Customer Ratings & Reviews

Where to Begin, right? Let me start off by saying welcome and if my direct points can help one person finalize their thoughts on spending then this was worth my time. TV Model: TCL 65QM8K This was the TV I really knew I needed: OPERATING SYSTEM: Google TV (Excellent) * 1st time owner of this operating system / user interface. + Select Wired or Wifi, Can't do both. + Check TV's updates, (latest is Ver 313 Android 14) + Keep your favorite apps updated. + Google Voice assistance is so needed and very Useful * Turn off all Eco picture settings before diving in. PICTURE: This is why I made this decision. (Superb) * Google firmware vers 313 really provided an outstanding out of the box job. It will dl on 1st day of powering up. So I look fwd to future update improvements and new additions + Your Eyes & Emotion will make you relive your day of watching 4th or July Fireworks. It's that incredible feeling that makes it all worth it. + Bright, Colorful, Various Picture Modes & Preferences + Dolby Vision, HDR10+, SDR, Console. PC + Youtube videos for specific picture content will amaze you + Upgrade your streaming 4K providers, Netflix, Disney+ etc. + Cable TV, I suggest use a external streaming device. You can always finetune your visual settings. Just remember you limited to lower quality imagery. But you can certainly achieve satisfactory status for all Movies, News, Live Sports & TV shows. - I don't use over the air antenna although I should try cause this model offers free over the air High Def content. Connectivity: HDMI & Devices. (Better than Good) - Should have had four 2.1 Hdmi ports instead of port #1 & #2 + eARC port #4 is for your soundbar / receiver SETTINGS: Don't be afraid, Welcome & Test your Choices + It ok to visit more than once, don't be a stranger + It's ok to feel overwhelmed at 1st glance or use + Read, Learn, Try, Enable/Disable Move buttons, + Make Mistakes, Challenge your curiosity + Factory Reset is welcomed and Redoing will be Satisfying. * Time spent is Time worth. TV AUDIO (Better than most, but your ears deserve more) * In this day and age streaming sites and playing discs offer so much more than stereo. Immerse yourself with SOUND. + External speaker source is highly recommended. - TCL has to show actual numbers when +/- volume. It's a huge disappointment not to automatically visualize it, but you can ask Google and it will tell you where your set volume sound is actually at. QUALITY & PERFORMANCE: (Impressive) QM8K is Marquee + The build is certainly a sky jump over the QM7K + Performance wise don't let QM7K (great tv by the way) owners downplay the all around seriousness of the QM8K by saying it's not much of an increase. It's just a way to solidify reasonings and bending of wallet. Overall: Im all bout QD-MiniLED QM8K * I would not think twice of what this price has offered. I have nothing but enjoyment using this brand and upgraded model. Best part is I'm still learning what hidden power(s) I can unleash and what TCL/Google has instore for future firmware wise. + Is there better TV's out there? Yes sure, but not for the price and all around performance you actually will be receiving + As a Bestbuy plus member, I will be adding my Geek Squad 5 year protection really soon cause investing and resting your tech worries is just added comfort to your health. REGRETS: I didn't get the 75" * No I'm Serious, Don't be like me if you have the space and the wallet don't even hesitate. The 75" will outperform this 65" in more ways than you think. B-EZ and Happy Holidays PS. The 5 images are captured from Mobile> QM8K> Cable SDR form. So again, embrace and welcome your settings. The more you visit them the more easier it will become which will lead to bigger and better visuals.

Bright, colorful, and has a very good contrast. I got it for my living room that has three huge windows. And it does not disappoint. It can easily overcome the sunlight hitting the room and is very vivid. If you watch in a dark room or can prevent direct light from hitting TV consider OLED but this one is better for very bright rooms daytime viewing.

I am happy with the tv for the sale price. It has good sound and picture. I would not want to spend too much more than qm7, as it not really noticeable better with standard content. This tv also does not to great with poor quality content, my much older cheaper tcl does a better job on items not in HD, but with full resolution content, it is very good. I wish the sound leveling was better, but it better than my other tvs, but still cannot hear voices without obnoxiously loud commercials and sound effects. I paid $800 like new open box, I dont think is worth more than that over a qm7 or even qm6. The bright room viewing is much improved over my budget tvs, but not as great as I expected, but considering the about the brightest tv you can buy, i dont there is anyway to do better. I do really like this tv. I cannot see a reason to buy a tv over 2k when this option exist. Does have better than standard bass with the subwoofers. I like the tv for the price for sure, best value for upper range picture, but is it needed? If this was not a special deal, qm7 is probably the optimal choice.

