The 5 Best 80-83-85 Inch TVs - Winter 2023 Reviews

The best TV you can buy that's available in 80+ inches is the LG OLED83C2PUA. It's a fantastic TV, and while it's expensive even for an 83-inch TV, it delivers fantastic picture quality that'll impress anyone. It's a remarkable TV for a dark home theater room, thanks to its near-infinite contrast ratio that results in perfect blacks, with no distracting blooming or halos around bright objects like subtitles. Combined with its high peak brightness, HDR content looks incredible, and bright areas of the screen stand out.

Even if you want to use it in a well-lit room, it gets bright enough to fight glare with a few lights around, and the reflection handling is fantastic. It also has a wide viewing angle that makes the image look consistent from the sides, which is good if you have a wide seating area or sit close to the screen. Lastly, its webOS smart platform is easy to use and has a great selection of streaming apps, so you can quickly find your favorite content.

If you find the LG C2 OLED too expensive, you can still get an excellent overall TV with the Samsung QN85QN90BAFXZA. It's a slightly larger TV than the LG, making it the best 85-inch TV you can get if you want something a bit bigger. It doesn't have the same perfect black levels as the LG, but it gets much brighter, so it's a better choice if you're in a very bright room. It also delivers brighter highlights in HDR, and, combined with its excellent color gamut, it's an impressive choice for watching content in HDR10 or HDR10+.

It offers many of the same features as the LG, including HDMI 2.1 bandwidth for new-gen console or PC gamers, and it has a few great gaming features like variable refresh rate technology to reduce tearing. If you're going for a clean setup and plan on wall-mounting your TV, the Samsung QN95B QLED is nearly identical, but the inputs are housed in an external connection box, and there's just one cable from the connection box to your 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 TCL 6 Series/R655 2022 QLED is a good alternative. It's significantly cheaper than the Samsung QN90B QLED but still delivers great picture quality, with fantastic contrast and a decent Mini LED local dimming feature. It has excellent peak brightness in HDR and can display a wide color gamut, so it's almost as good as the Samsung for watching movies in a home theater.

It's an impressive TV for gamers thanks to its quick response time, incredibly fast refresh rate, and great selection of gaming features. It supports HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on two of its HDMI ports, so it's a bit less flexible than the Samsung, which supports HDMI 2.1 on all four ports. The most noticeable difference between this TV and the Samsung is the lack of a wide viewing angle filter, so the TCL isn't as well-suited for a wide seating arrangement, as the image degrades when viewed from the side.

If you're on a budget but want better picture quality than the TCL 85S455, the Hisense 85U7H is the best lower mid-range TV we've tested that's available in an 80-85-inch size. It's a great TV, with good picture quality and a wide selection of additional features. It's good for watching sports in a bright room thanks to its high peak brightness. It has worse processing capabilities and a slower panel than the TCL 6 Series/R655 2022 QLED, so it's not as good for gaming.

It has some great gaming features, including HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on two of its HDMI inputs for 4k @ 120Hz gaming, and it supports FreeSync variable refresh rate technology to reduce tearing. It's a significant step up from the TCL 4 Series/S455 2022, as it has a full array local dimming feature and much higher peak brightness, so HDR content looks considerably better.

If you're on a budget and want a large TV, you'll have to spend a bit more than if you were getting a smaller size. However, there are a few budget-friendly models available in a large size. Something like the TCL 85S455 is a decent overall TV that doesn't cost much and has a good smart platform. The Roku interface is user-friendly and easy to learn if you haven't used a Roku product yet. Its remote doesn't have a mic for voice control, but you can download the Roku app on your phone to take advantage of the voice assistant features.

For picture quality, it has a fantastic native contrast ratio for deep blacks in dark rooms. Its black uniformity is also remarkable, but as expected for a budget-friendly TV, it doesn't have a local dimming feature to improve it. It doesn't get bright enough to fight a ton of glare, but it has decent reflection handling if you have a few lamps in the room.