Is There Any TV That Dynamically Changes Brightness/Contrast Based on Environment?

Hi All,

I’m in the market for a new TV as my Samsung AU8000 50” 4K screen has started showing a bunch of horizontal lines of varying thicknesses across the bottom ~eighth of the screen. Firstly is it worth contacting Samsung even though it’s out of warranty (2.5 years old)?

Anyway this TV was pretty good but I would always be changing brightness, contrast, contrast enhancer (off/low/high) based on whether I was watching during the day with windows open letting in light, or at night with lights on, or at night with no lights on. The TV has an automatic brightness setting but it never worked. So every day I find myself fiddling with display settings based on the environment.

So is there any TV that you can just plug and play and it dynamically adjusts to every condition with a good sensor? Or even with good custom profiles that are easy to switch and select? It blows my mind that our phone screens can do this job perfectly (99% of the time) yet our TVs are dumb and manual. Even if a TV didn’t have a sensor I would love the ability to set auto profiles like “7am to 6pm - profile 1” and “6pm to 7am - profile 2”.

Secondly my other needs for a new TV are to do with PS5 - I need HDMI2.1 for that 4K @ 120Hz capability, and VRR and other PS5 display features would be nice too. Size between 50-55”. Price doesn’t matter but ideally don’t want to go upwards of $2.5k.

Any suggestion is welcome :)