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The Samsung QN90B QLED is the best TV with an LED panel we"ve tested. It"s an impressive TV with amazing picture quality and a great selection of gaming features. It uses a Mini LED backlight, with way more dimming zones than most LED TVs, which allows for greater control over the local dimming feature for better dark room performance, with less distracting blooming around bright objects. It also gets exceptionally bright, meaning it can handle lots of glare in a bright room.

Samsung has constantly been updating its Tizen platform to ensure it competes with its competitors. In 2017, they added voice capabilities to their remote and smart platform, making it easier to navigate through menus. In 2018, they added Bixby virtual assistant, so you can use voice control to control other Samsung devices in your house, like lights, fridges, and door locks. The 2020 update featured a new, sleeker look with a "Dark Mode" that isn"t as bright as the white theme in older versions, and the 2022 version has a new full-screen webpage, which is an improvement over past versions that had all the apps and settings in a toolbar.

The interface is very simple and easy to navigate. As of 2022, they now have a full-screen webpage instead of the toolbar they had in past years. You"ll find downloaded apps here, and you can quickly access the different inputs and settings. The interface works well, and there are many animations, but these can be slower on lower-end TVs.

Unfortunately, Samsung"s Smart Hub also shows ads on the home screen. It shows up in the same row as the installed Samsung Smart TV apps, and they can"t be disabled.

The Hisense U8H matches the excellent brightness and color performance of much pricier LCD TVs, and its Google TV smart platform is a welcome addition. But it’s available in only three screen sizes.

The Hisense U8H is the best LCD/LED TV for most people because it delivers the performance of a much pricier TV yet starts at under $1,000, for the smallest (55-inch) screen size. This TV utilizes quantum dots, a full-array backlight with mini-LEDs, and a 120 Hz refresh rate to deliver a great-looking 4K HDR image. It’s compatible with every major HDR format. And it’s equipped with two full-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 inputs to support 4K 120 Hz gaming from the newest Xbox and PlayStation consoles. Add in the intuitive, fully featured Google TV smart-TV platform, and the U8H’s price-to-performance ratio is of inarguable value.

Chief among the U8H’s many strengths is its impressive peak brightness. When sending it HDR test patterns, I measured an average brightness of 1,500 nits, with peaks just north of 1,800 nits (a measurement of luminance; see TV features, defined for more info). To put that into perspective, consider that the 65-inch version of our budget 4K TV pick (the TCL 5-Series) typically costs around half as much as the 65-inch U8H but achieves only around 30% to 40% of its brightness. On the other side of the coin, the 65-inch version of our upgrade pick (the Samsung QN90B) costs almost twice as much as the 65-inch U8H, but it achieves only nominally higher brightness. Adequate light output creates convincing highlights and image contrast and (when necessary) combats ambient light from lamps or windows. It is a necessity for any TV worth buying—especially if you hope to watch HDR movies or play HDR games—and the U8H simply outpaces most TVs in its price range (and some in the next price bracket up, too).

That’s not to say the U8H has pixel-precise light control—it’s not an OLED TV, after all—but it does a terrific job most of the time. In fact, in our tests, the U8H bested last year’s upgrade pick, the Samsung QN90A, in certain scenarios: The intro to Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix features the filmmaker against a pitch-black backdrop. Though last year’s QN90A failed to maintain perfect control over dimming elements during this scene (the black backdrop brightened distractingly once a sufficient amount of brighter content appeared on screen), the U8H did not. (For the record, the newer QN90B also passed this test.) The U8H’s mini-LEDs also help the screen look uniformly bright: Although the U8H is still not as good as an OLED TV in this respect, it shows very little indication of being a backlight-driven display, even during tricky scenes with large swaths of dim lighting.

