Miss Prime Day? The LG C5 OLED TV is 52% off at Best Buy’s 4th of July sale
If you're shopping for a new TV this week, I've got bad news and good news. The bad news is that Amazon Prime Day is officially over. The good news is that Best Buy is coming in hot with its 4th of July sales event, and plenty of TVs are still heavily discounted.
During the sale, you can get the 65-inch LG C5 for just $1,299, which is a full $1,400 off the original price of this five-star, top-notch OLED TV. This discount isn't quite as deep as what we saw last week during Prime Day, but it's nevertheless my pick for the best deal at Best Buy's sales event.
You can check out our full LG C5 review for the full scoop on this award-winning OLED TV, but here's the basic gist: Year after year, LG's mid-range, C Series OLED is one of the most popular TVs among our readership, and it's not tough to see why.
The C5 combines jaw-dropping performance for a much more reasonable price than what you'll find among top-shef, flagship-level OLEDs. In other words, there are a handful of better-performing OLED TVs at Best Buy's 4th of July sale, but none of them pack as much value into the equation.
If you're not hip to this incredible display technology, allow me to catch you up to speed. OLED TVs like the C5 deliver such impressive contrast because, unlike traditional LCD/LED TVs, they don't rely on a backlight. Instead, every single pixel is self-illuminating.
This means that the LG C5 is capable of rendering perfect black levels with no distracting light bloom around bright objects. And, since every pixel is its own source of light, the C5 is able to drive a ton of brightness to very small, concentrated points of light. The result of this surgically precise contrast control is a sense of depth that LED-based TVs can't quite replicate.
The C5 arrives with nearly every streaming- and gaming-related feature you'll find on flagship-level TVs.
Another reason the C5 earned our coveted five-star rating is its robust set of features. As it happens, the C5 arrives with nearly every streaming- and gaming-related feature you'll find on flagship-level TVs on sale at Best Buy.
It supports for 4K/120Hz on current-gen consoles like the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 (which is the top 4K spec for these systems), and up to 144Hz with VRR enabled if you link up a gaming PC. It also comes with the newest version of webOS, LG's own streaming software. It's not my top pick for streaming movies and shows, but if you want to avoid buying a separate streaming device, it'll get the job done.
It's unclear whether or not the 65-inch LG C5 will ever return to its Prime Day price of $1,099, but its current price of $1,299 is still a slam-dunk deal. It's my favorite discount at Best Buy's 4th of July sale and it's not even that close.
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