add great shows. The bad news, though, is that Peacock joined its streaming rivals by instituting a price hike (up $1 per month). But we still love Peacock as a value pick. 

We at Tom's Guide subscribe to Peacock for a variety of reasons. Some like the Peacock Originals "The Traitors" and "Poker Face" — the kind of shows that keep us subscribing. Also, the service gets next-day episodes of current NBC and Bravo shows, so you never have to miss out on "Law & Order: SVU" or "Real Housewives" drama. Plus, Peacock streams live sports, including Premier League soccer and the NFL .

Read our full Peacock review , and also Peacock TV promo codes to save on monthly costs

The best streaming service for live TV

3. Sling TV

Unlike the above on-demand services that outrank it, Sling TV is a streaming service to replace cable, offering many of the most popular live TV channels. We (two of TG's streaming writers) cut the cord with Sling TV for the following two reasons: its competitive price is married with a decent assortment of channels. Sling is especially handy for sports fans, as it offers a variety of ESPN channels — and this alone is worth the price for some. 

Other popular networks, like NBC, BBC America, CNN, Cartoon Network, TBS and the Food Network, sweeten the deal. If you want a live TV service with more channels (such as CBS ), we say consider Fubo TV, unless you need TNT. In which case, Sling may be the best for you. Check out our Sling TV guide to packages, channels and more. While the other popular streaming services start at around $65 or $70, Sling stands out with its $40 per month starting price. 

But between the Dec. 2020 $5 price hike and Sling Blue going up by $5 in select markets due to ABC? Things are complicated. At least it's cheaper than the $73 YouTube TV and the $77 Hulu + Live TV. 

Sling keeps changing its new offer deal. It's currently at 50% off for your first month, and that's the best deal. Sometimes it goes to $10 off the first month. 

Read our full Sling TV review or view our Sling TV promo codes

The best streaming service for new TV shows

Hulu's one of the most interesting options on this list, and its unique nature makes sure it's one of the best streaming services. While it doesn't deliver as many new originals as say Netflix, its quality-to-quantity ratio is better. But more importantly, its next-day airings of cable and broadcast TV  shows make it a must-have for many cord-cutters who don't want to spend $40 or more on the likes of Sling. There's also Hulu + Live TV (which goes up to $77 in October) which is one of our favorite methods to cut the cable cord.

In addition, the service hosts a number of original shows (including joint ventures with the BBC, like The Wrong Mans and season 4 of The Thick of It), a selection of offbeat movies and a surprising amount of classic anime series. Recent Hulu hits include Only Murderers In the Building season 2, Fire Island and The Dropout. Even with a paid subscription, you have to sit through commercials, but far fewer than if you watched the same shows on cable. Hulu's live TV streaming option is also a solid aspect of its overall package, and that will let you watch CBS too. Wondering what to watch ? Check out our lists of the best shows on Hulu and the best movies on Hulu .

Check out our full Hulu with Live TV review or view our Hulu promo codes

The best streaming service with a ton of content

The great-granddaddy in the market remains near the top of our list of the best streaming services. As you probably know, Netflix provides unlimited streaming of TV shows, movies, comedy specials and original programming (we need Stranger Things 5 now) for one monthly subscription fee. It's continuing to try and make big movies its big thing, but The Gray Man wasn't exactly a winner (a sequel is coming, though). The new Netflix with ads plan offers a new $6.99 entry-point, but the previously affordable Basic plan just got a price hike . So did the already-too-expensive Premium plan.

Netflix is constantly adding and taking away movies, so you'll want to check our what's new on Netflix guide to see what's coming soon, and what you should watch before it's gone. Some may want to cancel Netflix for trying to get them to pay more, though, as something called "Paid sharing" looks to put an end to shared accounts.

Wondering what to watch? Check out our lists of the best shows on Netflix and the best movies on Netflix .

Read our full Netflix review .

The best streaming service for families

6. Disney Plus

Disney Plus is a dominant player in the category, and why wouldn't it be? Disney controls a frankly frightening number of properties, from Marvel , to Star Wars , to Disney's own animated canon, to The Simpsons (all 30 seasons, and counting). The incoming Disney Plus price hike pushes ad-free Disney Plus up another $3 to $14, though the $8 ad-free plan remains unchanged.

While we like the Disney Plus apps — they're all snappy, responsive and well-made — we've always wanted more from the service. For example, we find ourselves waiting for the next big thing too often. 

We're also curious about what will change with the addition of TV-MA content in the U.S., as Disney Plus gets the Netflix Marvel shows and improved parental controls. Deadpool, Deadpool 2 and Logan are the first R-rated Disney plus movies, too, but those are just drops in the bucket, as Netflix and HBO Max have long outranked Disney Plus when it comes to a wide variety of content for adults. Fans of Disney, Marvel, Pixar and/or Star Wars have no choice but to subscribe, which makes Disney Plus one of the best streaming services. 

Trying to figure out what's actually good? Our guides to the best Disney Plus movies and the best Disney Plus shows can help.

Read our full Disney Plus review .

The best streaming service for quality originals

7. Apple TV Plus

When we first named Apple TV Plus one of the best streaming services, it entered this list at the very end, in last place. In the months since? We keep going back to Apple TV Plus, as its hot streak is almost unparalleled outside of HBO Max. Severance was arguably the show of 2022, The Afterparty was a great surprise and Apple TV Plus even took home the best picture Oscar for CODA. So for anyone who says Apple TV Plus is for "Ted Lasso and little else," tell them they need to check out the best Apple TV Plus shows and movies . It's serving up programming that continues to surprise and charm, while Netflix almost feels routine and boring. 

