As someone who reviews TVs for a living, I don’t often see a downside to recommending older models. Take, for example, the 2025 LG C5 OLED. It’s one of the best TVs we’ve ever tested, sure, but the 2024 LG C4 OLED is still an incredible TV that, to most folks, would look great.
However, sometimes there’s such a leap in performance between one year and the next, that it becomes hard to recommend buying a previous year’s model.
