Welcome to my guide to the best TVs you can buy today. I manage TechRadar’s TV and projector testing program and have 20-plus years of experience testing TVs. During that time, I have witnessed key shifts in TV technology, from standard-definition to high-definition and 4K, and from CRT and plasma to OLED and mini-LED.
Today’s TVs offer dramatically better picture quality compared to ones you could buy as little as three years ago, with significant improvements in brightness, high dynamic range, motion processing, and even built-in sound.
With so many good TVs on the market, the main challenge with TV buying, as I see it, is finding the one that suits your particular budget level and use case. Are you a movie fan who wants a TV that can deliver a picture exactly as a director intended? Or maybe you’re a sports fan who wants a TV that will look good even with your room lights turned on.
My intent with this guide is to feature TVs that provide the best fit for specific purposes, and to present options that suit a range of budgets at different sizes. If you're wondering about other TVs not featured in my list, you’ll be able to read about those, and the reasons why they didn’t make the cut, in the Also Consider section of this guide.
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At TechRadar, TVs are tested on-site, by our TV review team led by me – I'm an ISF-trained video calibrator with 20-plus years of AV product-testing experience.
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