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The best Black Friday TV deals at Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart, and Samsung

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UPDATE: Nov. 24, 2023, 2:45 p.m. EST This post has been updated with the best live Black Friday TV deals from Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and Samsung, all of which are in the midst of their official Black Friday sales.

A quick look at the best Black Friday TV deals:
Best Amazon TV deal
Toshiba 50-inch C350 Series 4K Fire TV
$219.99 (save $100)
Toshiba TV with blue and black bubble screensaver
Best Walmart TV deal
LG 70-inch UQ70 4K TV
$498 (save $150)
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Best Best Buy TV deal
LG 77-inch B3 Series OLED TV
$1,799.99 (save $1,100)
LG TV with yellow, pink, and purple ribbon screensaver
Best Samsung TV deal
Samsung 85-inch Q80C QLED TV
$1,999.99 (save $1,300)
Samsung TV with blue abstract liquid screensaver

TV deals have been a pillar of Black Friday since before robot vacuums or AirPods were even born.

While stampeding the automatic doors of Best Buy at 4 a.m. is an ancient practice, Black Friday is still one of the absolute best times of year to buy a TV on sale. Most main TV destinations declared that it was Black Friday (to them, at least) with Samsung and Best Buy going as far as to straight-up tag certain deals as Black Friday deals and Walmart kicking off official Black Friday plans on Nov. 8. Then, Nov. 17 marked another huge drop from Best Buy and Amazon — and with that, Black Friday was in effect a full week early.

SEE ALSO: Hulu's epic $0.99/month Black Friday deal is back

Below, we're tracking all of the best Black Friday TV deals by retailer, which are then organized by size and price for easy comparison. The list will be updated as more deals drop, but since so many of these TVs are already at their best prices of the season, it wouldn't be ridiculous to make your move now and save yourself some peace on Thursday and Friday this week.

Note: All newly added deals are marked with a ✨, while deals with a 🔥 have dropped to an all-time low price. Deals with a strikeout were either sold out or expired at the time of writing.

Black Friday Amazon TV deals

Toshiba TV with blue and black bubble screensaver
Credit: Toshiba
Our pick: Toshiba 50-inch F30 Series 4K Fire TV
$219.99 at Amazon (save $100)

Why we like it

Amazon's own 4-Series and Omni Fire TVs are actually on the pricier end of the Fire TV spectrum. Your best bet for scoring a cheap Fire TV during Black Friday is an Insignia or Toshiba model, like Toshiba's C350 Series that supports Dolby Vision. At just over $200, the 50-inch model is $30 cheaper than the smaller 43-inch version of Amazon's in-house Fire TV.

More Black Friday TV deals at Amazon

43 to 55 inches

65 inches

75 to 85 inches

Black Friday Walmart TV deals

LG TV with streaming apps on screen
Credit: LG
Our pick: LG 70-inch UQ70 4K TV
$498 at Walmart (save $150)

Why we like it

Amid several attention-grabbing deals on XL versions of LG's 2023 premium OLEDs at various stores — most of which are still pretty expensive even with a few hundred dollars shaved off — lies a great deal on an XL budget TV from Walmart. For the price, the UQ70 offers decent brightness and AI-powered 4K upscaling, plus HDR10 Pro and HDR gaming specifications like ALLM, eARC, and HGiG. And at any rate, it's hard to argue with a 70-inch TV from a brand like LG for less than $500.

More Black Friday TV deals at Walmart

43 to 50 inches

65 inches

70 to 86 inches

Black Friday Best Buy TV deals

LG TV with yellow, pink, and purple ribbon screensaver
Credit: LG
Our pick: LG 77-inch B3 Series OLED TV
$1,799.99 at Best Buy (save $1,100)

Why we like it

LG's OLED models got a glow-up in 2023, and the B3 model is the most affordable one even at full price. With Best Buy's Black Friday discount of more than $1,000 off of the 77-inch model, this massive screen is basically begging to be in your living room.

