Best TV for PS5 2024: Top choices for Sony’s console tested and reviewed

As befitting its name, LG’s new C4 mid-range OLED is an explosive start for its 2024 range, and a return to form after the C3 model.

As is the case with LG’s OLEDs, if you’re a gamer you’ll be very interested in what LG is bringing to the market this year. The C4 boasts generous 4K/120Hz and VRR support across all of its HDMI inputs, a feature that not many TV brands can compete with, offering flexibility in terms of how many consoles/PC units you can plug into the TV.

Dolby Vision Gaming is supported too, and LG’s Game Optimizer allows you to customise the performance on the fly by tweaking black levels of switching through various game mode presets. Our reviewer tested input lag at 13ms, and with the Boost mode activated that can be knocked down to less than 10ms. At 120Hz the latency is halved to less than 5ms. As a screen for gaming, this is an excellent TV.

But of course it can do more than just gaming, and the C4 proves to be an excellent performer with TV and movie content. Its images are colour rich without being oversaturated, naturally deep and full of contrast with crushing detail. It’s brighter than the previous C3 OLED was, we measured it at 1150 nits on a 10% window, which is more than good enough to bring out the intensity in highlights and bright objects with HDR content.

The audio performance is fine, the Standard audio mode is the best and most consistent if you’re watch a variety of programming but we would recommend partnering this set with a soundbar to get the best performance. If you have an LG soundbar you’ll benefit from LG’s WOW Orchestra feature, which allows the C4’s speakers to work in tandem with the soundbar to create a bigger, more immersive sound.

Reviewer: Steve May
Full Review: LG OLED65C4

The A95L is a blend TV of OLED and Quantum Dot colour technologies to create this second-gen QD-OLED TV that offers the best of both worlds. If you’re after a Sony TV go with your PS5, the A95L currently offers the best performance.

It’s not necessarily a model geared for general gamers. Like the A95K before it, it doesn’t natively support AMD FreeSync or Nvidia G-Sync VRR tech, but for those with a PS5 there are a number of exclusive features such as the Auto Tone Mapping HDR, which we found to be very good at calibrating the TV’s HDR performance. Input time of 16.5ms is solid, and Sony says that can drop down to 8.5ms with VRR enabled.

Much like the 65-inch version, the XR-55A95L delivers an impressively colourful and wide-ranging HDR performance. We spot more shades of colour and brightness compared to an OLED65G4. Contrast is excellent, and levels of sharpness, detail, and clarity are all high when watching 4K HDR content.

Black levels aren’t the best we’ve seen from an OLED TV, with the Sony having a tendency to struggle in describing overly dark scenes with some raised blacks in some instances. Upscaling has been improved as far as our eyes can see, with detail, clarity, and sharpness well judged. Colours are handled very well, and the Sony picks out satisfying levels of detail too, with artefacts such as banding heavily reduced.

Sound quality is among the best we’ve heard from a TV. Big in size, sharp and clear, with bass that’s much punchier than expected thanks to the integrated woofers in Acoustic Surface Audio+ system.

Reviewer: John Archer
Full Review: Sony XR-55A95L

If you’re lacking space or gaming in your bedroom, then Sony’s XR-42A90K OLED is tailored for that exact use. At 42-inches, it’s the smallest size you can get an OLED TV.

Gaming with a PS5 connected, our reviewer found the experience to be impressive for a screen of this size. Input times are around 20ms, which is a respectable response time that can be brought down further with the TV’s support for HDMI VRR. VRR and 4K/120Hz are only supported across two HDMI inputs, with one of those also reserved for eARC that passes through audio such as Dolby Atmos to a compatible soundbar. If you have more than two HDMI 2.1 sources, you’d have to plug in and out the devices you want to use, but if you only have a PS5 and a soundbar then there’s less of a need to do that.

As this is a Sony TV there are exclusive features for the PS5. There’s support for Auto HDR Tone Mapping that configures the HDR for the A90K’s capabilities, and Auto Genre Picture Mode that automatically puts the OLED into its lowest latency state when it detects a PlayStation 5.

We found the picture performance when gaming to produce convincing and naturalistic images, with plenty of vibrancy to colours, depth to the image and excellent contrast. This isn’t the brightest OLED on the market, smaller-sized OLEDs face a struggle trying to replicate the brightness of bigger sizes, but given its 42-inch screen this is likely to be less noticeable given you’ll be sitting close to it.

The A90K features Sony’s Acoustic Surface Audio+ built in, and the performance delivers direct and detailed audio, with dialogue sounding distinct and coherent. There isn’t much of a low end here, though, so there’s a shortage of punchiness to its sound and there’s a hint of edginess creeping through in the top-end, which only increases with volume.

Reviewer: Simon Lucas
Full Review: Sony XR-42A90K