Right now, you can buy the 65-inch Samsung Q80D QLED TV for $897 at Amazon — a $500 discount off its regular cost. At the reduced price, Samsung's set automatically becomes one of the best TVs under $1,000 you can get.

The biggest factor when upgrading your TV this year will probably be the normalization — and subsequently, affordability — of QLED. Over the past few years, QLED TVs have officially gone from "the TV that only the fanciest people you know have" to quite accessible for the average household.

Right now, the TCL Q7 QLED (2023) is on sale at Best Buy for $599 after a $200 discount. It has full array local dimming and offers up to 1,000 nits peak brightness, plus at 65 inches from corner-to-corner it's solid size for Sunday football games. This ties the lowest price we've ever seen for this model.

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