The 5 Best TVs Under $1,500 - Summer 2024 Reviews

The best TV under $1,500 we've tested is the Samsung S90C OLED. It's a fantastic TV for pretty much any usage. Thanks to its nearly infinite contrast ratio, it looks amazing in a dark room, delivering deep, inky blacks with no distracting blooming around bright highlights or subtitles. It's also a great choice for a bright room, as it gets bright enough to overcome glare and has fantastic reflection handling. HDR content looks amazing thanks to its wide color gamut, and it delivers bright, vibrant colors that look very realistic. You can find its 55-inch model for under $1,500, and its 65-inch model sits just above that when not on sale, so you can get it in a bigger size if you can stretch your budget.

It's a versatile TV with a great selection of additional features. It has four high bandwidth HDMI 2.1 ports with 4k @ 144Hz support, so you can take full advantage of the latest consoles or PC GPUs. The TV is compatible with every variable refresh rate (VRR) technology, which helps reduce tearing in games when your frame rate fluctuates. It has a great smart interface with a huge selection of streaming apps, so you can easily find your favorite content.

The Samsung S90D/S90DD OLED is now available and has some minor improvements over the S90C. It has better HDR gradient handling, gets brighter, and does a better job smoothing out low-quality content. Unfortunately, it's also currently a lot more expensive than its predecessor. Unless you really want the minor upgrades it offers, you're better off buying the cheaper S90C while it's on sale. It's worth mentioning that Samsung's 2024 OLED lineup is confusing, as they're releasing S90Ds with both WOLED and QD-OLED panels, depending on the region and size. You can read more about this here.

If you're not in a completely dark room, the benefits of the Samsung S90C OLED are less noticeable, so an LED TV with a Mini LED backlight like the Sony X93L/X93CL might be a better choice. It's a fantastic option for a bright living room thanks to its high peak brightness and excellent reflection handling, so glare isn't an issue when using this TV. Although it looks good in a dark room, it relies on a Mini LED backlight to produce deep blacks, so there's more noticeable blooming around bright objects than on OLEDs. The TV's viewing angle is wide enough for a pleasant viewing experience when sitting to the side, although the image visibly washes out at moderate to extreme angles. Like most Sony TVs, it's a home-theater standout due to its stellar image processing and support of Dolby Vision HDR and advanced DTS audio formats.

It's a great TV for pretty much any use. It has an excellent selection of gaming features, including support for G-SYNC and HDMI Forum VRR and HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on two of its four HDMI inputs, so you can enjoy 4k @ 120Hz gaming from recent consoles or PC graphic cards. It also has an excellent response time and fantastic input lag for a very responsive gaming experience. Unfortunately, it's slightly expensive, and its 65-inch model is just over $1,500 when it's not on sale, but you can find it for under that if you shop around. The step-down Sony X90L/X90CL is available for under $1,500 in its 55-inch, 65-inch, and even 75-inch sizes and is a great TV overall, but it doesn't have the X93L's Mini LED backlight, so its contrast isn't as good, and it has worse reflection handling.

If you want an OLED primarily to use as a home entertainment TV, check out one of the best upper mid-range TVs we've tested, the LG C3 OLED. It's a premium TV that delivers stunning picture quality, especially in dark rooms; thanks to its near-infinite contrast ratio, there's no blooming around bright objects. It gets bright enough to fight glare even in moderately lit rooms, and the reflection handling is incredible, but it doesn't use quantum dot technology, so colors aren't as bright as some of our other picks. The LG partly makes up for it with its versatility, as it has very good image processing, has Dolby Vision HDR support with Dolby Vision gaming at 120Hz, and can passthrough advanced DTS audio formats.

