Smart TV Showdown: Samsung vs LG vs Sony for Entertainment

Editor: Diksha Yadav on Oct 30,2024

 

This market of smart TVs is sure to continue growing, and the lineups from these leaders, namely Samsung, LG, and Sony, usher in new innovations for 2024. Now, pushing up the competition every time with their brand of innovation in 4K picture quality, intelligent features, and experience, one will need a detailed comparison when choosing a suitable television for home entertainment. Here's an essential comparison for your new purchase if you have to pick between Samsung, LG, and Sony for your television.

This comparison of smart TVs will categorize the best offers of Samsung, LG, and Sony in the following: display technology, picture quality, operating systems, intelligent features, and more. The best 4K TVs, as well as unique features from each brand, are presented to give you everything you need to know about Samsung vs LG vs Sony TVs in 2024.

Display Technology and Picture Quality

Samsung – Quantum Dot & OLED Technology

Samsung has been around for a long time with QLED (Quantum Dot LED) technology, which ensures the colors are bright and vibrant, ideal for a well-lit room. In 2024, Samsung introduced OLED with self-emissive pixels, perfect blacks, and great contrast ratios, the ultimate game-changer for cinematic quality lovers.

Especially in the flagship models QN90C and S95C, Samsung is giving 4K TVs a wide gamut of colors and the highest levels of HDR during both day and night watches. The improvement in processor that Samsung does to its processor, dubbed Neo Quantum Processor, allowed AI upscaling and many more explicit pictures than before.

LG- Best in the OLED Market

The flagship brand remains LG, but it upgrades its OLED Evo panels, which make OLED even brighter with improved longevity, in the 2024 lineup. Its OLEDs stand out because they can present excellent black levels, contrast, and color accuracy that provide an immersive picture quality, which really shines when used in dark or dimly lit rooms.

LG's G3 and C3 are the best 4K TVs for image enthusiasts. The C3 is at a mid-range price with superior performance, while the G3 is designed for top-of-the-range users, and it really wants to have the very best from OLED.

Sony – Master of OLED and Mini LED

Sony, synonymous with picture processing excellence, boasts OLED and Mini LED applications within its range. Their 2024 A95L OLED model is part of their Quantum Dot OLED, marrying the perfect black attributes of OLED with vibrancy due to quantum dots in the colors.

Sony also has the X95L, which is a Mini LED TV that manages brightness and contrast so well and can fit most room conditions. Sony's Cognitive Processor XR refines color, detail, and more with the ability to make an image look natural and more lifelike. In this case, the upscaling of 4K content really comes into its own with Sony TVs perfect for streaming.

Smart TV Operating Systems and Interfaces

Samsung – Tizen OS

The OS of Samsung is very lean and fast. It organizes apps into a ribbon below the screen so a user can easily find content. Samsung expanded the capabilities of Tizen in 2024 with cloud gaming platforms, which include Xbox Game Pass, which gives it a good ground as a gaming system. The OS is supported entirely by most popular streaming applications, with smooth navigation and an intuitive interface.

Tizen OS is also compatible with Samsung's SmartThings ecosystem, which allows a user to control other smart home devices from their television. This makes Samsung a formidable player in the smart TV market. 

LG – webOS

LG's webOS has become one of the best-friendly and custom smart TV interfaces around, and for a very long time now, it has been long overdue, pushing its latest edition up for this year, 2024. The interface has some handy features for quickly switching apps and inputs apart from that, which enables easy means of accessing multitasking streaming services.

LG ThinQ AI: Voice control, Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit to interact seamlessly with all your smart home gadgets. It will surely entertain all gamers by offering an access point for all game-related options with the Game Optimizer menu and easily accessible within any game.

Sony – Google TV

It sports Google TV as its OS and features a robust system organizing content by preferences and even integrates live TV options. The 2024 version of Google TV supports nearly every streaming service, and the Google Assistant integration makes voice control easy and versatile.

It also supports Chromecast from Google TV so that users can access and control it from mobile devices. The PlayStation ecosystem supported by Sony, besides XR Game Mode, makes it superb for console gamers, enhancing frame rates and cutting input lag.

