Nothing Else Like It! | TCL 115-inch QM8 TV Review

[@Caleb_Denison]

Hey everyone! Important notes: This TV is currently over-brightening content and TCL is not only aware, but working on a fix. If you look at the Calman charts, the color temp in greyscale is fine, and the colors hit their coordinate targets fine, but the issues are in the luminance, where they are brighter than the target. Thanks to a tip from Classy, I was able to confirm the TV does not do this in Game mode. Furthermore, turning off local dimming corrects all luminance errors. I have the fix for the luminance shift bug I showed in hand, and will be reporting the fixes once completed. The good news in all of this is that the hardware is fully capable of accuracy, the new AIPQ processor used here just needs to be updated to target accuracy if that’s what TCL wants. That the Tv simply overbrightens beyond spec is not the worst thing in the world, as it just comes off more vivid, but without white balance or colors looking off. Still, for $20K, it needs to have one accurate mode outside of Game mode, and that’s what I hope to see.

[@MJasonUK30]

My 98" QM8 calibration is what Classy is referencing here! Classy is an AMAZING calibrator! The EOTF was wonky everywhere except Game mode and there are some other crazy bugs currently but WOW does she get bright (5500 nits for the 98") and black levels are amazing! I'm running a 2.6 gamma and 48 black level to eliminate wash out which creates some crush but I like the almost-OLED blacks in that trade-off! Thanks Caleb and Classy!

[@Sas-wk9lj]

lol, first liability talk and now this....sounds like it wasn't a great experience after all 😉

[@evilbeaver1353]

Thank you for the review, but what I'm concerned about is why you have a picture of a naked guy on your shelf.

[@Caleb_Denison]

@@evilbeaver1353 Not naked, just topless. That’s the Herbie Man Push! Push! record, considered a groundbreaking moment for jazz flute in its time. While it’s fair to question the taste in album art from the period, there’s no denying the music it represents is historic.

[@Caleb_Denison]

@@MJasonUK30 was super happy to hear Classy’s account of your TV’s calibration!

[@heftyfunseeker9987]

I built my dedicated room around the LG 97 G2 and have been absolutely loving it. If this was released at the same time I would have seriously considered it though. What a time to be alive!

[@notsorandumusername]

That's a tv that was never talked about enough. A 97" OLED!

[@heftyfunseeker9987]

@@notsorandumusername it’s absolutely fantastic. I love seeing all these new big tvs. I went from: 120” front projection setup -> 77” OLED -> 83” OLED -> 97” OLED. I think I’ll just hold out for microled to come down in price… or wait for a 115” oled 😂

[@Spealer]

10:12 You really made that 65 Inch TV look like a 27 inch monitor lol

[@Sas-wk9lj]

dude, comparison sucks. A 200" TV in near future will make this 115" like a 65" TV. Enjoy the content not size.

[@The2ndavepete]

It was shocking the difference. Really get an idea of the scale.

[@Datenschutz_Datenschutz]

same at 14:16 lol

[@Spealer]

@@Sas-wk9lj ? I mean yes, if you compare the earth to the sun, the earth is small, but it’s actually still big

[@Sas-wk9lj]

@@Spealer exactly my point, the 65" 4K TV on its own is quite big when you're watching from a distance of 5-6 ft, so I don't know what you're trying to prove here.

[@Pete.across.the.street]

I wish they would just leave the speakers out and knock a couple grand off the price. Most people use an AVR and much better speakers anywways.

[@d3vp131]

Those itty bitty speakers/sub won’t be a couple of grand off. If it was it’s still $25k+ for a tv that will make streaming content look worse

[@DS-wb2we]

And the legs

[@halfvader8015]

@@DS-wb2we The legs are extra/separate. They did leave them out.

[@gb3496]

The 115" QM8 is $20,000 - the 98" QM8 is $5,000 ...

[@thenonexistinghero]

In Europe it's €24K for the big one and €7K for the small one. The 85 inch Sony Bravia 9 is €5K in Europe. All of these prices include tax though Anyhow, I can only conclude that pricing across regions is just weird. For some stuff it's significantly cheaper in Europe while other stuff is significantly more expensive.

