TV: The 4 main trends to follow in 2025
TCL 65C89K
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The small world of televisions evolves in small touches through the innovations offered by large panel manufacturers. If the transition to 4K and the improvement in image quality have been at the center of concerns for a time, it is the brightness which seems to capture all the attentions since the breakthrough of the HDR on the market.
The LG G5 during our test.
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In this regular development, the year 2025, however, marks a fairly important step for our TV with OLEDs that have been able to reinvent themselves in the face of competition, mini-LEDs at the top of their form, a RGB mini-LED technology that is looming on the horizon, not to mention an AI for the moment fairly wobbly. Here’s what to remember for this year.
OLED and QD-OLED: a big leap forward for the brightness
It was a recurring reproach in recent years: Oled televisions lacked punch in the middle of the day and began to be seriously preceded by mini-LEDs beating all records, in HDR in particular. In 2025, LG and Samsung, however, accelerator on their high -end models G5 And S95F With a new Tandem OLED for LG four -layer slab architecture, five layers for Samsung.
Result, a bright peak which goes from around 1600 cd/m² in 2024 to 2200 cd/m² (S95F) and 2300 cd/m² (LG G5), a huge and appreciable generational gain. HDR content gain in visual impact, the light scenes break out on the screen, without losing the richness of infinite blacks specific to the OLED. Technology remains the best of the moment with its contrasts, its excellent vision angles and its unrivaled colorimetric cover.
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Mini-LED technology at the top
If he is a model that surprised in 2025, it is the TCL 65C89K. This mini-LED television stands out as the best mini-LED never passed on our test bench; It is even the first to have obtained the note of 5 stars in our comparison.
Management of Local Dimming is simply impressive with deep blacks and a blooming content thanks to its new Whva slab. We frankly approach the OLED experience on certain content, but with an even brighter image. The TV reached 3,200 cd/m², equaling the record for Sony Bravia 9.
The C89K is very very bright.
Add to that a fluid interface under Google TV, an efficient audio system and a much more accessible price than the tenors on the market, and you get the 2025 value for money. Hisense also arrives with its mini-LED U8Q which should display great performance. Go to a few days to discover its full test.
The RGB mini-LED approaching
Still confined to the prototypes that we were able to meet at Sony, Samsung and TCL, the RGB Mini-LED technology could well tip the LCD in a new era. Already shown at Hisense with its UX116 at CES in Las Vegas, it is based on a backlight made up of red, green and blue LEDs, and not white led customers.
This approach has many advantages: extended coverage of REC. 2020 (up to 97 %), reinforced light peak, blooming reduced and better perceived contrast. At least that’s what is proclaimed on paper and we are waiting to test this technology to check it all in our lab.
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Still reserved for high -end models – the UX116 from Hisense will cost the trifle of € 25,000 when it is released in the fall – this technology should arrive on more affordable models in 2026.
Still discreet artificial intelligence
All the manufacturers are getting into it and you hear (too) about it (too), our smartphones to our lawn mowers via our laptops. In 2025, artificial intelligence was also invited on our TV, image processing to improve sound and content analysis. But in practice, it does not really be a real AI.
LG bets for example on an AI assistant who can help you settle your TV or try to solve problems before contacting after -sales service, but its use remains quite gadget. Samsung has tried a breakthrough on the automatic translation of subtitles and live image analysis to obtain information on the content displayed. Las, the result is quite limited.
To date, AI remains above all a marketing argument, more than a real differentiating factor on a daily basis. It will no doubt gain relevance in the future, but it will still be necessary to wait to have a concrete use.
A great year not over yet!
The year 2025 therefore marks a clear progression of display technologies with always better TVs. An excellent vintage for lovers of cinema image with very good quality/price ratios at the key. We have not yet tested everything, of course, and you will meet very soon for the rest of our Philips, Panasonic and Hisense tests, in particular!
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