Best Buy has
55" TCL S-Series 4K UHD HDR LED Smart TV with Roku TV (2026, 55S4R) for
$209.99.
Shipping is free or select free store pickup where available.
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Specs:
- Screen Size: 55" Class (54.5" Diagonally)
- Resolution: 4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160)
- Display Type: Direct-Lit LED
- HDR Formats: HDR10, HDR10+, HLG
- Motion Rate: Motion Rate 240 with MEMC
- Smart Platform: Roku TV
- Wireless Connectivity: Dual-Band Wi-Fi 5 & Bluetooth Personal Audio
- Inputs:
- 3x HDMI (1x eARC)
- 1x USB
- 1x Optical Audio Out
- 1x Ethernet
- 1x Cable/Antenna
Top Comments
🤢Google TV - The worst: Monitors and reports everything you watch back to their motherships and corroborates everything between your phone, computer, and other logins across accounts. Google will even use your data to figure out who else is in your family and conveniently "add" them as login options.
🤢Apple tvOS - Like Google but without ACR. Apple uses a hard-walled privacy model to purposely lock out other data brokers so they can keep your sweet, sweet data for themselves. They want to be your data dom.
🤢Tizen (Samsung) - Similar to Google; Samsung tracks every pixel crossing the screen through your HDMI cords (video games, cable boxes, etc.) using ACR, but the OS is super fast. That said, the TVs themselves are more expensive.
🤢LG - The worst: Stalks you and mercilessly pounds you with ads whether you like it or not. Company recently censured by Microsoft after installing adware from its monitors onto PCs without disclosure or consent of the owner (you can't make this stuff up). Remember, LG is NOT "Life's Good," it's "Lucky Goldstar," which comes from two separate Korean companies that merged, Lucky Chemical Industrial Corp. and GoldStar Co. You know: Those super ethical industrial chemical companies. I'm sure they're not doing anything suspicious with your data.
Or you can be an absolute nut like me and turn off all Smart functionality and connect your PC to your television, making it a monitor, and layering additional complexity into your life in a futile attempt to fight the tide of omnipresent monitoring. Even then, my Samsung QN90D will still ask me to log in with my Google account almost daily, despite having disabled every internet function I could find.
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Community Reviews
This TCL 55 inch S Series Roku TV is mainly valued as a fast, budget smart TV that can run well enough without a separate streaming box. The Roku interface is still seen as quick on low cost sets, and the 43 inch version is loved in a bedroom setup. The main concerns are software and reliability, including reports of aggressive ads, broken live TV pause, update related glitches, random shutdowns, and screens going blank or gray while the remote still responds. It looks like a convenient starter TV, but one that may be better kept off the internet if long term stability matters.
Bedroom viewers wanting a simple budget smart TV, because Roku runs quickly enough that a separate streaming device may not be needed.
People using a TV as a basic monitor for external streaming boxes, because the built-in smart features can be bypassed when they become unreliable.
Tinkerers comfortable with external devices, because a laptop or streaming box can replace the built-in apps when browser playback is limited.
Cord-cutters relying on over-the-air channels, because OTA can still work without internet after a short grey-screen delay.
Viewers who want dependable built-in streaming apps, because the TV can randomly shut off, mute itself, switch inputs, or reboot into a blank screen.
Shoppers expecting long-term software stability, because automatic updates can brick the TV or leave it stuck in a failure state.
Households depending on OTA channels without internet, because updates can break live TV pause and make antenna channels stop working offline.
People who want full-resolution browser streaming, because some providers can be limited to 720p in a TV browser.
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Pretty sad and disappointing that the tv broke from a software issue that is completely fixable but they wouldn't help. I tried to update the firmware via a usb but wasn't able to.
I'm very tempted to do as others have suggested and keep my next TV off the internet, and just use a much more easily replaceable streaming box instead of the native "smart TV" features
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🤢Google TV - The worst: Monitors and reports everything you watch back to their motherships and corroborates everything between your phone, computer, and other logins across accounts. Google will even use your data to figure out who else is in your family and conveniently "add" them as login options.
🤢Apple tvOS - Like Google but without ACR. Apple uses a hard-walled privacy model to purposely lock out other data brokers so they can keep your sweet, sweet data for themselves. They want to be your data dom.
🤢Tizen (Samsung) - Similar to Google; Samsung tracks every pixel crossing the screen through your HDMI cords (video games, cable boxes, etc.) using ACR, but the OS is super fast. That said, the TVs themselves are more expensive.
🤢LG - The worst: Stalks you and mercilessly pounds you with ads whether you like it or not. Company recently censured by Microsoft after installing adware from its monitors onto PCs without disclosure or consent of the owner (you can't make this stuff up). Remember, LG is NOT "Life's Good," it's "Lucky Goldstar," which comes from two separate Korean companies that merged, Lucky Chemical Industrial Corp. and GoldStar Co. You know: Those super ethical industrial chemical companies. I'm sure they're not doing anything suspicious with your data.
Or you can be an absolute nut like me and turn off all Smart functionality and connect your PC to your television, making it a monitor, and layering additional complexity into your life in a futile attempt to fight the tide of omnipresent monitoring. Even then, my Samsung QN90D will still ask me to log in with my Google account almost daily, despite having disabled every internet function I could find.
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