Best TVs for HDR performance

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Best for HDR performance

TCL QM8L

5.0 attribute score

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

Safest pick

Samsung S90H

5.0 attribute score

Balances the attribute score, supporting reviews, and overall product strength.

Most evidence

Sony Bravia 8 II

14 supporting reviews

Has the broadest review evidence for this attribute.

Best overall product

Roku Pro Series (2025)

4.4 overall score

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

#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: picture quality, value for money

Cons: stand quality, judder handling

#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: picture quality, gaming performance

Cons: value for money, sound quality

#3 Samsung S90H
5.0

HDR is consistently praised for impactful highlights, deep blacks and rich color. The strongest results come from better picture modes rather than the most aggressive defaults.

Pros: glare resistance, black levels

Cons: Dolby Vision support, color gamut

#4 Sony Bravia 7 II
5.0

HDR is a major strength, combining strong highlight detail, controlled blacks and excellent tone mapping without simply over-brightening dark scenes.

Pros: overall satisfaction, picture quality

Cons: HDMI 2.1 port count, reflection handling

#5 Sony Bravia 9 II
4.7

HDR is a defining strength, combining intense highlights, wide color and disciplined tone reproduction rather than brightness for its own sake.

Pros: overall satisfaction, overall image accuracy

Cons: value for money, bass performance

#6 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: picture quality, peak brightness

Cons: value for money, sound quality

#7 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: overall satisfaction, picture quality

Cons: reliability, portability and versatility

#8 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: picture quality, value for money

Cons: stand quality, daytime viewing performance

#9 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: peak brightness, picture quality

Cons: color accuracy, viewing angles

#10 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: overall satisfaction, value for money

Cons: smart TV platform, blooming control

#11 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: overall satisfaction, portability and versatility

Cons: value for money, menu responsiveness

#12 Sony Bravia 8 II
3.9

HDR is one of the TV’s strengths, with punchy highlights, deep blacks and excellent Dolby Vision rendering, although some presets and bright-room conditions reduce impact.

Pros: gaming performance, peak brightness

Cons: HDMI 2.1 support, HDMI 2.1 port count

#13 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: picture quality, overall satisfaction

Cons: value for money, reliability

#14 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: overall satisfaction, picture quality

Cons: reliability, build quality

#15 Roku Pro Series (2026)
3.2

OLED contrast gives HDR a premium look even at modest brightness. Highlights lack the punch of brighter models, making controlled lighting the better setting.

Pros: contrast ratio, value for money

Cons: peak brightness, HDR brightness