The latest excellent Apple TV Plus show is Shrinking, starring Jason Segel, Jessica Williams and Harrison Ford — and it's from two of the minds behind Ted Lasso. Beyond that, there's the musical Schmigadoon!, the The Velvet Underground documentary and much more, including the excellent Mythic Quest. Want drama? For All Mankind and The Morning Show scratch the prestige and tabloid itches, respectively. And while it's getting into live sports with MLB and MLS, the recent Apple TV Plus price hike is not great news, as it went up from $4.99 to $6.99 per month.

Check out our full Apple TV Plus review .

The best sports streaming service

Fubo is one of the best streaming services for anyone looking to have access to live sports without an actual cable subscription. Fubo’s standard plan is $75 and offers 120-plus channels, including almost every major broadcast and cable network. And its recent addition of regional sports networks sounded great, until we found out that Fubo's adding upwards of $13.99 extra in a Regional Sports Fee you'll see at checkout. But unlike other live TV streaming competitors Hulu and Sling TV, Fubo has 4K streaming for select content on demand and select live events. The other knock against Fubo, besides its higher price, is the limited Cloud DVR storage. 

When we tested Fubo, we found that its multi-screen view (an Apple TV exclusive) was the biggest differentiator outside of its surplus of international sports. Those features work really well together, though, as we got to watch races and futbol simultaneously. 

While Fubo’s channel lineup is the largest among the higher-priced streamers, they just got a major pair of gaps filled, including ABC and ESPN. By adding ESPN, Fubo makes itself the top streaming service for NFL fans, offering all the major broadcast networks, and the NFL Network too. In addition, the lineup includes popular networks like NBC, Fox, AMC, Food Network, MTV and Syfy, as well as a ton of niche sports channels. Its only big sports flaw is the lack of TNT and TBS, which are musts for US sports playoffs for the NBA and MLB.

Check our our full Fubo review or view our Fubo promo codes

Best add-on streaming service

9. Prime Video

For those who do most of their shopping online, Amazon Prime is a no-brainer. For $139 (formerly $119) per year, you get free two-day shipping on your purchases, a free Kindle book each month, and unlimited access to both Amazon Music and Amazon Prime Video. Like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video is a veritable buffet of movies, television and original programming (the best Amazon shows range from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and The Man in the High Castle to Reacher and  The Boys). But unlike Netflix, Prime Video's new shows are seemingly few and far between, as its output rates don't quite stack up to the big red streaming machine, or HBO Max. 

Amazon Prime Video's biggest hit is The Boys, which has already had one animated spinoff (a college-based one is also coming). The thing we don't love about Prime Video is how its apps vary greatly across platforms. When we tested Prime Video on Roku or Apple TV or Chromecast, we saw fewer sorting and discovery options than we did on a Fire TV device. You can also rent or purchase movies through Amazon Prime Video, but it's an à la carte service. Check out our list of the best Prime Video movies for more recommendations.

Read our full Prime Video review .

How to choose the best streaming services for you

The good news is that you don't need to limit yourself to just one. It's all about picking the number of services that's right for your budget. And to that matter, all depends on the content you want to consume. While Netflix has a diverse array of content, it's not appealing to any specific audience — which means it's probably a service that most people have.

While Netflix is pivoting more to original shows and movies with each passing week, it's still constantly adding licensed movies and shows. But Max has a massive library and in general, boasts better quality content. 

Among the lower-priced streaming services, our choice is Peacock, but Paramount Plus is gaining ground and could soon be added to this list.

How we test the best streaming services

Testing streaming services is both serious work and good fun. When we test the quality of these platforms, we use them on multiple devices, including game consoles, web browsers and mobile devices. You'd be surprised at how differently Sling TV can look between a Roku, the Apple TV box and Chrome. 

We then compare the services based on the number of simultaneous streams they allow, if they throw in 4K streaming for free (or charge extra), and what other special features they allow. We also keep a strong eye on the new channels coming to each service, with articles such as our Sling Orange vs Blue face-off.

And as pricing constantly changes (not in the right way, most of the time), we have to rethink how each competitor sits in the landscape. Sling, for example, has stayed near the low end of the field, even though it too has gone up over time.

One of the biggest new names in streaming is NBCU's Peacock . Peacock has The Office, SNL and much more, plus it's the exclusive home for many Premier League soccer games and the WWE Network.

Max arrived with the WarnerMedia library (plus Friends), including all of HBO's prestige dramas and comedies. You absolutely need Max if you want to stay on top of the Sunday night TV conversation.

For more information, check out our  how we test page  for Tom's Guide.

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Kelly is the streaming channel editor for Tom’s Guide, so basically, she watches TV for a living. Previously, she was a freelance entertainment writer for Yahoo, Vulture, TV Guide and other outlets. When she’s not watching TV and movies for work, she’s watching them for fun, seeing live music, writing songs, knitting and gardening.

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Most TVs sold these days have a 4k resolution, except for a handful of 8k options and a few 720p or 1080p TVs. Since a lot of streaming content is in 4k, it's beneficial to have a 4k TV because it doesn't have to upscale anything. You have to consider many factors when looking for the best TV with a 4k resolution, including where you'll watch it. OLED models are ideal for watching content in dark rooms, while LEDs get much brighter if you want to use them in a well-lit room. Choosing one TV over the next can come down to personal preference, and there's no perfect choice.

Even though 2024 models are being released and starting to become available, they're usually not worth buying in the first few months as they're significantly more expensive than previous year's models, but they do eventually drop in price. On top of that, last year's models tend to drop to their lowest price point after the new models have been released. You can learn more about price changes in our when to buy a TV article. You can also  vote on which new models you want us to buy and test. To learn more about the 2024 models, check out our 2024 TV lineup page .

We've bought and tested more than 425 TVs, and below are our recommendations for the best 4k TVs you can buy. Also, check out our picks for the  best TVs , the  best smart TVs , and the  best 4k gaming TVs .