The B3's lower price point can mostly be attributed to its less-advanced a7 processor compared to the C3 and G3's Alpha a9. However, the B3 runs laps around the cheapest-of-the-cheap 4K TVs with Dolby Vision and next-gen gaming features like a 120 Hz refresh rate, both of which help to push those 8.3 million self-lit pixels to their fullest potential.

More Black Friday TV deals at Best Buy

43 to 50 inches

55 to 58 inches

65 inches

75 to 77 inches

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83 to 98 inches

Black Friday Samsung TV deals

Samsung TV with blue abstract liquid screensaver
Credit: Samsung
Our pick: Samsung 85-inch Q80C QLED TV
$1,999.99 at Samsung (save $1,300)

Why we like it

Of the bunch of 85-inch Samsung TVs on sale this week, we think the deal on the Q80C is the best bang for your buck. An 85-inch Samsung QLED for less than $2,000 should speak for itself, but let's quickly get into why this is such a steal. The Q80C is Samsung's most advanced QLED (before meeting the Neo QLED side of the family), packing 96 precisely-lit local dimming zones for the meticulous brightness necessary for watching sports in the daylight. Also present are advanced gaming features like a 120Hz refresh rate and VRR support.

More Black Friday TV deals at Samsung

43 to 50 inches

55 inches

65 inches

75 to 77 inches

83 to 85 inches

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Frequently Asked Questions

November and December are two of the best months for finding TV deals. Most big TV retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, and Samsung kick their Black Friday sales off weeks ahead of the actual day of Black Friday, meaning that many TVs are already at their Black Friday prices for the entire month of November. A majority of those deals then morph into holiday deals and stick around for most of December. Mid to late January and early February also see some of the best TV deals of the year as the NFL wraps up its season and TV retailers aim to get football fans set to watch the big game.

For Fire TVs specifically, Amazon's two Prime Day days of the year – typically in July and October — are also great times to find Fire TVs at record-low pricing. (Otherwise, Amazon isn't as competitive in the TV deals realm.)

Most TVs in both of these price ranges are 4K TVs, so aside from size, the big difference in price probably stems from the backlight:

  • LED is the standard in most budget TVs nowadays. Despite their general affordability across the board, one LED TV can beat another out by incorporating full-array local dimming: a collection of lighting zones that adjust independently across the entire screen. Without those crucial in-between zones, the middle of the screen of many cheaper LED TVs can get a little hazy, falling victim to edge-lit dimming that just can't extend light across with the same oomph.

  • QLED is like LED but better. The "Q" refers to the an extra layer of quantum dots sandwiched between the standard LED panel and the screen to make a wider range of colors pop off the screen with enhanced brightness. The more vibrant picture is ideal for viewing or gaming in bright rooms and for honing in on content with small details, like sports.

  • Mini LEDs are about half the size of regular LEDs, allow manufacturers to pack more LEDs into the same size panel, allowing for more local dimming zones and more precise tweaking of brightness in each area.

  • OLED is generally the most expensive method of lighting a TV screen, and it's a whole different thing than LED, QLED, and mini LED despite a negligible one-letter difference in the title itself. Unlike LED and QLED, OLED doesn't require an external backlight. That's because the pixels (the organic light-emitting diodes that represent the "O" in OLED) emit their own light instead. This is key during dark scenes, when the TV screen needs to get as dark as possible to contrast shadows and make the subjects on the screen legible. While backlit QLED pixels' forced dimming can cause a kind of halo effect around bright objects, OLED pixels can turn off completely. OLED is the best option for streaming or gaming in dark rooms.

Leah Stodart
Leah Stodart
Senior Shopping Reporter

Leah Stodart is a Philadelphia-based Senior Shopping Reporter at Mashable where she covers essential home tech like vacuums and TVs as well as sustainable swaps and travel. Her ever-growing experience in these categories comes in clutch when making recommendations on how to spend your money during shopping holidays like Black Friday, which Leah has been covering for Mashable since 2017.

Leah graduated from Penn State University in 2016 with dual degrees in Sociology and Media Studies. When she's not writing about shopping (or shopping online for herself), she's almost definitely watching a horror movie, "RuPaul's Drag Race," or "The Office." You can follow her on X at @notleah or email her at [email protected].

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