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Sai Darsh K
September 11, 2020 at 6:00 pm
Damn 5 seconds ago
Austin Male
September 11, 2020 at 6:01 pm
2nd viewer
VideoGameFanatic2011
September 11, 2020 at 6:01 pm
Third
OneMinus
September 11, 2020 at 6:02 pm
Tcl makes good budget tv. Who agrees?
sherri moquin
September 11, 2020 at 6:22 pm
OneMinus me
412JFury
September 12, 2020 at 4:38 am
The best
412JFury
September 12, 2020 at 4:38 am
I would say they’ve moved into the mid-range category with this year’s 6 series.
WiCkeDsHoX
September 12, 2020 at 6:22 am
Hisense h9g
KANG AMIN VLOG
September 11, 2020 at 6:03 pm
Oke good friend
Danny Pearce
September 11, 2020 at 6:04 pm
Early
Danny Pearce
September 11, 2020 at 6:05 pm
This is everyone who thinks this is the best channel ever who agrees
👇
412JFury
September 12, 2020 at 4:42 am
Absolutely the most trusted, why you see the TCL 6 series as the best TV once again.
MikeyMay8
September 11, 2020 at 6:07 pm
Katz is back!
Joe
September 11, 2020 at 6:08 pm
You can get hbo max through Hulu. Idk why everyone misses this
0neofthem
September 11, 2020 at 8:38 pm
Unless something changed recently, Hulu and addons like HBO Max, do not support surround sound, which is a pretty big negative.
412JFury
September 12, 2020 at 4:36 am
1299 on special for a year… I just watched some Lovecraft country on this TV on the HBO Max XBox app. And my god did it look good
SunnyD
September 11, 2020 at 6:33 pm
Nice to see that David escaped the basement dungeon
Osama
September 11, 2020 at 6:36 pm
Hdmi 2.1?
David Cripe
September 11, 2020 at 7:06 pm
Nope. HDMI 2.0 with most of the 2.1 features. Missing 4k@120 and FreeSync.
412JFury
September 12, 2020 at 4:37 am
@David Cripe still has Vrr.
David Cripe
September 12, 2020 at 12:24 pm
@412JFury You are correct. That’s a 2.1 feature, but only up to 1440p on this TV and not full 4k (2160p) per the HDMI 2.1 spec.
Osama
September 13, 2020 at 4:33 am
Thanks so should I wait if I am solely getting it for gaming ?
David Cripe
September 13, 2020 at 12:12 pm
@Osama That’s debatable. Not many new games on those new consoles (PS5 and XBox) will take advantage of the missing HDMI 2.1 features like 4k@120 and FreeSync. It might take a couple of years for games to really start using those and right now TVs with HDMI 2.1 seems to be implementing it with issues (except those expensive OLEDs). Check around on Youtube about some issues other people have gaming on this TV. For the price though, this TV seems to have it all. If you need a TV for gaming, this is the best bang for the buck in my opinion.
Osama
September 13, 2020 at 6:52 pm
@David Cripe makes sense, thanks
Eleanor Ayala
September 11, 2020 at 6:38 pm
Fantastic 😍💋 💝💖♥️❤️
VulturePilot
September 11, 2020 at 7:23 pm
Good luck with that panel lottery
412JFury
September 12, 2020 at 4:42 am
Mine is perfect,, Jackpot.
WiCkeDsHoX
September 12, 2020 at 6:24 am
Ya I just got a Samsung q80 . Perfect imo idgaf about Dolby vision
Fernando Bayron
September 14, 2020 at 12:04 am
WiCkeDsHoX hahah no Dolby vision!
TrueFuture TV
September 11, 2020 at 9:47 pm
🙌🙌🙌
Christopher Alden
September 11, 2020 at 11:44 pm
Needs a center stand. I hate the side stands.
Angultra
September 12, 2020 at 7:29 am
Has a narrow mount option on the 65 / 75, probably the best we can hope for.
L.A. Gonzalez
September 12, 2020 at 2:09 pm
You can buy a generic one. I bought an lg last year that had similar wobbly stands, and I just bought a glass base stand from eBay. It looks great now, and I mounted it low profile, it almost looks like an lg oled, lol. I get asked all the time if it’s an oled, just cause people get faked out by the stand 😂
glbernini0
September 13, 2020 at 12:14 am
At least they are better than last year. Vizio Oled has a good center stand!
Sternkrieger
September 12, 2020 at 12:26 am
Nice, but I’m still saving up for an LG CX. Nothing beats OLED atm!
WiCkeDsHoX
September 12, 2020 at 6:21 am
Except burn in
dennis1908cubs
September 12, 2020 at 12:27 am
When will you review the new Vizio Oled?
