I slightly altered the Samsung's Backlighting and Brightness controls to more closely match the post-calibration adjustments I had used in my review of the company's 65Q80R, which in its factory default settings also deviates from the luminance standards of the PQ curve to enhance HDR punch. Fortunately, a 75-inch Samsung Q80R model was set up side-by-side with the TCL to enable direct comparisons that I've folded into the comments below. I spent much of my time viewing three Ultra HD Blu-rays I'm intimately familiar with. Images were satisfyingly uniform, and I never spotted any false contouring, or "banding," artifacts. Nor did I have any complaints about the set's detail.
With the Dark (HDR) picture mode's default settings active, color, from deep reds to natural greens, was hard to criticize. Such black level quirks never affected any other source material I watched for the most part The TCL's image looked consistently superb. Both of these are issues that might be fixable via a firmware update. Also, some of the darkest details on the Spears & Munsil disc's contrast patterns looked red rather than a dark gray.
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This might indicate an issue with the set's handling of transitions from the darkest gray to full black-a difficult parameter to get right in the design of a digital display. With the TCL's Brightness set to 50 (the default), the set flashed rapidly between black and dark gray during this brief "interstitial." When I set the Brightness to 51, the blacks stabilized but also looked slightly less rich. But when viewing with the 8-Series, you'll definitely want to grab a center seat.Ī very brief (no more than two seconds) full black image appears onscreen in the opening frames of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Some of TCL's prime competitors, particularly Samsung's Q80R and Q90R, have recently made major advances on this front. Viewing angle was typical of most sets that use VA (Vertical Alignment) LCD panels, with both contrast and color starting to fade at much beyond a 20 degrees off-center seat.
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With the one TV Brightness control exception noted above, I used the default settings of the TCL's Dark (HDR) picture mode. For my evaluation, I left all motion smoothing switched off. A separate LED Motion Clarity control adds black frame insertion, which can improve motion resolution though it also darkens the picture. Action Clarity makes filmed material look like video-the Soap Opera Effect that's common to all set's I've tested offering such a feature. The TCL's motion smoothing controls include Action Smoothing (de-blur, for programs shot at 30 and 60 frames per second) and Action Clarity (de-judder for 24fps film-based content).
At its default High position, the set's blacks looked deep and uniform, while any lower setting turned them into a blotchy, cloudy gray-the aptly-named Dirty Screen Effect. Another control, Local Contrast, appeared to be a Local Dimming control.
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