Soundbars have been a huge hit over among the best Black Friday deals this year, and there's a good reason for that – they instantly and and easily improve how clear speech sounds from your TV, and add extra oomph and scale to movies. And they can do it really cheaply too – loads of these offers are running right through to the best Cyber Monday deals, which we're also live blogging in our article Best Cyber Monday deals LIVE (opens in new tab) – check it out.
• Browse all Black Friday soundbar deals at Amazon UK (opens in new tab)
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You can browse all the Black Friday soundbar deals around above, but to make it easy we've picked out the top 3 models we think are especially worth buying for under £99 – and the fanciest soundbar we've chosen actually doubles as a 4K video streaming box, too!
All the models we've chosen connect over HDMI ARC, which is the simplest way to hook up a soundbar, but your TV will need to support it. One of the HDMI ports should be labelled as 'ARC' or 'HDMI ARC', and what it means is that the TV can output all of its audio to a soundbar that's connected to this port, bypassing the internal speakers entirely.
When a soundbar is connected over HDMI ARC, you can simply use the TV's remote control for the volume – you don't need a second remote for the soundbar, and you don't need to 'program' the remote. It just works.
If your TV doesn't any any HDMI ARC ports, then you can connect to many soundbars using an optical cable – the Sony model we've chosen is the best option in that case.