Jamaica Social
September 12, 2020 at 2:08 am
Mr Katz are you gonna review the Hisense H9G? Every other review says its better than the TCL 6 series. I would love to get your hands on opinion sir
Jamaica Social
September 12, 2020 at 7:32 am
@stuyboy you don’t trust Z-Reviews?
L.A. Gonzalez
September 12, 2020 at 2:13 pm
@412JFury I agree. Also, the issue with rtings is that they put their tvs through unconventional stress tests that most people won’t view on their screens, and I think they weigh heavily on what scores they give. I bought a budget lg that they gave a horrible score to, because viewing angles were important to me. I found that most of the negatives they mentioned were non-existent in real world use.
John B
September 12, 2020 at 3:46 pm
412JFury not all those folks have said the TCL is the better TV and they may not be as nuts as Quantum but some of the reviewers you listed shouldn’t be taken all that seriously. It doesn’t seem like the enthusiasts between the two brands get along very well!
Jamaica Social
September 12, 2020 at 4:22 pm
@John B I was just gonna say this, actually none of them have said the TCL is better and few have compared the sets or even reviewed the Hisense in detail… They tend to give the nod to TCL for gaming and movie watching in HDR to Hisense. Anything visual is subjective, so it will always come down to preference. I’ve owned a TCL 5-series and now own the Hisense H8F and I’m very impressed by the picture quality both brands deliver for the price
E.M KING
September 13, 2020 at 12:53 am
@412JFury Finally someone has set the record straight! 100% agree with you.
Jamaica Social
September 13, 2020 at 4:24 am
@E.M KING who are you referring to?
Anthony Plays
September 13, 2020 at 7:04 pm
@Jamaica Social hes reffering to the person he is replying too
Krishnanshu Vishwas
September 12, 2020 at 3:40 am
can you guys make a video on all the type of tv like mini led and lcd, oled.
what are the differences and comparing them
Leigh Hargreaves
September 13, 2020 at 12:10 am
There are fundamentally two techniques for producing a picture: emissive and transmissive. Emissive technologies allow each individual pixel to produce (or “emit”, hence the name) it’s own light. Add together all the different colors being emitted from each pixel and you get a picture. Transmissive technologies instead pass (or “transmit”) white light (which contains all colors) through a filter that removes the colors that aren’t needed. So the pixels don’t actually make light, they remove unneeded colors from a white backlight (for example, if a pixel needed to show red, it would eliminate the green and blue).
OLED is an emissive technology, whereas LCD is a transmissive technology. Emissive technologies (OLED) are generally accepted to give you a better picture than transmissive ones (LCD). The big reason for this is that transmissive technologies can’t really display the color black. True “black” means a pixel produces no light at all. LCD filters can’t actually pass no light, they always pass at least a tiny bit of white (this is just a practical limitation of the technology). So if you see something that’s supposed to be black on an LCD panel, it will actually look a tiny bit grey due to the small amount of white passing through. This reduces the “contrast ratio” of the panel, which is the difference between the darkest black the TV can show and the brightest white. Lowering the contrast ratio makes the colors look less vivid and slightly washed out (although note I’m saying “slightly”, whether you can easily tell just watching normal content without two TVs side by side is another matter). It can also make it hard to see details in dark scenes (for example, if there’s something in a shadow). Because the “black” bits are actually grey, they look too similar to things that are meant to have just a little bit of light on them (i.e. are meant to be grey), making them hard to distinguish.
Emissive technologies don’t suffer this problem. Since each pixel makes it’s own light, if you want a pixel to show the color black, you just turn it off. So OLED TVs have inherently superior contrast ratios and usually better details in dark areas. Hence the best OLED’s generally produce a better picture than the best LCDs.
So, why bother with LCD? Well, OLED’s have a couple of drawbacks. The first is that the individual pixels don’t emit as much light as a proper backlight. So OLED’s don’t generally get as bright as an LCD panel. That matters if light is hitting the screen from open windows or room lights, the light on the screen makes the TV harder to see and can wash out the contrast ratio anyway. If the TV is capable of cranking up the brightness, it’s better able to overcome ambient light pollution. Another problem for OLEDs is that each pixel produces light by using electricity to ignite some organic material, which is basically burning something and accordingly degrades it. OLEDs therefore don’t usually last as well as LCDs. They should still last for years with care and normal usage, but a well cared for LCD can probably last decades (that advantage can be a bit moot, on average people elect to upgrade their TVs every 7 years or so, which is within the lifespan of an OLED, under normal usage). Another issue is that if you watch a lot of content with static images (things like network logos in the corner of the screen, or some computer games show a lot of static material), the pixels showing those areas get worn out even quicker, since they never get to power down or at least change to a different color. This can result in a phenomenon called “burn in”, where you basically see a permanent “ghost” of some image at all times. LCDs don’t suffer burn in, regardless of what they display. If you watch a variety of content burn in shouldn’t be a problem, but it means an OLED needs to actively cared for a bit more than an LCD. Finally, one of the REALLY big differences between LCD and OLED is price. OLEDs are complicated to manufacture. Generally speaking, for an LCD and OLED TV of similar size, quality and features, the LCD will be at least 30% cheaper than the OLED.
