Best TVs to buy in 2020: 4K, HDR, OLED, QLED and more

published 7 January 2020

These are exciting times in the increasingly cutting edge world of the once-humble TV. The level of picture quality, range of sizes and variety of features and technologies available on the best TVs is like nothing we’ve ever seen before.

There's one problem. It makes finding the best television for you seriously challenging. Should you buy an OLED TV or an LCD one? Which brands have the best smart TV features and interfaces?

Which sets get the best from today’s 4K resolution and high dynamic range (which adds a much wider, more lifelike brightness range) picture technologies? Do you want the brightness of LCD or the local contrast of OLED?

Also, while having an unprecedented choice of TVs is all well and good, inevitably not all of the glut of new TVs are actually much use. So to help you at least narrow things down, here’s our selection of 10 of the current best options across a range of size and price points.

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The best TVs to buy in 2020

Despite costing under £400, the 50PUS6753 LCD TV gets you a 50-inch 4K screen, HDR support, and Philips’s unique Ambilight system - a technology which pumps coloured light out of the screen’s sides to boost immersion in what you’re watching. Ambilight can even track the colour content of the images on the screen.The Philips 50PUS6753’s HDR pictures don’t look as bright and dramatic as they do on more expensive TVs. But the bottom line is that nothing else comes close for the same sort of money.

Samsung’s flagship 65-inch 4K TV for 2019 is a remarkable feat of engineering. A new screen design and lighting system, for instance, makes it the first LCD TV to support really wide viewing angles.Its LED lighting system, too, combines outstanding localised control with clever processing to deliver unprecedented contrast for an LCD TV, while its so-called QLED colour technology produces a huge colour range and the brightest pictures in the 4K world. All of which contributes to a truly dazzling high dynamic range experience.

It’s back to OLED again with the outstanding Panasonic 65FZ802. The reason we like this one so much is that its video processing applies techniques developed by Panasonic’s professional monitor division and renowned Hollywood Laboratory to ensure that its pictures get exceptionally close to the way their creators designed them to look.In fact, some professional film and TV studios actually use these screens for mastering their titles! Which for serious movie fans makes the 65FZ802 pretty much a dream come true.