Best TV 2022: Our Top 7 smart TVs

Ready to upgrade to one of the best TVs? These smart TVs will deliver the picture performance of your dreams.

Looking for the best TV to buy this year ? You’ve cone to the right place. We’ve brought together the definitive list of the best TVs available to buy today from QLED and OLED TVs to new Mini LED contenders, all of which are smart TVs that offer great on-board streaming services.

Every TV technology brings something different to the table but they all have similar key aims- to offer better contrast, better light control and more vibrant colors. Each of these is well worth your consideration because they can truly elevate your TV watching or gaming experience. In particular, if you love watching movies or playing games, a big screen investment can make a massive difference here.

The good news? Big-screen TVs have really come down in price. While you might have easily dropped $5,000 to $10,000 on a new 75-inch or 85-inch screen in the past, you can find dozens TVs at half the cost now.

The picks you’ll find below represent the absolute pinnacle of what’s possible in the best smart TVs today — 4k resolution, colourful HDR, and robust feature sets plus support for HDMI 2.1 and VPR for the latest game consoles and PCs. Some offer even more than that.

1. Samsung QN900A Neo QLED 8k

A stunning 8k TV that sets a new benchmark when it comes to High-end televisions

SPECIFICATIONS

Screen Size: 65-inch, 75-inch, 85-inch.

Resolution: 8k

Panel Type: Neo QLED / Mini LED

Smart TV: Tizen

HDR: HDR10, HLG, HDR10+

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REASONS TO BUY

+ Awesome picture quality

+ Standard-setting HDR

REASONS TO AVOID

- No Dolby vision support

- Limited 8k content

8k might feel a bit like overkill to some, but there’s np doubt in our mind that the Samsung QN900A Neo QLED 8k TV has ushered in a new era of flatscreen television technology. Samsung’s Mini LED-sporting QN900A Neo QLED 8k TV offers stunning picture quality, exceptional color and brightness, terrific sound and outstanding balcks — all in a package that’s unmatched in terms of design.

For the unintiated, Samsung’s ‘Quantum’ Mini LEDs are 1/40th the thickness of a regular LED, meaning thousands of smaller LED’s can be packed together in a much tighter fashion, allowing for far more accurate dimming zones and black levels that are practically indistinguishable from an OLED.

As the LEDa are far smaller, they’re able to achieve far more precision and less blooming, so the act of seeing bright areas of te screen unnaturally bleed over into darker spots should be greatly reduced or not evident at all. And because it takes advantage of Samsung’s Multi-intelligence Al upscaling, the QN900A is consistency able to produce images that looked better than their source.

Not only does the Samsung QN900A Neo QLED 8k TV offer the latest HDMI 2.1 and eARC features, it’s also ideal for gamers who’ve recently invested in a next-gen console or beastly gaming PC thanks to support for 4k/120fps or 8k/60fps gameplay via HDMI 2.1, Game Motion Plus and AMD FreeSync premium pro.

It’s the flagship 8k TV to beat in 2021.

2. LG G1 Gallery Series OLED

LG’s picture-on-wall design gorgeous…but expensive

SPECIFICATIONS

Screen size: 55-inch, 65-inch,77-inch

Resolution: 4k

Panel Type: OLED evo

Smart TV: webOS

HDR: HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision, HDR+10

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REASONS TO BUY:

+ Outstanding contrast

+ Impressively thin design

REASONS TO AVOID:

- No stand included.

- Sound system struggles with bass

After a flatscreen TV that’s a bit more stylish? The LG G1 OLED is a knockout television that builds on the sleek design of last year’s Gallery Series OLED and somehow makes it better.

The real hero here is LG’s new OLED evo technology, which updates the panel structure to eke out even more brightness- without increasing blooming effects or, we’re told, the chance of burn-in. The LG G1 looks to be a real revolution for the OLED TV maker, then, and certainly offers an upgrade over the cheaper LG C1 OLED — unlike last year, when the CX and GX models were worlds apart in price but effectively offered the same picture performance.

It’s an expensive set, and the Dolby Atoms sound system isn’t the best for bass-something that will effect all the other LG OLEDs in this guide. But the breathtakingly slim design makes it a real centerpiece television, with the contrast and color benefits of OLED pushed to new, lighting-enhanced heights. The new a9 Gen 4 Al processor is even more capable of smartly upscaling and processing onscreen objects, too, with motion processing in particular getting an upgrade.

Watch out though: the G1 is really designed to be wall-mounted, and it won’t come with a TV stand or feet out of the box. You can buy a floorstanding Gallery Stand alongside, or find a third-party solution for placing on a counter, though.

3. LG C1 Series OLED TV

New for 2021, the LG C1 OLED is the king of flagship 4k TVs

SPECIFICATIONS

Screen size: 48-inch, 55-inch, 65-inch, 77-inch

Resolution: 4k

Panel Type: OLED

Smart TV: webOS

HDR: HDR, HLG, Dolby Vision

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REASONS TO BUY:

+ Beautiful 4k/HDR picture

+ Four HDMI 2.1 ports

+ WebOS is fantastic

REASONS TO AVOID:

- Reflective glass surface.

- No HDR10+

LG has made a number of small tweaks to last year’s CX model: It’s now using LG’s Alpha a9 Gen. 4 processor for better upscaling and virtual surround sound audio, and with four separate HDMI 2.1 ports, it’s ready for the PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and whatever next-gen consoles can throw at it.

Gmers will also appreciate the new Game Optimiser menu that gives you the optionto quickly adjust brightness, contrast and VRR on the fly.

The LG C1 isn’t flawless, as we did encounter issues around how the new Alpha a9 Gen. 4 upscales faces, and how reflective the all-glass screen is in the daylight, but the issues are few and far between.

There are, of course, higher resolution flatscreen TVs out there right now like the Samsung QN900A, which offers 8k resolution and the new LG G1 Gallery Series that uses the coveted OLED evo panels that offer better brightness. However, we feel that the LG C1 OLED offers a near-unbeatable blend of price and performance and should be high up on your list of the best televison TVs to buy in 2021and beyond.

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