The best 4k TV we've tested is the Samsung S90C OLED. It's an incredible 4k TV that looks amazing in a dark room, as bright highlights in HDR content stand out incredibly well, with no distracting blooming or haloing around bright areas of a scene. Its QD-OLED panel has much brighter and more vibrant colors than the WOLED panels found on some other OLEDs. It runs Samsung's Tizen OS smart interface, which is easy to use and has a great selection of streaming apps and games. Unlike some other TVs, the Samsung model doesn't support Dolby Vision HDR, nor does it support advanced DTS audio formats. It does support Samsung's less widely used HDR10+ format, which looks just as good as Dolby Vision.

This TV is also great for gaming thanks to its near-instantaneous response time, so there's no noticeable ghosting behind fast-moving objects. Its input lag is extremely low, resulting in a very responsive gaming experience, and it has a few great gaming features, including variable refresh rate (VRR) support to reduce screen tearing. Finally, it supports up to 4k @ 144Hz on all four HDMI ports or 120Hz on the 83-inch model, so you can take full advantage of the latest gaming consoles and graphics cards. It's available in four sizes: 55, 65, 77, and 83 inches, but the 83-inch model uses a WOLED panel. It has a higher-tier model, the Samsung S95C OLED , but it's more expensive, and even though it's brighter than the S90C, the cheaper model is the better buy for most people.

The Samsung S90D is the 2024 follow-up to this TV. It has a new gaming feature called Auto AI Mode, which is supposed to automatically adjust the picture settings depending on the game genre, and it's available in more size options. Samsung's 2024 OLED lineup is confusing due to their decision to release TVs with the same model number with both WOLED and QD-OLED panels, with no easy way to identify what type of panel you're getting.

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If you want the absolute best TV for a basement home theater, get the Sony A95L OLED. It's significantly more expensive than the Samsung S90C OLED , but it's better for a home theater setup as it has wider format support than the Samsung TV and delivers a more accurate image overall, especially in HDR. Compared to Samsung's HDR10+ format, the Sony TV supports the more popular Dolby Vision HDR, so you'll enjoy the most advanced HDR experience possible from almost any source. Sony's processing does a better job following the content creator's intent, so the brightness and colors of HDR content look the way they're supposed to.

It also supports more advanced audio formats than the Samsung, like Dolby DTS:X passthrough over eARC, so you don't have to worry about the audio formats that your favorite movies use. It displays an incredibly wide HDR color gamut and looks stunning in a dark room thanks to its nearly infinite contrast ratio, delivering perfect blacks with no distracting blooming around bright areas of the screen. It also gets very bright, so HDR content stands out, and colors are bright and vibrant. It's only available in three sizes: 55, 65, and 77 inches. The A95L is very expensive, so if you want a Sony OLED specifically for its processing capabilities, the Sony A80L/A80CL OLED is much cheaper. Still, it's a big step down in brightness and color vibrancy.

Best Bright Room 4k TV

If you're not in a completely dark room, the benefits of the Samsung S90C OLED or Sony A95L OLED are less noticeable, so an LED TV like the Sony X93L/X93CL might be a better choice. This TV delivers excellent picture quality, with deep blacks and very bright highlights that stand out the way the content creator intended. It's a fantastic choice for a bright living room thanks to its high peak brightness and superb reflection handling, so glare isn't an issue. It looks good in a dark room, but it relies on a Mini LED backlight to produce deep blacks, so there's more noticeable blooming around bright objects than on the Samsung.

It's a great TV for any use. It has a great selection of gaming features, including HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on two of its four ports, meaning you can enjoy 4k @ 120Hz gaming from recent consoles or a recent PC GPU. It also has an excellent response time and fantastic input lag for a very responsive gaming experience. It supports HDMI Forum VRR and G-SYNC, so VRR works with any source. It's available in three sizes, from a 65-inch size to a huge 85-inch model; all sizes deliver incredible picture quality, with an adequate viewing angle, deep blacks, and a wide color gamut for HDR content. For those with deep pockets, the Sony X95L is the best LED TV on the market, but it is only available in an 85-inch size in North America. Plus, and as amazing as it is, it's not worth the price increase over the X93L for most people.

Best Upper Mid-Range 4k TV

If you want a good home entertainment OLED but don't want to get the expensive Sony A95L OLED , check out one of the best upper mid-range TVs we've tested, the LG C3 OLED. It's an incredible TV that delivers picture quality similar to that of the Samsung model. It uses a different type of OLED panel that delivers the same perfect blacks in a dark room, but its colors aren't as bright and vibrant as those found on QD-OLED TVs, and HDR content doesn't stand out as well due to the LG's lower peak brightness. The LG partly makes up for it with its versatility, as it has very good image processing, has Dolby Vision HDR support with Dolby Vision gaming at 120Hz, and can pass through advanced DTS audio formats. Like the Sony TVs, the LG supports Dolby Vision HDR, which is more widely used than Samsung's competing HDR10+. It's available in a wider range of sizes, from a small 42-inch up to an impressive 83-inch size.

Thanks to its wide range of gaming features, it's a fantastic choice for gamers. All four of its HDMI ports have HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, all of which can do up to 4k @ 120Hz. It also supports all VRR technologies, ensuring a nearly tear-free gaming experience from any VRR-compatible source. Plus, it has nearly instantaneous response time and low input lag, so it's truly a gaming standout. If you love this TV but wish it were more vibrant, consider the more expensive LG G3 OLED . The G3 is one of the brightest OLEDs on the market and is certainly brighter than the C3, but the price difference is not worth it for most people.

The LG C4 OLED is the 2024 successor to this TV and will be available soon. It can do up to 4k @ 144Hz, has a new processor, and is supposed to be brighter than its predecessor.

