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55" TCL S-Series 4K UHD HDR LED Smart TV w/ Roku TV (2026)
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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
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Written by Wiznaz | Staff- Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 50+ Best Buy customer ratings.
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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.
Specs:
- Note: Availability for pickup may vary by location.
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
Editor's Notes
Written by Wiznaz | Staff- Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 50+ Best Buy customer ratings.
- Become a My Best Buy Member (free to join).
- Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
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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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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.
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Using an external box or stick can avoid relying on the TV's built-in smart features, which some reports describe as unstable. A Roku stick, Nvidia Shield, or Onn 4K Pro can be used over HDMI, and a browser-based setup may block ads but can limit some services to 720p.
A reported failure mode is that the TV powers on, makes remote sound effects, but the screen stays blank or gray. One account says a TCL with Roku TV was bricked by an automatic update, and another links the issue to system updates.
The Roku platform runs quickly enough on this budget TV that a separate streaming device may not be necessary. It is also described as the best budget smart TV OS option, though recent updates have added ads and reduced customization.
OTA channels can still work without internet, but the TV may show a gray screen for about a minute before the channel appears. One report also says reception seemed worse offline, possibly due to local conditions.
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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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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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I'll be buying the new Apple TV box when it comes out and giving up on roku permanently.
🤢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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