A bedroom TV gets watched from the worst seat in the house. You lie on one elbow, the screen sits off to the side on a dresser, and the person next to you would like to be asleep within twenty minutes. In that room a remote you can find in the dark counts for more than contrast ratios, and so does sound that stays on your side of the bed.
Forty inches covers that brief without swallowing a wall. All five sets below run at 1080p and 60Hz, so their panels have more in common than the boxes admit. The differences hide around the edges: how many HDMI inputs survive once a soundbar claims one, whether wireless headphones connect without a phone in the middle, and how the remote behaves at midnight. One of these TVs dates back to 2022, and another arrives with retail listings that cannot agree on its own port count.
My first two calls for a bedroom wall:
SAMSUNG 40-Inch Class Full HD F6000 Smart TV (2025) brings HDR10+, 20W OTS Lite sound and Bluetooth audio to a 2.9-inch-deep panel. One UI Tizen runs the apps, HDMI 2 offers eARC for a soundbar, and AirPlay works with Apple devices. It has two HDMI inputs and no optical output.
Hisense 40-Inch Class A4 Series 40A4NR runs Roku TV on a 1080p panel with full-array LED backlighting and Natural Color Enhancer. Three HDMI inputs with ARC, optical out and composite video cover old and new devices. Dolby Audio tunes 14W speakers, and it works with Alexa and Google Assistant.
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How to Choose a 40-Inch TV for a Bedroom
A 40-inch TV on a bedroom dresser. Source: gagadget.com
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