The 2 Best Roku TVs - Fall 2023 Reviews

The best Roku TV we've tested is the Roku Plus Series QLED. Overall, it's a decent TV with excellent contrast and an acceptable local dimming feature that helps improve the appearance of dark scenes. It has an amazing color gamut in HDR, although its color volume is limited by the TV's adequate but unexceptional HDR peak brightness. Still, the TV looks vibrant enough for a pleasant HDR viewing experience. It gets bright enough to make some highlights stand out and tracks the PQ EOTF properly, ensuring HDR content is displayed as the creator intended. Its reflection handling is good, so it's capable enough in a bright room, although it's at its best when the lights are dimmed. It supports Dolby Vision HDR and HDR10+, so content looks its best regardless of source. Unfortunately, the TV's image processing is poor, so make sure you watch high-quality 4k content to get the best out of this TV.

Overall, this TV is light on features. It has no motion features to help reduce stutter or persistence blur. It doesn't passthrough advanced DTS audio formats, although it can passthrough basic DTS 5.1 through ARC. It only removes 24p judder from external 24Hz sources, like DVD or Blu-ray players. As for gaming, its refresh rate is limited to 60Hz, and it doesn't support VRR. Still, its input lag is extremely low, and its response time is great, so it's still a very good gaming TV if you don't care about advanced features. Its remote has a built-in microphone, letting you quickly search for content with your voice, and like other Roku TVs, you can also use voice commands through Roku's companion app on your phone. You can also plug in a pair of headphones into the remote for private listening. Ultimately, while light on features, the Plus Series has the best image quality in its price range.

Go with the Roku Select Series if you want something cheaper than the Roku Plus Series QLED. It's a simple TV that doesn't deliver the same overall picture quality as the Plus, but it's available in smaller sizes, so you can get the one that suits your needs the most. It isn't as good in a dark room as the more expensive Roku due to its lack of local dimming, although its contrast and black uniformity are certainly good enough for a pleasant dark room viewing experience. It doesn't get very bright in HDR, but it has decent reflection handling, so it can handle a few lights in a moderately-lit room. Alternatively, its SDR brightness is good, so it's more versatile if you mostly watch SDR content. It's also at its best when watching high-quality 4k content, as its image processing is disappointing overall.

Just like its bigger brother, it has limited features. It still doesn't have any motion features to help reduce stutter or persistence blur, and it only removes 24p judder from external devices, like DVD or Blu-ray players. It doesn't passthrough advanced DTS audio formats, although it can passthrough basic DTS 5.1 through ARC. As for gaming, it has incredibly low input lag and a great response time, just like the Roku Plus, but it still doesn't support VRR and is limited to 60Hz. Thankfully, it has the same remote with its integrated microphone for voice commands and a headphone jack for private listening. This TV's 43-inch and larger sizes are 4k TVs, while the 24 and 32-inch models have a 720p resolution, and the 40-inch model has a 1080p resolution, so choose accordingly.