The 7 Best 55-Inch 4k TVs - Winter 2023 Reviews

The Samsung S95B OLED is the best TV we've tested that's available in a 55-inch size. It's a premium TV that delivers fantastic overall picture quality and has a huge selection of smart features that are sure to please anyone. It's fantastic for gaming, thanks to its four HDMI 2.1 inputs, meaning you can take full advantage of the new-gen consoles, like the Xbox Series X and the PS5. The built-in Tizen OS is simple and easy to use and has a great selection of streaming apps.

It's a fantastic choice for watching the latest HDR content in the dark. It has impressive peak brightness in HDR, delivering a bright, impactful image that respects the content creator's intent. Bright colors are much more vibrant and lifelike than on lower-end OLED TVs like the LG C2 OLED, and it also has an exceptionally wide color gamut, allowing it to display a much wider range of colors with certain content.

If you want the absolute best for a home theater setup and don't care about the price, look into the Sony XR-55A95K. Although it delivers very similar picture quality to the Samsung S95B OLED, it supports more formats than the Samsung, making it a better choice for a home theater. It supports Dolby Vision, which delivers a better HDR experience than the base HDR10 format, and it's more widely supported than the Samsung TV's HDR10+ format, ensuring you'll enjoy the best HDR experience possible. It also supports more advanced audio formats, like Dolby DTS:X over eARC, meaning you can enjoy the best sound quality possible from a home theater setup.

Like the Samsung S95B OLED, it's remarkable for HDR content because blacks look deep and inky, and it also gets bright enough to make highlights pop in HDR, particularly with Dolby Vision content. It displays an incredibly wide HDR color gamut, and its tone mapping is nearly perfect, meaning images look the way the content creator intended. It also gets very bright, so HDR content stands out, and colors are bright and vibrant.

If you're not in a completely dark room, a brighter LED TV like the Samsung QN90B QLED is a better choice. This TV delivers excellent picture quality, with very deep blacks, thanks to its Mini LED local dimming feature, which improves the appearance of dark scenes and brings out bright highlights. It makes it a worse choice for a dark room, as there's some distracting blooming around bright highlights in dark scenes. On the other hand, it's better than the Samsung S95B OLED or the Sony A95K OLED, thanks to its high peak brightness and superb reflection handling, so glare isn't an issue.

It's a great TV for pretty much any use. It has a great selection of gaming features, including HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on all four HDMI inputs, meaning you can enjoy 4k @ 120Hz gaming from the new-gen consoles or a recent PC graphics card. It also supports Xbox Cloud Gaming, so you can enjoy some of the latest Xbox hits without investing in an expensive console. Like the S95B, it runs Samsung's proprietary Tizen OS smart interface, which is fairly easy to use and has a great selection of streaming apps available.

The best 55-inch mid-range TV is the LG OLED55C2PUA. Like the top two TVs on this list, it's a premium TV with an OLED panel that delivers stunning picture quality, especially in dark rooms. OLEDs are unique because they can turn individual pixels off, resulting in a near-infinite contrast ratio for perfect blacks in dark rooms, and there isn't any blooming around bright objects either. It also has a wide viewing angle that makes the image remain consistent from the side, which is ideal if you have a wide seating area as everyone sees the same image.

Its fantastic reflection handling and good SDR peak brightness make it a good choice if you want to use it in a well-lit room. It has decent HDR peak brightness that makes small highlights stand out and respects the content creator's intent. Unfortunately, it uses an older type of OLED panel than the Samsung S95B OLED and the Sony A95K OLED, so colors aren't as bright and vibrant overall, but they still look good.

If you want high-end performance but don't want to spend high-end prices, check out the Hisense U8H. It's significantly cheaper than the LG C2 OLED but delivers impressive picture quality. It has a great Mini LED backlight, letting it deliver incredibly bright highlights and deep blacks simultaneously, with barely any blooming around bright objects in dark scenes. HDR content looks incredible, and like the Sony A95K OLED, it supports Dolby Vision for the best HDR experience possible.

Blacks aren't quite as deep and inky as the C2, and it has a much worse viewing angle, so it's not as versatile. It runs the Google TV smart interface, which is fast and easy to use, and it has a great selection of streaming features, so you're sure to find your favorite shows. It's great for gaming thanks to its two HDMI 2.1 bandwidth ports, which are great for 4k @ 120Hz gaming on the Xbox Series X or PS5 consoles.

If you're looking for something on a budget, then the Hisense 55U6H is a great choice. It's a lower-end version of the Hisense U8H, so you lose out on a few features, mainly for gaming, but if you aren't a gamer, it doesn't make much of a difference. It also offers great value compared to similarly-priced and more expensive options, as it's very good for a variety of uses. It has a high native contrast ratio, and while its local dimming isn't as good as the U8H, it's still decent, and the picture quality in dark scenes is good.

Even if you want to use it in a well-lit room, it gets bright enough to fight glare, and the reflection handling is good. Despite being a low-cost TV, it displays a wide range of colors in HDR and has fantastic out-of-the-box accuracy, so you won't have to get it calibrated for the best image possible. Lastly, it doesn't have any issues upscaling lower-resolution content, which is good if you watch cable TV or DVDs.

If you want a basic TV and don't want to spend very much, the Hisense A6H is the best cheap TV we've tested that's available in a 55-inch size. As expected for the price, it's a simple TV with limited picture quality and few extra features, but it's a great choice for an office or guest bedroom. Like the Hisense U6H, it runs the Google TV smart interface, which has a huge selection of streaming apps available. It has a wide viewing angle, which is great if you like to watch TV while walking around, as the image remains consistent when viewed from the sides.

Unfortunately, unlike the other TVs on this list, it's not a good choice for a dark room. It has a low contrast ratio, and by going with a cheap TV, you're losing out on advanced features like local dimming to improve the appearance of dark scenes. It also can't display a wide color gamut, so although it supports Dolby Vision HDR, it's not a good choice for watching movies in HDR in a dark room, as dark scenes are distracting due to the raised blacks.