Tvs which is best

The whole thing is packed into a gorgeous 1-inch-thick design that contains a huge array of smart features, potent Dolby Atmos sound and some of the best performance we've ever seen. HDMI 2. The result is impressive color and brightness, with some of the best HDR performance we've seen on anything this side of an OLED display.

The slim OLED features more comfortable remote control, enhanced gaming features, and the latest version of webOS, all while delivering the same excellent picture quality and impeccable sound that we expect from LG's best OLED models.

Building on the foundation of the already-good 5-Series, the move to Google TV gives the affordable 4K smart TV a more premium smart TV platform, one that offers personalized and customizable suggestions, a huge assortment of smart features, and deep Google Assistant integration that makes it a viable center for the entire home of connected gadgets.

But it also offers a step up in other aspects of the TV. From LG's webOS 5. It's the TV to beat. Selling for hundreds of dollars less than the competition, the Vizio OLED packs plenty of smart features alongside the 4K OLED display, and delivers the sort of premium picture quality that normally costs much more. Combine all of this with an improved remote control design and great sound with better-than-average bass, and you've got an easy pick for affordable OLED TVs, and the winner of the Tom's Guide Award for best value TV.

Sure, not everyone will need everything here, but it's nice to have the option. Just as importantly, it also excels at the basics — contrast is superb, colors are rich and varied, viewing angles are impressive and it handles upscaling well. Against that, the XR A80J requires a little more tweaking in order to look its best; it's fine out of the box, but to really reach its full potential, you'll want to play around with various modes. It's not the cheapest and other sets beat it purely based on picture quality, but as an all-round package the A80J is a great choice.

With a quantum dot color and integrated Chromecast and Google Assistant, it's a full-featured smart TV that offers great quality for a reasonable price. It has built-in voice control with room-listening microphones, effectively letting you use the TV as a smart speaker, and offering the sort of smart home integration and control that would normally cost much more. In our review, we were especially impressed by the U8G's brightness, which exceeds nits of peak brightness and combines with the better-than-average HDR support for great performance that brings out highlights and shadows.

With input lag clocking in at And any TV that's good for gamers will usually do pretty well at everything else. It impressed us in our testing, and it's more affordable than you'd expect given the feature set. The Toshiba C Fire TV is the addition to the small family of Amazon-powered smart TVs, offering good features and decent performance for its extremely affordable price.

It's a decent example of the Fire TV template, combining good-enough 4K picture quality, impressively short lag times, and Amazon's great Fire TV smart features, like built-in Alexa voice control, a pretty big app store and of course an interface that puts Amazon's Prime Video service front and center.

But with excellent color accuracy, low lag time and a good looking design, it's still a solid TV for the price, and better than many Fire TV models we've seen in the past. The average TV isn't made to handle rain, snow, dust or heat. Whether it's in a cold garage or out on an open porch, the weather-sealed chassis fends off precipitation, dirt and bugs, and even has a sealed compartment for HDMI hookups. We tested the G1 in its inch size. It's official: 48 is the new And now Sony has one of its own, too.

Sony has embraced the smaller size, making the TV as petite as possible thanks to its tiny bezels and low profile pedestal stand. It does have a rather large enclosure bolted onto the back to house the speakers, processing hardware and connections , but you'll only notice if you look at the set side-on.

But that's about the only fault we can find with this TV. Sony's X1 Ultimate processor makes images suitably stunning, there's plenty of dark detail on show, and it serves up pretty much every streaming app you could hope for. Motion control is still industry-leading, and in terms of sharpness and detail, there's never been a better TV at this size. If you can stump up the funds, you will not be disappointed. Read the full Sony KDA9 review. It produces stunningly crisp and detailed pictures from all sources, delivers far more accomplished audio than most rivals, adds awesome Ambilight which extends the onscreen action onto the wall around the TV in the form of coloured light to the mix, and has a lower price tag than its LG, Sony, Panasonic and Samsung equivalents.

If you're in the market for a bigger TV, there's also a inch version available the 65OLED and it's just as good. Chocolate and peanut butter, beer and crisps, sleep and Sundays — some things are perfect partners, whether they were designed that way or not. As the name suggests, Mini LEDs are much smaller than standard LEDs, the size of glitter in your hand, and numbering in the thousands, rather than the hundreds, on your TV panel.

