It’s even more stupid when you consider the availability of HDR and Dolby Vision.
Suddenly you have access to high quality color mapping features thst formerly relied on you using expensive film to ensure you get all the colors you want, both pre and post processing.
But then you just take a dump all over it with an awful color grade that makes using HDR almost pointless.
I went with TCL MiniLED which has awesome contrast and deep blacks due to their newer backlight tech so it’s essentially a poor man’s OLED, and the films that actually used HDR/DV to their advantage look absolutely stunning. MI7’s opening with the submarine looks awesome with the contrast of the characters and their deep red and green displays illuminating the scene.
I haven’t heard the TCL miniLED. I’ll look into it. I saved up for OLED and then Best Buy had an awesome sale that they didn’t want to honor when I came to pick it up. I see now that Costco has the same price for bigger tvs. I’m guessing it’s because they have competition now? This was 4 years ago or something too that best buy tried to screw me. They honored it in the end, but there was a lot of hulabaloo going on with management.
I forgot exactly how it works but they essentially set the same price at every retailer, so a price drop is either a one off sale or everyone else also price dropped, hence why Best Buy is supposed to offer a price match.
For TCL, it was the QM8k, which has the new WHVA panel and a higher LED backlight density which makes it look like an OLED.
Only worth it if you can get it at a good price though (1-1.5k), otherwise you might find something better in the same price range at 2k and higher.
It’s even more stupid when you consider the availability of HDR and Dolby Vision.
Suddenly you have access to high quality color mapping features thst formerly relied on you using expensive film to ensure you get all the colors you want, both pre and post processing.
But then you just take a dump all over it with an awful color grade that makes using HDR almost pointless.
I went with TCL MiniLED which has awesome contrast and deep blacks due to their newer backlight tech so it’s essentially a poor man’s OLED, and the films that actually used HDR/DV to their advantage look absolutely stunning. MI7’s opening with the submarine looks awesome with the contrast of the characters and their deep red and green displays illuminating the scene.
I haven’t heard the TCL miniLED. I’ll look into it. I saved up for OLED and then Best Buy had an awesome sale that they didn’t want to honor when I came to pick it up. I see now that Costco has the same price for bigger tvs. I’m guessing it’s because they have competition now? This was 4 years ago or something too that best buy tried to screw me. They honored it in the end, but there was a lot of hulabaloo going on with management.
I forgot exactly how it works but they essentially set the same price at every retailer, so a price drop is either a one off sale or everyone else also price dropped, hence why Best Buy is supposed to offer a price match.
For TCL, it was the QM8k, which has the new WHVA panel and a higher LED backlight density which makes it look like an OLED.
Only worth it if you can get it at a good price though (1-1.5k), otherwise you might find something better in the same price range at 2k and higher.
Mine was $800 and a 48". Costco has a 55" at $899 for OLED.
I got a TCL QM7 55" 2 years ago and love it. TCL was very reasonably priced and it had good reviews. The HDR is great.