The 4 Best 4k TVs Under $1,000 - Fall 2022 Reviews

The best TV we've tested in a 48-inch size that you can get for under $1,000 is the LG OLED48C1PUB. While you might find this size small, it's a remarkable TV, and all the bigger sizes are over $1,000, so if you want the best performance for this price range, go for this one. It's an excellent TV that looks incredible in dark rooms because its individual pixels can turn themselves on and off, resulting in a near-infinite contrast ratio. It means it has perfect black levels without any blooming around bright objects, making it an ideal choice for watching movies.

If you watch movies in HDR, it displays a wide range of colors, and its HDR peak brightness is okay, but not all large highlights pop the way they should. Even if you want to use the TV in a well-lit room, it has fantastic reflection handling to reduce glare from a few lights around, but it doesn't get bright enough to fight a ton of glare, so it's better to use in a dim or moderately-lit room.

If you want something bigger for around the same cost, check out the Hisense 55U8H. It's different from the LG C1 OLED because it has a different panel type with strengths and weaknesses. Instead of having a near-infinite contrast ratio with perfect black levels, this TV gets very bright, making it an ideal choice for use in bright rooms, and it makes highlights pop. It still has a high native contrast ratio, and the local dimming feature is great, improving the picture quality in dark scenes and making it an excellent choice for watching movies in SDR or HDR.

The out-of-the-box accuracy is excellent, so you won't have to get it calibrated for a life-like image, and it doesn't have any issues upscaling lower-resolution content, making it ideal for watching DVDs or cable TV. If you stream your favorite content, the Google TV interface is user-friendly, and the mic built into the remote gives you access to Google Assistant to work with other smart devices in your house.

If you're looking for something even bigger then the TCL 65R646 is the best 65-inch TV under $1,000. It's very similar to the Hisense U8H in terms of features, but the trade-off of getting a larger TV for the same price is that it has worse overall performance. For example, it has a high native contrast ratio like the Hisense, and it has a full-array local dimming feature. However, the local dimming is worse on the TCL because it doesn't improve the picture quality as much, but the overall performance is still decent. It also gets bright enough to fight glare, and the reflect handling is excellent, so visibility isn't a problem.

Like the Hisense, it comes with Google TV as its built-in smart platform, so you get all the same great apps, a user-friendly smart interface, a mic in the remote, and another mic inside the TV to access the voice assistant features. If you watch movies, it supports both Dolby Vision and HDR10+, meaning you can watch HDR content at their full capabilities, and it displays native 4k content without any problems.

If you want the biggest size you can get for under $1,000, look into the Samsung UN75AU8000FXZA. As you move up in size and maintain the same price, you lose out on a lot of features and performances, and that's the case here as it's an entry-level TV available in a large size. You don't get any of the high-end features of the TCL 6 Series/R646 2021 QLED or the Hisense U8H, like the full-array local dimming feature and high peak brightness, but it's still a decent TV that looks good in dark rooms as it displays deep blacks with excellent black uniformity.

It comes with Samsung's proprietary Tizen smart platform, which is also user-friendly, and navigating through the menus feels smooth. The voice assistant feature gives you access to Bixby, Alexa, and Google Assistant, so you can choose your preferred system to complement other devices you have at home. If you watch content from cable boxes, it doesn't have any issues upscaling lower resolution, including with 480p content, which is ideal for watching DVDs.