The Year in OLED TVs: 2025 takes the tech to new brightness peaks
From amazing glare-free screens to enhanced brightness, OLED owned 2025
· TechRadarFeatures By Dave Meikleham published 28 December 2025
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There’s no getting around it: OLED TVs have just enjoyed their most impressive year since the screen tech was first commercially rolled out around 2012. Now in some cases brighter, and generally just plain better, than the best LED and best mini LED TVs, after the last calendar 365, there’s no question OLED remains the supreme TV technology.
What. A. Year. The astonishing Samsung S95F banished reflections like no OLED TV before it thanks to its ‘Glare Free 2.0’ matte-coated panel. A fantastic four-way face-off between some of the best TVs we’ve reviewed produced two clear candidates for the best OLED TVs ever made. And Sony also impressed us with its newfound commitment to investing in QD-OLED panels.
Keep reading to catch up on all the major OLED developments of 2025, in what has been a simply sensational year for our favorite TV technology. If you’ve been on the fence about upgrading to OLED, we’re convinced you’ll be ready to make the leap after reading this year-in-review for Organic Light-Emitting Diode displays.
OLEDs got brighter… and overall better
Historically, OLED as a technology has always lagged behind the best LED TVs when it comes to screen brightness. No more. Since 2023, LG Display – an independent wing of the iconic South Korean manufacturer that produces screens for both LG and other TV companies – has made massive strides when it comes to producing startlingly vivid panels.
It started with the likes of the superb LG G3 and its MLA (Micro Lens Array) display, and boosts in OLED brightness have only become more impressive since then. We first caught a glimpse of LG Display’s fourth-generation “four-stack” OLED panels at CES 2025. And hot damn did they scorch our corneas.
Back in January, LG claimed four-stack panels like its LG G5 and the Panasonic Z95B would be able to achieve a gobmacking peak brightness of 4,000 nits – a 33% bump over 2024’s LG G4. This is thanks to the new four-stack panel, which helps increase light output by wedging two blue OLED layers between individual red and green ones.
When it came time to review the LG G5 and Panasonic Z95B, we found the flagship 2025 LG panel was the brightest we’ve ever measured. The former clocked in at an eye-rubbing 2,268 nits of peak HDR brightness in Filmmaker mode. The Panasonic wasn’t far behind, producing an almost equally vibrant 2,107 nits.
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