Customer Ratings & Reviews

Really excellent tv. The qm8k series is what’s it’s made out to be. Coming from an OLED guy, it is 90 percent, if not more, there. Blacks are very deep. Blooming is none to not noticeable minimum. I don’t have to worry about whites bleeding through the blacks. Colors are rich and vibrant. The nit rating is exceptional, and in reality it is! I can’t have the backlight at 100% and watch content comfortably in my living room setting. It’s at 70% to 80% max. And in a completely dark room, 30% when playing on the ps5. It will excel for people who place this tv in a bright room. I have 0 complaints about this tv. Looking to eventually upgrade to a 75” size in this same model or, if in my budget, to a 77” oled.

This thing is bright. Out of the box settings are vivid at a hundred percent brightness, it will burn your retinas out. I am in a semi dark room with two lamps , burning 6500k bulbs and the screen looks like I have 2 lighthouses in my room. It's a mirror. Be assured this is not an OLED and the upscaling leaves something to be desired. Using directv @1080i. Out of the box, this thing needs to be calibrated I found some settings online and that helped fix some issues. Still , this thing is bright in a semi dark room. Bright spots on the screen can seem to be washed out. Blacks are good but somewhat crushed. Like I said, this is no OLED coming from an eight year old LG B7 I was expecting more after seeing reviews on line. I had experienced burn in on the LG twice and did not want to go through that again.So I was looking for a mini led to bypass that aggravation. Now here's the rub I have an older Onkyo TX-SR805 receiver that worked fine with my LG tv, through the toss link (Optical) cable. Hooking up my new TCL QM8K with the same cable, I was only able to get 2 channel stereo no 5.1 surround. I tried everything finally called TCL twice and was on the phone for over an hour each time, only to be told that it would not provide 5.1 through the optical cable. This really bummed me out. I guess my old receiver that I bought eighteen years ago was not future proof, so I'll be looking for a new one. One of the TCL "technicians" told me I should buy a different tv. This should not be an issue as, like I said my LG worked just fine through the optical cable. I guess technology has just bypassed me.

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

This TV rocks! Vibrant colors, super bright and deep enough blacks for a non-OLED TV. I have it on a wall in a bright lit room during the day, and it performs admirably. There are a ton of customizable settings but keep it simple and you won't be disappointed. A great buy at an incredibly affordable price for the performance.

Moved up from a 15 year old HD LCD tv. The picture is awesome. I am not very knowledgeable about all the settings, so pretty much using as right out of the box and still very happy with the picture quality (color, brightness, and sharpness). I just use the presetting for the various picture and sound modes. For me, the speakers are more that adequate and a big improvement from what I have had in the past. I am not interested in having a separate sound system and see no need unless you have a room set up as a home theater. The Dolby Vision and Sound are great to me. Infrequently, I do notice some pixelating when streaming 720p or 1080p. I looked at many reviews and this TV was supposed to have better than average upscaling. Maybe many other comparable TVs for the price would be the same or worse including the QM6K and QM7K.

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.

Tv is bright. Almost too bright on vivid and standard settings. Colors are outstanding. No viewing angle issues anywhere in large room. Wife and kids mostly watch movies and I use for sports. No motion issues at all. Only negative is I cannot seem to figure out how to pair this tv with my Xfinity remote

This TV delivers all the features I have found in various reviews. It was relatively easy to install the stand. The TV provides great amount of brightness and color, and it works well with my Apple TV streaming device. The smart TV OS itself works very well for streaming. Thus far I am very pleased with this product and happy I purchased it rather than the Samsung OLED TV I had considered, primarily because of fear of OLED burn-in. To my eyes it is very competitive with the OLED.

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.

Amazing picture and wide veiwing angles. Bought this instead of Oled because of its brightness and it delivers. Only con would be remote battery needs to be replaced often.

Great tv picture bright has great sound easy to set up would recommend purchase of tv also would recommend tlc tvs

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.

Great Picture, Brightness is amazing, even the blacks are great, awesome TV all around, highly recommended.

My 65” Hisense died and parts are no longer available so after much research I settled on the QM8. After a few tweaks it presents a remarkable picture. So close to my 77” Sony OLED in black and shadow detail with eye watering color and brightness. 4k HDR looks spectacular and for the money on sale over Thanksgiving it was a great buy.

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 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.

Very impressive picture and sound. I use it with Roku Streaming device and it an excellent combination. I had a minor issue with one HDMI port blacking out for just a second every few minutes. I contacted TCL customer support and they are excellent. They continually follow-up daily to be sure that the issued got resolved (it did).

It was time to replace a 10 year old LG 50” and after researching TLC and Hisense mini-led TVs, I drove an hour to the closest Best Buy to see them in person before making a decision. I had already decided that 65” was the largest for the room and $1100 was the most I wanted to spend. It was between the Hisense U8 and the TCL QM8K. Prices were comparable so it was down to visual preference. The TCL won out because in standard mode, the TCL was brighter and contrast was better in my eyes. The room it was going into is bright during the day so screen brightness was important. Now that the TV has been in our home for two weeks, I am very pleased with my decision. Although it was not the final factor, the TCL was on sale for $100 less. BTW, sound quality was not a factor since I run a streaming box into an AV receiver.

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

I got this TV on sale for $999. At that price, I find it to have an excellent picture with a little fine tuning. However, the shiny surface of the screen reflects everything behind you. I find that very odd in a supposedly high end set. The remote is garbage. It doesn't even have number keys for direct channel selection when watching broadcast TV. The remote on my LG TV had a pointer you could use by pointing and clicking. With this remote, you have to click click click over and click click click up and down to make selections. It's a pain in the neck. The buttons are also not embossed or raised so you can't really tell what you are pressing without looking. The stand takes up so much room, I had to balance my sound bar on it and the soundbar blocks reception of the remote. The little subwoofers on the back of the set are inline with the screw holes for the mounting brackets so you have to find a specific size bracket if you want to wall mount the TV. The sound adjustments are rather limited and I narely notice any difference in the different pre-canned sound settings. I find the sound leveling capabilities to be very poor. I am back to getting blasted by commercials or when changing sources. My previous TV (LG Nanocell 9 series) magically leveled the sound over all sources. I wish this TV did as well. If I had to pay any more than $999, I would most likely be very disappointed in this TV. Its main redeeming factor is a beautiful and bright picture with very deep blacks and amazing color, providing the source is very high resolution. The TV does a horrible job of displaying lower resolution pictures.