best outdoor tv

An outdoor kitchen TV lives in the most hostile residential outdoor environment short of a pool wall. You've got direct heat from a grill, grease aerosol in the air, steam from cooking, ambient outdoor humidity, and a TV that someone inevitably splashes with a spray bottle while cleaning down...

"Patio TV" sounds simple. In practice, the patio is one of the most variable outdoor environments you can install a TV in — ranging from a shaded enclosed back porch to a fully exposed deck with south-facing sun from noon to sunset. Getting the right TV for your patio means matching specs to...

A gazebo or pergola changes the outdoor TV equation more than most people expect. You've got overhead cover, so direct sun is mostly handled. But you've still got open sides, ambient light from every horizontal angle, seasonal humidity, rain blowing in, and temperature swings across winter and...

Buying the right outdoor TV is half the job. Mounting it correctly is the other half — and it's where most installations go wrong. A $1,500 TV on a poorly chosen mount, hung on the wrong wall surface, with exposed cable runs, will underperform and fail faster than the same TV installed properly...

An outdoor TV and an outdoor projector serve the same purpose but almost everything about them is different. Setup complexity, daylight performance, image size, longevity, cost — the comparison goes deeper than most buyers expect. Here's a straight head-to-head so you can make the call for your...

A covered patio changes the outdoor TV equation in one important way: you're dealing with far less direct sun. That affects how much brightness you need — but it doesn't change the weatherproofing requirements at all. Rain still blows in sideways. Humidity is constant. Temperature still swings...

Picking an outdoor TV is different from picking any other TV. You're not just choosing a screen — you're choosing something that needs to survive humidity, morning dew, direct sun, late-night chill, and still look good while doing it. I've gone through most of the major options at the 55-inch...