This TV is absolutely amazing! It was easy to set up and could be done by 1 strong person, but I would recommend a helper. The setup was easy and the contrast, black levels, and vibrant colors are perfect out of the box. This TV can go head to head with an OLED screen. I’m happy we purchased this flagship model for at least a decade of premium TV viewing. The Bang & Olfsen sound system was better than our stand alone sound system added to the old TV setup, so we prefer the integrated sound now.

Amazing TV. Sound is too quiet though. Not as punchy as the audio on newer premium Hisense TV. OTA works well. I get good high quality feed from my TV antenna. Gaming is superb, and the low input lag is amazing. Can't feel any delay. I overall recommend this TV.

I had a Sony Bravia but it was bought in 2019 and was only a 6hz panel. While that TV is still great I caught this on sale for 1300 and it is worth the money. Excellent picture and gaming features. While the sound is okay I would still recommend a sound bar. Added pictures after calibration.

I made a good decision purchasing this tv the colors are amazing when gaming and watching NFL also the sound system this TV has is awesome it get loud if you want it to. You really don’t need a sound bar. This tv is for my room but I’m going to get a bigger one for my living room

TV is great, only issue which is more of a general issue is on a bigger TV dark scenes are more grainy, but this has more to do with filming than the TV. Games and modern 4k are beautiful. Fantastic brightness during the day. Wish there were better built in tools for audio sync with sound bar.

It’s a very good tv, I really like the quality, the quality is good for the price

I was impressed by the image quality and the brightness; all of that, combined with the price, made this a great deal. I definitely recommend it.

Just got the TV and love it. Really good picture and had excellent service when purchasing.

It has great blacks and is very vivid color wise i really like the fact you can adjust the nits brightness and it can help it look a lot mor vivid . It also pairs well with PS5. And pcs are with light on and with light off the anti glare is really nice.

i love this tv. i can't say enough good things about it.

This tv is siiiiick! Feels like I am in a movie theatre with this ultimate buy! So maxing.

WOW. Did I mention WOW? The colors on this TV pop. Bright and beautiful colors. Amazing colors. That is the first thing you notice. Black levels are great too and make the colors pop. Viewing was still great from other viewing angles too. We installed this on our existing wall mount and it worked fine. Lots of room for wall mount configuration. You will need 2 strong people to lift the box and install the TV on a wall mount – it weighs about 50 lbs. and is big. The power cord is on the left side of the TV (when looking at it from the front). It even reached the floor wall mounted. Our old TV was on the right side and a shorter cord. The metal bezel around the edge is very minimal and allows for the TCL Zeroborder. It makes the screen really stand out and not like you are just looking at a TV. Viewing was great from other viewing angles too. There are 4 HDMI ports (2 support HDMI 2.1), an Ethernet, USB-A 3.0, USB-A 2.0, coaxial cable and an optical audio out for connecting. You can also connect your headset via Bluetooth. Movie mode was optimal for viewing almost everything. There are several other modes to try; Sports mode was also stunning. The refresh rate (144 Hz) is excellent. Another nice feature is that it upconverts old TV shows and movies and really enhances them. Great for watching MeTV. The only drawback was sound. It has 85W Bang & Olufsen speakers on the back side. But to really hear the TV you need the volume over 50%. Our old TV was fine at 15%. The sound was very good but not great. Google Assistant and Alexa are built in. There is a auto game mode setting for gaming and it was very good. We only tried it for about an hour and really like it. There is a pop-up gaming bar. 144Hz is the max gaming rate. Some key specs: TCL Halo Control System and QD-Mini LED 4K UltraHD Resolution HDR ULTRA with Dolby Vision IQ, HDR10+, HDR10, & HLG Up to HDR5000 Brightness Wi-Fi 6 Google Chromecast Built-in Auto Game Mode (ALLM) with AMD FreeSync Premium Pro The included remote works well and is easy to hold. Highly recommended. Did I mention that the colors pop?

Great service, item is exactly what i expected. Its even better then i hoped. Excellent assistance on pick up.

