The 5 Best 4k TVs For Watching Sports - Fall 2022 Reviews

The Samsung QN85A QLED is the best TV for sports that we've tested. It's part of Samsung's Neo QLED lineup, sitting below the flagship Samsung QN90A QLED. However, the difference is that the QN85A has an IPS-like panel with a wider viewing angle, so the image remains consistent even if you're sitting off to the side, which is great for watching the big game with a group of friends. It also gets incredibly bright, and, combined with its fantastic reflection handling, looks great in a bright room, and glare isn't an issue.

The user-friendly Tizen OS smart platform has a huge selection of streaming apps, including the most popular sports apps, meaning you can stream the big game without an external streaming box. It also upscales lower-resolution content like from cable boxes well, with no noticeable issues. It has a great response time, ensuring you can clearly see the action, and it has decent gray uniformity, with just a bit of dirty screen effect in the center.

The best mid-range TV for sports fans is the Hisense U8G. It's a great TV for watching sports, with decent gray uniformity and a fast response time, so sports look great, and it's easy to make out the action. It has excellent peak brightness and amazing reflection handling, so it can easily handle lots of glare in a bright living room. It also has a decent frequency response and gets very loud, making it a good choice for parties.

It's not perfect, though, as it has a worse viewing angle than the Samsung QN85A QLED, so it's best enjoyed directly in front, as anyone watching from the side will see a degraded image. If you have a narrow living room or don't usually watch sports with a large group of people, this isn't an issue.

The Hisense U6G is the best budget TV we've tested for watching sports. It's a great all-around TV and is good for watching sports, especially if you like to stream your sports. The built-in Android TV is a user-friendly interface with a massive selection of apps available to download through the Google Play Store; this means you can easily stream your favorite game without worrying about getting external streaming devices.

It's a good choice if you watch sports during the day in a well-lit room as it gets bright enough to fight glare and has decent reflection handling, so visibility won't be an issue unless you have direct sunlight on it. It has good gray uniformity, meaning sports with large, bright playing surfaces, like hockey or basketball, look good without distracting dirty screen effect in the center. Fast-moving players and balls look good thanks to the quick response time, and even though the backlight flickers, it's at such a high frequency that it doesn't cause image duplication.

The LG UP8000 is the best budget TV for sports if you have a wide seating area. Most variants have an IPS-type panel with a wide viewing angle, so the image looks the same if you're watching it from the sides, making it a good choice for watching the big game with a large group of people. However, the 50, 60, and 70-inch models use a different panel type with a worse viewing angle, meaning they perform differently.

It has an easy-to-use interface and comes with LG's Magic Remote, which has a point-and-press feature, making it even easier to play your favorite apps in just a few seconds. It has good motion handling thanks to the quick response time and a motion interpolation feature to smooth out low-frame-rate content. However, its backlight flickers at 120Hz, which causes image duplication with 60 fps content. It doesn't have any trouble upscaling lower-resolution content, like from cable boxes.

The best TV we've tested for fans who like to watch sports in a dark room is the LG C1 OLED. TVs with OLED panels present a few advantages when watching sports. Each pixel turns on and off on its own, meaning that it has a near-infinite contrast ratio for dark room viewing, and it also has a wide viewing angle as each pixel emits light in all directions. The image remains consistent when viewed from the sides, which is great if you want to watch the game with a large group of friends.

In addition to the wide viewing angle, OLEDs have a near-instantaneous response time, so fast-moving players and balls look smooth with minimal blur trail. It has a flicker-free backlight, which helps reduce eye strain, and an optional black frame insertion feature to reduce motion blur. It also has a 120Hz panel with variable refresh rate (VRR) support and HDMI 2.1 bandwidth for high-frame-rate gaming if you're looking for that.