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The best Memorial Day TV sales you can shop today at the biggest retailers
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Are you planning to lounge around catching up on favorite shows this Memorial Day weekend? Now’s the perfect time for an upgrade. You can already find serious savings at retailers like Best Buy, Amazon and Walmart on TVs of all types and budgets before the holiday weekend gets here. Top brands like Samsung, LG and Sony are serving up noteworthy TV deals right now, with even more to come. That means the time is right to go ahead and add one to your cart and lock it in.
Whether you want a TV for sports, gaming, or streaming movies, there’s a great TV out there for you right now. But you don’t have to hop from store to store to find it. We’ve done the hard work for you by rounding up some of the best Memorial Day TV deals below. When you choose your TV, be sure to pick up a soundbar or speaker system to complete your home entertainment setup. That way, you’ll be ready for a great, relaxing weekend with a whole new entertainment setup.
Best Walmart Memorial Day TV deals
Walmart has plenty of price rollbacks on TVs this Memorial Day, with especially good prices on budget-minded 4K TVs.
LG 70″ 70UQ7070ZUD UHD 4K smart TV: $498 (save $150)
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This extra-large 70-inch 4K TV is a great buy at just under $500 on sale at Walmart.
Its 4K ultra HD resolution and OLED display combine to create eye-popping contrast ratios with deep blacks and vibrant colors. Plus, its wide viewing angles mean everyone in the room gets the same fantastic picture quality. Fast-moving action stays smooth thanks to the 120Hz refresh rate as well.
The LG α5 Gen5 AI processor takes lower resolution content and transforms it into near-4K, while built-in access to streaming services like Netflix and 300+ free LG channels means you always have plenty to watch, even if it isn’t the latest and the greatest release.
While this model doesn’t include some premium features like quantum dot technology, it still renders colors beautifully. If you want big-screen entertainment with OLED-level image quality, you’ll get it here at a great price point.
Samsung 85″ Class QN900C Neo QLED 8K smart TV: $3,997 (save $4,002)
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The 2023 Samsung 85-inch Neo QLED 8K TV is huge and super detailed. It’s one great way to experience upgraded 8K TV resolution via the TV’s AI smarts.
It boasts an extremely slim design with virtually no visible bezel around the display. It utilizes quantum matrix technology with precision mini-LED backlighting and over 33 million pixels to deliver stunning 8K picture quality, so you know you’re getting a great-looking display here for thousands off.
Its neural quantum processor upscales non-8K content remarkably well, using an expansive color palette to produce accurate visuals. Its anti-reflective screen means pictures look great across wide viewing angles. Plus, it supports Dolby Atmos, Object Tracking Sound Pro and Symphony 3.0. It even comes equipped with Samsung’s Gaming Hub for access to a massive game library without needing a console, so it’s great for gamers.
Is it pricey? Yes, but you’re also saving a bundle of cash by buying during this sale. You won’t regret locking in yours.
Philips 32″ Class HD Roku borderless LED smart TV: $118 (save $50)
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Want a Roku-enabled TV for just over $100? You can get it at Walmart with this Roku set. This borderless TV sports a sleek, modern design with 720p resolution. That means, even at this price, you’ll get sharp, crisp images.
Included Roku streaming integration allows you to watch just about anything you want via your streaming apps, and it even has voice control with assistants like Alexa and Google Home. All you have to do is sit back, relax, and let your assistants and TV handle the rest with this modest but powerful TV.
For just $118, this smaller display would work great as an addition to the kids’ rooms, or a guest room. It could even work as another screen for the kitchen. However you use it, it’s a great addition to anywhere in your home.
Best Memorial Day TV deals at Best Buy
Best Buy has many of the latest and greatest TVs available at a discount this Memorial Day, including the just-released LG C4 OLED TV. Choose between having your new TV delivered, or get it at Best Buy today with curbside pickup.
LG 42″ C4 OLED Evo 4K smart TV: $1,300 (save $200)
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LG’s latest OLED TV lineup, the C4 Series has 8 million self-illuminating pixels. That means you’ll get a super bright and colorful picture that looks great no matter what you’re watching.
LG didn’t hold back on processing power either. The α9 Gen 7 AI Processor leverages deep learning to upscale lower-resolution content nearly to 4K in real-time. Sports enthusiasts will love the multi-view feature to watch two events simultaneously, and reality fans can catch all the drama without missing anything.
With an ultra-sharp 4K resolution and 120Hz refresh rate, this TV delivers smooth picture quality and motion clarity. Plus, its integrated 2.2-channel speaker system immerses you in Dolby Atmos and DTS:X audio.
