55-Inch Q6 QLED 4K Smart TV with Google TV (55Q650G, 2023 Model) Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, HDR Pro+, Game Accelerator Enhanced Gaming, Voice Remote, Works with Alexa, Streaming UHD Television

(For the 85" Model) First and foremost, if you're a tech person who is searching around for a TV with inky blacks and 480hz refresh rates keep going, do not pass go, do not collect 200$. This is not your TV. I was creating a home theater room in my house (Something I've wanted since I was a kid.) I wanted the biggest TV I could afford while still getting a picture that would be enjoyable to look at for hours at a time. I decided on this one as I was able to get another 10 inches for the same price as most of the 75" TV's I was looking at. So this was my journey. Amazon delivered this behemoth for free, and the delivery folks brought it right into the room I needed it, and placed it right in front of where I was installing it (Going above and beyond as their instruction was to put it inside the entry way.) I tipped them for their trouble. I got a wall mount for an 85 inch TV and took down the little one for the 55" that was on the wall before. I mounted it on the wall making sure to get all 4 screws in the studs as this TCL TV weighs in at just under 100 pounds. My wife and I were then able to lift the TV and get it on the wall. It's huge so have the space to maneuver. It clipped into place with no issues. The picture out of the box is a little off. This is what worked for my eyes. I bumped up the color saturation slider by 5 and then I went into the advanced section and adjusted the black level slider down by 7 or 8. This made the colors pop and the contrast look measurably better. So here's the caveats. If you're paying under a grand for an 85" TV there's going to be some corners cut. For me they're a non issue. 1) I feel the built in google TV interface is too slow to be usable. I plugged my Apple TV in immediately. It picked it up, and detected the TV can do dolby vision and switched into that mode automatically. It looks great and works fast. 2) I did not even bother to listen to the built in speakers on the TV. Built in speakers at ANY price point are disappointing, I didn't even bother. I grabbed a Visio M series 5.1.2 sound bar with wireless sub and surround speakers. It works perfect (after some latency adjustments and configuration). This weekend after getting all this hooked up, the family and I parked our butts on the couch in our new home theater room (well it's a futon for now still saving up for the home theater furniture.) and watched 3 movies. One from the 80's (On Blu Ray), one from the One from the late 90's in Ultra HD 4k, and one brand new movie on the apple TV app. All three movies looked fantastic, the TV in combination with my Apple TV box and the Vizio sound bar created the exact feeling I was looking for. If you know what your needs are and you know that when you're buying this TV it's not a mini-led, crazy expensive TV and know not to expect that, this TV will likely be perfect for anyone looking for a big, cost effective panel that performs very well. I would say the quality is on par with my 2021 model Samsung Q70B that cost quite a bit more when I bought it on release year and it was also 20 inches smaller.

So I’m very used to Plasma and OLED in smaller sizes for production purposes. And even though I love my plasma at 720 P it has a fantastic picture however, the sharpness on this is mine blowing, and since it’s DirectView LEDs lit from the back. None of that edge light garbage, I have run several high DEF test patterns and purity signals. All colors are very even.. I am picking up over the air content, and for the most part, it looks beautiful unless, of course it’s transmitted in standard DEF, but that’s not the fault of the TV. The tuner and this will also pick up digital TV over the Internet. Not a whole lot of great choices there, but some of its good and much of it is in 4K. I also running a 4K ultra HD DVD into it, and that looks great. I will say that you must take it out of the default set up. It comes in you need to play around with the settings on and get it to the way you like it.. another nice thing I noticed is that whatever settings I set are for whatever input I’m using at the time, so I set my settings for a TV that sticks to TV. They said it to HDMI one at six to HDMI one and so on.. has three HDMI inputs. And when I turn on the TV, it will turn on my audio receiver as well over the HDMI 2.1. As for the Google options, they seem to work fine for me so I don’t know what a lot of people have complained about. Some say it’s slow to respond, but I have not encountered that at least maybe I’m just more patient. I think TCL did very good job on this particular model which has the G prefix at the end I was looking at the F earlier. Apparently there is some thing in game mode that makes it run at 240 frames per second. I’m not a gamer so I wouldn’t be able to know. Overall, it’s a great price and a very good set. I’m happy with it.

Tv was a definite upgrade from my previous tv. Sadly this tv is not as great as I hoped. Tv will randomly freeze at times and require you to reset it in order to work again. It probably needs to be restarted once a week to avoid it from freezing. Apps work ok most of the time and surprisingly the YouTube app is one of the worst app to use with this tv. AppleTV app gets a weird 1/4 screen of fuzzy noise along the bottom of the screen that randomly pops up and requires you to back out of the show or restart the app. I’ve only seen this happen with this tv not the other tv’s I own or mobile devices that I’ve played the app on. TV screen quality is great especially for watching sports. Pairing with a PS5 works fine but sometimes the sound doesn’t sync up correctly with my receiver and the tv