Samsung introduced web-connected, widget-laden smart TVs to a grateful world and they continue to lead the way. The 8000 Series packs more high-end tech than is strictly decent into an enviably skinny frame. There’s LED backlighting, active 3D, wireless content sharing with your Samsung mobile devices, and internet@TV, which gives you instant access to BBC iPlayer, Lovefilm, YouTube and all the other top-drawer online video flingers. All that would be for nought if image quality wasn’t jaw-dropping, but as serendipity would have it, it is. Score.

Price: £2499.95 | Samsung

It features a large array of connected TV services, thanks to Samsung’s Smart TV hub. With apps including Skype, LOVEFiLM, Facebook, Twitter and Pandora this Wi-Fi enabled TV is a standard bearer in that department.

With all of that functionality and a Freesat HD tuner packed into a seriously attractive 5mm silver bezel, the UE55D8000 is one of the most complete TV sets that money can buy.