I’ve been looking for a new TV for the last few months and the TCL 65” QM8k QD-mini LED QLED 4K UHD Smart TV is one of the most impressive units I’ve seen! Their Zeroborder design looks cool, but I’m a sucker for minimal bezels on most electronics. The color scheme is vibrant, bright, and punchy. The black levels are deep! I don’t think I’ve owned a TV that could really deliver blacks so well. I wall-mounted it on an adjustable mount, and it looks incredible in my living room. This was also the first time I was able to leverage eARC connectivity! High-quality audio output through a single HDMI cable makes using the built in smart features with my existing surround sounds system a breeze. Another plus for me is the high refresh rate. The TV handles gaming exceptionally well. The high refresh rate makes for a smooth gaming experience at up to 144hz. However, no product is without its flaws. While the motion handling is generally good, there were a few instances of slight motion blur during or choppiness with high speed scenes during streaming. It’s not a deal breaker for me, but it’s something to be aware of. I think this could probably be adjusted in the settings, but I haven’t had a chance to tweak those too much. I’m a huge fan of the TCL 65” QM8k. I think it’s a solid choice for anyone looking for a high-quality TV with great features and integrated Google TV. Whether you’re streaming or gaming I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.

I just wrapped up 5 days of use with this TV. I am an OLED Junkie. I decided to take a chance on this TV for my bedroom and received it on a Monday, writing this on a Friday. __________________________________________________________________________ This is a two-person set up. So, make sure you do have some help. Installation itself could have been a little better. The instructions for the stand were a little confusing at first, so make sure not to jump ahead. I do like that TCL gives different adjustments to installing the TV stand depending on how high up you want the TV to sit. __________________________________________________________________________ Anyways, back to the meat and potatoes. As I stated, I am an OLED guy. I was a little nervous getting this TV but, I am big Google TV OS guy. I saw some hype built around the QM8K and how it could potentially compete with OLED panels, and let me just say, they weren’t kidding. For being non-OLED, the black levels are incredible. With the lamp on in my room or off, the sun slightly shinning in from my window, it truly blows me away how deep the blacks with natural light or in a dark room. __________________________________________________________________________ The black levels aren’t the only impressive things, as the colors themselves POP. Everything is vibrant, the color schemes are fantastic. TCL’s software also does a really great job at identifying content and showcasing image quality greatly. If you are someone who doesn’t want to tinker around with color schemes and settings, the default options and modes offered will still be the eye candy you’re looking for. Vivid mode, filmmaker mode, sports, standard, a good amount to pick from. You can adjust gamma levels, contrast levels, brightness, make the black levels even deeper. I haven’t noticed any motion blur, judder or jelly effect, picture quality just top notch. I don’t really play video games anymore, but I’m half tempted to bring one of my consoles to the bedroom just to test it out on this beauty since I know it’s capable of unleashing all the gaming power visuals I need. __________________________________________________________________________ I want to touch on another review from another reviewer on this product. I saw they had a lot of negative things to say about the sound/audio quality. I am not sure if they have a defect out of the box or might be a setting issue, but I am completely stunned by the stock speakers. Hands down, without a doubt, THE BEST speakers I have ever had come standard in a TV. When you see the Bang and Olufsen logo, you recognize it for its sound quality. Obviously, a lot of companies use marketing tactics and partnerships with some of these brands as selling points, but whatever the case is here, all I can say is, these are the best I’ve experienced. Sound is crisp, clear, STRONG, great bass to it for being stock speakers. You have a lot of options to customize the sound settings too. TCL has this ‘Beosonic’ setting tool you can use to customize the type of vibe you want with your sound. Along with this, you still have your settings like theater/movie mode, sport, and so forth, along with adjusting treble and bass in general. I like the nice touch on the backside of the TV showing the sharp silver design of the B&O speakers. __________________________________________________________________________ The last thing I want to touch on is TCL’s Zeroborder. It’s extremely impressive. I lined it up with a 25cent coin and it almost matches its thinness. The structure in general is very well put together. The picture and image quality of the TCL QM8K is not only visually appealing, but the design itself that TCL put together for this series of televisions is also visually appealing. I will end by saying that this is the very first TCL television I have ever had. It won’t be my last, and I feel confident in recommending this to my friends and family.

