Shoppers may find it difficult to choose the best TV deals in this year's holiday shopping season as they face a plethora of offerings on Black Friday.
Thousands of Black Friday sale options require one's expertise in analyzing and deciding on the specs of the TV as well as the perks and savings one will enjoy from the deal.
Expert bargain hunters advise doing a little research and knowing one's priorities, whether it is the size, brand, build, retailer or price of the offering.
With Black Friday deals, of course, the price may not be a problem since consumer electronics on sale that day are more likely to be cheaper in order to provide great value for money and also undercut the prices of competitor brands and retailers.
This year, five of the best TV deals have so far been identified. They are the 50-inch Panasonic 1080p 60Hz LED HDTV from Best Buy (now at $199 slashed down from $549); the 50-inch 1080p 60Hz LED HDTV from Walmart ($218); 65-inch Vizio 1080p 120Hz LED HDTV from Walmart (now at $648 slashed down from $1,098); 40-inch Element 1080p 120Hz LED HDTV from Target (now at $119 slashed down from $349); and 50-inch Toshiba LED TV from Amazon ($199).
Here is the list of other deals, arranged from the biggest in size at the top going down to the smallest.
65 inches Samsung Smart TV $2499.99 RadioShack
65 inches Vizio 1080p 120Hz LED HDTV $648 Walmart
60 inches Samsung Smart TV $1199.99 RadioShack
60 inches Sharp LC-60LE644U $699 Best Buy
55 inches Samsung Curved Smart TV $1999.99 RadioShack
55 inches Samsung 4K Smart LED TV $1197.99 Amazon
55 inches Samsung UHD TV $899.99 Best buy
55 inches Samsung UN55H6023 $598 Walmart
55 inches Vizio Smart TV $478 Amazon
50 inches Vizio Smart LED 4K Ultra HDTV $698 Walmart
50 inches Toshiba Smart HDTV $629.99 RadioShack
50 inches Vizio M502i-B1 $499 Best Buy
50 inches Samsung UN50H5203 $498 Best Buy, Walmart
50 inches Samsung 1080p LED HDTV $477.99 Target *plus $30 gift card
50 inches 1080p 60Hz LED HDTV $218 Walmart
50 inches Toshiba LED TV $199 Amazon
50 inches Panasonic TC-50A400U $199 Best Buy
48 inches Samsung Smart LED TV $699.99 RadioShack
40 inches Element 1080p 120Hz LED HDTV $119 Target
40 inches No name 1080pTV $119 Amazon
39 inches Vizio D390-B0 $219 Target
32 inches Samsung Smart TV $499.99 RadioShack
32 inches Samsung Smart LED TV $247.99 Amazon
32 inches No-name LED TV $99 Walmart
32 inches No-name LED TV $79 Amazon
29 inches Element 1080p 60Hz LED HDTV $79 Target
This is where "shopping by priority" comes in. If money is not an issue, then one can just have the 65-inch Samsung Smart TV from RadioShack, which is priced at $2,499.99. If one is a collector of gift cards, Target is offering a $30 gift card that comes with the 50-inch Samsung 1080p LED HDTV, which is priced at $477.99.
So far, RadioShack has the most number of offerings in every TV size; it has deals on TVs spanning from 29 inches to 65 inches.
For the brand-conscious, Samsung and Toshiba are the top labels. Other sets may not, of course, be as popular. The best thing about the offerings is that one can already find a very good deal starting from the $100 to $500 price points while being able to compare a 29-inch set to a 55-inch competitor all within the price range.