[@michael-4k4000]

Buy 4 98"s

[@troudefion7069]

That's ridiculous the real price for that size should be 6.000€ or $... There's no big difference between 98 and 115, 20.000€ or $ should be a 400" tv size normaly

[@exhibitD79]

Same say 17" is pretty .., big....

[@thenonexistinghero]

@@troudefion7069 There actually is a pretty big difference in manufacturing cost. Making sure a 115 inch panel fits the same standard as a 98 inch one is costly and will likely result in far more panels being thrown away due to not meeting the standard. It'll be another year or 2 before the process is streamline enough to make a TV that size affordable. Just look at OLED. The 80+ inch ones used to be almost impossible to make. And just recently they've started to become very slightly affordable, but the 80+ inch versions of OLEDs are still like $2000-$3000 more expensive than the 77 inch versions of that same TV.

[@pdutta2000]

THANK YOU!! Putting that 65” tv in front really shows the scale of this tv. AMAZING!!!

[@GamezGuru1]

It was a 55

[@dsoprano13]

It also shows how big those tower speakers are. They are not dwarfed by the TV.

[@ShaneNA01]

@@GamezGuru1 Watch again. He says its a Sony A95L. Checking online, these come in 55" and 65". For some reason 77" is listed with a price but there is "No such model"..

[@PietroPizzi]

Im an electrical enginieer and can help you with the heat question: It's totally easy for any TV, or any electrical device for that matter. Near ANY electrical power you put into it from your wall outlet ends up as heat in your room (minus the light energy that goes out the windows, but that's not much). So you can just buy a cheap energy-messuring socket and take that value (W for the power (energy-stream) or kWh for the total amount of engery for the entire movie (if you reset that value to 0 before staring it).

[@UTeewb]

I'm just some guy and am amazed the reviewer did not know this lol

[@greggleswong]

"...laying down your credit card." More like calling your bank to wire the money over! 😂

[@mmjohns2705]

Depends on the card, maybe for him it’s not out of the realm of normal 😂

[@Nirvanatone]

Size does matter. All "traditional" seating distances from tiny 65" TV's is dated. 100"+ is the new king. Also it definitely demands higher quality media (4k bluray, 4k streaming with high bitrate). Will be excited to replace my 4k laser projector with one of these once the price comes down!

[@ArtbyOscarMejia]

Wouldn’t a tv that size benefit from an 8k resolution? I feel like paying 20 grand for a 4k tv is just not good move.

[@Sas-wk9lj]

there's no technology today, that can upscale low bit rate low resolution content to look like a good 1080p, let alone 4K or 8K. It'd look even crappier if they tried to over process something. p.s. There'll never be a technology that could convert a 240p, 480p or 720p content to a 4K like original quality. Forget it. I can easily see impurities and loss of depth in picture when a 1080p content is upscaled to 4K.

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

​@@Sas-wk9ljHe's not talking about upscaling. He's talking about the fact that a TV with that screen size should/would benefit from 8K. $20,000 for 4K at that size makes little to no sense.

[@Sas-wk9lj]

@@PSYCHOV3N0M What's the point of having 8k TV when 70% content out there is HD, 25% FHD, 4.9% UHD and 0.1% 8K and beyond? Thanks for your TV mentoring, but no thanks.

[@NexGenTek]

@@Sas-wk9ljBecause the bigger you go the more the tv looks softer and feels less sharp. 8K makes a difference!

[@dllemm]

@@Sas-wk9ljdon’t watch low quality content? Plenty of new media.

[@EmblemParade]

Size = cinematic immersion. Always choose size over everything else. I had quite a size journey myself: for years used projectors and had wonderful 100", then got jealous of TV features and moved to a 77" OLED, and then realized how much I missed the big size, so now I'm at 83" OLED but still feel deprived of a few inches. :)

[@marklabonte2925]

My wife says the same thing to me

[@EmblemParade]

@@marklabonte2925 Glad you provide your wife with cinematic immersion! I recommend a real-life relationship, too, even if out-of-the-box color accuracy suffers. :p

[@Sas-wk9lj]

cinematic immersion is due to the quality of the content, not the size. You saw Seinfeld clip, what immersion did you see there?

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

​@@Sas-wk9ljIt's not just one over the other. You wouldn't understand if you've never been to a 1570 IMAX theater.

