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Outdoor TVs are becoming more popular to provide the ultimate outdoor relaxation experience. Most TVs aren't designed for exposure to the elements, and those engineered for the outdoors are typically expensive. The alternative is to buy an indoor TV and install it in an enclosure designed to protect it from the elements, so they're fine under a canopy or in a shaded area. Most of the TVs in this article aren't designed for outdoor use, so make sure they're protected. It's important when choosing a TV like this to make sure that it has excellent reflection handling and can get bright enough to combat glare.
We've bought and tested more than 350 TVs, and below are our recommendations for the best outdoor TVs you can buy. You can also check our picks for the best smart TVs , the best 4k TVs , and the best budget TVs .
The Samsung The Terrace is the best outdoor TV we've tested. Unlike most TVs on this list, it's designed for outdoor use. It's very well-built, with a unique design and IP55 dust and water resistance to protect it from the elements. It's exceptionally bright to overcome direct sunlight, and, combined with its outstanding reflection handling, it can easily combat glare outdoors, even in the middle of the day.
This TV has the same Tizen OS smart interface found on most other Samsung TVs released in 2021. It's easy to use and has a huge selection of streaming apps available—you're sure to find your favorite content, and you won't need to connect any extra streaming boxes. You can also cast content from your phone or another mobile device, which is great for sharing pictures with family and friends. It's also one of the loudest TVs we've tested, so you won't have any trouble hearing it even if your neighbor decides to mow their lawn during the big game.
The Samsung QN85A QLED is the best TV for watching sports outdoors that we've tested. It has a wide viewing angle, so the image looks the same even when viewed from the sides, making it a great choice for watching the big game in a large seating area. It uses Mini LED backlighting that lets it get extremely bright, and combined with its fantastic reflection handling, visibility isn't a problem unless you're in direct sunlight.
It has okay sound quality and gets pretty loud, so you won't struggle to hear it in a moderately noisy environment. Unlike the Samsung The Terrace , the QN85A isn't weather-resistant, so you'll need to make sure you get an appropriate enclosure for it if you're installing it outdoors. Even if you're installing it on a covered porch, it's important to keep bugs out. It's a great TV overall, and as long as you take the proper precautions, it's a great choice for watching sports outdoors.
The best mid-range outdoor TV we've tested is the TCL 6 Series/R646 2021 QLED. It's a great TV for watching shows or sports outdoors. It has fantastic peak brightness and excellent reflection handling, meaning it can handle moderate amounts of glare outdoors, but it's still best suited for a shaded area or on a covered porch. It gets very loud, so you'll have no trouble hearing your shows or the big game, and it runs the user-friendly Google TV smart interface, which has a huge selection of streaming apps available.
Unfortunately, it isn't as versatile as the Samsung The Terrace or the Samsung QN85A QLED . It isn't weather-proof, so you'll need to get an appropriate enclosure. It has a narrow viewing angle, making it a less ideal choice for a wide seating arrangement, as those sitting to the sides will see a less-accurate image than those in front. Despite these limitations, it's a great choice if you're looking for an indoor TV to use outdoors on a smaller covered porch or terrace.
The best budget outdoor TV that we've tested is the Hisense U6G. It delivers impressive overall performance, competing with higher-end models, and it's great if you're going to use it outside during the day or at night. Like most TVs in this recommendation, it's designed for indoor use, and the build quality is decent, so it's important to pair this TV with an appropriate weather-proof enclosure for it.
It isn't as good as the TCL 6 Series/R646 2021 QLED for brighter environments, as it has worse reflection handling and isn't as bright, so glare is a bit more distracting. If you want to use it at night, it has an excellent native contrast ratio with remarkable black uniformity and a decent full-array local dimming feature that improves the picture quality in dark scenes.
The LG C1 OLED is the best TV for watching movies or shows outdoors at night. It isn't as bright as the other TVs on this list, like the Samsung The Terrace , so it isn't as well-suited for use during the day, as it can be hard to see the screen if there's a lot of natural light. Like most TVs on this list, it isn't weather-resistant, either, meaning you'll need to plan accordingly to make sure it's protected from the elements.
It's an amazing TV for twilight or night viewing, as the OLED panel delivers perfect blacks with no blooming around bright objects. It has an incredibly wide viewing angle, making it a great choice for a wide seating arrangement. The LG webOS interface is easy to use, so you won't have to get any external devices to stream your favorite content. The included Magic Remote also has a point-and-press feature that lets you navigate the menu even easier.

Jul 07, 2022:
Restructured the article to better match how people are searching for TVs. Added the TCL 6 Series/R646 2021 QLED as the 'Best Mid-Range Outdoor TV'. Removed many out-of-date Notable Mentions that are no longer relevant.

Apr 01, 2022:
Updated text for clarity and replaced the LG A1 OLED with the LG G1 OLED in Notable Mentions.

