TCL QM89 MSRP $20,000.00 Score Details “The most exhilarating television money can buy, full stop.” Pros Cons The sheer enormity of the TCL QM89 requires its own introduction.
Pictures don’t do it justice, even if you’re able to see the scale of this thing. So just soak this in for a second. And then understand that this is the most fun I’ve ever had reviewing a television.OK, not everyone wants a massive TV. Or maybe they don’t think they do, until they experience one themselves. But for some folks, bringing the movie theater experience home — and maybe even besting it — is a life goal. A dream.
The backlight system is comprised of untold tens of thousands of mini-LEDs broken down into roughly 20,000 local dimming zones. If you don’t wall-mount, you have two other options. You can use the feet that are included in the box. But with a roughly 93-inch-wide stance, you will need either a very large credenza or an unusually wide media console.
Need more? You get a backlit Google TV remote with voice control as well as a voice mic on the TV itself, plus a built-in room sensor for automatic brightness and color temperature control. Unboxing the Biggest TV Ever | TCL 115-Inch QM8 The key takeaway here is that this TV can be viewed from what a lot of folks would consider a “normal” viewing distance without it feeling overwhelming, and without seeing individual pixels. It is tremendously immersive. It can occupy your entire field of view and really put you in the content without you feeling like you’re missing any part of the scene.
But lower-quality content — and this is less about resolution than it is highly-compressed content or content captured by less-than-stellar cameras? It’s just blatantly obvious that it is lower-quality content. And before you jump to conclude that means this TV’s processing, upscaling, and digital enhancements are wanting, let me assure you that’s not the culprit. There’s only so much any TZ processor can do when the source material isn’t good.
I imagine that most folks who buy this TV are going to use it for watching higher-quality content. But if you plan on using this TV to watch old Seinfeld episodes, or YouTube content captured by inexpensive cameras, you need to be prepared to see all of what’s in the content. And some of it — maybe even a lot of it — just is not as good as you think it is from watching it on smaller screens.
I turned off the room sensor and placed the TV in the Movie mode picture preset. The default brightness setting for SDR Movie mode is 30. You’ll still see a green leaf here in the menu, but that is not an indication that eco mode is still on. It just signals that the TV uses less power. That leaf disappears at 50 and up.
HDR color without luminance errors was pretty good. But with luminance errors, it’s pretty out. Again, based on the readings I’m getting, it appears calibration will be essential for cinephiles who want accuracy out of this TV. And I think better out-of-box accuracy than what I’m getting should be expected given the price of the TV.
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