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To find out more about high dynamic range, see our HDR section below. And right now, it's hard to find a UHD TV smaller than 39 inches, although we do have one inch 4K set in our ratings. Just remember that resolution is only one of a number of attributes that a TV has to get right to produce excellent overall picture quality.
Regular HD TVs remain a great choice for many consumers when you factor in price, especially in screen sizes smaller than 65 inches. Thanks to its higher-resolution x screen, a 4K TV can display greater detail than a p set when presented with high-quality UHD content.
New 8K TVs, with x screens, are capable of even greater fine detail. Images on these sets appear sharper, with smoother lines on the edges of objects, depending on your viewing distance. Many UHD sets attempt to enhance the image in other ways.
For example, many better TVs now have sophisticated video processing and use artificial intelligence to upscale lower-resolution content to the TV's 4K or 8K screens. And most 4K sets now support HDR, which provides a higher level of contrast between the lightest and darkest images. More content that has been encoded with HDR is available every year. As we previously noted, one of the most exciting recent TV developments is high dynamic range, or HDR.
When done right, HDR boosts a TV's brightness, contrast, and color, making the pictures on the screen look more like real life. The dramatized image below shows that when HDR is at work, you'll see details that might not otherwise be obvious, from the texture of the brick on a shady walkway to nuances in the white clouds in a daytime sky.
You'll also see brighter, more realistic "specular highlights," which are glints of light, such as the sun's reflection off a car's chrome bumper or an airplane wing. HDR does all that by increasing the contrast between the brightest whites and the darkest blacks a TV can produce.
But you won't see all that fantastic contrast and color every time you turn on the TV. Find out where you can watch 4K content with HDR. First, your TV should automatically detect the type of HDR being used in the content and choose the right way to play it.
Second, the type of HDR doesn't seem to be too important right now. What we've seen in our labs is that top-performing TVs can do a great job with different types of HDR. The quality of the TV is more important. One type, called HDR10, has been adopted as an open standard. Companies pay a licensing fee to use it. On paper it has some advantages.
By contrast, HDR10 uses "static" metadata, where brightness levels are set for the entire movie or show. Many new TVs already support HLG, but it looks like others will be able to get firmware updates if necessary. This matters only for people who get TV through antennas , which are making a comeback. Our tests show that not every TV with "HDR" written on the box produces equally rich, lifelike images. But there are also challenges specific to this technology.
Better-performing HDR TVs typically generate at least nits of peak brightness, with top performers hitting 1, nits or more. With an underpowered TV, the fire of a rocket launch becomes a single massive white flare.
What to do instead? But there are also some good choices for people who want to spend less. And if you're buying a smaller set or just want to wait on 4K and HDR, you can find several good—and inexpensive—options. The overwhelming number of TVs on the market, especially in midsized and larger models, are smart TVs. These televisions can access online content, such as streaming video services from Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Netflix.
Basic smart TVs may be limited to the most popular services, while others offer a vast assortment of apps. More sophisticated smart TVs can respond to voice commands, using microphones built into the TV's remote control or using an app on a smartphone.
More than 80 percent of the TVs sold these days are smart TVs, according to market research firm Omdia. Details below. This will let you perform basic TV controls—such as raising and lowering volume, and changing channels or inputs—and search for shows and movies using voice commands. Just be aware that almost all smart TVs collect information about the shows you're watching and the apps you're using—for marketing purposes.
The degree to which you can control this data collection varies by the brand of smart TV system, but there are ways you can limit the amount of data being collected and shared. Streaming media players are a popular add-on for TVs, bringing streaming movies, TV, music, and games to TVs that lack internet access.
There are more than a dozen streaming player models, offered mainly in two styles: set-top boxes, and stick players about the size of a USB flash drive.
The most basic ones support p video, and many models can play 4K content with HDR from the streaming services that offer it. Because 4K models often come with promotional discounts, getting a 4K player probably makes the most sense for most consumers because their next TV purchase is likely to be a 4K model. And be aware that streaming video requires robust broadband and WiFi connections to prevent the video from freezing or buffering.
If you move more of your entertainment to the internet, you may need to upgrade to a faster connection. Many smart TVs also let you check social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and several support casual games as well. Some sets may have all three. Like streaming media players, smart TVs need to be connected to your home network. We recommend using a wired Ethernet connection, if possible, but all smart TVs now also have built-in WiFi for accessing your network wirelessly.
Despite many improvements, most LCDs still have a fairly significant shortcoming: limited viewing angle. That means the picture looks its best only from a fairly narrow sweet spot right in front of the screen. We recommend checking the viewing angle by watching a TV from off to the side, and from above and below the main part of the image. As you move away from the center of the screen, the image can dim, lose contrast and color accuracy, or look washed out.
And the degree of picture degradation varies from model to model.
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