I’ve spent a week using the TCL QM8K 65” TV with 4K mini LED display at a 144 Hz rate, and I have been very impressed by this flat screen TV! Not only is the picture unbelievably bright, with a panel able to reach 5,000 nits, the contrast at 30 million to 1 provides some of the best, vibrant images and darkest blacks I have seen in a TV. And TCL is able to do this at a low cost, with the 65” TV being quite affordable. Streaming is the name of the game so far, and the QM8 has the ability to be used as a Google TV and all of the streaming apps are at your fingerprints. Whether watching Netflix, the Lifetime Movie Club, or streaming movies from a personal Plex TV account, the processor in the QM8K impressed with its snappiness, opening apps immediately without hanging up or glitching. Images were fantastic, and definitely a step up over my one-year old LCD display that had edge-lighting. This mini-LED panel is really something else when it comes to high-definition imaging. And when most built-in speakers are considered an afterthought, TCL has taken things to a new level by installing Bang and Olufsen sound. When I first unboxed the QM8K, I was wondered what the small disks on the back of the TV were until I looked closer at them and noticed they were speakers. Generally, I’d mark such things off to marketing more than usefulness, but I stand corrected in this case. The speakers on the QM8K get loud, and they sound great. So much so, that I disconnected the soundbar I was using with the TV. Deep, rumbling bass, and crystal clear sound are how I would describe these built in speakers. Some other items to note: 4 HDMI inputs, which is absolutely fantastic, a game mode that really brings out the definition in the 4K games that we tried playing on it, Dolby Vision, WiFi 6, Apple AirPlay 2 and Google Chromecast are some of the other inclusions. All in all, an amazing value.

I bought this TV to replace a 2017 Sony XBR900E that was still working perfectly but was needed in another room. The TV is in a bright room opposite a large patio door and skylights so needed a bright TV and in addition to being used for "Movie Nights" using high resolution streamed content it is often on for large parts of the day on news and sport channels via cable and I didn't want to be thinking about OLED issues with burn in, automatic panel dimming for white background content, and ongoing panel deterioration every time I used it, so I focused on higher end mini-LEDs despite the shortcomings with viewing angle that seem to be intrinsic to the panel technology used for them. I had bought a Bravia 7 for my daughter last Spring and liked the brightness and picture quality but was very disappointed in its viewing angle even when watching from a wide couch at around 12 feet from the Bravia 7 in her living room and it has terrible light reflection. This TCL QM8K promised to have a slightly better viewing angle, even more brightness, and better local dimming than the Bravia 7, and was even being favorably compared to the Bravia 9 in many respects. Reviews had raised concerns about color accuracy as delivered and with changes of brightness in high definition mode as well as poorer upscaling than the Sonys. The displays of this TCL in the Best Buy stores near me seemed to be intentionally making it look terrible with excessive brightness settings that were crushing all detail and horrible color accuracy. It felt like they were deliberately not being adjusted so as to shift customer attention to the nearby Sony, Samsung, and LG TVs that were displaying content strategically designed to play to their strengths. There is also always the issue of reliability but even the recent Sonys seem to have had some challenges in that arena, so service contracts from a reliable vendor like Best Buy are mandatory on all TVs of this type these days. The alternative Bravia 9 I would have otherwise gotten remains far too expensive. So, when the price of this TV briefly dropped to < 1K I bit the bullet and gave it a try. Thus far, during the first couple of weeks of operation, this QM8K has met all my expectations. As advertised, it is bright. It handles the room reflections adequately, better than the Bravia 7. It's wide angle viewing is better than the Bravia 7. What I have been most pleasantly surprised about is the color rendition. For the first week I was able to keep it adjacent to my old Sony XBR 900E and ran both simultaneously from an HDMI splitter. Out of the box without any color adjustments or other changes except disabling 'Adaptive Brightness' the TCL had color accuracy and saturation that to the eye looked as good or better than the Sony. I might eventually do more systematic testing, but for now the TV looks too good to take time away from just enjoying content on it. The various built in picture modes are easy to access from the remote and the menu that comes up across the bottom of the screen but hasn't required frequent changes from the defaults the TV chooses. There are 'Intelligent' versions of some of the modes that work well. Dolby Vision (common on Apple TV+ and Disney+) works great. 720P and 1080p cable content look great. Upscaling of cable was not noticeably different from the Sony XBR900E. The automatic recognition by the TV of content of different resolutions is perfect and, nicely, it briefly shows the resolution of the content on the screen when it changes. Motion clarity settings are straightforward and allow footballs to fly smoothly without compromising non-sports content. Remote is excellent and backlit. The TV is connected via its eARC port to a receiver with a 5.1 speaker system, but for the first week, while testing it, I used the built in speakers. They weren't the loudest, but sound quality was excellent for built-ins, comparable the Bravia 7, which has a good built in speaker system. Voices and picture are well synchronized using the eARC output. I have a UHD Blu-Ray Player connected and DTS sound from those discs works fine. So, all in all, very pleased up to this point. Hopefully it will be reliable.