Best TVs for smart TV platform

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Best for smart TV platform

TCL QM7L

5.0 attribute score

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

Safest pick

Roku Pro Series (2025)

4.7 attribute score

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

Most evidence

Hisense U75QG

37 supporting reviews

Has the broadest review evidence for this attribute.

Best overall product

Samsung S90H

4.5 overall score

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

#1 TCL QM7L
5.0

Google TV is a consistent strength, with an organized interface, broad content access, and useful settings integration.

Pros: peak brightness, picture quality

Cons: color accuracy, viewing angles

#2 TCL QM8L
4.9

Google TV is attractive, familiar, and effective at bringing apps and content together. It runs smoothly enough that most owners will not need a separate streamer.

Pros: picture quality, value for money

Cons: stand quality, judder handling

#3 LG G6
4.8

webOS 26 remains a fast, customizable, app-rich platform with useful Quick Cards and settings. Ads, account requirements, and uneven AI features are its main drawbacks.

Pros: picture quality, peak brightness

Cons: value for money, sound quality

#4 Roku Pro Series (2025)
4.7

Roku OS remains a major reason to buy: it is simple, intuitive, familiar, and tightly integrated with the TV. A few owners dislike live-TV navigation or isolated streaming problems.

Pros: overall satisfaction, picture quality

Cons: reliability, portability and versatility

#5 LG C6
4.7

webOS 26 is fast, feature-rich, and easy to navigate, with strong app and gaming support. Mandatory account terms and advertising substantially weaken the experience for privacy-conscious buyers.

Pros: picture quality, gaming performance

Cons: value for money, sound quality

#6 Sony Bravia 9 II
4.7

Google TV is capable, stable and easy to use, even if it is not always as slick or personalized as the best rival platforms.

Pros: overall satisfaction, overall image accuracy

Cons: value for money, bass performance

#7 LG B6
4.6

webOS 26 is fast, intuitive, and easy to navigate, with useful refinements and AI tools. Setup complexity and advertising are the main drawbacks.

Pros: picture quality, value for money

Cons: stand quality, daytime viewing performance

#8 Roku Pro Series (2026)
4.6

Roku remains approachable, quick, and easy to learn. Added recommendations and a few awkward input or picture-setting steps reduce the simplicity for some longtime users.

Pros: contrast ratio, value for money

Cons: peak brightness, HDR brightness

#9 Samsung S90H
4.5

Tizen is faster and better organized than prior versions, but opinions split over clutter, ads and Samsung-centric behavior.

Pros: glare resistance, black levels

Cons: Dolby Vision support, color gamut

#10 Sony Bravia 7 II
4.5

Google TV is broadly praised for app coverage, discoverability and familiar navigation. Ads and occasional performance hiccups are the main drawbacks.

Pros: overall satisfaction, picture quality

Cons: HDMI 2.1 port count, reflection handling

#11 Sony Bravia 8 II
4.3

Google TV is broadly liked for its app depth and familiar layout, though it can be buggy, ad-heavy and less polished than the slickest alternatives.

Pros: gaming performance, peak brightness

Cons: HDMI 2.1 support, HDMI 2.1 port count

#12 Hisense U75QG
4.1

Google TV is broadly praised for app coverage, navigation, and integration, though some owners dislike its interface, account requirements, or occasional bugs.

Pros: overall satisfaction, picture quality

Cons: reliability, build quality

#13 Amazon Ember QLED TV
3.5

Fire TV is polarizing: many owners find it intuitive, convenient, and easy to learn, while others call it cluttered, glitchy, or frustrating. The ecosystem fit matters as much as the...

Pros: picture quality, overall satisfaction

Cons: value for money, reliability

#14 Hisense U65QF
3.1

The smart-TV platform is the most divisive part of the product. Several reviewers call Fire TV cluttered, ad-heavy, or a step down from Google TV, while others find it clean,...

Pros: overall satisfaction, value for money

Cons: smart TV platform, blooming control

#15 LG StanByMe 2
2.6

webOS is highly polarizing here. Some reviewers find the customized interface slick and touch-friendly, while others call it dated, restrictive, or the product’s biggest weakness.

Pros: overall satisfaction, portability and versatility

Cons: value for money, menu responsiveness