Samsung 50AU9000

£499 / samsung.com

The AU9000 is one of Stuff’s current best-buy TVS, offering impressive 4K performance for a relatively low price. You can bark your channel-changing orders at it using Samsung’s own Bixby voice assistant, Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant, as well as via Samsung Smartthings devices or the Smartthings app.

But like many recent tellies from the Korean brand, you can also use it as a smart home controller. If you press Home on the remote and then select

Smartthings, you’ll see any connected devices that you’ve added to your Samsung account. If they’re within range you can add, view, monitor and control them directly from your television – say, turning off your

Hue lights.

This is particularly useful when you create Scenes in the app. For example, you might create a Night mode that you can invoke from your TV to dim the lights, turn on your soundbar and close the blinds for movie night.