So, OLEDs have an advantage in picture quality and are probably the way to go for a home cinema setup. But they are also less durable and more expensive, and their biggest advantage can be reduced (or even lost entirely) when used in less than ideal viewing conditions (i.e. when it isn’t perfectly dark). So LCDs might be a better choice for a more “general purpose” TV.
So, what about “mini-LED”. Mini-LED is a type of backlight for LCD TVs (i.e. a “mini LED” TV is still an LCD TV). One of the things that some LCDs do to improve the picture is, instead of using a backlight that’s always on behind the entire image, they dim or even turn off the backlight behind sections of the screen that are trying to show black (or dark colors). This technique is called “local dimming” (or “Full Array Local Dimming”), and results in deeper blacks, improved contrast ratio and (depending on the quality of the implementation and the scene) better shadow detail. The shortcoming to this technique is we can’t manufacture backlights small enough for each individual pixel to have it’s own. Instead, the each backlight illuminates a small section of the screen, referred to as a “zone”. One thing this results in is a phenomenon called “blooming”. Blooming basically means that if you have a bright object on a dark background, the dark background looks brighter near the dark object, as the backlight behind it is on to illuminate the bright object, whereas in an adjacent zone the backlight might be able to be lowered or turned off entirely. This results in a “glow” around bright objects. The way to reduce blooming is to use a larger number of smaller, zones. Most local dimming panels use between a few dozen to a few hundred zones. “Mini-LED” is essentially an evolution of backlighting technology, allowing the backlights to be manufactured smaller than possible with conventional manufacturing techniques. This increases the number of possible zones a TV can employ to around a thousand or a few thousand. This reduce blooming on an LCD panels, closing the gap further with OLEDs (and ideally maintaining LCD’s price advantage).
The other term that get’s bandied around a lot in this space is QLED. QLED is another type of LCD panel. It uses a “quantum dot” layer between the backlight and the LCD filters that boosts the colors, allowing for more vibrant colors. But it’s fundamentally still an LCD panel.
Krishnanshu Vishwas
September 13, 2020 at 2:15 am
@Leigh Hargreaves exactly what i wanted, except for 1st 2 paras coz i actually know what lcd and oled is, its just the marketing term and everything that confuses, i mean if mini led is lcd then just say it, right?!
Leigh Hargreaves
September 13, 2020 at 2:45 am
@Krishnanshu Vishwas My bad, got a bit carried away there. You mentioned LCD and OLED in your original comment, so I thought you wanted something more basic.
But yes, mini-LED is just a type of LCD backlight, that’s all.
Krishnanshu Vishwas
September 13, 2020 at 3:04 am
@Leigh Hargreaves thx for such a great explaining ☺
412JFury
September 12, 2020 at 4:43 am
This is by far the best LED TV that I have ever laid my eyes on as well. It’s getting very close to OLED level blacks. The blacks are as close as the ones on my AMOLED S9 plus screen.
E.M KING
September 13, 2020 at 12:51 am
Interesting….
Roc
September 13, 2020 at 11:57 pm
How much did u pay?
Brian Delgado
September 12, 2020 at 7:49 am
Still not as good as the Hisense H9G
Mohammad Ghauri
September 13, 2020 at 3:33 pm
try testing some content on netflix hdr and dolby vision and you’ll see a red blur. especially test umbrella academy
Ben rockz
September 12, 2020 at 9:53 am
DISGUSTING
David Ambroladze
September 13, 2020 at 7:24 am
Is this what passes for a review these days? Don’t buy this before you check out Hisense H9G, it’s not even close.
randy suess
September 13, 2020 at 12:52 pm
TCL is a very good budget friendly TV, but why oh why didn’t Hisence release the H9g in a 75 inch size??
dean2663
September 13, 2020 at 3:04 pm
So the TCL 6 is better than Sony 900H?
GenreOnline
September 13, 2020 at 7:12 pm
Actually it looks like you fixed up the basement if the stone brick wall left is the basement wall.