The 5 Best QLED TVs - Fall 2023 Reviews

The best QLED TV we've tested is the Samsung QN90C/QN90CD QLED. It's an excellent TV with impressive picture quality with its Mini LED backlight, which lets it display deep, uniform blacks with almost no noticeable blooming in dark scenes. Its QLED panel delivers a superbly wide color gamut and fantastic color volume, making colors bright, vibrant, and realistic. It also has fantastic reflection handling and exceptional peak brightness, so it looks great even in the brightest rooms.

It's an impressive TV for watching movies in a dark room thanks to its great contrast ratio and impressive Mini LED local dimming feature. There's very little blooming around bright objects in dark scenes, and the local dimming feature ensures that bright highlights stand out extremely well. It runs Samsung's proprietary Tizen OS interface, which is easy to use and has a great selection of streaming apps and games. Its predecessor, the Samsung QN90B QLED, offers similar quality overall, but it's now very hard to find in certain sizes. Still, if you do find it, it's a great value.

Although not technically a QLED TV, this list would be incomplete if we didn't mention the Samsung S90C OLED. While the other TVs on this list use an LED backlight with a Quantum Dot layer to achieve a wider color gamut, the S90C uses an OLED backplane and a printed Quantum Dot color layer. This combination results in much better color volume than traditional OLED displays while delivering deeper, more uniform blacks than the other QLED TVs on this list that use LED backlights.

Besides its fantastic picture quality, the TV offers nearly identical features to the Samsung QN90C/QN90CD QLED, although the OLED supports up to 4k @ 144Hz on all of its HDMI ports, while the QN90C only does so on its 43 and 50-inch models, the bigger models are limited to 4k @ 120Hz. Otherwise, they both have the same great Tizen OS interface and a wide selection of streaming apps. It's great for gaming thanks to its nearly instantaneous response time and low input lag, and it supports variable refresh rate technology to reduce tearing in games. This TV also has a higher-tier model, the Samsung S95C OLED, but it's a marginal improvement over the S90C for a much higher price, so it's not worth it for most people.

The Hisense U8H is the best mid-range QLED TV that we've tested. It's an impressive TV with a similar Mini LED backlight to the Samsung QN90C/QN90CD QLED, but it's not quite as bright. Combined with its very wide color gamut, it's excellent for watching HDR movies because highlights pop against dark backgrounds, and colors look vivid. It supports both the HDR10+ and Dolby Vision formats, so you can take full advantage of whatever content you're streaming.

The built-in Google TV platform is easy to use and has a ton of apps you can download, so you don't need to buy an external streaming box. It has a great selection of additional features, including FreeSync support to reduce screen tearing. Its processing and gaming features aren't quite as polished as they are on the Samsung, and there are a few bugs and issues when gaming, so if you want the best gaming experience, the QN90C is the safer choice. We are currently testing this TV's successor, the Hisense U8K, in our labs, so stay tuned to know how they both compare.

The best budget QLED TV we've tested is the Hisense U6H. It's a well-rounded option with better picture quality than some more expensive, high-end options. It displays a wide color gamut and has okay HDR peak brightness, so some highlights pop, but not all, which is normal for a budget TV. It's still great for watching HDR movies because it has a high native contrast ratio that displays deep blacks.

Its full-array local dimming feature is decent at improving the picture quality in dark scenes. There's minimal blooming around bright objects, but it's not as good as the Mini LED features on the Hisense U8H and the Samsung QN90C/QN90CD QLED. Like the higher-end Hisense U8H, it also runs the latest Google TV interface, and it supports hands-free voice control through either Google Assistant or Alexa to quickly open your favorite apps or search for content.

We recommend a PFS Phosphor TV, the Hisense A65K, for the best cheap TV. It's just as colorful as TVs with Quantum Dot technology but at a lower price point. It delivers decent overall picture quality, with good black uniformity, but lacks advanced features like local dimming. It can't get bright to overcome glare in a bright room, although it does well in a moderately-lit room with its good reflection handling. HDR content looks acceptable, with visually appealing saturated colors, but it's not bright enough to bring out the content creator's intent. If you care, a mid-range or more expensive model like the Hisense U6H is better.

It's still a cheap TV, though, and it has limited picture processing capabilities and fewer features than the more expensive models on this list. It doesn't process low-quality content as well as on other TVs, although thankfully, its upscaling capabilities are good. This cheap TV offers gamers a few features: a good response time, extremely low input lag, and VRR support. For the price, the Hisense A65K is an attractive package. If you'd instead prefer an actual QLED TV, you can try to hunt down an Insignia F50 QLED, which is another colorful and cheap TV. That said, it's a bit worse than the Hisense overall, and it's discontinued, so it's very hard to find.