Best Mid-Range 4k TV

If you want something cheaper but still want high-end features and great performance, a mid-range TV like the LG B3 OLED is an excellent choice. The TV has all the features of the more expensive LG C3 OLED , but the B3 is dimmer and has only two HDMI 2.1 bandwidth ports. It still delivers outstanding picture quality, especially in a dark room, with its near-infinite contrast ratio delivering deep, inky blacks with no distracting blooming. Its built-in webOS platform is just as fast on this lower-tier model, and it still has very good image processing, so it has no issues upscaling lower-resolution content if you watch DVDs, cable boxes, or Blu-rays. It also has Dolby Vision HDR and supports DTS advanced audio formats, which is great for physical media as it tends to use DTS for their audio tracks.

Its viewing angle is fantastic, so viewers can watch the TV from all over the room without degrading their viewing experience. Like the C3, this TV has a wide color gamut and is extremely accurate without any calibration, so movies look as the content creator intended. This TV is also great for gaming, as it's compatible with every VRR technology, has a fantastic response time, and has extremely low input lag. Its two HDMI 2.1 ports have up to 4k @ 120Hz support, although unfortunately, like on the Sony X93L/X93CL , one of its HDMI 2.1 ports also doubles as the TV's eARC port, leaving you with only one high-speed port if you have a soundbar connected through eARC.

The LG B4 OLED will be out this year and will bring some improvements with it. The TV has a new processor that brings the AI Picture Pro feature to it, has HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on all four of its ports, and is available in a 48-inch model meant for smaller rooms.

Best Lower Mid-Range 4k TV

If you want high-end performance but don't want to spend high-end prices, check out the Hisense U7K. It's cheaper than anything recommended up to this point but delivers picture quality that is almost as good as the more expensive choices. It has a great Mini LED backlight, letting it simultaneously provide incredibly bright highlights and deep blacks, with barely any blooming around bright objects in dark scenes. HDR content looks great, and it supports both Dolby Vision HDR and HDR10+ for the best HDR experience possible, as well as advanced audio formats, like DTS:X over eARC, for the best sound when watching content on physical media. And just like the more expensive LG TVs, the U7K has very good image processing overall, making it a cheaper standout for a home entertainment setup.

Unfortunately, its viewing angle is sub-par, making it a bad choice for a wide seating arrangement. It runs the Google TV interface, which is fast and easy to use, and it has a great selection of streaming features, so you're sure to find your favorite shows. It's great for gaming thanks to its Dolby Vision HDR 120Hz support and two HDMI 2.1 bandwidth ports, both capable of up to 4k @ 144Hz gaming with VRR. This makes the TV a standout choice for PC gamers with powerful rigs and fully compatible with recent consoles. If you love this TV but want it to be even brighter, consider the Hisense U8K , which is just a bit brighter than the U7K.

Best Budget 4k TV

The best budget 4k TV we've tested is the Hisense U6/U6K. It's a good budget TV with surprisingly good picture quality and a wide selection of additional features. It's impressive for watching movies in a dark room thanks to its excellent contrast ratio, so dark scenes look amazing with little blooming around bright areas of the screen. It also has good peak brightness in SDR and decent reflection handling, so glare isn't an issue in a brighter room. It has an excellent color volume, making this TV very colorful overall. It's bright enough in HDR for a pleasant viewing experience, and just like the Hisense U7K , it supports both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision HDR, although it doesn't support advanced DTS audio formats.

Unfortunately, its image processing is significantly worse than on the U7K, so there's visible digital noise when watching low-bitrate content from streaming platforms. By going with a budget model like this one over the more expensive Hisense, you're sacrificing a bit on picture quality, but the biggest difference is for gamers, as it's limited to a 60Hz refresh rate. It's still great for gaming with its superbly low input lag and VRR support for a responsive, nearly tear-free gaming experience. However, it can't take full advantage of an Xbox Series X, PS5, or powerful gaming PC.

Best Cheap 4k TV

If you want something cheap that gets the job done, the Roku Select Series is the best cheap 4k TV we've tested. It's a decent TV with satisfactory reflection handling to help reduce the appearance of glare in a bright room. It has fewer features than the Hisense U6/U6K , as it doesn't have any form of motion interpolation, lacks a local dimming feature, and has inadequate image processing. It's also not the brightest TV in HDR, but it's decent for watching movies in a dark room with its adequate contrast, great black uniformity, and excellent color and HDR brightness accuracy. Plus, the TV has very good peak brightness in SDR, which results in a pleasant viewing experience in SDR content.

Still, it has a great response time and very low input lag, so it's still a great gaming TV if you don't care about advanced features like VRR or a 120Hz refresh rate. It comes with the great Roku TV smart platform, which is extremely fast, simple, and easy to use, with a great selection of streaming channels. It has a good remote with an integrated microphone for voice commands, or you can also give commands through the Roku companion app on your phone. You can also plug headphones into the remote, a great feature at this price point. If you're a Costco member, you'll instead want to get the much better Hisense A6/A65K , which is brighter and more colorful.

• TCL QM8/QM850G QLED: The TCL QM8/QM850G QLED is a great TV and is one of the brightest TVs we've tested. It competes with the Sony X93L/X93CL and LG B3 OLED. The Sony is more expensive and dimmer than the TCL, but it has significantly better image processing and is a far more accurate TV. And while it's much brighter than the B3, it's hard to beat an OLED when it comes to pure visual impact in a dark room. See our review
• Samsung QN90C/QN90CD QLED: The Samsung QN90C/QN90CD QLED is a great TV and a strong competitor to the Sony X93L/X93CL. Still, the Sony is more well-rounded; it has better image processing and advanced audio and video format support. Ultimately, the Samsung is slightly better for bright rooms or users with multiple HDMI 2.1 devices, while the Sony is somewhat better for everyone else. See our review
• TCL Q5/Q550G QLED: The Best Buy exclusive TCL Q5/Q550G QLED is a decent TV from TCL and directly competes with the Hisense U6/U6K. The Hisense is a bit better overall and can emphasize highlights better due to its local dimming. Still, the TCL is the better gaming TV due to it outputting 1080p @ 120Hz and 1440p @ 120Hz, with a wide VRR range through resolution halving on the 55-inch and 65-inch models. See our review
• TCL Q7/Q750G QLED: The TCL Q7/750G QLED competes with the Hisense U7K. Still, the Hisense is the better TV overall due to its vastly better color accuracy, wider color gamut, better image processing, and superior reflection handling. See our review
• Roku Plus Series QLED: The Roku Plus Series QLED is a strong competitor to the Hisense U6/U6K but falls a bit short due to the better color accuracy of the Hisense. The Hisense also has more features overall, such as VRR and 24p judder removal from more sources, which makes up for the Roku's slight edge in picture quality. See our review

