Don’t fancy dealing with rail strikes and 3-hour airport queues of folks turned red-faced before they’ve had a chance to get sunburnt? Maybe it’s time to redirect your summer holiday fund into something that will last a lot longer: a new TV.
Until next Tuesday, Currys is offering 10% off all TVs over £400. The beauty of this deal is you don’t have to wait around hoping for the TV you want to show up as we do every Black Friday. You can get money off virtually every set we’d recommend buying right now.
The mechanics are simple. At checkout you simply enter the code “TV10”. There’s no post-purchase redemption involved, the 10% is snipped off before you pay. The discount ends on Tuesday, August 2.
The one remaining question is which TV you should buy. Let’s take a closer look at three of the best sets of 2022, and exactly who should pick them.
Best for gaming: LG OLED55C24LA
Our top TV for gamers is the LG OLED55C24LA. While all of our top recommendations here have a 120Hz refresh rate and awesome image quality, LG goes a step further and has been the go-to name for gaming for the last few years.
The TV has four HDMI 2.1 ports, meaning you have plenty of sockets for future consoles or a gaming PC. It supports variable refresh rate tech for smoother frame delivery and the new Dark Room mode helps reduce eye strain by evening out brightness transitions, which avoids pupil gymnastics.
It’s all the more useful with the LG C2 generation because the TV has one of LG’s Evo OLED panels. These are even brighter than the older tech while maintaining the perfect inky blacks that make OLED TVs so appealing.
Best for bright rooms: Samsung QE55QN90BATXXU
We highly recommend the Samsung QE55QN90BATXXU if you want a TV for use in a brighter room, a set that can compete with the light of big windows.
Unlike our other two suggestions here, the Samsung QE55QN90BATXXU is not an OLED TV. This is a Neo QLED, and it can reach brightness levels above 2000 nits. That is 2-3 times higher than even the best and brightest OLED TV panels.
This kind of power is perfect for any time you won’t draw the curtains — highly recommended for watching sport, for families after an all-purpose TV and for gaming during the day. It is a great fit for a home with multiple game consoles too as, like the LG C2, it has four future-proofed HDMI 2.1 sockets and supports VRR (variable refresh rate).
Deck your living room out like a cinema and the SAMSUNG QE55QN90BATXXU won’t have quite the black depth of an OLED, but it gets impressively close thanks to advanced full-array local dimming. This means parts of the TV backlight can get darker than others, to dramatically boost contrast.
Best for home cinema: SONY BRAVIA XR-55A84KU
You can’t go wrong with any top TVs from companies like LG, Samsung or Sony. But the Sony BRAVIA XR-55A84KU might just be our top pick of them all for the purist movie lovers out there.
This is an OLED TV, like the LG C2. Its per-pixel lighting produces cinema-beating black levels, giving dark scenes a super-rich look we always find mesmerising.
Picture processing and calibration are the Sony BRAVIA XR-55A84KU’s secret weapons. It has exceptionally strong colour fidelity straight out of the box, and exceptional motion handling.
This TV also uses the Google TV platform. It grants access to over 10,000 apps and has native support for Chromecast, letting you beam content straight from apps on your phone to the TV itself.
