Early Black Friday TV deals at Best Buy and Walmart absolutely school Amazon's

A quick look at the best early Black Friday TV deals

Best 55-inch deal

Hisense 55-inch QD5 QLED TV

$239.99 at Best Buy
(save $160)

Best 65-inch TV deal

LG 65-inch B3 Series OLED 4K TV

$998 at Walmart
(save $301)

Best 75-inch TV deal

LG 75-inch 85 Series QNED TV

$999.99 at Best Buy
(save $500)

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 quite 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.

However, 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 our 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, typically in the 50- to 75-inch range. If you see a super budget-friendly deal in the size you want at Best Buy or Amazon, check Walmart quickly — chances of finding a model of that size for $20 to $30 cheaper are pretty high.

The TV wheelhouses of these retailers don’t completely bar any overlap between TV deals, though. There will be a handful of popular models (like LG’s B3 OLED or Samsung’s The Frame) seeing price matches across each, but we’ll keep you posted if one retailer is able to undercut the others on one of these icons.

If you’d rather have your new TV to watch on Black Friday rather than shopping for it on Black Friday, there are a ton of sweet early deals already live. We’ve been tracking early Black Friday TV deals since the beginning of November and have watched retailers amp discounts even further within the last week — a ton of models are already back to their October Prime Day price.

This list will be refreshed regularly as we inch closer toward Black Friday itself on Nov. 29, so remember to check back.

Our top pick

Credit: Hisense

Hisense 55-inch QD5 QLED 4K Google TV

$239.99

$399.99
Save $160.00

Why we like it

Remember when we said QLEDs are becoming way more accessible for the average household? At $239.99, this 55-inch QLED is hovering around the same price point that many regular, dull LED TVs were a few years ago. Now, we 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 $10 in the week leading up to Black Friday — it was $249.99 at the initial time of writing.)

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.