Best TVs for HDR performance

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Best for HDR performance

TCL QM8L

5.0 feature score

Highest scored product for this feature based on supporting review evidence.

Safest pick

LG G6

4.7 feature score

Balances feature score, supporting reviews, and overall product strength.

Most evidence

TCL QM7L

9 supporting reviews

Has the broadest review evidence for this feature.

Best overall product

Roku Pro Series (2025)

4.4 overall score

Strongest overall product among items with scored evidence for this feature.

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#1 TCL QM8L
5.0

HDR is spectacularly punchy, combining intense highlights, deep blacks, rich color, and strong detail. Dolby Vision material is particularly impressive when the appropriate picture mode is selected.

Pros: overall image accuracy, resolution

Cons: motion clarity, response time

#2 LG C6
5.0

HDR is a major strength, combining bright highlights, deep blacks, strong color, and confident tone mapping. The experience is especially impressive in dark or controlled-light rooms.

Pros: resolution, contrast ratio

Cons: HDR10+ support, account requirements

#3 LG G6
4.7

The combination of bright highlights, deep blacks, broad color, and fine detail creates spectacular HDR. Firmware and Dolby Vision inconsistencies prevent completely uniform results.

Pros: panel type, display technology

Cons: account requirements, DTS support

#4 Roku Pro Series (2025)
4.6

HDR usually looks punchy and impressive, with strong highlights, deep contrast, and vivid color. Some reviewers still found HDR color less accurate than ideal.

Pros: resolution, display technology

Cons: customer support, optical audio output

#5 LG B6
4.5

HDR has satisfying impact, with punchy highlights and rich color. It cannot match the brighter C6, but it remains convincing for this price tier.

Pros: display technology, response time

Cons: setup ease, account requirements

#6 TCL QM7L
4.2

HDR is usually bright, colorful, and detailed, with impactful highlights and broad format support. Clipping, overbrightening, blooming, and unstable brightness remain possible drawbacks.

Pros: resolution, HDR format support

Cons: software updates, account requirements

#7 Hisense U65QF
4.0

HDR usually looks punchy and worthwhile, especially given the price, with bright highlights and strong contrast. A few sources are more reserved, calling it merely adequate or warning that entry-level...

Pros: resolution, HDR format support

Cons: advertising intrusiveness, gaming dashboard

#8 LG StanByMe 2
4.0

HDR can look better than expected for this kind of portable LCD, with clear highlights and pleasing color in brighter material. The limited contrast and backlight precision still keep it...

Pros: streaming app support, voice control accuracy

Cons: motion handling, motion clarity

#9 Amazon Ember QLED TV
3.8

HDR is capable and flexible, with strong format support and good highlight presence in many scenes. More critical tests say its limited brightness, black control, and tuning keep HDR from...

Pros: local dimming performance, HDR format support

Cons: gradient handling, banding control

#10 Hisense U75QG
3.5

HDR can look spectacular because of the sheer brightness and contrast, but accuracy and tone mapping vary enough to keep the result from being consistently reference-like.

Pros: sustained brightness, HDR format support

Cons: gaming mode quality, Bluetooth audio support