The buyer's guide
TVs
Reviewed by
Eran Yorkovsky · Founder, PickGrade
TV shopping has one honest starting point: your room, not the panel.
TV shopping has one honest starting point: your room, not the panel. In a room where you control the light, OLED's per-pixel contrast is the upgrade you see every night. In a room where the sun is part of the audience, brightness and glare handling matter more than perfect blacks — the split we explain in OLED vs Mini-LED.
For most rooms the LG C5 OLED is the answer: reference contrast, Dolby Vision, and a full four-port 144Hz gaming suite at $1,499. Getting the most screen per dollar is the TCL QM8K's job — mini-LED brightness in big sizes for $999, and the C5 vs QM8K head-to-head shows exactly what the OLED premium buys. Sunny rooms fork at the top: the Samsung S95F is the OLED that handles daylight, the Sony Bravia 9 the mini-LED that handles sports — we settle it in S95F vs Bravia 9, and weigh the $1,000 panel question in C5 vs Bravia 9.
Not sure where your room lands? Take the 60-second quiz, or jump to your situation — gaming, bright rooms, or how to choose a TV.
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