I compared Amazon's new Ember QLED and LED TVs side-by-side — and there's a clear winner

The budget TV market is becoming an increasingly competitive space, with more companies entering every year. Whereas QLED was the go-to tech for the budget TV hunter several years ago, companies such as TCL and Hisense have made mini-LED much more affordable in recent times. In fact, both TCL and Hisense’s ultra-competitive mini-LEDs featured among our picks for the best TVs in 2025.

Back in 2023, when mini-LED hadn’t quite nailed the quality-for-the-money balance it has now, the Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED (2023) was one of the better budget TVs I’d seen, and was a good option despite mini-LED competition. Since then, Amazon has released a new generation of Fire TVs, now known as Ember TVs, including the Omni QLED’s successor, the Amazon Ember Omni QLED (2025), and the Amazon Ember 4-series (2025).

When we tested the Amazon Omni QLED (2025), we ...