75"+ TVs

75 Inch and Larger TVs

Above 70 inch a television stops being a piece of furniture and starts dictating the room, which is why this size band deserves its own decisions rather than the ones that apply lower down. Sizes here run 75, 77, 85 and 100 inch. The jump from 65 to 75 is larger in practice than the numbers suggest, because screen area grows with the square: a 75 inch set has roughly a third more picture than a 65, and an 85 has almost twice that of a 65.

Viewing distance is the first check and the one people skip. Three and a half metres is comfortable for 75 inch, four metres and beyond suits 85 inch and up, and sitting closer than that on a 4K panel means you start to see the pixel structure on bright scenes. Measure from the sofa to the wall before anything else, because a set that is too big for the room cannot be fixed afterwards.

Panel technology matters more here than at any smaller size, for a simple reason: a flaw that is invisible at 43 inch is obvious across a two metre screen. OLED lights every pixel individually and gives true black rather than dark grey, which is what makes it the benchmark for film in a controlled room, and it runs to 77 inch. Mini LED and QNED split the backlight into thousands of independently dimmed zones and go considerably brighter, which is the better answer for a bright south facing room or daytime sport. Standard Crystal UHD and 4K LED cover the value end and still give a large, sharp picture at 75 or 85 inch. For gaming, look for 120Hz or 144Hz with HDMI 2.1, which is standard on the OLED and Mini LED sets at this size.

Three practical checks before ordering. Measure the route into the room as well as the wall, because an 85 or 100 inch carton will not go up a tight stairs or around a narrow hall corner, and that is the single most common delivery problem at this size. If it is going on a bracket, check the VESA pattern and the weight rating, since a panel this size needs a bracket rated well beyond what a 55 inch set requires, and a stud wall may need reinforcing. And if it is going on a unit, check the foot spacing rather than the screen width, because sets that stand on two feet near the edges need a surface nearly as wide as the panel.

LG covers OLED at 77 inch through the C6 Evo AI series, QNED and Mini LED at 75 and 85 inch through the QNED7E, QNED72 and QNED86, and NanoCell at 75 inch through the NU85. Samsung answers with OLED at 77 inch in the S95H and S85F, Mini LED at 75, 85 and 100 inch in the M70H and M90H, and Crystal UHD at 75 and 85 inch in the U7000H and U8000H. Hisense covers the value end of the band. For the size below see 65 to 70 inch TVs, and for the full size ladder see TVs.

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