Here comes the sun: The best TVs for bright rooms in 2024

If size, power and performance are what you're searching for, look no further than Samsung's Q75C 75-inch QLED TV, a truly special smart TV worth investing in.

For the ultimate protection from bright rooms and rogue sunbeams, the Q75C's EyeComfort technology ensures you'll never miss a moment from your favourite films due to brightness. Adjusting the brightness (up to 3,000 nits) to compensate for a sunny room, there's no bright room that the Samsung Q75C can't handle.

A solid screen that's perfectly suitable for even the brightest rooms, the UR80 is a well-made powerhouse of a television that clocks in at less than £350, now that's value.

Packed with smart assistant support, all the apps and features you could want out of a smart TV and an anti-glare screen, so it's perfect for the lounge and diving into your favourite films.

Gaming on the UR80 isn't exceptional compared to OLED TVs with a fairly standard 60Hz refresh rate, but it's still impressive nonetheless.

If you're a fan of QLED televisions, but just can't quite justify the gigantic price tag to go along with them, you might want to consider TCL's sensational budget QLED TV, the 50CF630K. A QLED TV at less than £300 seems almost impossible, but TCL has managed to do it.

This solid TV is incredibly bright for its price, whilst not quite competing with the likes of Samsung's QLED range, this capable 50-inch smart TV is still at a great value, and is also pretty secure from bright room problems.

Fairly lacklustre audio and middling navigation aside, you can't really complain when a TV with a screen of the 50CF630K's calibre is as cheap as it is.

Samsung's QLED range is perhaps the best on the market for battling the sunshine, and the Q65C is among the best-priced of them all. Perfect for smaller lounges at 43-inches, but still suitably large, the Q65C handles glare with ease thanks to its ultra-bright picture.

Well-optimised for vibrant TV binge-watching, gaming and more – the Q65 is a solid QLED television that is perfect for those on a budget. For better sound, however, we'd undoubtedly recommend using a soundbar, the Q65C's sound output falls a little short of the higher-end TVs in Samsung's roster.

Certainly one of the pricier selections of 2024, the Samsung QN90C Neo QLED TV is an astonishingly brilliant smart TV, brimming with ultra-fast 4K processing, a 144Hz refresh rate screen and an ultra-powerful 40W audio output.

The QN90C is easily one of the best 50-inch TVs this year, it's gorgeously bright at 1,000 nits and it's perfect for conquering any-and-all screen glare in sight.

For gamers, you'll be pleased to hear there's 120Hz support, so whether you have a PS5 or Xbox Series X, you've got the power to play at an ultra-high refresh rate. There's even amazing audio on the QN90C, so there's a wonderful level of immersion from the QN90C's bass-filled speakers.

Sony return to our line-up with another Full Array LED TV to help banish those errant sunrays. But, being a Sony too, you’ll also get a lot of features for your money.

As we mentioned earlier, so you’re not going to get the rich deep blacks of an OLED, but the benefits that the added brightness level of QLEDs bring to a bright room are worth the sacrifice.

It’s not all that different though, as the clever dimming zones that sit behind those QLEDs will control the backlight depending on the content. So, in a dark scene, any highlights will pop, while the blooming of those highlights shouldn’t interfere with the blacks too much. But all of that QLED goodness would be nothing without the Crystal Anti-glare filter that works to reduce reflections from light directly hitting the 55-inch TV screen. Again, the combination of these two technologies will give you the edge in your battle against glare.

In terms of extras, this set has a gamer-friendly 120hz variable refresh rate. The ‘Perfect for PlayStation’ features recently introduced by Sony give PS5 users various enhancements, such as Auto HDR Tone Mapping and Auto Genre Picture Mode. Users of other consoles will still benefit from super-low input lag and excellent Acoustic Multi-Audio.

Samsung's Q60C QLED TV is a great budget option for bright rooms when you consider just how much it has to offer. This Quantum Dot QLED television dazzles the eye with its vivid screen and detailed ultra-HD picture quality. Detailed and sharp, there's not a frame lost to poor post-processing and AI sharpening, Samsung has pretty much perfected this technology by now.

Samsung has amped a few things since the last model; the Q60C. For example, the sound was a little average for our liking, with no Dolby audio support to be seen. Instead, you got Samsung's Object Tracking Sound Lite. The new Q60D doubles down on this, Object Tracking Sound Lite is back and seemingly more advanced this time. Additionally, you're getting adaptive sound too, which caters the audio delivery depending on the kind of content you're watching. Big action flicks will project all the bass, whereas sports programmes will deliver a sharpness and clarity.

QNED is a brilliant technology innovation from LG and combines QLED and LG's patented NanoCell layer to improve sharpness and prevent excessive contrast to keep the picture looking realistic.

This 43-inch TV might seem cheap, but it certainly packs a performance punch. One of the most innovative smart TV technologies of the year, LG's 43-inch QNED TV is shockingly good, with visuals that are comparable to full-fledged QLED TVs at a substantially higher price.

With a 20W audio output and plenty of processing power for seamless navigation, the 43QNED TV brings so much value, that it's hard to deny it's one of the best 43-inch TVs of the year. For bright rooms, you won't find many options better at its price.

You don't need to break the bank to get top-tier TV performance, with Hisense you can get yourself an excellent 65-inch smart TV for bright rooms at under £800.

Utilising mini-LED technology, which creates an intensely bright, sharp image for a lower cost than OLED – the Hisense U6 delivers a picture that is easily visible in even the brightest of rooms.

Well-made with solid audio and even some Dolby Picture IQ post-processing for gorgeous visuals, this affordable 65-inch TV is impressive, and its 600-nit peak brightness ensures that sunny rooms are a problem of the past.

Perfect for streaming, the Hisense 43-inch QLED TV is pre-programmed with all the biggest streaming apps, with buttons on the remote ready to quickly switch between Netflix, Disney Plus, Prime Video, and even YouTube.

Crystal clear colour, excellent brightness, and an easy-to-navigate user interface, the Hisense 43E77KQTUK TV is an amazing deal on a great TV. Plus, at 250 nits, the brightness is nothing to ignore.

Once again, however, Hisense's budget TV has poor audio power at only 14W, so it isn't as loud as you might expect.