As Prime Day deals dominate the news, Best Buy is fighting back with a huge sale of its own, launching Black Friday prices in the middle of October, kicking off the holiday season earlier than ever before.
As part of this giant sale Best Buy is offering huge discounts on many TVs, from little HD smart TVs selling for under $100 to massive premium 8K sets with prices slashed by as much as $3,000.
If you're in the market for a TV, Best Buy's early Black Friday sales offer some of the biggest discounts we have ever seen, and it's applying them to some of the best TVs that have ever been sold.
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Best Buy Black Friday TV deals
When it comes to sales prices on TVs, sales tend to fall into four loose categories. First, there are the ultra-cheap TVs, designed to sell like crazy thanks to prices so low you feel like you're getting away with something. (Fair warning: you're not, because these ultra-affordable sets tend to have lower resolution, smaller screen sizes, and generally atrocious quality.)
Next we have 4K smart TVs. While you do occasionally see sales pricing on the models featured in our best TVs page, most of these will be mid-tier 4K sets, which offer good enough quality and entice with some really great prices. Here's where you start to get really great value for your dollar. Even a mediocre 4K smart TV offers an enormous improvement for anyone upgrading from an older full HD set, and with sales bringing prices down to a budget-friendly range, you can score a pretty decent deal.
OLED TVs are another matter, as the premium display technology regularly commands prices of $2,000 or more. Where most 4K LCD sets offer a good chance of getting a decent TV even at sales prices, any discounts on OLED TVs are worth considering, because the superior display technology is so consistently great. And with Best Buy slashing prices by hundreds of dollars, there really is no better time to score a premium TV at a more reasonable price.
Finally, the most premium sets in the market today are on the cutting edge, with 8K resolution – providing a level of detail that's barely even supported. With limited sources of 8K content, we still recommend people opt for 4K TVs as a general rule. But with 8K-capable game consoles launching in the coming weeks, there's a case to be made for jumping on the 8K bandwagon while sales prices make it a little less spendy than usual. It's in these most premium TVs that you will also see the largest savings, as prices get cut by thousands of dollars. If you want to save big on a TV that's worth bragging about, today's 8K TV sales are the way to go.
