The 6 Best OLED TVs (2025)

OLED is the best way to watch TV right now. Imagine a perfectly black screen in which each tiny pixel is controlled independently for an image that seems to appear from the void like magic. It’s almost hard to believe it’s real, and it keeps getting better. Display manufacturers like LG and Samsung have pushed OLED beyond expectations for brighter highlights, richer and more natural colors, and faster refresh rates to elevate everything you watch or play.

The best OLED TVs aren’t cheap, but they’re not the pinnacle of TV decadence they were a few short years ago, offering increasingly approachable luxury for the masses. For those who appreciate a quality home theater experience, there’s no better payoff for your investment. We spend countless hours of meticulous testing each year to curate the best TVs you can buy. So read on to find the perfect OLED screen for you—and get ready to be dazzled. For more buying tips, check out our list of the Best Soundbars, the Best Streaming Devices, and our guide on How to Choose the Right TV.

Updated March 2025: We’ve added the LG M4 Wireless OLED TV with the Zero Connect Box.

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What’s the difference between OLED and LED?

Unlike LED TVs, which use a combination of an LCD panel and LED backlighting, OLED (which stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode) uses special organic material that lights up when fed electricity. OLED is an “emmissive” display technology, meaning each of an OLED panel’s millions of pixels can turn on or off independently. Because of this comprehensive lighting control, emissive display technologies like OLED—and the more experimental (and expensive) microLED—can provide perfect black levels and superior contrast over traditional LED displays.

QLED TVs use tiny nanoparticles called quantum dots for enhanced brightness and colors. They generally offer higher brightness than both LED and OLED; some budget-conscience QLED models from brands like Hisense and TCL even outshine pricier OLEDs. But OLED TVs have their own brightness innovations, including some that incorporate quantum dots (known as QD-OLEDs), and the best OLED TVs can still get very bright. In general, OLED’s mix of advanced brightness, perfect black levels, near-infinite contrast, and excellent off-axis viewing adds up to a more balanced performance than similarly priced QLED displays.

Especially in its early years, OLED’s standout concern has been its increased risk of burn-in, or image retention, over traditional backlit displays. Due in part to the use of organic compounds, OLED panels can more easily degrade at different rates over time, which could potentially lead to variations in brightness and colors.

Thankfully, OLED burn-in is increasingly less common in modern TVs for several reasons, including features like screen savers, static image detection, and other hardware methods to reduce and rectify image retention. While burn-in remains a mild concern, it’s only worth considering for extremely high-volume users like gamers who keep a static image on screen for multiple hours (or days) at a time. Even then it usually isn’t permanent. For most, OLED burn-in isn’t something to worry about.

For more info about TV technology, from quantum dots to 4K, check out our guides on How to Choose the Right TV (also linked above), How to Setup Your New TV, and HDR, or visit the “Helpful Definitions” section in our Best TVs guide for more info.