The annual convention showcases concepts, new tech and monstrous sizes. I choose the handful of TVs that matter most.

Hey everybody, I’m here at CES 2025, the biggest tech trade show and the Super Bowl of televisions, and I’m gonna tell you the best TVs of the show right now. So I’ve been coming to CES for more than 20 years, and I’ve seen some amazing televisions in my day. This year is no different. CES 2025, I’ve seen TVs that look like holograms. I’ve seen micro LED TVs that you can’t afford. I’ve seen a ton of transparent televisions, but those are all kind of concepts, expensive things that nobody really can put in their homes this year. So I’ve got a list of four of my favorites that are probably coming to stores this year, and we’re going to start with the displaced TV. This thing. It is one of the coolest TVs I’ve ever seen. The whole idea is for it to be completely wireless. So first off, it’s a 55 inch OLED TV. It’s also available in a 27 inch size, so a couple of medium and smaller TVs. The reason why they’re not massive like so many other TVs is that they’re totally portable. They’ve got these handles on the side. You can pick them up, move them around. They’ve even got little legs that pop out of the bottom so you can kind of set them up anywhere you want around the house, outside, anywhere within Wi Fi range for streaming. And all of that. So that’s not the coolest thing though. The displaced TV Pro, which is the more expensive version, you can stick up on the wall with suction cups, and I did exactly that. And of course you’re going, Wow, this is an expensive TV. It’s hanging on the wall with suction cups. Why would I ever do that? This place did a really good job of reassuring me that I wasn’t going to drop this thing. So, as I put it up on the wall, there’s these little meters that attach the suction right to the wall, and then it goes green and you pop right back up and It actually held every single time. I stuck one to the wall, stuck one to the fridge. Another thing about displace TV, of course, with that price, you can plug any television into a portable power station and have pretty much the same thing anywhere you want these days, but this is everything in one package. Never seen anything like it. Maybe not for everybody, and I’m expecting it to be reiterated on later with further generations, but again, really cool television. Next up is a TV that’s actually pretty expensive as well. But the kind of thing that I’m really excited about as a picture quality aficionado. This is the LG G 5. This is an OLED television. I remember OLED has the best picture quality available on the market today, better than any mini LED or LCD television. This thing is, from what I’ve seen, the best OLED picture quality yet. Now it does that by getting brighter than ever, so OLED is not as bright as some of those LCD TVs, but this one they’re saying 40% brighter than last year’s version, which was the brightest OLED TV. I ever measured, so it’s going to have that extra brightness to compete against ambient light and make HDR really pop. But another thing LG did is that they changed the ambient light rejection technology. So bear with me for a second here. All TVs collect the ambient light. So there’s bright lights in the room. There’s a window opposite the TV, even like a white shirt like I’m wearing now. That will reflect in the screen. Now, glossy screens reflect that light, and the G5 does have a glossy screen, but what they did is that they improved the way that the black looks on. Screen. So think of that black as the canvas upon which the picture is painted. That makes the image really, really pop. So again, this is based on a quick demo that I saw at LG’s lab, and I’m expecting again based on LG’s track record for the G5 to be really, really impressive. No pricing yet, but a range of screen sizes. Probably one of the better TV is the 2025. Directly competitive is the Samsung S95F. Now that’s Samsung’s OLED TV. Last year they added a glare-free screen technology. So back to that. The new version they say is even better at rejecting ambient light. It has a matte finish so different from the glossy. It’s kind of a different way of the light being rejected, but it really worked well in my tests. In fact, with a really bright room, it outperformed last year’s LG. So really excited to see in my lab those side by side comparisons again, the quick look that I saw here at CES, that Samsung did a great job of making that glare-free tech again make the picture pop, take that lighting and bring it down. And of course it’s got all the there are amazing technology that you’d expect on a high-end OLED TV, including superb color, perfect black levels, and of course all the uh connections that you’d expect. My final choice for best TV of CES 2025 is a much more affordable TV than any of those others. It’s the TCL QM 6K. This TV is basically already on the market. They’re taking pre-orders now. It’s a mid-price television, so the 65 inch size is about $1000 available in a wide range of sizes from. 55 all the way up to 98 inches. The 98 inch one that you can see here that I checked out had really good picture quality as well. Now it’s not an OLED uses mini LED tech, which is an evolution of standard LCD, but it gets really, really bright. Again, I tested the version last year that performed really, really well. Our favorite TV for the money of 2024. This is sort of its successor. TCL says it’s improved that mini LED backlight even more, shortened the lens, made it one of these things that is again, better black levels, a brighter. And less blooming or stray illumination. So that’s going to be really cool to see. They also put a little bit of a matte screen finish on it. Not sure what I think about that again, something to test out in the lab when we get it. That’s the TCL QM 6K again our front runner for probably the best TV for the money of 2025. We’ll see when we can test everything. And that’s a look at the best TVs, the CES 2025. Based on my take, we’re going to get all of these in the lab a little bit later this year so you can compare them all. Subscribe right here so you don’t miss any of those reviews here at CNET.