Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

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

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?

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.

Spent a few days and the weekend putting this TV through my daily use cases and there is mostly great things to say about the TCL QM8K. Colors, brightness, black levels and especially ease of use of the UI or menu systems and its explanations for each and every setting have all exceeded my expectations. I even appreciate that it has a tiny bezel with zero border (you do have to look close at your regular tv to notice most have borders). My main complaint that continues to bug me. This tv has an enormous foot/stand. It does not fit on either of my tv/media stands properly. Not an issue if wall hung. Aside from the stand size. The TV picture is great for premium streaming users. Still on the fence about the upscaling of over the air content. Also, the eARC is only HDMI 2.0 60HZ. My home theater receiver is HDMI 2.1 120hz and so is the PS5 and PC I also have connected. Read on if you don't mind long winded reviews or want more on my first few days using the QM8K. My use: My main TV is always on, as I work from home. Aside from watching shows and movies. I have a home theater receiver, PS5 and PC also connected. Basically I use it as a monitor. As I often have several static screens up for hours at a time. Mini LED has to suffice for daily use TV. My living room has several windows and light is an issue (I turn all ambient nannies off). Shipping/Packaging: I have bought many TV's over my 50+ years. TCL has packaged the QM8K far better than I have ever seen. My delivery was by freight truck. Came wrapped in plastic with thick edge guards on every side and corner. Even the regular box you likely will see in store if you pick up locally is far more robust that other brands. Lots of cardboard, Styrofoam and padding. This TV should arrive securely. I would say TCL could add pull tabs for the taped screen wrap on the frame as it was a bit harder to get the tape off to reveal the screen. Setup out of the box: This is straight forward. You do have to disassemble the stand a little to bolt it on the TV if not wall mounting (no wall mounts are included). The stand is mostly plastic with grooves to route cabling through it and can be mounted to TV with almost no gap or up to a few inches to get a very slim soundbar under it. Sadly, my 2 tv stands are 14 inches depth and the stand is 15 inches. This brings me to my major complaint. This stand might be for safety or from falling issues in the past. Or possibly I received a stand from a bigger tv, or more likely that the stand is designed to fit the entire line of tv sizes as a budget move. As I wanted this TV for a corner unit. I have it tilted a bit off axis of 45 degrees to see it from more rooms in my house. This required me to use shims to remove wobble as the rubber feet are not on a solid surface. Safety wise, large feet are probably good if you have earthquakes or kids/pets that might bump the TV. For me, its an eye sore that makes me ponder its place in my living room. Buyers with bigger furniture or wall mounting will not have this issue. Picture/Sound: This is why you are buying the QM8K. If you are a modern TV user and get your content from streaming services and mainly watch 4k or UHD content. Or even if you hook up a PC with a beefy graphics card or PS5. It really does look great out of the box. And most modes are decent with minimal tweaks. Many reviews talk about Filmmaker Mode as the set it and forget it. And it almost is for me too, but not for my over the air content. Overall, brightness and colors are excellent. In certain picture modes (9 to choose), blacks are good to great. I think the demo clips you often see on display models, is this TV's daily job when fed premium content. Should you need/want to to tweak the image quality. The menu systems is top notch. Each setting has a small window describing what that setting does. And if you use multiple HDMI ports. Each connected device can have its own picture mode saved per HDMI, or you get the set dialed in and make all HDMI ports the same. However, If you watch mostly over the air tv from local stations that are not NEXTGEN TV, or basic cable. FOR ME, the QM8K does not upscale to a level that beats the TV I want it to replace. It upscales streaming stuff pretty good, even media files on PC look good. But, shows recorded on my Tablo (DVR for local over the air TV), while still looking pretty good. Are off a bit and looked fake'ish. News casters or anyone wearing white clothing appears almost reflective or neon, possible blooming issue. I just can't dial it in, and the same show on Hulu does not have that issue. Maybe it is just my equipment or cables, but it is there and my wife sees it too. I hope to find an optimal mode or setting as we do several shows a week from the Tablo. I see many just tweaking the film makers mode and call it a day. Sound with the Bang & Olufsen speakers is good, potentially great, but as I put the TV in the corner and have a surround sound receiver. I will not rely on them or really rate them. I always prefer my audio to aim out to the seating area and these speakers seem to fire out the top and back of the set. It does get loud and no distortion was heard, so maybe you can get by without external speakers or sound bar. Final thoughts: I wish the set had all 4 HDMI ports the same HDMI 2.1 144HZ. Also, since TCL is hitting hard at the premium TV's in this price range. A heavy, but smaller steel foot would be greatly appreciated. Smaller remote would also be nice. Two final observations that may have no relation for some, but I noticed the remote works for basic functions on PS5 after its turned on, weird. And my tv in my bedroom (Samsung) now randomly turns on throughout the day since this TCL arrived. I can't pin this behavior down yet. If it is the TCL, it may become my secondary gaming display and sadly lose its main display position.