[@bluered3228]

I'm still using a 92 inch DLP because I didn't want to go down in size. I figure they'll either come out with 98 inch OLED for less than a new car or micro-led eventually.

[@jb7753]

Thank god it's $19,999 and not $20,000. I can buy 2 of them now.

[@DavidJones-ds1hy]

😂

[@coder543]

On the topic of how much heat it puts out, the objective metric would be to talk about how much power this TV consumes while watching content, and compare that to the power of a smaller TV. Power consumed is mostly converted to heat, and some is converted to light and sound.

[@evildude109]

It pulls about 800 watts according to what Linus looked at when he opened last year's chinese model.

[@ichinichisan]

The light is just photons, not so different from an infrared heater, so they're ultimately going to heat up the room too. (Well, unless you put the TV by a window facing out, heh.)

[@random_n]

But why do that when we can instead compare to cooking spaghetti? 😄It's actually kind of a fun comparison given the burst output of heat and humidity from a pot of spaghetti vs the 90 minutes of lesser wattage from a movie on a TV. I think the TV would typically draw more total power, but the spaghetti would be more likely to kick on the A/C.

[@mikeg2491]

@@random_nthis is why I love air fryers living in a small apartment, I don’t need to heat up the whole room on a summer day cooking dinner for myself with the oven.

[@emziemann]

Might have to get this for the bathroom!

[@LeezahB]

Ha ha!

[@Sas-wk9lj]

you might as well like frying your scrambled eggs on the screen, just keep it on for an hour.

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

For $20,000 all 4 HDMI ports should be 2.1. TCL is crazy.

[@boterhammetpindakaashagelslag]

Not really. If you can afford this tv, you also have an AV-receiver.

[@dllemm]

If you have this TV you probably don’t care about either.

[@stefanb974]

Should also be 144hz

[@Personalinfo404]

I remember in 2013 I bought a 55 inch tv for my apartment and thought how massive it was. Boy was I mistaken. 70 inch TVs today are the old 55 inch TVs.

[@fonkenful]

Hearing you list off the acronyms and features at around the 5:30 mark for some reason reminded me of Ron Popeil - “but wait, there’s more”

[@Caleb_Denison]

@@fonkenful set it and forget it!

[@fonkenful]

@@Caleb_Denison We actually had a Chop o matic in our kitchen growing up in the mid ‘60s, so yeah that ages me. Loved the hair spray paint.

[@XDUDE21]

I'm very happy with my 85" QN900 for the foreseeable future, but things like this make me really excited for when I upgrade down the road. I'm fairly set that my next upgrade will be when Micro LED modular wall systems are down to the consumer level. But large panels like this are awesome to see and love that they push technology ahead. I'm fairly loyal to samsung so hopefully they get the message and get a sub10K 100+" TV in either single panel or modular system in the next 3~5 years. Wish they would leave out the tuner and speakers to bring the price down, who buys this and doesn't pair it with a sound system of equal caliber.

[@vcam-g9h]

Caleb I disagree with you trying to compare TCL bad processing of low quality content to Sony. Have you seen the bravia 9 processing of low quality content its a night and day difference in quality compared to TCL. I can assure you if it was a Sony processor in that 115 inch the low quality content would look way better.

[@NexGenTek]

Right

[@LeezahB]

Thanks for a thoughtful, honest, yet enthusiastic review!

[@DavidMander-rs4uk]

Nobody here in the UK has room for a 115 inch TV.

[@Emptrix]

Even in the video, the brightness differences between the ambient/background and the TV seems to be pretty significant! It is too bad the QM series is exclusive to the U.S and Canada. Everywhere else like Europe and Asia Pacific gets the C series instead. Wished both Hisense and TCL could at least streamline their products and offer identical products globally, sadly it isn't happening.

[@whitecrowuk575]

In Europe it’s called x955

[@dannydoyle8731]

the 115 incher TCL Linus imported from China only costed him $11k as stated in his video, while this 115 incher QM8 msrp at $20k in the US. different models? I'd like to know the tech differences that warrant such a huge price gap.

