The 4 Best Roku TVs - Fall 2023 Reviews

The best Roku TV we've tested is the TCL 6 Series/R655 2022 QLED. It's an impressive TV overall, with fantastic contrast and a decent Mini LED local dimming feature that helps improve the appearance of dark scenes. It has an impressive color gamut in HDR and great color volume thanks to its high peak brightness, so colors in HDR look vibrant and life-like. Bright highlights stand out incredibly well, and it tracks the PQ EOTF properly, ensuring HDR content is displayed the way the content creator intended.

As it's a premium TV, it has a few extra features compared to other Roku TVs. Its remote has a built-in microphone, letting you quickly search for content with your voice. If you also want to use it for gaming, it has a fast 144Hz refresh rate and supports HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, making it a fantastic choice for console gamers with a PS5 or Xbox Series X or for PC gamers who own a recent graphics card. It also supports variable refresh rate (VRR) technology, which significantly reduces the amount of tearing you'll see in games, and it has superbly low input lag for a responsive gaming experience.

If you don't need an 8k TV like the TCL 6 Series/R648 2021 8k QLED and want something on a budget, consider the TCL 5 Series/S555 2022 QLED. It's a 4k TV that's a step-down model from the TCL 6 Series/R655 2022 QLED, as it has a worse local dimming feature and fewer gaming features. However, it's still a great TV for watching movies in a dark room thanks to its superb contrast ratio and decent full-array local dimming feature. Still, there's more noticeable blooming around bright objects than on the higher-end model.

Another difference between this TV and the R655 is that this one comes with a more basic remote that doesn't have a microphone for voice control, but you can still download the Roku app on your phone to use the voice control feature. Besides that, you still get the same great Roku interface with tons of apps available to download, and it's easy to navigate.

Go with the TCL 4 Series/S455 2022 if you want something cheaper. It's a simple TV that doesn't deliver the same overall picture quality as the TCL 5 Series/S555 2022 QLED, but it's also available in many different sizes, so you can get the one that suits your needs the most. It delivers decent picture quality overall, but it has a much more limited set of features compared to the more expensive options on this list. However, as many of its missing features are gaming perks, that doesn't make a difference for streaming shows or watching your favorite movies.

It has a great native contrast ratio, resulting in deep blacks and bright highlights when watching movies in the dark, but it lacks a local dimming feature to further improve its contrast. Luckily, the lack of the local dimming feature also means there isn't much blooming around bright objects. It has a similar selection of smart features to the higher-end models with the same great Roku OS interface, and it supports voice control through the companion app, but not with the remote.

While there isn't much 8k content available, there are some 8k Roku TVs to consider if you want a sharper image, like the TCL 6 Series/R648 2021 8k QLED. It's an older model released in 2021, but it's still available and has many of the same features as current TVs. The main trade-off is that most of your streaming content will be upscaled to 8k, so the overall picture quality is worse than with a native 4k TV like the TCL 6 Series/R655 2022 QLED. YouTube is currently one of the few platforms with native 8k streaming content, although it's mostly limited to documentaries and visual demos. Either way, they look amazingly sharp on this TV. 8k TVs are also interesting for high-end PC gamers, as you can reach 8k on a high-end GPU with the help of their AI upscaling technologies. Whether upscaling from a lower resolution or watching 8k content on YouTube, it's a great TV with remarkable contrast and minimal blooming around bright objects. Its high peak brightness helps it deliver an impressive HDR experience, as bright highlights stand out against the background.

Otherwise, the TV respects the content creator's intent, as it follows the PQ EOTF well and has great tone mapping in HDR. It has an excellent wide color gamut and good color volume, so HDR content looks incredibly vivid and life-like. It comes with a different remote than the R655 as it's bigger but has the same shortcut buttons to popular streaming services, and it also has a built-in mic for voice control. While most Roku TVs are TCL models like this one, the Hisense U800GR 8k is another 8k TV you can consider, but considering it costs more and doesn't perform as well overall, it isn't worth getting.