Overall, with its stellar visuals, smart capabilities, and audio enhancements, the C4 Series represents LG’s most advanced 4K OLED TVs yet. For an unbeatable viewing experience, this LG OLED is hard to surpass.
Sony 55″ Bravia XR A80L OLED 4K smart TV: $1,400 (save $300)
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Yes, Sony commands a premium, but this TV’s excellent display and feature set justify the price. This 55-inch TV is well worth the entry fee, especially since it’s on sale.
Its cognitive processor XR tech offers a wide contrast range and true-to-life colors as well as inky blacks and dazzling whites.
With over a billion displayable colors and support for Dolby Vision, the OLED panel renders all content with accurate colors and vibrant hues that pop. Its XR technology upscales lower resolution sources close to 4K clarity with no motion blur too, so if you’re a big fan of older content that needs upscaling, this is your TV.
For anyone who games on PS5, it also has special features that can bring games to life with 4K 120fps. Plus, while its internal speakers are responsible for impressive sound, adding a sound system or soundbar can make it sound even better. You can’t go wrong with this Sony TV.
TCL 55″ Q6 QLED 4K smart TV: $370 (save $80)
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For premium QLED performance without the premium price tag, this big-screen TV delivers for under $400. Crisp visuals, silky smooth motion and intelligent features come together to make this pleasant little package.
With QLED quantum dot technology, the picture quality is nice and vibrant. Support for Dolby Vision and HDR10+ means optimization for high dynamic range content. AMD FreeSync and an ultra-fast 120Hz refresh rate provide buttery smooth gaming and video, too.
Smart capabilities like Google TV keep all your favorite streaming apps at your fingertips. You also have audio enhancements from DTS Virtual:X and Dolby Atmos that can put you right in the middle of the action.
At this discounted price, you’d be hard-pressed to find another feature-complete QLED big screen.
Best Amazon Memorial Day TV deals
This Memorial Day, Amazon is a great place to shop for TV deals. Here are our top Amazon sale picks.
Hisense 50″ U6HF QLED 4K Fire TV: $300 ($200 off)
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Want a feature-packed 4K smart TV at an affordable price point? This value-packed display has you covered. It serves up gorgeous 4K ultra HD resolution, over a billion colors and integrated Fire TV for access to your favorite streaming services.
The 4K panel is capable of vivid and accurate colors as well as a bright and clear picture. It has 600 nits of peak brightness and a full array of local dimming zones, so images appear super detailed with a wide variety of colors as well as deep blacks. And if you’re a gamer, you’ll get an ultra-smooth picture thanks to low latency modes and the TV’s 120Hz refresh rate.
Thanks to its built-in Fire TV support, you can watch content across your favorite apps, too. It also includes an Alexa voice remote so you can control things with your voice. All in all, an excellent TV for the money and one you won’t want to miss.
Regularly $500, this 50-inch TV is on sale at Amazon for $300 this Memorial Day. The deal gets even better for NBA fans — you’ll get a free NBA Store gift card with purchase.
Vizio 40″ D-Series Full HD 1080p TV: $160 (save $70)
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This moderately-sized Vizio smart TV delivers solid performance without breaking the bank. It’s under $200 right now!
At 40 inches, this 1080p model is sized just right for secondary rooms like a home office, kids’ bedroom or guest room. The HD resolution and 60Hz refresh rate make for some crystal clear visuals, too.
Features like full array backlighting ensure a uniform picture regardless of content type. Gamers will appreciate AMD FreeSync, auto game mode and low input lag for smooth, responsive gameplay.
At just $160, it’s a steal for a feature-packed smart TV. But act fast, because a deal this good won’t last long.
Samsung 65″ The Frame QLED 4K smart TV: $1,498 (save $500)
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The super popular Samsung Frame TV is available with a new model for 2024. That means the older model is marked down, so you can save big if you don’t need the best and brightest version of the fan-favorite unit.
With Quantum Dot technology generating over 1 billion vibrant colors and near zero light reflection, the Frame TV looks stunning whether streaming media or displaying artwork. The matte, anti-glare finish also prevents unwanted glare and reflections.
Art Mode is what so many people flock to, though. You can mount this slim, lightweight TV and use it as a digital canvas to showcase art or photos. You can display images sourced from galleries worldwide or upload your own.
An Israeli airstrike hit a mosque in central Gaza and Palestinian officials said at least 19 people were killed early Sunday. Israeli planes also lit up the skyline across the southern suburbs of Beirut, striking what the military said were Hezbollah targets.
The strike in Gaza hit a mosque where displaced people were sheltering near the main hospital in the central town of Deir al-Balah. Another four people were killed in a strike on a school sheltering displaced people near the town.
The Israeli military said both strikes targeted militants, without providing evidence.