[@whitecrowuk575]

@@dannydoyle8731 the one Linus ordered has spec similar to 98” qm8 5k zones only. There is another one available only in China with 10k nits 20k zones

[@bmwofboganville456]

115" is ok for a kids/spare room but a main room should be 150"+

[@Sas-wk9lj]

I made the same joke in the last unboxing video of this TV, no one understood, it went beyond their IQ level

[@dllemm]

“Laser TV” aka UST projector + ALR screen has become popular. It will be a few years before these TVs are at a competitive cost with projectors.

[@randya9143]

😂

[@aread13]

I think for crappy or old content, you should be able to scale the image down to 1080p's worth of pixels, and have a MASIVE black border.

[@npbetts1]

Absolutely. Any of the really large TV sizes would benefit from “descaling” mode that could display content in its native resolution in the center of the screen. For 1080 content for example, this 115 inch TV could display it in a 57.5 inch window that would make compression artifacts much less visible at shorter viewing distances.

[@MuhammadKharismawan]

Linus' 115 TCL Chinese version got the same problem and his videos is like 6+ months old, not sure whether TCL will ever fix it.

[@biged2193]

The 98 inch is the sweet spot for 5K

[@dbrandon4528]

As the owner of a 2023 85” QM8 I can barely comprehend how big this TV is. I hope to own one , one day.

[@jivebunny3765]

It's TCL. When that sucker fails, no one's coming to take it away for repair.

[@haroldadams3951]

Are you implying the TV has no warranty?

[@DS-wb2we]

No-one can lift it either

[@jivebunny3765]

@@haroldadams3951 No, I'm implying no one's going to be able to remove it from the house and get in the back of a lorry to take it away for repair. That's at least a 4 man job. 4 large men. As Caleb has pointed out, it's already faulty.

[@haroldadams3951]

@@jivebunny3765 so again, what are you implying? If no one is willing to remove the TV for warranty repair or to exchange it for another one, you are saying TCL has no warranty for the TV because it’s too difficult to move?

[@jivebunny3765]

@@haroldadams3951 I'm not implying that TCL has no warranty. I'm saying that taking a faulty TV of that size and weight away for repair is almost a physical impossibility. Would TCL send you a new set and have it delivered under warranty, and take the old one away, or leave it with you? I've no idea.

[@primemegatron22]

Is that a picture of a naked guy, on the right, close to the Playstation controller 😮🫣... 🤭🤭🤭

[@peytonbrandt3943]

I’d be curious to know how much power it draws from the wall

[@karlwest437]

I've never understood why people get a big TV and sit further away... Just get a smaller TV 😂

[@alecio000]

"Cinematic motion looks great without the aid of motion smoothing." Doubt, unless there's some kind of strobing or the pixel response time is slow. Motion issues on modern TVs are chronically glossed over by reviewers. Size makes stutter more perceptible, "stutter" meaning the appearance that an object in motion on the screen is jumping back and forth instead of moving smoothly, because as your eyes track the object they naturally get ahead of it while the previous frame is still being displayed. If an object moves 1" per frame on a 55" inch screen, it's moving 2"+ on this screen, so the stutter must be very noticeable unless there's a lot of motion blur due to slow pixel response time or you're sitting far away.

[@lostsoulcreative3231]

Ricking the Herbie Mann vinyl in the background, LOL…

[@confinoj]

I sit 8.5ft from a 120" acoustically transparent screen and use a JVC NZ7. Immersion and picture are great but quality still doesn't compare to a good flat panel. Would love to have a screen like this. There are 2 major issues I see. One is logistics - many home theaters are in the basement as is mine. No way it would fit down the stairs. The other is audio. The ideal audio setup for a dedicated home theater especially with multiple rows is identical LCR speakers behind an acoustically transparent screen which obviously is not possible with a flat screen. So these issues need to worked out before moving away from projectors.

[@roco9504]

Depending on its price, the Hisense 110” UX I think that’d be the better option at least on paper 🤔 5” smaller but 2x the dimming zones

[@Skyhawks1979]

The rumored 800 watts would be about 7 amps. About the same amount of power as an 8000 but air conditioner on medium. Its a pretty good draw.

[@saint6563]

20 grand is cheap [comparatively]. 1997 a 42" plasma was 15 grand. That's 29+ grand today.

