Cheapest 43-inch TVs right now

A 43-inch screen suits a room where you're sitting close - a bedroom, a share-house lounge, a kitchen bench, or a desk where it's doing double duty as a monitor. At that distance the panel doesn't need to be huge to fill your view, so picture quality per dollar becomes the more useful thing to compare than screen size itself.

The vast majority of TVs at this size use standard LED panels rather than Mini-LED or OLED, and that's a sensible trade here. Backlight zoning and blooming are far less visible on a smaller, closer screen, so the gap between a basic panel and a premium one narrows a lot compared to a 65-inch or 75-inch set.

What's worth checking is less about the panel and more about the extras: a smart platform that feels quick to navigate rather than laggy, enough HDMI inputs if you're running a console or soundbar alongside it, and a stand narrow enough for a desk or a chest of drawers rather than a media unit.