The TV is available in a wider range of sizes than the Samsung S90C OLED, from a small 42-inch to an impressive 83-inch option, and you can find its 42-inch, 48-inch, 55-inch, and even the 65-inch model for under $1,500. It's an amazing TV for gaming, thanks to it having nearly instantaneous response time, low input lag, and a great selection of gaming features. It supports HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on all four inputs, meaning you can take full advantage of the PS5 and Xbox Series X's capabilities with 4k @ 120 fps gaming. It has native FreeSync, HDMI Forum VRR support, and G-SYNC compatibility to reduce screen tearing.

The 2024 LG C4 OLED is also now available. It has minor upgrades, like better HDR accuracy and slightly better HDR brightness, and it supports up to 4k @ 144Hz for PC gamers with high-end rigs. Unfortunately, it's currently quite expensive, and only the smaller models are available for under $1500. Unless you're a gamer with a powerful PC, your money is better spent on the cheaper C3 OLED while it's still available and on sale.

If you're looking for a larger OLED TV, the LG OLED65B3PUA, or LG B3 OLED, is the best 65-inch TV under $1,500, and its 77-inch model gets close to that when on sale. It's a great mid-range TV and can be an excellent entry point into the OLED market. The TV has all the features of the more expensive LG C3 OLED but is dimmer and has only two HDMI 2.1 bandwidth ports. It still delivers outstanding picture quality, especially in a dark room, with its near-infinite contrast ratio delivering deep, inky blacks with no distracting blooming. Its built-in webOS platform is just as fast on this lower-tier model, and it still has very good image processing, so it has no issues upscaling lower-resolution content if you watch DVDs, cable boxes, or Blu-rays. It also has Dolby Vision HDR and supports DTS advanced audio formats, which is great for physical media as it tends to use DTS for its audio tracks.

And just like other OLEDs, its viewing angle is fantastic, so viewers can watch the TV from all over the room without degradation in their viewing experience. Like the C3, this TV has a wide color gamut and is extremely accurate without any calibration, so movies look as the content creator intended. This TV is also great for gaming, as it's compatible with every VRR technology, has a fantastic response time, and has an extremely low input lag. Its two HDMI 2.1 ports have up to 4k @ 120Hz support, although unfortunately, like on the Sony X93L, one of its HDMI 2.1 ports also doubles as the TV's eARC port, leaving you with only one high-speed port if you have a soundbar connected through eARC.

2024's LG B4 OLED is now available. It has improvements like better overall brightness and HDR gradient handling, and LG has increased the number of HDMI 2.1 bandwidth ports to four. Unfortunately, it's currently very expensive, and you can only find the 48-inch and 55-inch models for under $1500. Unless you want those new upgrades, you're better off getting the B3 while it's on sale, especially if you want the 65-inch model. If you do want those upgrades, you can also currently get the LG C3 OLED for less than the cost of a B4.

If you have a large media room and want the largest TV for under $1,500, the lower mid-range Hisense 75U7N is the best 75-inch TV under $1500 that we've tested. The TV is also available in 55 and 65-inch sizes, but all three can be found for under $1500. Although it's less advanced than the more expensive options on this list, it still delivers great overall picture quality. It has an excellent contrast ratio for deep blacks in dark rooms, helped by a good local dimming solution. The Hisense also has fantastic reflection handling with very good HDR peak brightness, so it's no slouch in a bright room. It supports Dolby Vision HDR and HDR10+ formats, as well as advanced DTS audio formats, so you can take full advantage of whatever content you're watching. Unfortunately, it has a narrow viewing angle, so it's best viewed from directly in front.

Overall, the U7N has good image processing, making it a cost-effective home entertainment TV. The built-in Google TV platform is easy to use and has a ton of apps you can download, so you don't need to buy an external streaming box. It has a great selection of additional gaming features, including VRR support to reduce screen tearing and up to 4k @ 144Hz on its two HDMI 2.1 bandwidth ports. It's an amazing TV for gamers due to its fast response time and low input lag, leading to a responsive gaming experience.

If you're looking to save some money and can find it in stock, you could opt for last year's Hisense U7K instead. It's not as bright as the U7N, but it's still bright enough for use in most well-lit rooms, and it has most of the same features as the 2024 model.