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It's a basic set from a brand that hasn't done very well in our TV ratings. The Toshiba deal at Amazon, right above, seems like a better deal.
It's a very basic, entry-level TCL set. It was the same price at P.
Richard's Black Friday sale. It's a full-HD model with access to several streaming services. The p resolution is fine in a screen this size, and the Amazon Fire TV smart TV system provides easy access to a nice amount of content.
We see it only at Best Buy, so it's hard to compare prices. We didn't test this model, but Polaroid TVs typically haven't done very well in our ratings. Polaroid TVs haven't done especially well in our ratings. We didn't test this set, but we did review the inch Polaroid 55T7U , and it didn't do that well in our ratings. It appears to be a model that's been discontinued. It's not a Cyber Monday-only deal—like many of Costco's sales, it has been available all weekend as part of the extended Black Friday sale.
It's an entry-level 4K set that was also in some Black Friday ads for about the same amount of money. It's a tested model that did fairly well in our ratings. Plus it's a set from a major brand that did pretty well in our ratings. It could be the Polaroid 55T7U , the larger sibling of the inch set mentioned above that's selling at Walmart.
Though it does have a low price, we tested this set and it was among the lowest-rated sets this size. It's a basic 4K set that we haven't tested. We didn't test this set. The price isn't especially great, though, because it was already selling for this amount elsewhere before Cyber Monday. It did pretty well in our ratings last year, though it didn't have top-notch HDR capability. It's one of CR's top-rated TVs for We tested this set, and it did well in our ratings for both picture quality and sound.
So it's a good deal if you'll also be buying an Xbox this holiday season.
We don't see it elsewhere. Right now we see it only at Sam's Club.
It's at a low price for a set this size, but we haven't tested this model. We don't see it elsewhere and haven't tested it, but it appears to be an entry-level 4K set. The gift card makes it a particularly good deal if you can use it. There's a lot to choose from in this category, but we think a inch set works for more people than a jumbo-sized TV. Consumer Reports makes it easy to buy the right product from a variety of retailers.
Our service is unbiased: All prices are subject to change. I've been a tech journalist for more years than I'm willing to admit. We're gonna start with the best of the best.
These are the best prices on TVs we've actually reviewed, or TVs we know enough about to solidly recommend for the price. You simply can't get a picture this good for any less, and the awesome Roku TV operating system is sweet icing on the cake. What makes it better than other TVs? Full-array local dimming , or FALD.
S until midnight CT online and until stores close, while supplies last. Although it didn't get a big Cyber Monday discount, the smaller version of the 6 series is still a great value. Take everything we said about the incher and shrink it down to the inch size -- this is still the best TV for the money, period. This is probably the best price on the best TV all year. Only available in a inch size, the Quantum delivers image quality that's better than the TCL above.
And since OLED sets aren't seeing steep discounts this year, this is the best deal for videophiles on a budget -- if it's in-stock. As of Monday Nov. Online and in-store for Sam's Club, in-store only for Costco through Nov. We called the E-Series the cheapest home-theater-worthy TV, in large part because it's the least-expensive with full-array local dimming -- a feature that goes further than any other for improving LCD picture quality.
Deals and sizes are available now at numerous retailers, but BestBuy. It's also worth mentioning that the cheaper D-Series is on sale at numerous outlets, but image quality won't be as good on that set since it lacks local dimming. The best alternative is the TCL S series.
We don't review any of the former category and very few of the latter so we can't recommend them directly.
That said we don't expect any of the to outperform the Vizio E series or the TCL 6 series above , and in many cases they'll cost more. In other words, in the latter case you're often paying extra just for a brand name. Meanwhile the better, higher-end name-brand sets we do review are also on sale, but they're not nearly as cheap as these entry-level models. This buying advice and the links within are from earlier Black Friday deals which may no longer be available. Below you'll find the cheapest TVs we found for Black Friday, regardless of whether we recommend them or not.
While a few are available online, many are classic doorbusters -- in-store only during the store's Black Friday sale, available only in limited quantities. We picked the TVs on the list below from a much larger collection of pretty much every Black Friday TV TV sale price aside from Amazon, which isn't available yet , painstakingly created by the folks at BestBlackFriday.
If you want to see all of the TVs, here's the whole magilla in a Google Spreadsheet.