What does this mean in real-world terms? It means that the Hisense U8H truly excels as a modern 4K HDR TV, whether you’re watching the latest episode of Rings of Power or playing Overwatch 2. While watching HDR content side by side on the U8H and on our upgrade pick, the Samsung QN90B, I was truly surprised by how similar they looked at times, given that our upgrade pick is much more expensive. That said, though the U8H achieves impressive results where light output and color volume are concerned, it also exhibited some occasional video processing and upscaling issues (see Flaws but not dealbreakers), which videophiles and AV enthusiasts may take umbrage with. But in general, the picture quality punches well above its weight, metaphorically speaking.

The onboard Google TV smart platform is another feather in this TV’s cap. As usual, however, it will be much more satisfying to use if you have a Google account and already take advantage of Google’s connected services, like Photos. The experience of navigating the TV’s smart features—scanning QR codes to sign into apps, using the onscreen keyboard, and browsing your Google Photos to set a photo as a screensaver—was very satisfying in terms of responsiveness and speed. Powering on the TV and booting into an app took just seconds. The included Bluetooth remote is also equipped with a handy “Hey Google” button, allowing you to pull up Google’s assistant and use voice commands to search for content or set a reminder. If you have multiple users with their own Google accounts, you can designate separate profiles (attached to a Gmail account) so that each user can customize the experience to their liking, as well as access their own Google Drive or Photos. While some reviewers have reported instances of momentary freezing while using the U8H’s platform, I didn’t personally experience any instances of slowdown that were egregiously worse than with any other smart-TV platform.

The Hisense U8H has some difficulties with banding, or areas of uneven gradation, where transitions that should appear smooth instead look like “bands” of color (sometimes also called posterization). Like many current 4K HDR TVs, the U8H uses an 8-bit panel rather than a 10-bit panel, which affects the color decoding and color presentation process. This is usually relevant only with HDR video and games. When playing games on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, I saw a few instances where the content wasn’t rendered correctly and displayed ugly splotches of color on the screen. However, this almost always occurred during static screens (such as a pause menu or loading screen); I rarely spotted it during actual gameplay. Hisense has stated that it would address the problem in a future firmware update, but at the time of writing it was still present. This is a flaw that may give dedicated gamers pause, but we don’t consider it to be a dealbreaker for most people.

Finally, like most TVs that use vertical alignment (VA) LCD panels, the U8H has a limited horizontal viewing angle, which may be a bit annoying if you’re hoping to entertain a large crowd. Our upgrade pick uses a special wide-angle technology to address this.

Just days into the new year, we already have a good idea of what TV shoppers can expect in 2022, starting with more 8K sets, more LCD sets that use Mini LEDs in backlights, plus some interesting developments in OLED TVs, which traditionally have topped our TV ratings.

Shoppers can also expect to see more jumbo-sized TVs—many with screens that measure 85 inches or more—at more affordable prices. A few TV brands have announced TVs with screen sizes of almost 100 inches.

In general, though, we expect to hear more this year about advanced processors and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve overall picture and sound quality in 4K sets. In 8K TVs, the need to upscale lower-resolution HD and 4K content to these new high-res screens requires extra computing horsepower.

You’ll also see more OLED sets alongside the LCD televisions that dominate the market. The number of brands already offering these types of TVs includes LG, Skyworth, Sony, and Vizio. The good news is that shoppers are likely to see even lower prices on entry-level 4K OLED sets this year.

The big news for LCD/LED TVs is the use of Mini LEDs in backlights by several brands. By shrinking the size of the LEDs, companies can cram thousands of them into the backlight behind the LCD panel, then divide them into zones that can be dimmed or illuminated, just like conventional LEDs. But because they’re so small, they can be controlled more precisely to help improve brightness, contrast, and black levels, and help reduce the halos you often see on LCD TVs when a bright image appears against a dark background.

This can help the best LCD TVs perform closer to OLED TVs, which don’t require a backlight. Instead, every individual pixel gives off its own light and can be turned on and off individually, so if part of a picture is supposed be completely black, it can be.