There are lots of things to like about the QM8K, from the OLED level blacks, to the near reference level colour, and I would say the only noticible thing that it lacks compared to the Bravia 9 is the power of the Bravia XR processor. At times, such as when you’re watching 4K youtube and a part comes up that requires a lot of image processing from the TV, the UI will begin to lag, but its just the youtube menu being a second or two behind, and then as soon as you exit the video or the app, its completely fine again, so its totally liveable, because realistically how often do you need to do something in the middle of a video, and also the 1 to 2 second delay is very easy to deal with as long as you have a little patience. The picture of the TV is perfect, close to reference, but the Bravia 9 will of course be more accurate, but the QM8K may look brighter and more vivid, so to some people, although the picture is less acurate than Bravia 9, it may look better to them on the QM8K. The zero border design is nice, as well as the overall design and aesthetics of the TV and accessories. Compared to the QM7K, you aren’t going to be totally blown away, like you were when you made the first few hundred dollar jump to get up to the QM7K, you’re paying for 1% differences with the QM8K, just like with the Bravia 9, because the point is that you truly care about how accurate your TV looks, and if you don’t care whether or not your TV is completely accurate, then the QM7K will be fine for you. To put arbitrary numbers to it, the QM7K will have near perfect colour and contrast 95% of the time, meaning 5% of the time, colours may be oversaturated, or you may get some blooming and break the OLED like immersion. The QM8K would be more like 99% of the time, as its not 100% reference accurate, despite being close, and if you know enough about the TV to know where its weak points for blooming are, then you’ll be able to see a little bit of blooming with content that specifically hits those points, but that’s extremely rare to be able to find to begin with, so unless you’re really trying to make the TV bloom or halo, it’s always OLED like precision, and the off angle blooming is much better than the QM7K as well, being near non existent on the QM8K.

I replaced a tcl series 6. I read reviews for months and originally decided to go with a lg OLED c5. The C5 's were on a great sale but my living room is very bright and I prefer a bright screen. The darkness of OLEDs gave me pause and the sensitivity to direct sunlight would have made the OLED purchase a risk. A source I trust rtings .com had a in-depth review of the QM8K . I compared that to other reviews and specs and it was a perfect fit. I use my Tv for console gaming, I have a PS5, Series X , and little used switch. The Qm8k's game mode is great with fast refresh rates and no lag. The intelligent picture adjusts to the lighting of the room. I am loving my TCL QM8K

I bought this for my son as his gaming TV, and I'm a little jealous! I have three QD-OLED's (77" S90D, 55" S95D, 65" A95L) and this QM8K is about 85% of the black levels and color volume, but twice as bright. He games competitively, and seriously loves it. I may buy an 85" for the man cave! It also sounds REALLY good, even has a bit of bass rumble!

I got this TCL MiniLED television to replace an 8 year old flat screen. I have another MiniLED TV in our family room and have been really impressed with that so I was excited to get this one. I had multiple issues with this TV. First, the audio is really bad. I expect audio to be sub-par on these newer TVs, but was hoping for better with the Bang & Olufsen speakers. No such luck. My wife and I both felt it was near unusable with the built-in speakers. That being said, I usually buy a sound bar for our TVs anyway since it makes such a big difference. The next issue I had was ghosting or motion blur. This is when you see trails behind fast moving images on the screen. The majority of the shows I watch on TV are sports related, so this was a huge issue for me. I was watching a baseball game and could see a white blue behind any thrown or hit balls. Initially, I thought I could eliminate it in the settings and I spent a long time trying different tweaks to the settings, but couldn't get rid of it. Perhaps there is a way to eliminate this, but it should be a lot easier to find if there is a setting. When we were watching anything other than sports, we never had an issue with motion blur, which is why I gave this a 3 star rating. I go to my primary TV to watch all sports now. On the positive side, the picture is very bright and colors display accurately. It has standard mounting options so I was easily able to install my existing mount onto the TV and hang it on the wall. It comes with GoogleTV operating system so getting that setup was relatively easy also. One other negative that I ran into was using a sound bar via the optical input. If you do this, the TV remote cannot control volume of the sound bar. This turns out to be pretty annoying since you need to keep two remotes around...one to control the TV (on/off, channel, etc.) and a separate one for the audio. I never had this issue on other TVs so I'm not sure if this is true for all TCL TVs or just this one. Overall, this TV is OK. Even though it has a football player on the box, it is not great for watching sports due to the motion blur. Watching everything else seems fine. Audio is also not great. For the suggested retail price and the issues is see with it, I would not recommend this TV.

I drank the kool-aid for all of the online reviews that talked about how good this set was. And it is a good set. The brightness and color reproduction are very good for a mid range set. However, this set (and it would appear most TCL sets) have issues with displaying a quality dolby vision image (the images look washed out). None of the Internet or YouTube reviews that I read discussed this. However, an AI search revealed this info. However, the set looks fantastic displaying HD and HD10+ video. I was ready to return the set because I use DV on my other two high sets and the images are top notch. However, once I attached an AppleTV 4K to the QM8K and set the output to HD/HD+, I was very impressed and decided to keep the set.

I have not had the TV very long, but so far it is impressive. Out of the box colors can vary by viewing mode, so it will require some tweaking, but it is bright. Sound is better than I expected but you do have to turn it up pretty high. I recommend at minimum a soundbar. Streaming 4k looks very good and HD sources can vary by where they are coming from. Very happy so far.

Deep colors and blacks. Very impressive for not being an OLED. Gaming looks and feels great.

Sharp, bright tv. Great reflection handling. Great off angle viewing. Quick responsive. I could go on, but for my purpose, worth every dollar . Best Buy always takes care of their purchases. I wouldn't buy a TV anywhere else.

Amazing brightness and picture quality ! You cannot purchase a tv comparable to this for anywhere near this price ! Definitely the number one best tv for the money out there !!

This tv is amazing, the sound, clarity, picture and brightness. Easy to set up. The tv does produce some heat from the screen but not too bad. I have watched movies, played games and I am so glad that I purchased this tv. Highly recommend.

The TV image and sound are great. Color and brightness are the best you can get for the money. Only disappointment was with the Google platform, which might not be an issue for some. I prefer the UI experience and voice assistance from Roku and Fire. I also enjoy Pluto app, which Google says is not compatible.

great picture quality and love the refresh rate. One smaller aspect that I like about it is the backlighting on the remote