The 5 Best 80-82-85 Inch TVs - Fall 2020
Reviews

The best 85 inch TV we've tested is the Vizio P85QX-H1. It's a well-rounded and feature-packed TV that's, unfortunately, only available in the United States. It has a VA panel with a high contrast ratio and exceptional black uniformity, and it has a full-array local dimming feature to make blacks look even deeper, making it an excellent choice for viewing movies or gaming in the dark. It's well-suited for bright environments as well, as it overcomes glare easily and handles reflections well. It isn't ideal for wide seating areas, though, as its narrow viewing angles cause images to look washed out from the sides.

It has all the ingredients to deliver an excellent HDR experience. It has an amazing color gamut, with near full coverage of the DCI P3 color space, and it gets more than bright enough to make highlights pop in HDR content. It also handles gradients very well to minimize banding, but its out-of-the-box color accuracy is only mediocre, so it might be worth getting it calibrated if you want the best viewing experience. Motion handling is great, as it has a fast response time, a Black Frame Insertion feature, and a 120Hz refresh rate.

If you want to use the TV for gaming, its input lag is very low, and it supports FreeSync to help reduce screen tearing. It can display proper chroma 4:4:4, making it a good option for large meeting rooms. It runs on Vizio's SmartCast platform, which is relatively easy to use. However, it's a little buggy, and app selection is limited since Vizio doesn't have an app store. Overall, it's a great TV that should satisfy most people and worth checking out.

The best 85 inch TV for gaming we've tested is the Samsung QN85Q80TAFXZC. This is a high-end 4k QLED TV that's packed with features and offers an impressive all-around performance. It's very well-built, with a simple design that should fit easily into any type of setup. It has a VA panel with a great contrast ratio, but it's lower than most VA panel TVs, as it has Samsung's 'Ultra Viewing Angle' layer to improve viewing angles at the cost of the contrast. That said, it still delivers deep blacks, making it a good choice for dark rooms.

As for its gaming performance, this TV has low input lag, a fast response time, and a 120Hz refresh rate to deliver an incredibly smooth experience. Also, it supports FreeSync variable refresh rate technology to help minimize screen tearing. It has excellent color accuracy out-of-the-box and delivers a good HDR experience thanks to its wide color gamut and high brightness.

If you want to use this TV as a PC monitor, it can display proper chroma 4:4:4 and supports all the most common resolutions. The latter means that if your graphics card can't maintain a playable frame rate at 4k, you can lower the resolution to get a higher frame rate without worrying about compatibility. All in all, this is a great choice and one of the best 85 inch TVs we've tested.

The best large screen TV in the budget category that we've tested is the Samsung UNTU8000FXZA. It's a well-rounded TV with decent overall performance. Even though it doesn't have any of the same gaming features as the other Samsung TVs in this recommendation, it still offers very good gaming performance.

It has a VA panel with an outstanding contrast ratio and incredible black uniformity, so it's an ideal choice for watching movies in dark rooms. It removes judder from native 24p sources and has a motion interpolation feature, which is known as the 'Soap Opera Effect.' It has a really low input lag for gaming, a decent response time, and a Black Frame Insertion feature to help reduce motion blur. This TV also upscales lower-resolution content without any obvious artifacts.

Unfortunately, HDR content doesn't look all that different from SDR content. It doesn't display a wide color gamut and doesn't get bright enough to make highlights pop. If you want to use it in a well-lit room, it has decent reflection handling, but it doesn't get bright in SDR. Regardless of these small issues, most people should be happy with it, making it the best 85 inch TV in the budget category that we've tested.