The months on this calendar are ranked by how deep TV and home-theater promo codes actually run — the share of stores SimplyCodes tracked in each month whose deepest code took 25% off or deeper, pooled across every year on record and re-measured daily. It reads the code climate at TV and home-theater sellers, the surrounding gear included, rather than the sticker price of a specific panel.
December is the best month to buy TVs and home theater gear with a promo code. Across every year SimplyCodes has tracked, 29.9% of TVs and home theater gear stores running a percentage-off code in December had one at 25% off or deeper — the highest share of any month, and 10.8 points above the weakest month (February, 19.1%). Figures cover 2,683 store-months across the TV and home-theater retailers SimplyCodes tracks — each store counted once for every month it ran a percentage-off code — as of September 2, 2026.
- December is the strongest month for TVs and home theater gear discounts — 29.9% of the TVs and home theater gear stores SimplyCodes tracked had a code 25% off or deeper that month, across 211 store-months measured.
- September is the runner-up at 27.7% — worth knowing if you miss December, and the reason this calendar is worth reading past its headline.
- February is the weakest month at 19.1% — a 10.8-point gap from December. Buying TVs and home theater gear in February means shopping the year's thinnest discount pool.
Deep-discount share = the share of that month's TVs and home theater gear stores whose deepest percentage-off code was 25% off or more · bar = that share relative to the strongest month · store-months = the denominator behind each share, one per store per month it ran a percentage-off code · — = fewer than 3 retailers contributed that month, so no share publishes · free ship / free gift = at least one such offer verified in that month.
All years on record of TVs and home theater gear verification data across the TV and home-theater retailers SimplyCodes tracks, counted once per store per month and grouped by calendar month · snapshot as of September 2, 2026
Frequently asked questions
When is the best time to buy a TV?
The calendar above names the strongest month for verified TV and home-theater codes, with its share and the date the snapshot was taken. Two cautions on how to use it: a code window is only one lever on a television purchase, and the deepest panel discounts of the year frequently arrive as price cuts that never involve a code at all.
Is Black Friday really the best time to buy a TV?
Measured on codes, November has not been the standout the advice implies: pooled across every year on record, several ordinary months carry a similar share of deep-discounting stores. The calendar above shows where it currently ranks. That is a statement about promo codes at TV and home-theater retailers, not about doorbuster panel pricing, which a code-based measure cannot see.
What month are TVs cheapest?
This study cannot answer a cheapest-price question. It ranks months by the share of stores whose deepest code ran 25% off or deeper across the TV and home-theater retailers SimplyCodes tracks. Panel prices fall on a manufacturing curve and on model-year clearance schedules, both invisible to any coupon feed. The sellers it does read are Best Buy, Samsung, LG, TCL, Vizio, Crutchfield, Abt Electronics, B&H Photo, Adorama, Electronic Express and Audio Advice, plus the wider home-theater trade — soundbars, projectors, mounts, antennas and streaming hardware.
Does a deep TV discount mean the code will work at checkout?
They are separate questions. Depth is how much a code takes off, and reliability is whether it still applies at checkout — the Health Score (SimplyCodes' 0–100 measure of how likely a code is to work at checkout) on each code covers the second one. This calendar reads depth only, and each retailer's own SimplyCodes page carries its current working codes.
Methodology
How SimplyCodes verifies codes. Behind every figure in this live data study is the SimplyCodes verification system. Coupon codes are tested at real checkout before they are listed, through three independent layers: daily automated testing, where headless browsers run through real checkout flows and record whether a discount actually applies. A human verification network of 10,000+ verifiers submits screenshot-and-timestamp proof. And a real-time fleet signal, where live checkout outcomes feed back into the engine. The calendar below summarizes that verification history month by month.
How this calendar is built. we take every store among the TV and home-theater retailers SimplyCodes tracks and record, for each calendar month that store ran a percentage-off code, the deepest discount it offered that month — so "December" means every December on record, not one year's. For each month we report the share of those stores whose deepest code reached 25% off or more, alongside the number of store-months behind the share. This measures how many stores discount deeply in a given month, not how many individual codes did. Only percentage-off codes are counted, because fixed-amount offers are not comparable across price points. Percentage claims of 95% or more are excluded as implausible. And a month contributed by fewer than 3 retailers publishes no share at all
Cite this data
December is the best month to buy TVs and home theater gear with a promo code: 29.9% of TVs and home theater gear stores SimplyCodes tracks had a code 25% off or deeper in December, 10.8 points above the weakest month (February).
According to SimplyCodes verification data, December carries the deepest TVs and home theater gear discounts of any month — 29.9% of tracked TVs and home theater gear stores had a code 25% off or deeper, versus 19.1% in February.
