TCL QM6K TV Evaluate: Balanced Magnificence

You’ll, in fact, should signal a little bit of your life away so far as private knowledge, so pay shut consideration earlier than accepting phrases. You might also wish to mute the TV’s onboard microphone and simply use the brand new angular distant’s central key to summon Google Assistant. As for the distant, it’s backlit and customarily effectively laid out however TCL’s determination to maneuver the mute key away from the quantity to the very prime left is … a selection.

A Mild Contact

Adjusting the image is almost so simple as setup. I like to recommend beginning with the Filmmaker Mode, because it provides good default settings and disables garish ones like movement smoothing. I made a number of tweaks, beginning with turning off the Adaptive Brightness below the Eye Well being tab. In SDR mode, I backed off the Distinction a smidge and raised the backlight considerably. Don’t hesitate to crank it in SDR—some modes, like Customary, have the backlight maxed which is telling, and something under the midway level retains the TV in Eco mode. In HDR, the backlight is already set to the very best degree accurately.

For Dolby Imaginative and prescient reveals and flicks, I feel most individuals will respect the splashier Dolby Imaginative and prescient Brilliant, although you’ll wish to flip off the movement smoothing. In contrast to many finances (and a few premium) TVs, the QM6K’s Dolby Imaginative and prescient Darkish mode is completely usable even with darker content material, however it may possibly look just a little dim and lackluster.

Balanced Magnificence

As soon as I locked within the QM6K, I used to be happy to find it gives one of the balanced and well-rounded performances you’ll discover at this degree, and even above. The TV doesn’t financial institution on its brightness to make certain. TCL claims a 53 p.c enhance over final yr, however that also places the TV effectively under 1,000 nits, whereas Hisense’s fiery U7N pushes effectively above that mark. The QM6K doesn’t have the identical vivid pop as that mannequin, however it provides sufficient punch to satisfyingly gentle up HDR highlights like daylight splashing on water, laser bursts, and explosions.

Brightness performs an enormous half in any TV’s impression, however distinction is essential and the QM6K’s black ranges are among the many finest I’ve seen in its class. It could possibly’t match the depths of premium QLED TVs with the lights off like Sony’s Bravia 9 (9/10, WIRED Recommends), not to mention OLED TVs, however it holds its personal admirably. Even in low lighting, image features like letter packing containers or the depths of house look positively oily.