TCL QM8K Review: The Best Mid-Tier TV
The main route To say how old has a TV? Look at the glasses. Until about 10 years ago, they were thick image frames, but they slowly became smaller and the models turned around. With its new QM8K Qled, TCL has completely deleted them.
Innovations in the design of the panel mean that this blindly shiny screen seems to be floating in space on its pedestal support. It is a chic party tip that facilitates hiding place on the wall with images or illustrations, and this improves the viewing angle to start.
This flagship model costs more than other TCL value options, but it is for a good reason: it rivals directly with more expensive LED mini-models from Samsung and Sony, and the wide viewing angle and brightness even give high-end OLED models for their money. If you want a GOOD Image and great applications for less, you can get it with a more affordable Hisense or TCL model, but if you want a superb image, this is the most affordable way to get it this year.
Outside the box
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The experience of setting up QM8K is basically the same as for any other television. The QM8K is available in a large cardboard box surrounded by foam, and you will want two people to remove it, put it on a soft surface like a bed or a table with a blanket and install the pedestal support included. It comes with a power cable and a backlit remote control, but you will need to provide your own HDMI cables if you want to connect anything to one of its four ports (two HDMI 2.1, two HDMI 2.0).
I still love a TV with a pedestal support, and this frame is robust and easy to attach. It also allows you to tilt the TV. Likewise, the google TV interface included is extremely easy to use, with QR -based connections for essentially all modern streaming applications and rapid exchanges between applications (something with which I had a problem on TCL models from last year).
The TV supports Chromecast and Airplay 2, which makes casting music and super easy YouTube clips for people who visit and on your Wi-Fi. The TV has a Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 support, and it was more than able to follow the 4K streaming on my network at home. It also has ethernet, if you want to pierce yourself hard for the fastest speeds.
No glasses
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The absence of glasses is not immediately noticeable if you do not look for it, but once you see that the brushed armed frame of television now immediately goes on screen after only 3.2 millimeters – rather than having a 10 mm -ish black rim – the whole comparable model seems old and tired. The magnificent Crystal Whva panel is capable of up to 3,040 local gradation zones (depending on the size of the television you buy), which makes an amazing image, and the lack of frame gives the impression that the image hovers in space.