Unlike most companies, Hisense announced prices and availability for its 2022 sets this week. The 75-inch U9H set will be available in late summer for $3,200, while the UH8 sets will arrive in midsummer in 55-, 65-, and 75- screen sizes. Prices start at $1,099.

The U7H Series sets—which arrive in midsummer in 55-, 65-, 75-, and 85-inch screen sizes, with prices starting at $800—target gamers with many of the same features, but at a lower price. They lack the Mini LED backlights and higher brightness found on models in the two top series, but do come with the Next-Gen TV tuner. The U6H-Series sets, with prices starting at $580, extend the ULED TV platform to a wider group of consumers looking for 50- to 75-inch TVs.

This year, LG will again manage a familiar balancing act, touting improved performance in its LCD lineup while continuing to promote its OLED TVs as the pinnacle of TV performance.

As in the past, the most advanced OLED tech will go into the company’s interior design-focused Gallery, or G series, sets. However, improvements are also being made to LG’s C2 series lineup, which has typically offered the best bang for the buck of any LG OLED TVs. This year you’ll see OLED TVs in both bigger (a 97-inch behemoth) and smaller (42-inch) screen sizes.

While the smallest OLED TV last year was a 48-inch model, this year the C2 series will include a 42-inch option. (There will also be 48-, 55-, 65-, 77-, and 83-inch C2 screen sizes.) The G2 series will get the monster 97-inch set, along with 83-, 77-, 65-, and 55-inch models.

For its LCD-based lineup, LG will be continuing its QNED TVs—like we needed another acronym—that use Mini LEDs in the backlight. Though last year all QNED sets—which combine LG’s own NanoCell color technology with quantum dots—used Mini LED backlights, this year it’s missing from the entry-level QNED80 sets, which have more conventional full-array LED backlights with local dimming.

Once again LG’s top TVs get a new, more powerful processor and AI, with features such as the ability to detect faces and objects on the screen, then analyze the info on a scene-by-scene basis to make image and sound adjustments. The processor is also used to upgrade lower-resolution content to the set’s higher 4K or 8K display.

We’ll talk more in more detail about QD OLED technology in another article, but the main difference is that like quantum-dot LCD TVs, it uses a blue light source combined with quantum dots to produce rich, natural-looking colors. While reports of Samsung working on this new TV tech have circulated for several months, the company didn’t have anything to say about it beyond accepting an CES Innovations award for the development. Samsung tells us it will have more information about these new sets soon.

Samsung also noted that it will have a MicroLED TV—basically the LED equivalent of an OLED TV, where every pixel generates its own light, with no need for a separate backlight—in a new, smaller 89-inch screen size this year, joining the 101- and 110-inch models already available. No prices were given, but last year’s model were prohibitively expensive for most consumers. The 110-inch model, for example, cost about $150,000 when it shipped last spring.

The sets have two additional improvements. One, called Shape Adaptive Light Control, tries to analyze onscreen objects and light them more accurately. The other uses AI to analyze scenes to do a better job separating foreground subjects from the background, enabling the TV to create a greater sense of depth and realism.

Samsung’s own Tizen smart TV platform is getting a new home screen, which aggregates and organizes streaming content. It also has an Ambient mode for viewing art, photos, and even NFTs on the display.

And, yes, Samsung is diving into the world of NFT (nonfungible token), or digital art works that get traded like cryptocurrency. The company says it’s launching "the world’s first TV screen-based NFT explorer and marketplace aggregator," so you can browse, shop for, and display NFT art right from the TV.

After a few years’ absence—and a bit of drama—Sharp is returning to the U.S. TV market this year with a line of Roku TVs. Sharp hasn’t released any specifics beyond saying that its lineup will include both HD and 4K models, in 50- to 75-inch screen sizes.

As you’d expect, the A95K has all of Sony’s bells and whistles, including its Cognitive Processor, which attempts to determine how humans perceive images, then adjust the picture to make it look more natural and realistic. It does this by dividing the screen into numerous zones, then enhancing the specific areas where it believes a typical viewer would be focusing their attention, such as faces. The processing also matches audio to what’s on the screen and upconverts it to 3D surround sound.