Mar 14, 2024: Mentioned the upcoming LG B4 OLED, LG C4 OLED, and Samsung S90D in the 'Best Mid-Range 4k TV,' 'Best Upper Mid-Range 4k TV,' and 'Best 4k TV' categories, respectively. We also refreshed the text in the introduction.

Feb 16, 2024: Confirmed that picks are accurate and available, updated the intro text, and clarified that the TCL Q5/Q550G QLED is a Best Buy exclusive.

Dec 19, 2023: Replaced the Hisense U8K with the slightly better LG B3 OLED as the 'Best Mid-Range 4k TV', the Hisense U7K is the 'Best Lower Mid-Range 4k TV', and the Roku Select Series replaces the TCL S4 as 'Best Cheap 4k TV' due to the Roku being much better overall. Also, the newer Sony A95L OLED and LG C3 OLED replaced the Sony A95K OLED and LG C2 OLED, respectively.

Oct 23, 2023: Replaced the Samsung QN90C/QN90CD QLED with the Sony X93L/X93CL due to the Sony being a bit better overall for most people. Due to availability issues, we also replaced the Hisense U8/U8H, TCL 5 Series/S555 2022 QLED, and Hisense A6/A65K with the Hisense U8/U8K, Hisense U6/U6K and TCL S4/S450G respectively.

Aug 24, 2023: Replaced the Hisense A6H with the Hisense A65K as the 'Best Cheap 4k TV' and refreshed the text for accuracy and consistency.

Our recommendations above are what we think are currently the best 4k TVs to buy for most people in each price range. We factor in the price (a cheaper TV wins over a pricier one if the difference isn't worth it), feedback from our visitors, and availability (no TVs that are difficult to find or almost out of stock everywhere).

If you would like to do the work of choosing yourself, here is the list of all our 4k TV reviews. Be careful not to get too caught up in the details. While no TV is perfect, most TVs are great enough to please almost everyone, and the differences are often not noticeable unless you really look for them.

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‘dark matter’ review: joel edgerton and jennifer connelly in apple tv+’s relentlessly glum take on ‘it’s a wonderful life’.

Blake Crouch adapts his own novel in this nine-part dimension-spanning sci-fi drama also featuring Alice Braga and Jimmi Simpson.

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Have you ever watched It’s a Wonderful Life and wished that Frank Capra had paused to show us Clarence the Angel explaining to George Bailey how he was able to present him with the experience of a world in which he was never born?

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Joel Edgerton plays Jason Dessen, a Chicago-area physicist living an unremarkably content life with his wife Daniela ( Jennifer Connelly ), an art gallery something-or-other, and teenage son Charlie (Oakes Fegley). At one point, Jason had dreams of making big discoveries and winning big prizes, but in prioritizing his family, he chose a life that has him giving lackluster lectures to uninterested college students. In familiar TV/movie fashion, we happen to meet Jason as he’s trying to explain Schrödinger’s Cat and the paradox of “superposition” to a class; he’ll spend much of the rest of the series repeatedly trying to explain the same to us.

Jason’s friend Ryan (Jimmi Simpson), who does other science-guy stuff, has won some big science-y prize and Jason is semi-secretly resentful — something about the path not taken and the life not lived.

It might sound as if that summary, as well as the trailer for Dark Matter , is spoiler-y. It isn’t. One or two unexpected things happen in Dark Matter , but what I described was the premise, and the show is generally without twists. Also, it might sound from that summary like Dark Matter is a confusing show. It isn’t. All confusion in the story comes either from the characters on the screen functioning five steps behind the audience or from intentional decisions by the directors/editors to present simple things in confusing ways as an odd substitute for presenting confusing things in entertaining ways. This is not Counterpart , the short-lived Starz drama about the intersection between parallel worlds that may have been too smart for its own good. It’s more like Discounterpart .

The impressive line that Capra walks in It’s a Wonderful Life allows us to simultaneously see all the failures in George Bailey’s life and yet still know, even without Clarence telling him or us, that it was a good life. It’s both at once! Talk about superposition. Dark Matter wants to do something similar, which you’d probably understand even without the multiple winking nods and then the not-so-winking nod of a character running through a snowy street and past a movie theater showing It’s a Wonderful Life . Yet it fails.

It’s exactly the wrong way to start a series, because it puts the immediate emphasis on shadowy mystery, and we only then witness Jason1’s life and it, too, is muted. If the series doesn’t establish Jason1’s life in a way that makes us understand why he’s eager to get back to it, we’re only invested in his journey in a perfunctory way. We spend nine episodes watching Jason1 attempt to get his life back because cosmic disorder is bad, not because there’s any warmth to what we’re introduced to. Over the three episodes Verbruggen directs, there are almost no smiles, no jokes, no colors in the cinematography, nothing Capra-esque.

