Black Friday Samsung TV deals live: cheap QLED and OLED TVs, and buying tips

Art of the deal: Save 33% on Samsung’s 55-inch The Frame 4K QLED TV

Amazon is now selling the 55-inch version of Samsung’s The frame for just $997.99. That’s a whopping 33% discount on this artfully designed TV and a record-low price.

Samsung has significantly revised its The Frame line for 2022, expanding the range of format options and adding a highly effective anti-glare screen. On the new screen, you can admire digital artwork – a selection of preloaded still images or one of 1,400 digital artworks available for download from Samsung’s Art Store.

Furthermore, The Frame 2022 TVs are QLED models with a quantum dot layer for enhanced colors and support for the high dynamic range HDR10 and HDR10+ formats (no Dolby Vision, sadly). They’re also PlayStation 5 friendly, with HDMI 2.1 inputs supporting 4K 120Hz video input.

Amazon currently has deals on all formats of The Frame, which impressed us when we got a practical assessment back early 2022. But this one for the 55-incher and $1,000 off the 75-inch model (now $1,997.99) are the best Black Friday The Frame deals we’ve seen.

HDMI cheat sheet: how many ports do you need and which cables are best?

It’s not talked about much, but if you’re looking for a TV bargain, one of the things to check is the HDMI ports it comes with. HDMI has greatly simplified TV connections in the HD/4K era… except, as with all well-intentioned things, it got more complicated over time. So without getting into the technical gritty stuff, here’s what to look out for.

This Black Friday deal brings Samsung’s stunning projector down to $599 – a record-low price

Samsung made a big impact on the projector scene when it introduced The Freestyle in early 2022. You can now buy this ultra-cool projector for only $599.99 at Samsunga 25% saving on one of the most innovative wearable models we’ve seen to date.

Black Friday TV deals can be a main draw when it comes to Black Friday deals, but we’re also starting to see some good ones on projectors. Of these, this Samsung deal is the best we’ve seen yet, and one that brings The Freestyle to its lowest price ever.

The Samsung tops our list with the best portable projectors, which puts even much more expensive models out of the way. As we noted in our The Freestyle Review, this portable is packed with features, with Samsung’s Tizen Smart TV interface built in plus auto-calibration so the picture looks good wherever you place it. The Freestyle can project Full HD images up to 100 inches, making it a perfect option for a movie night.

Buying Tips: Does Mini LED Matter?

Al Griffin – Senior Editor, TV and Audio

An LED backlight in a TV was once a high-tech feature, but now even regular sets use LED backlights. Less common is mini-LED backlighting, which uses a series of small lights to illuminate the TV’s LCD screen.

As with quantum dots, different TV brands use different terms to indicate the presence of mini-LED backlights in their sets – Samsung calls its mini-LED models “Neo QLED” because the mini-LEDs are always combined with its QLED technology.

An important advantage that mini-LED offers over regular LED TVs is that the smaller lamp modules used in the backlight allow finer control over local dimming. This is a process where the individual modules are grouped into zones and dimmed according to the brightness level of the image on the screen. For example, the LED zones in shadowy areas of the image are dimmed or completely switched off, while bright, highlighted areas are fully illuminated.

With a higher density of LED modules scattered around the backlight, mini LED TVs can also deliver higher overall brightness, with some sets such as The QN95B from Samsung with twice or more measured light output than regular LED backlit TVs. That Samsung model is the company’s top-notch 4K Neo QLED offering, but you also get fantastic brightness from the Samsung QN85B.

Where that extra light output is important is whether you are going to watch in a well-lit room, for example watching sports during the day. But it can also help bring out the full level of highlight detail in HDR sources by reducing the need for tone mapping, a process where the TV scales the brightness range of programs to meet maximum light output.

In short, mini LED can make a difference when watching in rooms with bright lighting conditions, and it also adds a welcome level of visual power when watching movies and TV shows with HDR. It’s a feature you pay extra for, but for some people it’s worth it.

A great game TV deal

2022 was the year cheaper TVs got HDMI 2.1 features like 120 Hz display and variable refresh rate (VRR), along with Nvidia G-Sync and FreeSync Premium Pro support. Among them are sets from Samsung’s Q80B series, which are the company’s best QLED models with a standard LED backlight.

In our Samsung Q80B review, we noticed the full suite of gaming features, including the company’s new Game Hub, which serves as a portal to cloud gaming services from Xbox, Utomik, and Twitch. Just add a wireless controller and you’re good to go! Other than that, the Q80B offers good overall image quality for the price, which is now $200 off Best Buy Black Friday dealbringing the price of a 65-inch model to $999.

A Samsung TV with these features for less than a grand is a deal you don’t come across every day, so give it a look. You’ll get better brightness by switching to one of Samsung’s mini-LED-backlit Neo QLED models, which top our list of the best Samsung TVs, but you’ll also pay quite a bit more, even with the current Black Friday deals.

Welcome to Black Friday, Samsung fans!

The day of the big deals is here! Thank you for joining our live coverage of the latest Black Friday Samsung TV deals.

We’ve been tracking the deals all month, so we’ve been tracking great deals that are still live, and new deals that have launched before Black Friday itself.

Our team of AV experts have done the sale, looking for discounts on Samsung TVs that give you the most bang for your buck, and we’re bringing them to you today.

And we’ll explain some of the jargon to help you decide which features you really need and which ones you can do without to save some money on your purchase.