As for Sony’s LCD TV Lineup, the big news is that the two top series—the Z9K and X95K—get Mini LED backlights. Sony claims its Backlight Master Drive technology will offer more control over the Mini LEDs than conventional methods.

That’s what we found in our analysis of more than three years of Consumer Reports’ TV ratings. Our crack team of statisticians looked at prices and CR’s test results from March 1, 2019, through March 1, 2022, for a number of leading TV brands sold in the U.S. The results are shown in the charts below, broken out by screen size, which is the first factor people usually consider when shopping for a television.

Prices and average brand scores tend to drop off in step with each other, according to our analysis. One major change this year is that some secondary brands, including Element, Philips, and Westinghouse, no longer appearin our list. Sharp is no longer in our listing; it stopped selling TVs in the U.S. for several years but began selling them again in 2022. RCA is represented in just two screen sizes, where it has the lowest Overall Score, and in one instance the lowest price by a large margin.

Although we’ve tested a few TVs from Onn, Walmart’s house brand, we didn’t test enough sets in any one screen size for it to appear. We hope to include it in next year’s evaluation.

The average price figures we show are a bit higher than the average for all big TVs on the market. That’s both because the largest sets carry a premium and because CR tends to purchase a lot of expensive, high-end sets. That allows us to test the latest features, such as Mini LED backlights in LCD/LED TVs, which can help boost contrast and reduce halos, and high dynamic range (HDR), which can produce brighter, more vibrant images.

We test these flagship models from all the brands, but with major brands there is a much greater difference in pricing between the least and most expensive sets they offer. For example, for TCL there’s a $600 difference between the cheapest ($700) and priciest ($1,300) 75-inch TVs in our current ratings. With Samsung, that difference is dramatic: $1,900. (See the best big-screen TV bargains for sets 70 inches and larger.)

TCL, Vizio, and Hisense are additional brands to consider, especially if you’re on a budget. With TCL and Hisense, higher-end sets (the 6- and 8-series TVs from TCL, and 8-series sets from Hisense) have done very well in our tests, offering a lot of bang for the buck in terms of both picture quality and high dynamic range (HDR) experience. TCL’s higher average price is due to its top-tier sets having newer technologies (Mini LED, 8K resolution), plus a push into very large screen sizes. The company also offers many low-priced sets that haven’t done as well, lowering the brand’s Overall Score. Vizio sets have done well for overall picture quality across the board, though they generally fall behind a bit when it comes to HDR.

This has become a popular screen size for people looking for a large TV. And you’ll see that LG, Samsung, and Sony top the list in average Overall Score and average price here, as well. One reason for the fine showing by both LG and Sony is they offer OLED TVs that have consistently been at the top of our ratings. Samsung’s top QLED (and Neo QLED) TVs have also done very well in our ratings, and the best of those sets now rival OLED TVs in performance. All these sets tend to be pricy.

In this size category, we again see much greater differences in pricing between the least and most expensive sets from major brands than from smaller players. For example, there’s a $600 difference between the cheapest ($400) and priciest ($1,000) 65-inch Hisense TVs in our current ratings. With Samsung and Sony, that difference is a whopping $2,400. One reason for Samsung’s large spread is the debut of itsfirst QD OLED TV ($3,000), which is now in our ratings (though it arrived too late this year for our statistical analysis). Sony TVs tend to be expensive in part because the company offers several OLED TVs, which tend to cost more, and because it stopped making lower-end LED/LCD sets. (See the best 65-inch TVs under $1,000.)

Average prices go from a low of $342 (for Toshiba, which makes Fire TV Edition sets sold at Amazon and Best Buy) to a high of $1,034 (Sony’s average). As we note above, Sony focuses on higher-priced sets, and both Sony and LG’s average prices are pulled up by their OLED sets—these TVs can look great, but they tend to cost more than all but the very best LED/LCD models.