This is clearly what Crouch, creator and showrunner, wanted in his take on his own novel, because even after subsequent directors take over for Verbruggen, a downcast affect reigns. Multiple episodes occur in a conceptual realm known as The Corridor, a manifestation of the multiverse, a concept that Jason1 keeps needing to talk Amanda through, as if the Marvel Cinematic Universe didn’t exist in Jason2’s universe.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an actor taking less visible pleasure in a project that lets him play two different versions of the same character than Edgerton here. Edgerton keeps both men similarly intense and mumbly, so much that it’s nearly a thought experiment in anti-entertainment. If Jason1 didn’t acquire some facial wounds as part of the initial abduction there would be no distinguishing between the characters 95 percent of the time. The other five percent of the time, Jason2 has a “hard edge” so obvious that you want to shout at Daniela and Charlie for missing it.

Although she gets to try on several different hair styles — Jason isn’t the only character to exist in multiple realities — there’s little in Daniela to require an actress of Connelly’s stature. She has one meltdown in a later episode that’s so earned and so well-executed that I wished she’d been given more. Still, she has a bounty compared to Braga, who, for her part, at least gets a small mid-season arc, compared to several key characters from Jason2’s world so comically underdeveloped that their “storylines” are resolved in a closing montage after they’ve already been gone for three or four full hours. A show with this many actors playing this many alternate identities should be a smorgasbord of acting opportunities. Dark Matter is not.

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‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’ Offers a Hasty Archive of a Bygone Era: TV Review

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Some sections of “Black Twitter” are challenging mentally and emotionally to relive. The series moves through the Obama years into the Trump era, addressing cultural tipping points like Trayvon Martin’s murder, the Ferguson uprisings, the coronavirus pandemic and the death of George Floyd, giving reverence to the people who kept their fellow citizens informed when the government and traditional news outlets failed the general public. 

Thankfully, Penny bookends these difficult sections with humorous Black discourse. Reliving snippets from Black Twitter’s response to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, which populated the hashtag #ComeGetYourWhiteCousin, as well as reflecting on an imagined Paula Deen menu with racially charged options like #BackoftheBusBiscuits. These countless tweets and hashtags showcase the beauty of what it means to address the foolishness of American politics and white supremacy while calling for diversity, equity and inclusion. 

Trying to squeeze in a decade-plus of discourse into three hours was always going to be challenging. Though the show does consider some of the troubling aspects of Twitter in the third chapter’s “It’s Giving Toxic,” the terror, homophobia and misogynoir Black women, trans folks, and queer people experience at the hands of the Black community in internet spaces should have been more closely examined. Additionally, addressing the countless policy failures, misinformation and the Wild West-like infrastructure of the platform needed an entire episode on its own. 

While “Black Twitter” isn’t revelatory for those who were there, seeing the tweets, memes and moments displayed on the screen with contributor context does provide insight to those on the outskirts. Relieving the origins of these movements is a recollection of where we are culturally and how much things have shifted, evolved or stayed the same. Most importantly, as Musk’s X continues to erode, the docuseries stands as an archive, reminding us that we possess the power to demand change; we need only to use our voices to activate it. 

The three episodes of “Black Twitter: A People’s History” premiere May 9 on Hulu.

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Review: Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson lead a bright new era for sci-fi series ‘Doctor Who’

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After a transitional trilogy of specials that saw the return of popular Tenth Doctor David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and introduced his successor Ncuti Gatwa, followed by a Christmas special that brought companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) on board, “Doctor Who” embarks Friday on its official new full season, the first on Disney+ .

Gatwa is the first Black Doctor (and first openly queer actor to play him, and, for what it’s worth, the first to wear a mustache), and he’s indirectly following Jodie Whittaker as the first female Doctor. There have been expected cries of wokeness from change-resistant fans declaring the series is dead to them, but they have happily been drowned out by the huzzahs that have greeted the charismatic Gatwa (known from the series “Sex Education” ) since his election.

Being a “Doctor Who” fan resistant to change is, to be sure, a contradiction in terms, given that 14 actors have canonically played the time-and-space traveler since 1963; I’ve liked them all, retrospectively or contemporaneously, whatever their shape, form, accent, costume or headgear, and am always happy to see the show back — and different. (And also the same.)

I may be easy, but I am not uncritical; not every episode is a winner. I thought Chris Chibnall‘s stint as showrunner might have better served Whittaker, to put it more mildly than many others have, and though Davies’ immediate successor, Steven Moffat, created some of the series’ best concepts and characters, the “Am I a good man?” existential breast-beating assigned to Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi I found tiresome. (Not that I didn’t love Capaldi.)

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Executive producers Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner helm Bad Wolf, the production company working with Russell T Davies, Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson on the newer, bigger “Doctor Who.”

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Most significant to the series going forward — apart from the visibly bigger budgets and global visibility afforded by the BBC’s distribution deal with Disney Branded Television — is the return of Russell T Davies as showrunner. It was Davies who revived “Doctor Who” for television after a 16-year hiatus, elevating the series from its low-budget, Saturday-afternoon 20th-century roots, making it more dramatically complex while preserving its lovable cheeky humor, provincial Britishness and sense of adventure. He writes as a fan, as someone who wants only the best for the Doctor, for you and for himself; he’s not afraid to get a little corny, a little fabulous, a little nutty, a little poetical. (Or, for that matter, a lot.)

Although one would certainly expect dark turns ahead — and every episode brings the danger of personal, global or universal annihilation — the second Davies era has been a sunny one. To begin with, he brought back Tennant’s Doctor and companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate), whose knowledge of her time with him had been erased to stop her head from exploding. Davies restored her memory and — in a lovely case of having cake and eating it too — left the Fourteenth Doctor uniquely in place as a sort of decommissioned Time Lord, to enjoy the company of his favorite people on his favorite planet, while the Fifteenth got on with business. New rules may always overwrite old.

The brightness continues into the new season. “Space Babies,” the first of two episodes premiering Friday, features talking infants in an abandoned space station and is powered by booger and fart jokes. The second, “The Devil’s Chord,” takes us to EMI Studios on Abbey Road, where the Beatles are recording their first album and a flamboyant new villain, the Maestro (two-time “RuPaul’s Drag Race” winner Jinkx Monsoon ), is causing musical havoc. (Beatle-heads will appreciate the appearance of the “Mrs. Mills piano.” And naturally the Doctor knew Mrs. Mills.)

