Step into the future of home entertainment with our exclusive guide to the “Best Smart TVs of 2024.” In a world of limitless choices, we’ve narrowed down the top 5 Smart TVs that promise to redefine your viewing experience. Join us as we unravel the technological marvels and standout features that make these TVs the cream of the crop in 2024.
Whether you’re a tech enthusiast or a casual viewer, this concise guide will help you make an informed choice in bringing home the ultimate in visual innovation. Let’s explore the pinnacle of Smart TV excellence together!
The list of best Smart TVs for 2024
- Samsung S90C
- Roku Plus Series
- Hisense U8K
- Samsung S95C
- Samsung QN900C
Let’s take a look one-by-one these TVs:
1. Samsung S90C
The Samsung S90C takes the top spot on our best TV list because it does it all; excellent picture quality, sleek design, brilliant gaming performance and it gives you access to QD-OLED technology for the cheapest it’s ever been. With prices dropping over time too, this gives you real OLED bang for your buck.
With excellent contrast levels, dynamic and punchy colors and deep, rich blacks that we come to expect from an OLED, we found in our review that the S90C’s extra brightness compared to the LG C3 (further down this list) or Sony A80L really adds an extra layer, despite these TVs all costing the same. Its sharpness levels and detail are also a sight to behold. One thing to note, though, is that the 83-inch model uses a regular OLED screen that’s much less bright, and we would recommend getting the 83-inch LG C3 instead.
SPECIFICATIONS
- Screen size: 55, 65, 77, 83-inch
- Resolution: 4K
- Panel type: QD-OLED (55-77-inch); OLED (83 inches)
- Smart TV: Tizen
- HDR: HDR10+, HDR, HLG
2. Roku Plus Series
The Roku Plus Series is a budget TV that provides very good overall picture quality that exceeds its price tag. Coupled with a great smart TV interface, the Roku Plus Series is a real option for people looking for a new TV on a tight budget.
Picture quality is the real highlight of the Roku Plus Series. Colors are vibrant and have a real visual punch. Motion is also processed well, with fast panning shots not suffering from much blurring that a lot of budget TVs tend to and images look crisp and clean. However, picture suffers a little when viewed from off center, and the Roku Plus Series has average brightness levels, so isn’t the best for brighter viewing environments, but it’s hard to argue against the quality of picture you get with the Roku Plus for the money you pay.
SPECIFICATIONS
- Screen size: 55, 65, and 75-inch
- Resolution: 4K
- Panel Type: QLED
- Smart TV: Roku TV
- HDR: HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision, HDR10+
3. Hisense U8K
The Hisense U8K has great picture quality, excellent gaming features and a seriously competitive price point to make it a mid-range winner. Using mini-LED technology for high brightness levels, the Hisense U8K is great for daytime viewing and comes installed with Google TV as a smart TV platform, which is generally slick and packed with useful streaming apps.
Despite focusing on brightness, thanks to that mini-LED technology, the Hisense U8K also offers deep black levels for an excellent contrast. Unfortunately, this contrast does fade somewhat when viewed off-center. However, thanks to its anti-glare coating and a high peak brightness of 1,590 nits (which tops any OLED TV available today) it makes light work of brighter viewing environments.
In terms of gaming, the Hisense U8K is a surprisingly well-stocked TV. With two HDMI 2.1 ports that offer a refresh rate of up to 144Hz, Dolby Vision, VRR and ALLM support, the Hisense U8K is an ideal option for gaming (unless you need four HDMI 2.1 ports). It also features a game mode to get the most effective performance out of your video games.
SPECIFICATIONS
- Screen sizes: 55, 65, 75 and 85-inch
- Resolution : 4K
- Panel type : QLED with mini-LED
- Smart TV: Google TV
- HDR support: Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10, HLG
4. Samsung S95C
The Samsung S95C is groundbreaking. It’s the brightest OLED TV we’ve reviewed so far, by a long way – in our testing, it beat previous QD-OLED screens by 40% for peak HDR brightness. We measured it at 1,400 nits – compare that to the 820 nits of the LG C3 and you can see why it’s so interesting… and expensive. It’s so much brighter, which means it can look closer to real life – and there’s an even bigger difference between bright and dark.
That’s an astonishing improvement for OLED TVs, and it’s not the only thing astonishing here. In our full review, we said the Samsung S95C is “particularly effective in taking high dynamic range video to a whole new level of enjoyment, drama and realism, but also feeds gloriously into the S95C’s colors, unlocking new levels of color volume and purity, even in bright color areas, we’ve never seen before on an OLED TV”.
It’s also packed with gaming features and HDMI 2.1 connectivity, and we measured a best-in-class 9.2ms response time when gaming. Even the sound is pretty good, though you really should pair this with a proper sound system of some kind.
SPECIFICATIONS
- Screen size: 55, 65, and 77-inch
- Resolution: 4K
- Panel technology: QD-OLED
- Smart TV: Tizen
- HDR: HDR10, HLG, HDR10+
5. Samsung QN900C
8K might feel a bit like overkill to some, but if you’re going to buy a large size TV and you’ll feed it high-quality 4K pictures (given the absence of 8K movies), there’s no doubt that the Samsung QN900C can be a clear step up. The set offers stunning picture quality, exceptional color and brightness, terrific sound and outstanding black tones – all in a package that’s unmatched in terms of design.
For the uninitiated, Samsung’s ‘Quantum’ mini-LEDs are 1/40th the thickness of a regular LED, meaning thousands of smaller LEDs can be packed together in a much tighter fashion, allowing for far more accurate dimming zones and black levels that are much closer to what you get from OLED.
This has one of the most advanced mini-LED screens so far, and the magic trick here is combining it with Samsung’s AI upscaling, which can take 4K images and make them look closer to 8K resolution, so there’s real benefit in the higher resolution. Put simply, the QN900C is consistently able to produce images that look better than their source, as long as they’re high quality in the first place (HD video or low-bitrate streaming isn’t so transformative).
SPECIFICATIONS
- Screen size: 65, 75, 85-inches
- Resolution: 8K
- Panel type: Neo QLED / Mini LED
- Smart TV: Tizen
- HDR: HDR10, HLG, HDR10+
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