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The 5 Best 80-83-85 Inch TVs - Winter 2024 Reviews

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Best 80-83-85 Inch TVs

If you have a large room and sit far from the TV or simply want the largest TV available, there are a few large TVs to choose from. Even though larger TVs are becoming more popular, you'll still find more options in the 70-75-77-inch category. It's easier to find the best 85-inch TV rather than the best 80-inch TV because 85-inch TVs are the most common, and some OLEDs are coming out in 83-inch sizes. Choosing the right model all depends on your needs and personal budget.

We've bought and tested more than 425 TVs, and below are our recommendations for the best big-screen TV to buy. You can see our picks for the best TVs for movies and the best 4k TVs, and if you want something smaller, the best 65-inch TVs. You can also vote on which ones you want us to buy and test. To learn more about the 2024 models, check out our 2024 TV lineup page.


  1. Best 80-85 Inch TV

    The best TV you can buy that's available in 80+ inches is the LG OLED83C3PUA. It's an excellent TV with stunning picture quality, especially in a dark room. It looks amazing in the dark thanks to its near-infinite contrast ratio that results in perfect inky blacks, with no distracting blooming or halos around bright highlights or subtitles. Combined with its high peak brightness and wide color gamut, the latest movies and shows in HDR look amazing. It's no slouch in a bright room either, as it's bright enough to fight glare, and its reflection handling is fantastic.

    It has a wide viewing angle, ensuring the image remains consistent when viewed from the sides, so it's great if you have a wide seating area and want to watch TV with friends. It's also a terrific TV for movie fans, as it supports DTS audio formats, which movies on physical media typically use for their audio tracks. It also supports the popular Dolby Vision HDR video format, providing amazing image quality in supported content. Finally, it has an impressive selection of gaming features, including 4k @ 120Hz gaming support for the latest consoles or PC graphics cards. It also supports every variable refresh rate (VRR) technology to reduce tearing.

    See our review

  2. Best Bright Room 80-85 Inch TV

    If you're rarely in a completely dark room, check out the Sony XR-85X95L instead. It's a slightly larger TV than the LG C3 OLED, making it the best 85-inch TV you can get if you want something slightly bigger. It doesn't have the same perfect black levels as the OLED, but it has a truly incredible contrast ratio and black uniformity, leading to extremely deep blacks. Plus, it gets much brighter than the LG, so it's a better choice if you're in a very bright room, as it can overcome more glare. It also delivers brighter highlights in HDR. This, combined with its excellent color gamut, makes it an impressive choice for watching content in HDR10 or Dolby Vision HDR.

    Like most Sony TVs, this is a fabulous choice for a home entertainment setup, as it has amazing image processing, is very accurate without calibration, and supports DTS advanced audio formats. It offers gamers many of the same features as the LG, including HDMI 2.1 bandwidth for recent consoles or PC graphics cards, support for every variable refresh rate (VRR) technology to reduce tearing, and extremely low input lag for a responsive experience. Unlike the LG, it has only two HDMI 2.1 ports, one of which is the eARC port, which makes it difficult to have multiple HDMI 2.1 devices connected to the TV simultaneously. You could also save money by going for this TV's cheaper sibling, the Sony X93L/X93CL. The X93L is a great value choice for most, but the X95L has better contrast, is slightly brighter, and is the best LED TV on the market.

    See our review

  3. Best Mid-Range 80-85 Inch TV

    If you don't want to spend an arm and a leg but still want good picture quality, then a mid-range TV like the Hisense 85U8K is a good alternative. It's significantly cheaper than the Sony X95L or LG C3 OLED but still delivers amazing picture quality. It's just as bright as the Sony, and its contrast is almost as good due to a better overall local dimming solution. The Hisense displays a wide color gamut, has surprisingly good image processing, and supports advanced audio and video formats like our top two picks, so it's an amazing home theater TV for a lower price than the Sony or the LG.

    Unfortunately, the Hisense has a narrow viewing angle, so it's not a good choice for watching TV shows or sports with friends. Otherwise, it's an impressive TV for gamers thanks to its good response time, incredibly fast refresh rate, and great gaming features. It supports HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on two of its HDMI ports, both supporting up to 4k @ 144Hz. Like the Sony TV, one of the TV's HDMI 2.1 ports is also the eARC port, so the LG is still the best choice for people with multiple HDMI 2.1 devices. Overall, this is an amazing value pick for users wanting modern features without the high-end price tag. It's also available in a gargantuan 100-inch size, in case 85 inches isn't big enough.

    See our review

  4. Best Lower Mid-Range 80-85 Inch TV

    If you're on a budget but want better picture quality than the budget option below, the Hisense 85U7K is the best lower mid-range TV we've tested available in an 80 to 85-inch size. It's a great TV, with very good picture quality and a wide selection of additional features. It's basically a dimmer Hisense U8/U8K with a nearly identical feature set. It's still bright enough for a pleasant viewing experience in bright rooms. Its contrast, while worse than the picks above, is excellent overall, leading to deep blacks in dark rooms. Like its more expensive sibling, it's a stellar home theater TV with very good image processing and support for HDR10+, Dolby Vision, and advanced DTS audio formats.

