Prime Day 2024 is in its second day, and with it you, our lovely readers are still sending us lots of questions about one specific deal.
Specifically the massive 33 per cent saving still running on the 8K Samsung QN900D, which, as per the below deal, lets you grab the cutting edge set for £4500.
Pretty much every message focusses on the same question: is 8K worth it? So in the spirit of efficiency I've penned this feature. The short answer is no, it’s not worth investing in an 8K TV yet.
The reason for that’s simple: there's next to no content mastered in 8K, so you’ll spend nearly all your time relying on upscaling. So why did the QN900D get five stars you ask? That’s because, if you insist on 8K it’s the best TV that resolution we’ve ever tested, offering the most accurate upscaling we’ve ever seen – during all our checks motion handling looked suitably realistic, albeit not best in class, and the set managed to never look overly artificial despite the heavy processing going on.
The reason I’m warning most readers off the deal, is that you're still paying a hefty premium just to get 8K and there are a wealth of other fantastic TV deals doing the rounds that will give most people as good, if not a better home cinema experience.
Here are a few personal highlights and recommendations to help illustrate my point.
If you are dead set on spending lots of money and getting a cutting edge TV, then you should look at the LG G4. Is it the cheapest OLED we’ve seen? No, but if you want a cutting edge OLED with brightness boosting Micro Lens Array tech it is a fantastic option. Having reviewed the G4, myself and the wider What Hi-Fi? team can confirm it offers a wonderfully immersive home cinema experience, with enhanced motion handling, wonderfully accurate colours and one of the highest max brightness levels we’ve seen on an OLED.
This let it offer immense contrast levels and, coupled with its stellar gaming features and easy five star recommendation, even at its launch price. With deals already out from the likes of Sevenoaks and Richersounds, including the ones below, I’d argue this is a much better bargain, and outside of 8K, a better option for most people. The only downside is that the deals we’re seeing to tend to come and go fairly fast, so you need to be quick if you want to take advantage of them.
If the LG G4 is a little too much, we’ve also seen huge savings on the step-down LG C4, which outside of its lack of MLA and slightly older processor shares many of the same features as the G4, and also earned five stars from our testers.
LG’s offering sporadic, but sizable discounts on its own store at the moment, with the giant 77-inch version plummeting to as low as £2000 – which is huge when you consider it carried a massive £3800 RRP at launch. Though that deal went particularly fast there are still great savings to be found on some of the smaller sizes, including the one below.
For those that want the best value deal and don’t care about getting a “new” 2024 set, there’s also cracking savings to be had on the Sony A80L – which one won a product of the year accolade at last year’s What Hi-Fi? Awards.
To this day the A80L remains a staple benchmark of quality we use while running our comparative testing checks reviewing new TVs. This is because it still offers top-of-the-line picture quality and one of the most authentic “as the director” intended viewing experiences you’ll find, especially on a set this price. Hence why we’re recommending it to most people as a TV to consider this Prime Day.
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These are the best Prime Day TV deals we’ve seen
Our picks of the best 8K TVs
Check out our picks of the best OLED TV deals
