‘I review TVs for a living and I’d buy these discounted TVs at Argos’

I’ve reviewed more than 30 TVs this year, including many affordable television sets. It’s a great time for TV, with exceptional premium TVs wowing with their performance, but I’m also seeing the prices tumble, so you can get a big screen, packed with features, without it costing the earth.

Argos stocks many TVs and is offering some of my more affordable recommendations at discounted prices, or at the lowest price that they have been. I’ve combed through the selection to pick some TVs that’d be perfect for anyone looking to upgrade their main TV or get an extra set for a second bedroom.

Argos isn’t the only retailer with discounted TVs. With Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days currently underway, there is a full set of discounts to Amazon’s Fire TV models, as well as other TVs from the huge online retailer.

Gone are the days when buying towards the bottom of the TV range would leave you with missing features. Thanks to technology trickling down, shoppers can get plenty of excitement from these affordable sets.

Samsung is number one in televisions because a lot of people want to buy them. Snap up a Samsung TV and you’re getting a connected experience that syncs with your phone, connects to your smart home devices and a whole lot more.

The Samsung U8000F is a 2025 model and is the entry-level TV for Samsung. It’s an LED TV, missing out on QLED or Mini-LED tech, but having used this TV myself, I was impressed with the colours and performance that it offered.

Argos is selling a 58-inch model for £359 – it’s the lowest price, ever, so the site says – but there’s also a discount code for a further 10% off. Enter GAMING10 when you land on the payment page, and the price will drop to £323.10.

The Samsung U8000F offers a 4K resolution for plenty of detail, with support for HDR10+, which users will find on streaming services like Amazon Video and Netflix. The Tizen interface links to SmartThings, allowing control through phones, while there are also seven years of updates for this TV.

Although it does miss out on Dolby Vision, which is common for all Samsung TVs and helps enhance the picture quality. For a rival discount code deal, Samsung is offering ‘up to 15% off’ select models when the code ‘EXTRA’ is pasted in at checkout. 

TCL has been making waves in TVs, offering great value for money and loads of specs. The P6K is an LED TV from 2025, and shoppers can pick up this 55-inch 4K TV for £251.10. Again, there’s a 10% discount code GAMING10 on Argos to get this price – otherwise it’s £279.

The TCL P6K offers the Google TV interface, so it will seamlessly integrate with Android phones, allowing casting right to TVs. Users will also be able to shop for movies on Google TV and use Google Assistant for searching, which is a great addition.

The TV itself has a 4K screen that supports HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, so it has the advantage of those HDR visuals from a wide range of sources, but this isn’t a hugely bright TV, so the impact of those HDR effects will be reduced slightly – that’s to be expected at the price, however.

This TV supports Dolby Atmos, although there are only two 10W speakers, and they don’t have the power to deliver the sort of immersive audio that Dolby Atmos promises, so there’s not really any benefit from that.

Shoppers looking for a smaller television might want to consider this Bush model. It’s 32 inches, which suggests it’s better for a small room or a bedroom – but at £118, it’s really good value for money.

It runs on the TiVo platform, which is pretty new, focusing on content rather than pushing adverts. As a result, it’s nice and clean in operation, while offering access to all the streaming services.

This is a 2024 television, so a little older and because of the small size, it’s a full HD TV rather than 4K, but it still supports HDR content, so users will get the benefit of better colours and contrast when watching compatible programmes on Netflix, for example.

The downside is that there are only two HDMI connections, so you can’t connect many additional devices, and the speakers come in at 12W, so it’s going to sound a little weak – better suited to a smaller space for sure.