    It uses the same easy-to-use Google TV as the U8K and has all the most popular streaming services. Unfortunately, its viewing angle is very narrow, so this isn't the right TV for a wide seating arrangement. For gaming, the U7K has one advantage over the higher-end U8K: a faster response time, leading to minimal blur in fast action. Otherwise, it has the same great gaming features, including HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on two of its HDMI inputs for up to 4k @ 144Hz gaming, and it supports every variable refresh rate (VRR) technology to reduce tearing.

    See our review

  5. Best Budget 80-85 Inch TV

    If you're on a budget and want a large TV, you'll have to spend more than if you were getting a smaller size. However, a few budget-friendly models are available in larger sizes, like the TCL 85Q650G. It's a decent overall TV that doesn't cost nearly as much and still has much to offer. Unlike the models above, this TV doesn't have local dimming to improve its contrast, so it doesn't look as good in a dark room. It also doesn't get as bright or emphasize highlights like the Hisense U7K/U75K does, but it's still good enough to overcome glare in a bright room. Like the Hisense TVs, the TCL supports both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, but it doesn't have good image processing, so it's not a great choice for a home theater setup.

    Like every other TV on this list, except the LG C3 OLED, the TCL uses the popular Google TV smart interface, which is user-friendly and relatively easy to learn. It also has an excellent integrated microphone for voice commands. Unfortunately, like the other TVs from the budget brands, this TV has a sub-par viewing angle, so it's not a great choice for wide seating arrangements. Where this TV shines is in its gaming features. Even though it has a 60Hz panel and HDMI 2.0 bandwidth on all three HDMI ports, it's capable of 1080p @ 120Hz and 1440p @ 120Hz, with a wide VRR range through resolution halving. This makes it a great choice for someone wanting a huge gaming TV for a budget price.

    See our review

Notable Mentions

  • LG OLED83G3PUA: The LG G3 OLED is one of the best OLED TVs on the market and is available in an 83-inch size. It's meant to be wall-mounted and doesn't come with a stand. However, it's very expensive, and the 83-inch model doesn't come with the MLA layer, so it's not as bright as its smaller sizes. It's still a bit brighter than the LG C3 OLED, but the C3 has the same features for a much lower price. See our review
  • TCL 85Q750G: The TCL Q7/Q750G QLED competes with the Hisense U7K but comes up short. While the TCL has better contrast, the Hisense is better overall, as it's the more accurate TV and has better image processing. See our review
  • Samsung QN83S90CAFXZA: The Samsung S90C OLED is a fantastic OLED from Samsung and is similar to the LG C3 OLED. The 83-inch size of the Samsung uses a WOLED panel, so its picture quality is very similar to the LG overall. Still, the LG supports Dolby Vision, advanced DTS audio formats, and has better image processing, so it's the better option. See our review
  • Hisense 85UX: The Hisense UX is an excellent TV and one of the brightest ever released. It's even brighter than the Sony X95L, but unfortunately, it's not nearly as polished as the Sony, with worse image processing and more quirks overall. The Sony is also more accurate overall, so it's the better and safer pick. See our review
  • TCL 85QM850G: The TCL QM8/QM850G QLED is a great alternative to the Hisense U8/U8K. It's brighter than the Hisense, but the Hisense has far better image processing, with marginally better contrast, so it's the better TV. See our review

Recent Updates

  1. Mar 05, 2024: Confirmed the accuracy and availability of our picks.

  2. Feb 07, 2024: Updated text for clarity and confirmed that picks are accurate and available to purchase.

  3. Jan 11, 2024: Verified the text for accuracy and consistency, and added a link to our 2024 TV lineup page.

  4. Nov 30, 2023: Added a 'Best Cheap 80-85 Inch TV' category for the TCL S4/S450G. Also added a few Notable Mentions and refreshed the text to remove mention of now unavailable models.

  5. Nov 01, 2023: Removed the LG G2 OLED from the Notable Mentions, as it's now unavailable. Confirmed the availability of our other picks and verified the text for accuracy.

All Reviews

Our recommendations above are what we think are currently the best 80-83-85 inch TVs to buy for most people in each price range. We factor in the price (a cheaper TV wins over a pricier one if the difference isn't really worth it), feedback from our visitors, and availability (no TVs that are difficult to find or almost out of stock everywhere).

If you would like to do the work of choosing yourself, here is the list of all our 80-83-85-inch TV reviews. Be careful not to get too caught up in the details. While no TV is perfect, most TVs are great enough to please almost everyone, and the differences are often not noticeable unless you really look for them.