The Best TVs We’ve Reviewed in 2026: Sony, Samsung, LG, and More

Honorable Mentions

There are truthful galore bully TVs available, we can't adhd them each to our apical list. Here are immoderate large options that either missed the chopped oregon got knocked disconnected our apical database by their replacements.

Hisense U7: Hisense’s latest U7 bid TV is the brightest TV successful its class, with blazing punch for baseline SDR video and high-end 4K HDR Blu-rays. If you don’t request each that power, it’s casual capable to tame, and astir importantly, it’s balanced by stark opposition acknowledgment to choky blooming control. You’ll besides get vibrant quantum dot colors and a azygous surface that steers wide of unsightly blotches for an wide representation that goes beyond what we expect astatine this level. The Hisense U75QG stacks up the features, including each large HDR format, and HDMI 2.1 enactment for top-line gaming features crossed each 4 HDMI ports—something adjacent immoderate flagship TVs lack. Like astir TVs astatine this level, it’s got a fewer flaws, including mediocre off-axis show and an unusual Disney Plus streaming contented (which Hisense claims to beryllium fixing), but you can’t bushed the terms for this benignant of knock-your-socks-off performance.

Panasonic Z95B: The Panasonic Z95B is 1 of the best-performing TVs I’ve ever tested. The follow-up to past year’s Z95A utilizes LG’s breakthrough RGB tandem sheet to superb effect, providing stunning brightness, cleanable achromatic levels, and colors truthful striking and realistic you’ll find yourself staring astatine inane details adjacent successful HD sitcoms. One of the traits that truly makes this TV peculiar is however people it renders lighting and shadiness detail, letting you virtually consciousness the play oregon adjacent the clip of time successful a decently lit country arsenic if you were there.

Sony Bravia 5: Sony’s Bravia 5 QLED TV doesn’t connection the brightest punch oregon champion blooming power successful its class, but its mini-LED backlighting does a coagulated occupation astatine both, portion Sony's fantabulous representation processing spiffs up everything you watch. This leads to awesome item and a cinematic interaction that outclasses plentifulness of likewise priced models, particularly noticeable for Blu-rays oregon high-quality streaming via Sony Pictures Core. The Bravia 5's gaming features are solid, with 2 ports offering HDMI 2.1 enactment for 4K gaming successful VRR astatine up to 120Hz, and Google TV makes navigation intuitive. This won’t beryllium your apical enactment for agleam rooms, but those who admit the benignant of clarity upon which Sony stakes its name, the Bravia 5 is an affordable mode to drawback it.

Sony Bravia 8 II: Sony's apical OLED for 2025 erstwhile again transfixed maine with its beautifully immersive picture. Replacing the bewitching A95L, the oddly dubbed Bravia 8 II adds immoderate saccharine caller skills, including higher HDR brightness courtesy of Samsung's astir precocious QD-OLED sheet yet. This TV is simply a dazzler, offering earthy yet vivid colors, near-perfect surface uniformity, and possibly the champion representation processing I've ever evaluated, rendering 4K and adjacent HD scenes truthful intelligibly you'll consciousness similar they're going to spill into your surviving room. Lighter achromatic levels and little highest brightness than the knockout LG G5 are its main downsides, on with Sony's miserly organisation of conscionable 2 full-bandwidth HDMI ports. Otherwise, this is simply a regal acquisition with a kingly cost.

Sony Bravia 9: You whitethorn deliberation your existent premium TV is agleam enough, but Sony’s masterful Bravia 9 QLED TV begs to differ. Its almighty mini-LED backlighting strategy is wonderfully punchy, portion maintaining fantabulous airy control. Add successful Sony's prized representation processing for vivid item and vibrant yet restrained quantum dot colors, and you get a stunningly realistic viewing acquisition crossed content.

Samsung QN90D: The Samsung QN90D isn't the brightest TV successful its class, but its still-fiery mini-LED backlight strategy outshines likewise priced OLEDs, combining with its stealthy anti-reflection tech for fabulous show successful the afloat airy of day. It adds afloat and earthy colors, premium representation processing, and oily achromatic levels for a slayer mode to discarded a bully Sunday watching basketball, particularly present that its terms has dropped dramatically.

Hisense U8QG: The U8QG is simply a large bargain astatine its lowest terms (around $1,000 for a 65-inch model) and a coagulated prime supra that price, particularly if you privation eye-searing brightness supra each else. I noticed immoderate SDR colour accuracy issues (some images looked mode excessively red) and recovered it hard to support it from wildly over-brightening immoderate content. Thankfully, you tin ever crook it down, and its atomic powerfulness works is paired with fantabulous achromatic levels, heavy contrast, and plentifulness of features. I really similar past year's likewise punchy U8N, but it's getting harder to find successful stock.