If you're going really big with your next TV, this is the model to get. We tested the QNA in its inch size. It promises a good-sized, punchy 4K HDR image and all the major apps and services you could need, without so much as an additional box or stick in sight. Neither the picture nor the sound are perfect, but both are surprisingly good for the very low asking price. Add in a brilliant feature set and an unbeatable content offering, and you've got a great performance-per-pound proposition.

With this in mind, it was pretty much impossible to predict what we were going to get out of the new 50UKDB when it landed on our test benches. Black levels are average, its pictures sometimes border on harshness, and its colours sometimes look rather washed out. Its entirely healthy obsession with trying to give you the maximum 4K and HDR bang for your buck may well win it plenty of fans, though. Especially in shops where it can be shown running side by side with its subtler rivals.

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. 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 p 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.

It's important to note, though, that almost no native 8K content is available. If you buy an 8K TV and want to show of 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 QNA make current 4K content look better than ever. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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. These have greater bandwidth than their HDMI 2. It's sensible to check the specs thoroughly if there are particular features you're after. 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. Headphone outputs are still fairly common, too, though Bluetooth is also supported by most TVs now and Samsung TVs in fact 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. As with 4K, it's now hard to buy a TV that doesn't have a smart platform packed with streaming apps. 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.

Most of us don't have gargantuan budgets for a new TV, but we do want to buy one that will last. It's a beautiful 4K TV that marries advanced technology like quantum dots great for bright colors and local dimming for deeper blacks with a built-in Roku interface.

TCL is known for competitive pricing, and this 6-Series is no exception, providing the image quality we'd expect from LG and Samsung models that cost nearly double the price.

It even has Dolby Vision support, our favorite high-dynamic-range format, which provides exceptionally vivid colors. The included Micro-LED backlighting is the star of the show, providing exceptional contrast and nearly none of that annoying "halo" effect when you look at bright objects on dark backgrounds.

Given the lack of 8K content and the fact that it's much pricier right now, we still recommend this model. Unlike the previous model, which was edge-lit, the 5-Series gets full-array local dimming, which means it has deeper contrast than many TVs. It's usable for gaming and looks better than the HD set you might have right now. It comes with built-in Roku, so the remote is easy to use, and it streams right out of the box. We recommend the inch model because it's the best bang for your buck, but TCL makes other sizes.

Vizio has improved its Smartcast interface, which makes casting tabs from laptops and cell phones that much easier. Expect great contrast, thanks to Vizio's excellent local dimming technology, though not as many zones as you'll get on the TCL 6-series.

Even without local dimming, the display looks bright and vibrant and doesn't bleed too much during dark scenes. It has a game mode that works well with PlayStations though it can't attain the 4K, Hz refresh rate of the PlayStation 5. They don't have a backlight, so when you see black areas of the screen, they're as black as possible. This means excellent contrast—perfect for darker scenes in The Mandolorian. Read our Hisense U8G series review.

Our TV reviews follow a rigorous, unbiased evaluation process honed over nearly two decades of TV reviews. In every CNET TV review, three or more similar TVs are compared side-by-side in various lighting conditions with different content, including movies, TV shows and games, across a variety of test categories, from color to video processing to gaming to HDR.

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Doing so will let you send a message straight to my inbox. In my opinion bigger is better, and your money is best spent on large screen sizes rather than a slight upgrade in image quality. The answer also depends on room size and seating distance: If you have a big room and sit further away, you'll want a bigger TV.

At nine feet away, for example, we recommend a or inch TV. Burn-in is when part of an image -- for example a channel logo, news ticker or a scoreboard on a TV -- persists as a ghostly background no matter what else appears onscreen.

The best way to prevent burn-in is to vary what you watch. In any case we don't consider the built-in smart TV system that important because you can always connect a streaming device to any TV. Most TVs sound terrible because their thin cabinets don't have room for decent-size speakers or bass. If you want to get good sound you should buy an external audio system.

Even an inexpensive soundbar will deliver much better audio quality than a TV's built-in speakers. Get CNET's comprehensive coverage of home entertainment tech delivered to your inbox. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic.