SOUND & VISION

With our pick of the best televisions, projectors, speakers, turntables and more, we serve up a truly tempting feast for your eyes and ears

- Simon Lucas Photography: Neil Godwin

1 TCL 65P7K

Quite a few companies are happy to sell you a big, very affordable television - but TCL's USP is to sell you a big, very affordable television that is really, really enjoyable to watch.

The 65P7K is, frankly, supernatural value for money - it combines high contrast, excellent attention to detail, convincing colours and a very assured way with motion that eludes pretty much all of its price-comparable rivals and a fair few pricier ones, too.

₹50,990, tcl.​com

2 PHILIPS 650LED760

Even before you take its unique Ambilight feature into account, the Philips 65OLED760 is a startlingly capable, well-specified television for the money. It's bright, lavishly detailed, loads its OLED-tastic black tones with stacks of detail, and is no slouch when it comes to acting as a gaming monitor, too. And then Ambilight makes the screen seem larger, and the viewing experience simultaneously more immersive and more restful. It's quite remarkable.

₹1,50,000, philips.​com

3 SONY K65XR55 (BRAVIA 5)

It comes to something, doesn't it, that a model from pretty much the dead centre of Sony's 2025 range of TVs is so capable, so extensively specified and so enjoyable to watch? The Bravia 5 has so much going for it where picture quality is concerned - it's stable, insightful, dynamic and beautifully defined - that it seems hard to see where Sony could make worthwhile improvements...

₹1,57,1190, sony.​com