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Update, 11/24/2022: Our roundup has been completely revamped with new 2022 models of our favorite TVs. Take a look!
What to Look for in a TV in 2022
It’s a great time to buy a TV. While other entertainment products like game consoles and graphics cards are hard to come by and expensive, TVs continue to follow the trend of falling prices year after year. What’s more, image quality has never been better.
There are two dominant display technologies available at the moment—LED-lit LCD TVs and self-emissive OLED displays. These differing approaches to producing an image have their own sets of pros and cons, and you should be sure you understand the difference between them before you buy.
Standard LED-lit LCD TVs use a backlight to shine through the display “stack” to produce an image. To produce a black image, the backlight must be “blocked” by the thin-film substrate (TFT) layer, often resulting in washed-out blacks and a poor contrast ratio.
The newest LED-LCD TVs use dimming algorithms to produce deeper blacks by turning off the backlight in darker areas. This…
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