Best Super Bowl TV Deals for 2022

If you’ve been looking for an excuse to splurge on a new TV, maybe Super Bowl LVI—to be played on Feb. 13 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.—will do the trick. Because if you can’t be at the big game, watching it on a new big-screen 4K TV is the next best thing. . And over the next few weeks you can take advantage of some of the best prices of the year. Super Bowl TV deals should be plentiful, with the biggest price drops coming on the largest screen sizes.. “I always recommend buying a TV around Black Friday if you can. That’s when we see the deepest discounts on the most models,” says Julie Ramhold, a consumer analyst at the comparison shopping site DealNews.com. “However, shopping around the Super Bowl can also yield decent savings. We could see retailers such as Best Buy and Target take anywhere from 15 to 30 percent off select models.”. The list of deals below, broken out by screen size, includes some sets that technically aren’t on sale. But they still represent solid bargains. And we’ll keep updating this list right up until Super Bowl weekend. . We’ve also added links to Consumer Reports’ evaluations for any set that passed through our labs. Right now we have more than 220 models in our TV ratings. Spotlight Deal TVs LG OLED65C1PUB. Best Buy. Amazon. Walmart. Crutchfield This is a top-performing LG OLED TV, which excels in just about every picture-quality test in CR’s labs. It also has great sound. While not cheap, the price is now at an all-time low.. CR’s test results: LG OLED65C1PUB 55- to 60-Inch TVs TVs Hisense 55H9G. Amazon This 55-inch 4K Android TV from Hisense, in the company’s top series for 2020, delivers satisfying overall picture quality, though its HDR effectiveness is just decent. (The 65-inch version of the same television does better with HDR.) It’s about $100 less at Amazon right now than at Best Buy, where it’s also available.. CR’s test results: Hisense 55H9G TVs Samsung UN55AU8000. Best Buy This is an entry-level 2021 4K set from Samsung, a replacement for the company’s older TU8000 model. Like many lower-priced Samsung sets we’ve tested, it does well for overall picture quality but not as well at delivering a compelling HDR experience. The set lacks some features, such as a full-array LED backlight with local dimming, found in pricier models. Right now it’s less expensive at Best Buy than elsewhere.. CR’s test results: Samsung UN55AU8000 . Walmart This is an entry-level 4K Roku TV that’s found mainly at Walmart. We didn’t test this set, but other 4-series TCL Roku TVs do well for overall picture quality, though typically not for HDR effectiveness. . Best Buy This is a step-up 4K Google TV from TCL, in a series found only at Best Buy. We’ve tested other 5-series 4K sets from TCL and they’ve done well for overall picture quality but not as well for HDR. (The company’s 6-series models do better in that area.) . Best Buy We didn’t test this exact model, a Google TV set in a series sold only at Best Buy. But we have tested other 6-series 4K sets, and they have done very well in our ratings, including for HDR performance. These models use local dimming backlights with Mini LEDs, which can help improve contrast and reduce the haloing that can arise when dark objects are displayed against a bright background. TVs Vizio OLED55-H1. Amazon. Best Buy The price for this 55-inch Vizio 4K OLED TV is now under $1,000 at a few retailers. It’s a fine performer, with all the attributes we like about OLED TVs, including deep blacks and unlimited viewing angles. It offers top-notch picture quality and satisfying sound, though its HDR performance is below that of OLED TVs we’ve tested from LG and Sony. 65-Inch TVs TVs Vizio P65Q9-H1. Best Buy. Costco This Vizio set is a 2020 4K smart TV that sits just below Vizio’s flagship P Quantum X models. It delivers very satisfying overall picture quality, plus an effective HDR experience. It uses the company’s SmartCast smart TV system, with built-in Chromecast. It had been selling for well above $1,000. . Walmart We see this 65-inch R6-series 4K set from Hisense only at Walmart right now. We didn’t test this set, which is a Roku TV model, but did test the Hisense 65R6E1. It does very well for overall picture quality and HDR. . Best Buy This is a 4-series TCL set, an Android TV that we didn’t test. Based on our experience with other 4-series models, it should do well for overall picture quality but falls short when it comes to HDR. . Amazon. Best Buy. Walmart This is an entry-level 4K set from Vizio. We didn’t test this model, but other V-series models we’ve tested have typically delivered fine overall picture quality but fall short when it comes to HDR performance. (This is typical of entry-level sets from most brands.) 70-Inch and Larger TVs TVs Hisense 70A6G. Best Buy This model, sold only at Best Buy, offers satisfying overall picture quality, though like many less expensive sets it falls short when it comes to HDR (high dynamic range) performance. The set uses the Android TV system and comes with Google Assistant built in. It was at this price during 2021’s Cyber Monday sales.. CR’s test results: Hisense 70A6G 70-inch TV . Walmart We’re seeing this large 4K set only at Walmart. We didn’t test this model, but our experience with other entry-level large-screen LG TVs is that they typically have satisfying overall picture quality but don’t offer a compelling HDR experience. Many have above-average sound, however. . Crutchfield. Best Buy. Walmart This is a jumbo-sized set we didn’t test, but we did test its close sibling, the slightly smaller 82-inch LG 82UP8770PUA model. Like many LG budget 4K TVs, that set does well for overall picture quality, but its HDR performance is ineffective. It does have top-notch sound, though. (The set we tested is going for $1,300 at Best Buy right now, for a $200 savings.) . Amazon. Best Buy. Samsung Like a 55-inch model we highlighted above, this is an entry-level 2021 4K set from Samsung, a replacement for the TU8000 model. We didn’t test this set, but the 65-inch Samsung UN65AU8000 in our ratings does well in many areas, including overall picture quality and HDR. You can find it for about $650 at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart. . B&H. Samsung This 85-inch 4K smart TV from 2020 is still around, and right now it’s a good deal at both B&H and Samsung’s own website. We didn’t test the set at this screen size, but did test the slightly smaller 75-inch Samsung UN75TU7000 model. It does well for overall picture quality, better than the pricier TU8000 set, in fact. However, its HDR performance is ineffective. It has above-average sound. . Crutchfield. Best Buy. Walmart This mid-level 4K Google TV from Sony is in a screen size we didn’t test. We did test the smaller 55-inch Sony KD55X85J model, and it does very well for overall picture quality but not as well for HDR. (That smaller set is about $750 right now at Amazon, Crutchfield, and Walmart.) TVs Sony XR-77A80J. Amazon. Best Buy. Walmart While few people would call a $2,900 TV a bargain, right now you can save several hundred dollars on this jumbo-sized 2021 4K OLED TV from Sony, which is one of the best sets we’ve ever tested. It has top-notch picture quality and impressive HDR performance. And it includes Sony’s “Acoustic Surface Audio+” sound technology, which uses vibrating actuators that turn the entire panel into a speaker to deliver great sound. . Best Buy We didn’t test this 2020 Android TV set, the larger version of other models mentioned above, but you can expect it to do well for overall picture quality, though not HDR. Walmart had this set at the same price but it’s currently out of stock. You could also consider the TCL 75S446, which is the same price. It’s a 2021 model that moves up to the newer Google TV smart platform.

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