UPDATE: Nov. 29, 2024, 1:15 p.m. EST This post has been updated with the latest pricing on the best TV deals live during the first half of Black Friday itself, including new deals on Samsung The Frame dupes like the TCL NXTFRAME.
The best early Black Friday TV deals
As one of the OG items being stampeded after in those old Black Friday clips you’re picturing right now, we’ve known for most of our adult lives that Black Friday is one of the best times of year to buy a TV.
The types of TVs spotlighted in the pre-holiday sale have shifted, however. The biggest factor when upgrading your TV this year will probably be the normalization — and subsequently, affordability — of QLED. Over the past few years, QLED TVs have officially gone from “the TV that only the fanciest people you know have” to actually accessible for the average household. Finding a 55-inch QLED under $300 or a 65-inch QLED under $500 during an event like Black Friday isn’t hard at all. There are even dupes of iconic TVs like Samsung’s The Frame now — TCL and Hisense both have budget-friendly art TV options for several hundred dollars less than The Frame in most sizes.
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At any rate, the “best” TV deal for one household won’t be the “best” TV deal for another. Rather than jumping between a mess of tabs of every store’s TV doorbusters, knowing which type of TVs each big retailer tends to focus on is a way smarter strategy going in.
Are TV deals better at Amazon, Best Buy, or Walmart?
In my experience, Best Buy focuses on large screens and has a bigger selection of the premium QLED and OLED models from Samsung, Sony, and LG on sale. Amazon gears its TV discounts more toward 43-inch to 65-inch Fire TVs, especially its in-house models. Walmart is known for a more concise list of doorbusters that are often simply the cheapest 4K TV possible in a certain size, specifically options in the 50- to 75-inch range that are more likely to sell out than TVs at other retailers. However, there’s been a bit of a plot twist with cheap 43-inch to 65-inch QLEDs this year — Best Buy is kind of stealing Walmart’s spotlight on that one.
The TV wheelhouses of these retailers don’t completely bar any overlap between TV deals, though. A handful of popular models with big name recognition (again, The Frame) are seeing price matches across multiple retailers, but we’ll keep you posted if one retailer is able to undercut the others on one of these heavy hitters.
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I’ve been tracking early Black Friday TV deals since the beginning of November and have watched retailers amp discounts even further in the days right before actual Black Friday — a ton of models are back to their October Prime Day price or beating it completely. The list below will be refreshed regularly as Black Friday rolls into talk of early Cyber Monday deals over the weekend, and it is possible that some surprise new deals will drop.
All newly added or updated deals have been marked with a ✨, while struck-through deals were either sold out or expired at the time of writing.
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One more thing: If you’re getting rid of an old TV to make room for this Black Friday purchase, take it somewhere that recycles old electronics (like Best Buy) rather than trashing it.
Best Black Friday TV deal
Why we like it
Remember when I said QLEDs are becoming way more accessible for the average household? At $219.99, this 55-inch QLED is hovering around the same price point that many regular, dull LED TVs were a few years ago. Now, I can see this 55-inch Hisense QLED being baby’s first adult TV purchase for a ton of people. (Note: Best Buy has dropped this price by an extra $30 since this TV first went on sale a few weeks before Black Friday.)
The difference between those two cheap TVs is that the “Q” in QLED stands for quantum dots, which form a layer of extra light over the traditional LED panel to pump more saturated colors through the screen. QLED TVs are also significantly brighter than regular LED TVs, making them ideal for watching sports, especially in the daytime.
Black Friday TV deals at Best Buy
43-inch to 50-inch TVs
55-inch TVs
65-inch TVs
75-inch TVs and up
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Hisense 75-inch QD6 4K TV — $449.99
$699.99(save $250) -
LG 75-inch 85 Series QNED 4K TV — $999.99
$1,499.99(save $500) -
TCL 75-inch NXTFRAME QLED 4K TV — $1,499.99
$2,499.99(save $1,000)✨ -
Samsung 77-inch S84D OLED 4K TV — $1,599.99
$3,299.99(save $1,700) -
Sony 75-inch Bravia 7 QLED 4K TV — $1,799.99
$2,399.99(save $600) -
Samsung 75-inch The Frame QLED 4K TV — $1,799.99
$2,999.99(save $1,200) -
LG 77-inch C4 OLED 4K TV — $2,199.99
$2,799.99(save $600) -
TCL 85-inch S5 Series 4K TV — $699.99
$999.99(save $300) -
Hisense 85-inch QD6 QLED 4K TV — $649.99
$1,099.99(save $450)✨ -
Sony 85-inch Bravia 7 QLED 4K TV — $2,499.99
$3,299.99(save $800) -
Samsung 85-inch The Frame QLED 4K TV — $2,999.99
$4,299.99(save $1,300) -
TCL 98-inch Q6 QLED 4K TV — $1,599.99
$2,999.99(save $1,400)
Black Friday TV deals at Walmart
43-inch TVs
50- to 55-inch TVs
65-inch TVs
70-inch TVs and up
Black Friday TV deals at Amazon
43-inch TVs
50- to 55-inch TVs
65-inch TVs
75-inch TVs and up
85-inch TVs and up
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