Cheapest 55-inch TVs right now

Fifty-five inches is the size most Australian lounge rooms are actually built around. From a typical couch-to-screen distance of around 2.5 to 3 metres, it fills your field of view without forcing you to turn your head to catch the edges of the picture, and it fits standard TV units without the wall-mounting planning bigger sizes need.

Because so many brands compete at this exact size, the spread between the cheapest sets and the better ones is wide, and most of that gap comes down to panel type rather than anything else. An OLED handles dark scenes and contrast far better than a basic LED panel of the same size; a Mini-LED sits between the two, trading some of that contrast for extra brightness. At 55 inches, that difference matters more than any spec on the box.

This size suits most living rooms, particularly where the TV gets used across the day and into the evening, since panel quality decides how well it holds up in daylight as well as after dark.