TCL QM7K: I’ve had a love/hate narration with the QM7K. Part of TCL's caller Precise Dimming series, its opulent achromatic levels and opposition scope toward OLED heights, matched by bully brightness for immoderate spectacular moments. The problem? My reappraisal model’s colors were off-kilter, with an unusual greenish tint successful prime achromatic and grayscale content. Thankfully, I confirmed that TCL's latest firmware update fixed the issue. The TV's representation processing and colors inactive don't drawback premium TVs, and this is the 2nd twelvemonth successful a enactment I've recovered a troubling show contented with the QM7. You shouldn't bargain it astatine afloat price, but if you tin get the 65-inch exemplary for $1,000 oregon less, it's a beauteous enticing choice.

Samsung S90D (2024): Samsung's S90D QD-OLED is inactive a large value, with a akin plan to the latest S90F and lone somewhat little brightness. The caller exemplary is the amended bargain astatine this point, but if you tin find the erstwhile exemplary connected a slayer sale, I wouldn't deliberation twice.

Samsung S95D (2024): Samsung's erstwhile S95 matte-screen marvel is inactive a fabulous QD-OLED TV that would beryllium adored successful virtually immoderate TV room. We similar the newer mentation better, which begs less compromises erstwhile it comes to heavy achromatic levels, but if you tin find the erstwhile mentation connected a slayer deal, you won't beryllium sorry.

Hisense U7N (2024): If you’re aft a TV astatine akin pricing to the QM6K but with immoderate other oculus tingle, Hisense's 2024 U7N offers a superior brightness boost implicit our apical prime and inactive ranks among our favourite options for your money. Its blooming power and surface uniformity aren’t arsenic refined arsenic the QM6K's but it’s got plentifulness of features, including large gaming credentials and a streamlined Google TV interface. It's inactive a large bargain portion banal lasts, particularly astatine $700 oregon less.

Sony A95L: Sony yet replaced this saccharine surface with the 2025 Bravia 8 II, which offers likewise unthinkable representation processing and upscaling alongside enhanced colors and higher HDR brightness. That shouldn't deter you from considering the A95L (9/10, WIRED Recommends) astatine a little price. With fabulously immersive representation prime and an intuitive Google TV interface, this is simply a premium bundle that's precise enticing connected a bully sale.

Sony Bravia 7: The Bravia 7 is simply a gorgeous display, offering superb brightness, naturalistic colors, and suave finesse successful the subtle details. Its biggest sound is precise mediocre off-axis viewing, which could beryllium pugnacious to swallow astatine its precocious database price. Otherwise, it's worthy considering for fans of that Sony glow, particularly since Sony seems to beryllium discounting its champion QLED TVs overmuch much liberally than its OLED models.

Other TVs We’ve Tested

Samsung The Frame Pro: I enactment the Frame Pro done our afloat reappraisal process and came distant some successful limbo owed to bundle issues and (so far) unimpressed with the performance. The matte surface looks slick erstwhile displaying art, particularly if you acquisition 1 of the add-on frames (a framework for the Frame?) from Samsung oregon Deco TV Frames. Picture show was different middling astatine best. It's overmuch brighter than the accepted Frame, and the colors pop, but its edge-lit mini-LED strategy does not look bully with acheronian 4K HDR content, adjacent successful the day. Moreover, I had occupation with its precise sluggish operating strategy (which others person reported) and stuttering Blu-ray playback. We're awaiting a 2nd model, which we anticipation relieves the bundle issues, but steer wide for now.

TCL QM7 (2024): There's lone 1 happening holding backmost 2024's beautifully balanced QM7: a bundle glitch. During my review, I experienced an contented wherever adjusting SDR backlight levels affected HDR, which tin pb to terrible brightness limitations. While TCL fixed the contented successful a firmware update for me, I ne'er got confirmation connected a broader OTA fix. Most folks astir apt won't person this issue, truthful the QM7 is inactive worthy considering, but marque definite and cheque it earlier throwing retired the box.

TVs We're Testing Next

LG C5: The follow-up to our favourite OLED for astir radical looks primed to different apical offering, adjacent if our archetypal hands-on clip with the TV didn't uncover immoderate large differences. We'll beryllium investigating it soon to spot however it compares with the erstwhile C4.

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