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Best TV Brands of 2022
Buying a new TV isn’t getting any easier. While TV screen size, picture technology, contrast ratio, backlighting, refresh rate, and stand-out smart features are improving every day, this means there’s plenty more to consider nowadays when forking over the dough for your new living room set.
Choosing that TV, however, is up to you. With a wide range of sophisticated features, resolutions, sizes, and brands to choose from, there’s plenty to consider before swiping your credit card. After all, the average American watches more than five hours of TV per day. And whether you’re looking for the absolute best TVs on the market, the best 4K TVs under $500, or something in the Goldilocks Zone like the best TVs under $1,000, you don’t want to waste your time.
As such, we’ve put together a guide to all the best TV brands of 2022, so when the time comes to upgrade, you’ll know where to start your search.
At a glance
Brand
Category
Calling card
Samsung
Heavyweight
QLED
LG
Heavyweight
OLED
Sony
Heavyweight
Cognitive Processor XR chip
Vizio
Heavyweight
Quantum
TCL
Up-and-comer
Value
Hisense
Up-and-comer
Variety
Panasonic
Up-and-comer
Panel supremacy
Note: Our categories, by and large, represent the U.S. TV market. Some companies (like Sony) are less prevalent worldwide, while others (TCL) sell more sets in the Chinese market. Further, for this guide, we avoided putting a great deal of stock in a TV’s operating system, considering the popularity and accessibility of streaming sticks and set-top boxes.
Heavyweights
These are the big boys — the brands that occupy premium real estate on both physical and digital shelves everywhere.
Samsung
South Korea’s Samsung is the de facto market leader in the world television space, leading competitors like LG and Sony by a wide margin in terms of overall sales. That’s partly a result of the company’s size (Samsung ranked 15th on the 2021 Fortune 500, placing it as the second most valuable electronics company, behind Apple at number 3), but mostly it’s because Samsung makes great TVs with a focus on accessibility.
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