Sometimes it can seem like there's a new TV on the store shelves every week. While we can promise you that's not the case (sadly, they pretty much all fall at the same time in the third month of the year and/or April), it's easy to lose sight of what's to come.
To help you stay on top of each and every new TV coming in XNUMX, we've put together a guide to the latest and greatest new TV tech, based on what we saw at CES XNUMX.
This year's next class of high-caliber TVs includes outrageously beautiful OLEDs and QLEDs, like a very unapproachable MicroLED and a very enigmatic new QD-OLED that could take the top spot on our best TVs list.
What's new in TV land? Here are 8 new TVs to watch in XNUMX.
New TVs of 2022: the best models we've seen so far
1. Sony A95K QD-OLED (TV Professor Series XR-65A95K)
As far as we're concerned, Sony unveiled one of the only truly next-gen TVs at CES in the form of the A95K QD-OLED TV. It's the first QD-OLED to come out from a major manufacturer, and based on the specs we've seen, it's going to deliver everything we wanted from the latest and greatest in panel technology.
QD-OLED, for those who hear of it, combines the self-emitting organic light-transmitting diodes that give OLEDs their perfect black levels with the color saturation of quantum dots. The result is a display that has XNUMX% of the color saturation of a traditional LED-LCD display, with higher peak brightness and wider viewing angles than an OLED display.
We'll still have to test it out in our homes before we can say hi, but for all we know about the A95K, it's the evolution of OLED we've been waiting for.
There will be no shortage of mini-led screens announced this year. Samsung and LG have already announced countless of them, such as Hisense and TCL. Still, of all of us, we're most thrilled with Sony's Z9K, not just for its new mini-LED backlighting or 8K resolution, but rather for the return of the incredible XR Backlight Master Drive technology.
For those who don't remember, Backlight Master Drive is what made the Sony Z9D Master Series TV one of the best TVs of the decade, and now it's a fully loaded mini-led model, plus areas of contrast control for to work. .
We expect the result to be the best backlight control of any TV in 8, coupled with the extreme brightness of an LED-LCD TV. Add to that Sony's great work on motion processing and natural color reproduction, and Samsung could have a real fight on its hands to hold onto the XNUMXK TV market.
3. Samsung QN900B 8K Neo QLED TV (QN85QN900B)
While the Sony is our top pick for a mini-LED, it's not the only mini-LED vying for a top spot. One of the others is the new Samsung QN900B 8K Neo QLED TV, the successor to last year's award-winning Samsung QN900A QLED TV, LaComparacion's best TV of XNUMX.
The big changes for this year are a new feature called Shape Tuneable Light Control that lets the TV have better control over blooming and an upgrade to fourteen-bit backlighting for more luminance points. It may not sound that impressive, but given how bright this TV is, having a few thousand and thousand auxiliary luminance points is going to help a lot.
Inside the TV is Samsung's Neo Quantum processor, which has an object depth enhancement feature that will better separate foreground and background objects and the new home screen UI update. which has a number of changes, including... uh, an NFT shop for some reason. We could live without the last part, sure, but you can't blame Samsung for wanting to participate in the fierce market for NFTs.
4. Forty-two-inch LG OLED 4K TV (OLED42C2)
LG came out to announce a series of 8K and 4K OLEDs, multiple new QNED mini-LED TVs, and even a MicroLED TV to compete with Samsung earlier this year. Most of these screens are going to be forever and in all circumstances beyond our budget… with the only exception of the forty-two-inch LG OLED 4K.
In 2, LG will release its C-series OLED in an even smaller and more affordable size. And while we feared the downgrade might represent a reduction in spec, for the most part, that wasn't the case here. The smaller OLED C9 will continue to have the Alpha a4 Gen. 120 processor like its more expensive siblings and will support 1K/XNUMXHz via HDMI ports XNUMX.
The only downside is that while most of the larger C2 OLEDs will use LG's OLED evo panels, which can get a bit brighter than older OLED screens, the smaller C2 sticks with last year's panel. . It's not a complete disappointment since the cost can start at less than US$2, but it kept the office-capable CXNUMX from reaching a higher place on our list.
5.Panasonic LZ2000 OLED TV
While Pana didn't roll out the red carpet for a QD-OLED or announce a new mini-LED model this year, it did announce a sound-focused OLED that's likely to score points with any audiophile.
The new Panasonic LZ2000 builds on the audio evolution of last year's model, which added side-firing speakers for three-dimensional sound, support for Dolby Atmos, a Technics-tuned audio system, and forward and upward firing drivers. , to create an all-in-one home theater system unlike any other screen.
For the first time, Panasonic is going to sell a seventy-seven-inch OLED screen, which means the LZ2000 could be the home theater screen you've been waiting for.
6.Samsung Micro LED TV
Samsung didn't mince words when it announced the latest version of its MicroLED TV, calling it "the pinnacle of TV technology."
Thanks to its twenty-five million micrometer LEDs, that could be the case, but given the very, very high costs of its predecessors, we're not sure who's going to be able to afford one to take advantage of the technology.
Hoping to create something the upper middle class among us can afford, Samsung has announced 3 more manageable screen sizes for its 2022 models: XNUMX-inch, XNUMX-inch, and XNUMX-inch. Unfortunately, even the smallest size is expected to cost around €XNUMX, making it one of the most affordable TVs on the market. They're not affordable, of course, but they're at least more affordable than the monstrous XNUMX-inch and XNUMX-inch iterations we've seen previously.
7.Hisense U7H ULED TV
It may not have a mini-LED, MicroLED or OLED panel, but Hisense's U7H has something significantly better: an affordable price tag.
Announced in a series of new models from Chinese TV maker Hisense, the U7H offers a host of fabulous features like 4K/120Hz support for gaming consoles like the Xbox Series X and PS5, as well as a host of advanced imaging technologies like IMAX. enhanced format, FilmMaker mode, Dolby Vision IQ, HDR 10 and 0+ support, FreeSync VRR, and a built-in ATSC XNUMX tuner.
It already looks like sensational value and could easily take the TCL six-series crown as the best TVs under €7 if Hisense pursued a cost strategy akin to last year's fifty-five-inch UXNUMXG model that it sells for €XNUMX in the USA.
8. LG G2 OLED and Sony A90K OLED
Well, this one is a bit strange due to the fact that they are 2 models from 2 different manufacturers, but we are going to put them together both for their level of performance and for their total lack of innovation.
While LG and Sony would claim that their next high-end OLEDs are packed with the latest technology, the biggest innovation in the two is new processors and/or enhancement algorithms. Under the hood, both use the exact same panels as last year and aren't going to have many new hardware-specific quirks.
That said, while they're not packed with new technology, we'd expect them to be great TVs given the fact that their predecessors made our list of the best TVs of XNUMX. Each and every TV doesn't necessarily have to be the most advanced model on the market, after all, and we don't blame Sony or LG for not fixing something that wasn't broken.