An Associated Press journalist counted the bodies at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital morgue. Hospital records showed that the dead from the strike on the mosque were all men, while another man was wounded.
In Beirut, the strikes reportedly targeted a building near a road leading to Lebanon’s only international airport and another formerly used by the Hezbollah-run broadcaster Al-Manar.
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Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since the day after Hamas’ cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage. Israel declared war on the Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip in response. As the Israel-Hamas war reaches the one-year mark, nearly 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory, and just over half the dead have been women and children, according to local health officials.
Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon in the latest conflict, most of them since Sept. 23, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
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With just a month to go before Election Day, Sabrina German sees herself as an essential worker for democracy. The director of voter registration in Chatham County, Ga., German has found herself in the spotlight as she works to comply with sweeping changes to state election rules in this critical battleground state.
“The first three words in the preamble, it says, ‘We, the people,’ meaning that we, as public servants, we are working for the people to make sure that they have a fair choice and a voice for the candidates that they’re choosing,” German said.
The overhaul in Georgia has many fronts, from the Republican majority on the state election board, to the Georgia legislature, which has made it possible for individuals to file a flurry of challenges to the voter rolls.
German said she had a thousand challenges to voter registrations in just one county.
Attorney Colin McRae, who chairs the non-partisan County Registration Board (on which he has served for two decades), said, “It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure out the agenda behind some of the challenges,” he said. “In a recent set of names that were submitted to us, it included hundreds of college students. And it didn’t take a lot of research to figure out that all of the college students whose registrations were being challenged, all attended Savannah State University, [a] historically Black university.”
While these issues might seem local, they have a national political charge; and former President Trump has weighed in on the campaign trail, praising Republicans on Georgia’s election board. “They’re on fire,” he said. “They’re doing a great job. Three members. Three people are all pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency and victory. They’re fighting.”
“Sunday Morning” reached out to the members of Georgia’s election board praised by Trump. They have long defended their work, and one member told us the controversy over their efforts is “manufactured to suit some other agenda.”
What’s happening in Georgia is just one example of how challenges to the vote are roiling the nation. And the question remains: Are recent changes to state election laws addressing real problems? Or, is it just politics?
David Becker, a CBS News contributor who directs the non-partisan Center for Election Innovation and Research in Washington, D.C., said, “I’ve been looking and researching the quality of our voter lists for about 25 years now, and there’s no question that, right now, our voter lists are as accurate as they’ve ever been.”
So, what is fueling suspicion of voter rolls? “We see a lot of their claims about the elections driven just by outcomes,” said Becker. “They’re not about the actual process.
“The voter lists are public. They could have challenged these things in 2023 or 2021 or 2019. They’re waiting until right before the election, which tells you that they’re not actually interested in cleaning up the lists. What they’re really trying to do is to set the stage for claims that an election was stolen after, presumably, their candidate loses.”
The 2020 election still casts a long shadow. State officials like Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, are bracing themselves for another contsted election.
On January 2, 2021, Raffensperger got an infamous call from then-President Trump asking if he’d “find” votes so Trump could win. “All I want to do is this: I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more that we have, because we won the state,” Trump said in a recorded conversation.
Raffensperger resisted pressure to not certify the 2020 election in Georgia. Asked if he would resist pressure again, he said, “I’ll do my job. I’ll follow the law, and I’ll follow the Constitution.”
Raffensperger will once again oversee and certify Georgia’s elections. Asked whether he believes any of the changes put forth by the election board are necessary, Raffensperger replied, “No. Not one.”
Raffensperger says voting is safe and secure in Georgia. Asked why the election board members keeps making changes to the rules, he said, “I think that many of them are living in the past, and they can’t accept what happened in 2020.”
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Carol Anderson, an author and voting rights activist who teaches at Emory University, said, “One of the things about voter suppression is that it always looks innocuous, it always looks reasonable, except it’s not. What’s happening in Georgia with voting rights is that, you have a massive change of demography happening. So, you have a growing African-American population. You have a sizable Latino population. You have a sizable and engaged Asian-American population.
“And so, it is a power clash between a vision of a new Georgia and … the vision of the old Georgia, our old ways,” she said.
Chatham County’s Sabrina German said, because of the pressures on election workers, she thinks about leaving every day. German may be weary, but she and Colin McRae say their experience in 2020 has prepared them for whatever comes next.
McRae said he took it personally when Donald Trump asked the secretary of state to “find” 11,000 votes to put him over Joe Biden. “Of course, we took it personally; any criticism of the system is a criticism of the individuals who make up that system,” said McRae. “Again, the truth will come out. The truth will win out.”
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Story produced by Ed Forgotson. Editor: Carol Ross.