There is a bit of expository dialogue for the Disney-subscribing newcomers, who have not followed or even found the series at any of its previous stateside berths, including what TARDIS — the name of the Doctor’s police-box-shaped, bigger-on-the-inside time-space machine — stands for. (Time and Relative Dimension in Space). For initiates, there’s a callback to the very beginning, as the Doctor points across London to show Ruby where he once lived, in Shoreditch, with his granddaughter Susan. The TARDIS too recalls the original’s white with circles design.

As to our new heroes, it takes no time at all to accept Gatwa‘s Doctor as the absolutely genuine article. He’s a hugger, full of heart, and brings an energy not unrelated to his predecessors but amplified. He’s a dancing Doctor, a singing Doctor, a frisky, flirty, fit, stylish Doctor. (Unlike his predecessors, his costume changes often.) And as Ruby, Gibson is a good match; she’s young, bright and fearless — it’s amazing how quickly these kids can get used to running around the universe and through time. They’re fellow foundlings, and the question of her parentage is positioned to drive the season.

Of course, he’s a complicated figure, the Doctor, as anyone who has been alive for a thousand and something years and regenerates regularly (or at least since 1965 when Patrick Troughton replaced an ailing William Hartnell) would have to be. But he was also born as a kid-TV hero, and while revisionism in IP is all well and good, the Doctor also needs to be a madcap adventurer, fun for all ages. And this one very much is.

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was put in the hands of director Wes Ball (the Maze Runner trilogy) and screenwriter Josh Friedman ( War of the Worlds ), and they have wisely not tried to carry on where War left off, but rather move hundreds of years into the future (although the exact time is not specified) to a world where these chimps are now dominant over a forgotten human race that is no longer a factor, reduced to people scavenging for food and unable to speak. The landscape, thanks to brilliant production design from Daniel T. Dorrance, is a remnant of the world humans once dominated: decaying buildings have been overtaken by emerging trees, glass is a thing of the past, and the climate once again is raising its ugly head, reordering the place so to speak.

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Noa also encounters an actual human, Nova aka Mae ( Freya Allan ), who runs from danger at every turn and appears primeval, but there is more to her that meets the eye and she will become a key partner in all Noa is about to uncover as he must confront the villain of the piece, Proximus Caesar ( Kevin Durand ), a strong-willed self-appointed leader of a large army. He also quite fancies re-creating the kind of technology that humans had aced in their time, and is in fact obsessed with entering the nearby vault at the center of his universe in a quest for knowledge and power. He has captured another human, Trevathan ( William H. Macy ), who serves as a guide to everything human, an indispensable piece of the puzzle for Proximus.

No more spoilers, but Ball really ratchets up the adventure aspects of the story as opposed to its sci-fi elements, and it all races to a conclusion that is clearly just a beginning. The actors here, most doing performance-capture with CGI leading the way, are really showing the advancements in this art. Props to movement coach Alain Gauthier in this regard as all of them are instantly believable, a triumph of acting craft merged with technology. Teague ( It ) is particularly fine, as is Macon. Durand is imposing in all the most chilling ways. Allan is terrific as the key human component. Props also to Gyula Pados’ excellent camera work, and John Paesano’s stirring score, with its nods to the 1968 film’s composer Jerry Goldsmith as well as Michael Giacchino’s previous work.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes proves, without a doubt, that there is still life on this Planet with plenty room to grow. I am psyched for the next one. Producers are Ball, Joe Hartwick Jr., Jason Reed and past trilogy screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver.

Title: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Release Date: May 10, 2024 Director: Wes Ball Screenwriter: Josh Friedman Cast: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, William H. Macy Rating: PG-13 Running time: 2 hr 25 min

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Ryusuke Hamaguchi follows up his sublime drama “Drive My Car” with a parable about a rural Japanese village and the resort developer eyeing its land.

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Late in “Evil Does Not Exist,” a man who lives in a rural hamlet an easy drive from Tokyo cuts right to the movie’s haunting urgency. He’s talking to two representatives of a company that’s planning to build a resort in the area that will cover a deer trail. When one suggests that maybe the deer will go elsewhere, the local man asks, “Where would they go?” It’s a seemingly simple question that distills this soulful movie’s searching exploration of individualism, community and the devastating costs of reducing nature to a commodity.

“Evil Does Not Exist” is the latest from the Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who’s best known for his sublime drama “Drive My Car. ” This new movie is more modestly scaled than that one (it’s also far shorter) and more outward-directed, yet similar in sensibility and its discreet touch. It traces what happens when two Tokyo outsiders descend on a pastoral area where the spring water is so pure a local noodle shop uses it in its food preparation. The reps’ company intends to build a so-called glamping resort where tourists can comfortably experience the area’s natural beauty, a wildness that their very patronage will help destroy.

The story unfolds gradually over a series of days, though perhaps weeks, and takes place largely in and around the hamlet. There, the local man, Takumi (Hitoshi Omika), a self-described jack-of-all trades, lives with his daughter, Hana (Ryo Nishikawa), in a house nestled amid mature trees. Together, they like to walk in the woods as she guesses whether that tree is a pine and this one a larch, while he carefully warns her away from sharp thorns. A photograph on their piano of Hana in the arms of a woman suggests why melancholy seems to envelop both child and father, although much about their past life remains obscure.

