The 5 Best LED LCD TVs - Spring 2023 Reviews

The Samsung QN90B QLED is the best TV with an LED panel we've tested. It's an impressive TV with amazing picture quality and a great selection of gaming features. It uses a Mini LED backlight, with way more dimming zones than most LED TVs, allowing for greater control over the local dimming feature for better dark room performance, with less distracting blooming around bright objects. It also gets exceptionally bright, meaning it can handle lots of glare in a bright room.

It's excellent for gaming, as it supports 4k @ 120Hz gaming from the new-gen consoles, and it supports a variable refresh rate to reduce tearing. If you're looking for a more seamless, wall-mounted design, there's a higher-end version of this TV: the Samsung QN95B QLED. It delivers similar picture quality but uses an external One Connect box for connections. This replaces the mess of wires at the back of the TV with a single transparent cable, giving you a much cleaner setup with no visible wires.

The best LCD TV for a home theater is the Hisense U9DG. It's a unique LED TV because it uses dual-panel technology. It means it has two LCD panels stacked on top of each other, delivering the equivalent of a local dimming feature with two million dimming zones; most other TVs have a few hundred at most. This technology helps provide the TV with the best contrast ratio we've tested on any LED TV. The black level is nearly perfect, even in bright scenes, and there's almost no blooming around bright objects.

This outstanding dark room performance with local dimming enabled results in an amazing HDR viewing experience. It displays a very wide color gamut for HDR content with great out-of-the-box accuracy, so colors appear how they should. Small highlights pop the way the creator intended in HDR, but its overall HDR real scene peak brightness is just okay, and it's not as good as the Samsung QN90B QLED. Still, the reflection handling is excellent, even if you're watching movies in a room with a few lights around.

The best mid-range TV we've tested with an LED panel is the Hisense U8H. It's an excellent TV overall, with fantastic contrast and an impressive Mini LED local dimming feature, delivering deep blacks in a dark room with very little distracting blooming around bright objects. It has exceptional peak brightness and reflection handling, ensuring it can easily overcome glare in a bright room. It has worse processing overall than the Samsung QN90B QLED, though, so it's a bit of a step down. There's more noticeable banding in areas of similar color, and it has slightly worse motion processing.

It's a great TV for gaming, with many of the same great features found on the Samsung, including 4k @ 120Hz support from the Xbox Series X and PS5 consoles. It has a fast response time and incredibly low input lag, ensuring a smooth and responsive gaming experience, which is great for competitive gamers.

The best LED TV we've tested in the budget category is the TCL 5 Series/S555 2022 QLED. It's a great TV, with superb contrast and fantastic black uniformity, making it a great choice for a dark room. It has a decent full array local dimming feature, but there's a bit more blooming than on the Hisense U8H, and it's not as bright. It has a wide color gamut, so colors look vibrant and realistic, and it displays HDR content the way the creator intended.

It delivers an impressive gaming experience thanks to its low input lag and very good response time, ensuring a smooth gaming experience with very little blur. It even supports variable refresh rate technology to reduce screen tearing, but since it's limited to a 60Hz refresh rate, VRR only works over a much smaller range than it does on the Hisense U8H.

If you're shopping on a tight budget, the best cheap LED TV we've tested is the Hisense A6H. It's an okay TV, but unlike the more expensive models on this list, most sizes aren't well-suited for a dark room, as blacks look gray and washed out in a dark room. On the other hand, it's a good choice for a kitchen or any room where you tend to move around with the TV on, as the image remains consistent when viewed from the side. The 50-inch model is an exception, as it has a worse viewing angle but much deeper blacks, so it's a better choice if you're in a dark room.

It runs the Google TV interface, with a massive selection of streaming apps available, so you can easily find your favorite shows or movies. It's also a decent TV for gamers thanks to its superb low input lag, ensuring a responsive gaming experience. It even supports a variable refresh rate feature to help reduce tearing in games, but unlike more expensive models on this list, it's limited to a 60Hz refresh rate, so motion isn't as smooth.