OLED TVs are some of the best-looking TVs around. OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) is a panel technology that makes for stunning contrast, incredible color, and ultra-slim profiles—it’s the reason OLED TVs have topped our Best-of-Year lists for several years.
If you’re looking for the best of the best in the world of OLED, we recommend the LG C2(available at Amazon for $1,296.99) . Not only does the C2 top our list of the best OLED TVs, it’s also our current pick for the best TV you can buy, thanks to its unbelievable picture quality, razor-thin design, and future-facing features. Since almost every OLED TV looks amazing, what really ends up guiding the buying decision can be features and price. All of the OLEDs here are glorious in their own right, however, and have been vetted with our strenuous cycle of lab tests.
BEST OVERALL
LG C2
- Screen sizes: 42”, 48”, 55”, 65”, 77”, 83”
- HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10, HLG
- Smart platform: LG webOS
The LG C2 OLED is the successor to our favorite TV of 2021, the LG C1. While not radically different from the C1, the C2 nevertheless improves on an already-fantastic formula. It’s our current pick for the best TV you can buy right now.
The main ingredient of this successful formula are the C2’s self-lit pixels. Unlike traditional LED TVs, OLED displays are capable of adjusting their brightness on a pixel-by-pixel basis, even turning pixels off. This allows for perfect black levels, which is why OLED TVs feature unparalleled contrast.
Anchored by perfect black levels, the C2 delivers exceptionally bright highlights for its class. It features LG’s OLED evo display technology, a blend of software and hardware enhancements that were only available in the company’s tippy-top G1 Gallery model last year. OLED evo succeeds at what it sets out to do: improve brightness and color volume. In HDR, the TV is capable of producing specular highlights in the 700- to 800-nit range, and it covers about 97% of the HDR color space (DCI-P3). SDR content (like most cable broadcasts and streaming titles) also look spectacular on the C2, though not as bright.