Hamaguchi eases into the story, letting its particulars surface gradually as Eiko Ishibashi’s plaintive, progressively elegiac score works into your system. The company’s plans for a glamping site give the movie its narrative through line as well as dramatic friction, which first emerges during a meeting between residents and the company reps, Mayuzumi (Ayaka Shibutani) and her brash counterpart, Takahashi (Ryuji Kosaka). The company — its absurd name is Playmode — wants to take advantage of Covid subsidies for its new venture. During the meeting, it emerges that the site’s septic tank won’t be large enough to accommodate the number of guests; the locals rightly worry that the waste will flow into the river.

The scene, one of the longest in the movie, is emblematic of Hamaguchi’s understated realism, which he builds incrementally. The meeting takes place in a basic community center crowded with residents — some had dinner at Takumi’s home the night before — who sit in chairs facing the reps, who, armed with technology, are parked behind laptops and seated before a projector screen. As the reps play a video explaining “glamorous camping,” there’s a cut to Takumi intently watching the promo. The scene soon shifts to a tracking shot of deer tracks in snow and images of Hana playing in a field as a bird soars above; it’s as if Takumi were thinking of his joyful, distinctly unglamorous daughter. The scene shifts back to the meeting.

The site will become “a new tourist hot spot,” Takahashi sums up, badly misreading his audience. “Water always flows downhill,” a village elder says in response, his thin, firm voice rising as he sweeps an arm emphatically downward. “What you do upstream will end up affecting those living downstream,” stating a law of gravity that’s also a passionate, quietly wrenching argument for how to live in the world.

Lapidary, word by word, detail by detail, juxtaposition by juxtaposition, “Evil Does Not Exist” beautifully deepens. For the most part, the movie is visually unadorned, simple, direct. Hamaguchi tends to move the camera in line with the characters, for one, though the exceptions carry narrative weight: images of nearby Mount Fuji; a rearview look from inside a car at a fast-disappearing road; and a lovely traveling shot of soaring treetops, their branches framed against the sky. The canopied forest echoes an image in a short film by Masaki Kobayashi , who began directing after World War II; the title of his trilogy, “The Human Condition,” would work for every Hamaguchi movie I’ve seen.

I have watched “Evil Does Not Exist” twice, and each time the stealthy power of Hamaguchi’s filmmaking has startled me anew. Some of my reaction has to do with how he uses fragments from everyday life to build a world that is so intimate and recognizable — filled with faces, homes and lives as familiar as your own — that the movie’s artistry almost comes as a shock. The dreamworld of movies often feels at a profound remove from ordinary life, distance that brings its own obvious pleasures. It’s far rarer when a movie, as this one does, speaks to everyday life and to the beauty of a world that we neglect even in the face of its calamitous loss. When Takumi asks “where would they go,” he isn’t just talking about deer.

Evil Does Not Exist Not rated. In Japanese, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 46 minutes. In theaters.

Manohla Dargis is the chief film critic for The Times. More about Manohla Dargis

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13)

Stand-alone sequel has violence and sympathetic characters.

“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” is a stand-alone sequel to “War for the Planet of the Apes” and set many generations after the death of the ape leader Caesar, whose teachings have begun to unravel. Violence is the biggest issue: Expect deaths (and mourning, with funeral pyres), bloody wounds, spitting blood, characters being stabbed with knives and zapped with electric prods, falls from high places, a cabinet full of guns, a gunshot, pounding, throwing, bashing, trampling, a lethal chokehold, an explosion and more. Ape characters also struggle with rising floodwaters, and human characters are captured in nets and via ropes around the ankles. “S---” is used three times, but there’s not much other language, and there’s no notable sexual content, product placement or substance use. The movie looks great and has sympathetic characters (albeit not a very diverse cast), though it seems less ambitious than its predecessors. (145 minutes)

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Solid Star Wars miniseries has lots of sci-fi violence.

“Star Wars: Tales of the Empire” is an animated action miniseries set in the Star Wars universe. It explains how two characters — Barriss Offee (voiced by Meredith Salenger) and Morgan Elsbeth (Diana Lee Inosanto) — converted to the dark side. There’s a lot of fighting with sci-fi weapons like lightsabers, some of which results in (non-gory) deaths. The main characters show some remorse for their actions, but their violence is rewarded with positions of power. Characters are in constant peril, and there’s an ominous tone throughout, but there aren’t any jump scares. Besides the near-constant action scenes, there’s not much other iffy content. (Six episodes)

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Unfrosted (PG-13)

All-star comedy has innuendo, language and stereotypes.

The Jerry Seinfeld-directed Pop-Tarts sendup “Unfrosted” is a silly 1960s-set comedy with some swearing, suggestive language, drinking and violence. Men also behave in sexist ways. Violence and intimidating behavior or threats are played for comedy, but people do get blown up, beaten, electrocuted, drugged and kidnapped — and “tortured” with cow flatulence. There are jokes about a man’s privates showing in his pants and references to “eating you,” a wife “coming back for more,” whether “a man’s pleasure is also hers,” the possibility of having sex to close a business deal, a “lewd” dance, sexy advertisements and a U.S. president having affairs. People drink and smoke. Swearing includes “damn,” “goddamn,” “hell,” “a--” and some potty humor and insults. Stereotypes are played for laughs. The all-star cast includes Amy Schumer, Melissa McCarthy and Hugh Grant. (93 minutes)

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Boozy, crass teen comedy has lots of sex, language, drugs.

“Prom Dates” is a rowdy teen buddy comedy about best friends (played by Antonia Gentry and Julia Lester) on the hunt for escorts to the big dance. Teens drink a lot , smoke joints and cigarettes, snort lines of cocaine, get offered Molly, and pass out. There’s discussion of going “all the way,” using condoms, oral sex and more, and characters engage in various sexual acts. A stripper dances at a frat party. Language includes “f---,” “s---,” “a--hole,” “hell” and “b----,” as well as anatomical slang and insults. Violence — played for comedy — includes cuts, falls, concussions and an attempted human sacrifice. Characters also vomit on one another. Although the film aims for positive representation, the script also plays into stereotypes. (86 minutes)

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