The 7 Best TVs - Fall 2023 Reviews

The best TV we've tested is the Samsung S90C OLED. It's a fantastic TV with a great selection of extra features and incredible picture quality. It looks fantastic in a dark room thanks to its nearly infinite contrast ratio and perfect black uniformity, with no distracting blooming around bright areas of the screen. HDR content looks fantastic thanks to its high peak brightness, wide color gamut, and incredibly vibrant and realistic colors.

The built-in Tizen OS interface is easy to use and has a great selection of streaming apps and games. It's a fantastic TV for console gamers looking to get the most out of their Xbox Series X or PS5. It's also perfect for gamers wanting to take advantage of their recent PC GPU, as it supports 4k @ 144Hz gaming on all four HDMI ports, and variable refresh rate (VRR) technology to help reduce screen tearing. It's a very similar TV overall to the 2022 Samsung S95B OLED; the S90C is a bit brighter, is available in bigger sizes, and officially supports 4k @ 144Hz on all of its HDMI ports, but they're nearly identical otherwise. Still, the S90C is the better deal of the two unless you find the S95B on clearance.

If you're looking for the absolute best TV for a home theater setup and don't care as much about the price, check out the Sony A95K OLED. Although it's a very similar TV to the Samsung S90C OLED, it's better for home theaters thanks to its advanced video format support. Compared to Samsung's HDR10+ format, the A95K 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 offers better audio format support than the Samsung, including DTS:X passthrough over eARC, so you can simplify your connection to your audio-video receiver by running everything through your TV without sacrificing audio quality.

Like the Samsung TV, it 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. The A95K 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 also a big step down in brightness and color vibrancy.

If you mainly watch TV in a bright room, a TV with an LED backlight and higher peak brightness, like the Sony X93L/X93CL, is a better choice than the top two picks on this list. It's an excellent TV with impressive picture quality and an incredible peak brightness that helps it overcome glare in a bright room. It still looks good in a dark room thanks to its high contrast ratio and Mini LED local dimming feature, but there's more distracting blooming around bright highlights and subtitles in darker scenes compared to an OLED TV.

It has nearly identical features to the Sony A95K OLED, with a great selection of gaming features, including HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on two ports, so the TV can fully utilize the latest consoles or PC graphics cards. 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 except older AMD graphics cards. 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.

The best upper mid-range TV we've tested is the LG C2 OLED. It's a premium TV that delivers stunning picture quality, especially in dark rooms; thanks to its near-infinite contrast ratio, there's no blooming around bright objects. It gets bright enough to fight glare even in moderately-lit rooms, and the reflection handling is incredible, but it doesn't use quantum dot technology, so colors aren't as bright as some of our other picks.

Still, it's an excellent TV for watching various content because it doesn't have issues upscaling lower-resolution material, from DVDs to native 4k content. Its built-in webOS system is also easy to use if you stream your favorite shows and movies. Its successor, the LG C3 OLED, is a bit brighter, supports DTS audio formats, and has better image processing. Unfortunately, it's also more expensive, putting it in the same price bracket as the generally superior Samsung S90C OLED.

The Hisense U8K is the best mid-range TV we've tested if you want something cheaper and still want high-end features. It's an impressive TV with excellent reflection handling and fantastic peak brightness, so it easily overcomes glare in a bright room. It's also excellent for watching movies in a dark room. Blacks aren't as deep as they are on the OLEDs, but its fantastic contrast ratio and great Mini LED local dimming feature still deliver deep, uniform blacks in a dark room, with very little blooming around bright objects.

It displays a wide range of colors and has excellent pre-calibration accuracy, so colors are accurate and lifelike no matter the content you're watching. The built-in Google TV interface has a huge selection of apps and an easy-to-use interface, so you won't have to buy an external streaming box. It's also a fully featured gaming TV capable of up to 4k @ 144Hz on two of its HDMI 2.1 ports and supporting every VRR technology for a nearly tear-free gaming experience. Its predecessor, the Hisense U8H, is still widely available but is a bit worse than the U8K, so go for the newer model unless you find the U8H for a great price.

If you want to spend less, the best budget TV we've tested is the TCL 5 Series/S555 2022 QLED. It delivers surprisingly great performance for the price. The TCL has superb contrast and a decent full-array local dimming feature, so dark scenes look amazing in a dark room, with very little blooming around bright areas of the screen. It also has great peak brightness in SDR and decent reflection handling, so glare isn't an issue in a brighter room.

It runs the Roku OS interface, which has a great selection of streaming channels, including many free streaming services. It's a great TV for gaming, as it has superbly low input lag and variable refresh rate support for a responsive, nearly tear-free gaming experience. Unlike the Hisense U8K, it's limited to a 60Hz refresh rate, which is disappointing for gamers wanting to take full advantage of their Xbox Series X, PS5, or recent gaming GPU. It's still great for visually-intensive games on consoles targeting 4k @ 60Hz in their 'Graphics' mode or for 60 fps PC gaming.

If you want something cheap that gets the job done, the Hisense A65K is the best cheap TV we've tested. It's a decent entry-level TV, delivering a surprisingly good picture quality for a cheap TV. It's a decent choice for a dark room, with its satisfactory contrast ratio and good black uniformity. Of course, by going with a cheap TV, you're losing out on advanced features like local dimming to improve the appearance of dark scenes. It has good reflection handling, so even though it doesn't get very bright, it's certainly good enough for a moderately lit room. The TV is also impressively colorful due to its PFS Phosphor panel, so HDR content is more vibrant than expected at this price point.

Like its predecessor, the Hisense A6H, it runs the Google TV interface with a huge selection of streaming apps. It makes it a great choice for an office or guest bedroom, as your guests can watch their favorite shows without you having to worry about buying an extra streaming stick. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the wide viewing angle of the A6H, so the newer model isn't as good for a wide seating arrangement. Still, the A65K is significantly better than its predecessor, so it's the TV to get between the two.