Two years ago, Vizio began offering OLED TVs, but that hasn’t yet had a big impact on its average price, because the majority of its sales are still less expensive LED/LCD TVs.

There’s also a pretty big spread in both price and performance in this screen size, with prices ranging from $226 (Hisense) to more than $568 (Sony). One reason is that in this size category, you’ll find a mix of both 4K and more basic HD sets.

With both price and performance averages so closely packed among the brands, smart shoppers are likely to look to other criteria in our TV ratings, such as screen resolution, sound quality, or reliability, or features such as built-in access to streaming content, to help make a buying decision.

Choosing a new TV can be tricky. With so many options, where do you start? If you need help, check out this buying guide to the best OLED & LED flat-screen TVs.

With modern flat-screen televisions, there are so many choices to make – not to mention a confusing list of specifications and acronyms that make your spin.

Not only did they offer better picture quality, but these types of TV were thinner, lighter and easy to mount on the wall – and started the trend for larger and larger screen sizes.

Generally, an LED TV offers better value and a wider choice of screen sizes, whereas an OLED TV is more expensive, but many consider it to have the best picture quality.

Edge Lighting: the lights are arranged around the edge of the screen, directing the light across the back. They are also known as edge-lit TVs. The main advantage is the panel is usually cheap, thin and light. The main disadvantages are reduced black levels and inconsistent lighting across the screen.

Back Lighting: the lights are positioned in rows directly behind the screen. These TVs are also called backlit, direct-lit or full-array TVs, although full-array TVs have lights arranged in blocks rather than rows. Their main advantage is better contrast by using local dimming – where the screen can switch off the light in dark areas of the picture. One disadvantage of local dimming is that it can cause a ‘halo’ effect when a bright image appears on a dark background.

To date, typical OLED TV screens are known as WOLED panels, aka White OLED or WRGB OLED, and these work in a different way to the RGB OLED screens used in phones and other mobile devices.

WOLED panels use white pixels and an RGB filter to make the colors, creating a fantastic image, but they can’t match the maximum brightness of LED TV screens.

Image retention: this technology can be prone to image retention – where a faint impression of static parts of a picture (like a logo) can be left on the screen for a few minutes.

Burn-in: unlike temporary image retention, screen burn-in means a static image or logo stays on the screen permanently. It’s unlikely to be a problem if you watch varied content, but using an OLED TV as a computer monitor or regular gaming screen is not recommended.

In most situations, image retention is unlikely to be permanent (called screen burn-in) and will fade quickly, but this can prove annoying as you must consider this when using your TV daily.

Burn-in is more likely to be a problem if the screen is used regularly for gaming where there are static logos or banners – or if you watch the same TV channel with fixed-position logos.

For LED TVs, screen sizes range from a dinky 15-inch model to put in your kitchen to a giant 85-inch beast to use as the centerpiece of your home theater.

The bottom line is that there isn’t a right or wrong answer when choosing the best TV screen size for your room – only whatever suits your circumstances, space and personal taste.

In an ideal world, you will install the TV in your room and sit directly in front of it. You may be close or further away, but you will watch the TV screen front-on.

In the image above, the ideal position is obviously at 0°, directly in front of the screen. The wider you move either side towards the 45° position, the image will get worse.

Historically, LCD and LED TVs have always had problems with the viewing angle, and if you want an LED TV that looks good from the side, look out for one made with an IPS panel.

So, if you play some 480i standard definition content, a 1080p or 4K TV will upscale the video, so it displays correctly on the higher resolution screen.

It’s not a night and day difference from the best OLED TVs made in the standard way – because current OLED screens still give a fantastic picture – but you will see the difference in some scenes, and it really can look mind-blowing.

The only thing you might notice in a room with plenty of ambient light is the screen doesn’t look black when switched off, and blacks may even look slightly washed out when watching a show.

