TV Buying Guide

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Spectacular
sound quality in your TV

How can sound boost the TV
viewing experience? Let's find out.

Upgrade to a TV with intelligent innovations in sound performance and enjoy the ultimate home viewing experience.

For the best TV sound, check for the following:

3D surround sound

Check that your next TV is equipped with the Dolby Atmos feature, which is quickly becoming the industry standard for audio. Dolby Atmos offers an immersive sound experience that envelops you from all angles, providing exceptional depth, clarity, and detailed sound with built-in up-firing speakers within the TV.

A QLED TV is showing a child playing in the rain. Surround sound emitted from Dolby Atmos' top channel speakers is filling the room.

* Dolby Atmos feature may vary by model and size. Please check the availabiliity before you purchase.

This innovative feature allows you to hear individual sounds in relation to the location of on-screen objects. By synchronizing sound movement with visual cues, OTS technology elevates your viewing experience to the next level.

From an overhead wide-shot view of a boat on open water, an animated ripple graphic is superimposed onto the boat to illustrate Object Tracking Sound Plus technology which allows the boat's sound to follow the boat.

* OTS(Object Tracking Sound) feature may vary by model and size. Please check the availabiliity before you purchase.

Check out all the latest Neo QLED TV sound innovations

How optimized are the sound technologies?

AI sound by scene

TVs with superior sound performance can now auto-adjust EQ settings for you in real-time and based on the type of scene. If you want to hear a fully rendered sound best suited for any scene, AI sound is an important technology you should consider.

Auto-calibrated by location

TV sound is affected by where and how the TV is installed. Choose a TV with spatial recognition technology and it will analyze installation type and room layout then automatically calibrate your TV to the best sound settings.

Auto-enhanced dialogue

TVs with the best sound feature a unique technology that identifies potentially distracting noises around you, then automatically boosts the volume of on-screen dialogue. Be sure your TV has an auto-enhancing dialogue feature.

* The 3 corresponding images for 'AI sound by scene' contain the words 'Speech', 'Music' and 'Ambience'.

When a sound bar is connected, does the TV sound stay on or turn off?

What happens when you connect a soundbar to a TV? Most of the time, the sound from the TV speakers are turned off and the sound is played completely from the soundbar.
However the smart soundbar should deliver simultaneous sound playback from both TV speakers and the soundbar, so make sure to listen for this important detail.

As the Q-Symphony function is turned on, sound waves ripple outward from both the TV and the soundbar. As the Q-Symphony function is turned on, sound waves ripple outward from both the TV and the soundbar.
Experience a synergy of sound from TV and soundbar
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* Q-Symphony feature may vary by model and size. Please check the availabiliity before you purchase.

Let's see which TVs feature these innovative sound technologies!

Let's see which TVs feature these innovative sound technologies!

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