Audio Quality and Enhancements

Samsung – Object Tracking Sound

All smart TVs from Samsung, set to be released in 2024, have this Object Tracking Sound technology meant to give spatial audio that actually moves with the action going on the screen, enhancing immersion for both movie nights and gaming. Also, the S95C OLED model supports Dolby Atmos, which will deliver a rich surround sound experience.

While it has upgraded audio quality through much of its line to maximize audio performance, a matching Samsung soundbar can link up seamlessly to the set and the set with TV and the soundbar with Q-Symphony. This can enhance the audio depth. 

LG-Dolby Atmos and AI Sound Pro

LG TVs are Dolby Atmos-enabled, so the audio experience is fuller and more cinematic. AI Sound Pro uses artificial intelligence to upmix audio to a virtual 5.1 surround sound setup especially for viewers without a dedicated sound system.

Customized audio in different types of content, whether it's sports or music, also makes LG perfect the clarity and bass into fitting each. The difference in this feature makes the LG smart TV highly recommendable to anyone who enjoys listening since the sound settings can adapt as one may wish. 

Sony – Acoustic Surface Audio+ and 3D Surround Upscaling

Sony's Acoustic Surface Audio+ uses the entire screen to produce sound, providing a synchronized audio-visual experience. It is also very effective in OLED models where the whole screen becomes a speaker. Besides that, Sony's 3D Surround Upscaling feature helps standard audio become a kind of surround sound experience ideal for viewing immersive content.

The BRAVIA XR TVs complement its soundbars, but one of the most exciting things about its soundbars are the features it possesses inside, one of which would be found in 360 Spatial Sound Mapping that amplifies the surround sound so well that one becomes almost immersive in watching the home theatre.

Unique Features and Innovation

  • Samsung: The Multi-View, having the capability to view the screen from more than one source, helps the viewer. Samsung incorporates this within its S95C and QN90C displays for the display of various sports events, as well as its newly invented solar remote control with packaging that would appeal to its nature-loving fan; the packaging is completely green and would really feel entirely ecological.
  • LG: LG G3 has a Gallery Mode that displays artwork on the screen when the TV is idle, and it's an ornamental piece. WOW Orchestra is another feature by LG that allows users to sync the LG soundbars with the TV for better audio without lag.
  • Sony: Sony boasts the XR OLED Contrast Pro technology on the A95L, which enhances contrast to make scenes more lifelike in dark rooms. The BRAVIA CAM is a paid add-on for video calling and fine-tunes audio and pictures depending on where the viewer is located in the room.

Gaming Performance

All of these companies have something different to offer gamers in each of their models: Samsung, LG, and Sony.

  •  Samsung: The Samsung Game Bar offers easy access to settings such as FreeSync Premium Pro and VRR support with 4K 120Hz support and low input lag, making it a good option for Xbox and PC gamers.
  • LG: The Game Optimizer of LG TVs boasts instant access to gaming settings, including an auto low-latency mode (ALLM) and 4K 120Hz support. LG's 0.1 ms response time on OLED models makes it the best for gamers.
  • Sony: Sony's XR Game Mode adjusts picture settings for PlayStation 5, removing input lag and maximum frame rates. The company also supports VRR and ALLM, so Sony TVs are a good choice for anyone who owns a PS5.

Price and Value

The prices vary widely across the three brands in the context of features and screen sizes.

  • Samsung: Generally speaking, Samsung is in a competitive position, with the high-quality QLED and OLED carrying exceptional value. Even a mid-range Q70C manages to balance quality on its feature set at a significantly more affordable price.
  • LG: The LG OLED is definitely pricey, and the G3 and C3 really command a premium, but with that much investment, you get a picture and innovative features well above mere enthusiasts.
  • Sony: Its high-end picture processing and gaming enhancements position its products at the higher end of the price scale, but the additional features and XR processor make it a tremendous value for film enthusiasts and gamers alike.

Final Verdict

Every brand has positives to its credit:

  • Samsung: Suitable for bright rooms, green consumers, and those who need the capability to adjust and brightness of color.
  • LG: This is for OLED lovers: class of picture and gaming performance.
  • Sony: Sony is catering to all movie lovers and gamers with significant processing and audio, with added PlayStation console compatibility.

For the 2024 lineup, three brands are delivering tremendous products, and your final selection will be based more on your needs in home entertainment. Samsung's high brightness or LG's OLED domination and Sony's picture processing finesse.


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