Feb 01, 2022:
Verified our picks for accuracy and refreshed the text.

Dec 08, 2021:
Verified picks for availability and updated text for accuracy; added the LG A1, Hisense U7G, and TCL 5 Series/S546 2021 QLED to Notable Mentions.

Oct 12, 2021:
Updated text for clarity; added the TCL R745, LG QNED90, Vizio P Series Quantum 2021, and Sony X95J to Notable Mentions.

Our recommendations above are what we think are currently the best TVs for outdoor use to buy for most people. We factor in the price (a cheaper TV wins over a pricier one if the difference isn't worth it), feedback from our visitors, and availability (no TVs that are difficult to find or almost out of stock everywhere).
If you would like to do the work of choosing yourself, here is the list of all our reviews of TVs. Be careful not to get too caught up in the details. While no TV is perfect, most TVs are great enough to please almost everyone, and the differences are often not noticeable unless you really look for them.

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We put the best new hunting scopes of 2021 through the wringer. Adam DeMarchi

These versatile riflescopes have smart reticles, tasty controls, and wide utility—from rimfires to dangerous-game rifles

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Updated Oct 18, 2021 4:10 PM

Five years ago, when we divided our riflescope test category into Precision and Versatile classes, the intention was to evaluate each species of optic on its own terms. Precision scopes, purpose-built for long-distance target work, are simply different critters than what we started calling Versatile scopes.
Precision riflescopes can be defined by anatomical commonalities: 34mm tubes, first-plane milling reticles, exposed turrets with extensive indexing and hyper-positive click adjustments, and high-magnification with large objective lenses. Precision scopes often weigh in the neighborhood of two pounds and are ponderously large in order to provide the optical resolution and internal real estate required to adjust the reticle to targets that can be as close as 50 yards or as distant as 1,500.
Versatile hunting riflescopes, on the other hand, are those that you’d more commonly see on an everyday deer rifle, as well as on a rimfire plinker. They typically feature simple reticles in the second focal plane, capped set-it-and-forget-it turrets, and configurations that make them highly portable, with modest magnification ranges and objective lenses small enough to enable them to be mounted low on a rifle’s receiver.
However, the world of riflescopes is merging, giving rise to a new breed of optic that can handle distant steel targets as capably as brush-country whitetails. This year, more than any other, we accepted submissions that could as easily be defined as Versatile scopes as Precision scopes. That made a mess out of our categories, but it represents an important and noteworthy evolution in riflescope technology.
The merging is being driven by shooters who have normalized the use of first-plane reticles and exposed turrets, and want to apply the same sight picture and utility to their hunting rifles that they use on their precision chassis rifles. So, our Versatile category includes many scopes with elaborate first-plane reticles, just as it contains a number of scopes containing standard duplex reticles with exposed tactical-style turrets that enable shooters to dial their aiming solution rather than holding over with a ballistic reticle. This is a good thing. In the case of the new hunting riflescopes, it means the best of the class offers vastly more versatility than in the past.
Plain and simple, this riflescope offers a crazy amount of versatility to a hunter and shooter. This is basically the same scope that won our Editor’s Choice and Great Buy awards back in 2018, when the BDX platform was introduced to the world. It’s the best representation of an electro-optic, one that has the bones of a standard riflescope enhanced with a brain that accepts input from a compatible laser rangefinder and a mobile-phone app.
If you’re not familiar with SIG’s BDX system, a very brief tutorial will help familiarize you with its basics, and then speak to how this next generation of the platform continues to push its capabilities. The vertical stadia of the duplex reticle has a series of illuminated dots that light up to show the specific holdover informed from the BDX-compatible rangefinder. In a nutshell, it enables you to range a target with a SIG rangefinder, then hold for the specific distance in the scope, eliminating range guesstimation. The app enables you to load your rifle’s specific load ballistics, further customize the aiming point to the caliber and bullet you are shooting. I suppose missing could still happen with the BDX system, but SIG has removed almost all the variables that cause misses, namely guessing at distance or bullet trajectory.
The SIERRA6 is a further refinement of the platform, and combined with updates to the app that also allow you to input specific wind signatures and a wide range of both custom and pre-loaded ballistic curves, there really is no excuse for missing. The addition of Applied Ballistics library of trajectories further elevated the capabilities of the BDX platform.
But we tested a scope, not a system, and the SIERRA6 has plenty of award-winning capabilities as a stand-alone optic. Our sample—it’s also available in 5-20×56 and 2-12×40 configurations—turned in above-average scores, despite coatings that enhance the display while washing out a bit of the image. The Sig scored third best in our low-light test, the 44mm objective keeping pace with 50mm scopes.
The capped turrets, tuned to .25 MOA click values, turn with authority and tracked precisely and feature 60MOA of total internal adjustment. The illumination module has 8 daylight settings and two night-vision settings. The reticle—without the smart holdover points you cou
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