However, as with the Samsung S95B QD-OLED TV, black levels are reduced slightly in bright conditions as these screens don’t have the same polarizing filters as the excellent LG OLED TVs.

The LG C1 is part of the fantastic range of LG OLED televisions. If you simply want the best picture on a modern flat-screen TV, then this should be high on your list.

Image retention is a potential problem of OLED screens. This won’t be an issue in most cases, but be careful if you regularly watch content with static regions that rarely change. It’s probably best not to use it regularly as a PC monitor.

Of course, a thin screen won’t make much difference when you watch it from the front. But it’s still quite a sight – and it might make installing the screen in your room a little easier in some situations.

These are like VRR and synchronize the refresh rate of the TV screen with the output of a computer graphics card, and the result is reduced input lag and a much smoother gaming experience.

Fortunately, even though they now also make OLED TVs, Samsung continues to build great QLED TVs, offering outstanding picture quality plus all the other benefits of LED screens.

So, if you feel that an OLED TV isn’t quite right for you – but still want a TV with incredible picture quality – this TV offers one of the best pictures you can get in a modern flat-screen TV.

The Samsung QN90B has a full-array backlight, meaning the LED lights are placed directly behind the screen in zones, and good local dimming performance for creating excellent detail in darker scenes.

The QN90B can also produce a brighter image than most OLED TVs, making it ideal for reproducing HDR pictures and creating bright areas that pop out in a primarily dark scene.

The QN90B supports HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG, which is standard in all Samsung TVs, but unfortunately, there is still no sign of Dolby Vision, which is an annoying omission.

Fortunately, it also handles reflections exceptionally well, with the excellent Ultra Viewing Angle anti-glare layer coping well with any bright light shining on the glossy screen.

The larger models with the Ultra Viewing Angle layer have excellent off-axis performance for an LED panel, while the two smaller screens suffer accordingly.

This TV has four HDMI 2.1 inputs placed in a recess at the back of the screen, which is plenty for avid gamers and for future-proofing when more devices have higher resolutions and refresh rates.

However, you will only get the best from this TV if you sit straight on. Being a VA panel, the viewing angles aren’t the best when you are watching the screen from the side.

If you will be watching this TV in a bright room with plenty of ambient light, then you should have few problems with this screen. The screen is good a reducing glare and the bright picture will also help in this regard.

If you were hoping to get a small TV for your room, then you will need to look elsewhere. The H9G only comes in two screen sizes – 65-inch and 55-inch.

Therefore, it will be a good choice for a home theater screen and as your main TV for watching movies and sports – but not ideal if you just want a TV for casual viewing in the kitchen or bedroom.

You must decide which size will be the best fit for your room, if you need a 1080p, 4K or 8K screen and if it has all the right features and connections for your external devices.

Currently, there are two main TV types – OLED and LED. Generally, an OLED TV offers the best picture quality and viewing angles – so it would often be a better choice for a home theater screen and movie viewing. However, LED TVs work better for more general viewing and have more screen sizes and cheaper options. Ultimately, one isn’t necessarily better than the other, and either might be more suitable depending on your requirements.

For most people, it’s probably not worth investing in an 8K TV at present. There is very little native 8K content available, so most things you watch will be upscaled to 8K and will not have any extra detail. Plus, you will need to sit so close to see the additional detail in an 8K picture; most people won’t want to do this anyway. If you have a game console that can display 8K content, you might decide that an 8K screen is worth it, but for movie and TV viewing, the extra cost of an 8K screen is unlikely to be worthwhile at the moment.

Cleaning a TV screen is a simple process that you should do regularly to maintain performance and picture quality. In most cases, all you need is a dry microfiber cloth to wipe away dust and fingerprints. You can use distilled water for more stubborn areas, but never use any liquids with chemicals like alcohol or ammonia. Learn how to clean a TV screen without streaks for more detailed step-by-step instructions.