[@BryanRichardson-tn6pp]

Why? Why? Why? Are all screens measured in Inches? Phones, tablets, notebooks, monitors Televisions, even mini Led screens. The largest part of the world, especially where the screens are made, use the metric system for measurement, except for screens. No matter which country you live in, all screens are advertised and sold by the Inch. I think its time to bring screens to the 21st century and make all screens metric

[@ericB3444]

That’s exactly how good my R635 from 2020 (TCL) has been. Thanks to you because I bought it because of you.

[@coderrrm998]

where can we purchase the optional legs? I don't see any reference on the TCL site.

[@Sas-wk9lj]

😮 you only want to purchase the optional legs and not the tv, what a joke, good one 🤣

[@DS-wb2we]

LegsRus

[@phillipvorndran6531]

I just went from a VA monitor to an OLED monitor and thought it would fix the pixelation in dark scenes when I streamed content. I learned it's not the monitor but the poor quality bit rate of the content. Oh well, it's still a huge upgrade but was disappointed about that.

[@epap1375]

Monitors don’t do any picture processing. Play that same content on a tv especially one with great processing like a newer Sony OLED with XRClear and a lot of it will be cleaned up

[@phillipvorndran6531]

@@epap1375 yes, I came to that conclusion. It's too bad monitors don't have picture processing. I am still trying to figure out why monitors are just as expensive or more expensive relative to size as tv's when they don't have speakers (most of the time) and they don't have picture processing

[@jasoncarreon7107]

Please do the QM7 next 🔥🔥

[@desmondbrown5508]

Seems like a really nice TV, although I gotta admit, at that hefty price tag I really feel like the TV should just outright come with the standup legs for no extra charge honestly.

[@DraftHero]

Amazing TV. Love your reviews of these XL TVs. Would love to see you review Oppenheimer on this TV or other HDR movie that shows off the positives. $20k is a lot, but if it saves you from having to build a dedicated, lighting controlled home theater room ($200k+??) then it is well worth it.😊

[@jase1239]

Isn’t this the same tv Linus bought for 13k?

[@dyauswinters]

TCL had this EXACT SAME issue when their 85 inch QM8 came out in 2023. My brother got two sets and both had the same fluctuating brightness issue in both DV and HDR SETTINGS. TCL eventually fixed it with a FW update but it took a few months to roll it out

[@tom6363]

Would be there interested in how this TCL 115" compared to Hisence 110"?

[@dolbyman]

No need to use a heat measure, just put a kill-a-watt on it, How many Watts go in ? (that basically how much heat comes out)

[@ichinichisan]

No way, man, those massive subwoofers are totally sending most of that electricity out into the neighborhood in the form of HARDCORE BASS. 🔊🔊🔊 (In fact, I was just about to write a version of your comment.)

[@furballbear]

Size has a quality all its own.

[@Sas-wk9lj]

yeah the Seinfeld video clip 🤣

[@paulheart5178]

When I saw TCL 115 in the description for your video I got excited. I have two TCL 75 inch tv's that are about 3 years old and thought. Well, it's 40 inches bigger so maybe it will be around the $3000 mark as my 75 inch tv's were incredibly well priced. That was a HUGE whoops for me lol. Looks great though.

[@jeffjmesaaz]

Interesting how he doesn't say the exact temperature the TV was.

[@prodigalsightsound]

Got to see this unit yesterday here in Dallas, and I must say as an A/V integrator I wasn’t impressed with the overall picture quality. Lots of saturation and bleed of colors and it was on a 4K source. Hopefully a firmware update comes out soon to address the issue.

[@Kurtiscott]

The liability issues you pointed out (limitations of low res content on such a huge display) was such a valuable insight! Very much appreciated sir

[@AGCampagna]

The purchase link for Best Buy is wrong

[@danielrrainey1]

If you have a Home Theater room you would pay more for a 4k projector and screen and most likely not look as good as this TV

[@jamc1103]

Can we get a review of the "normal" sized 2024 QM8's?

[@davel6979]

I like that the SVS towers look proportional and appropriate next to this TV

[@michaelwyckoff7593]

Like they say, Caleb, no TV is perfect.😮 But still it's an impressive TV.😊

[@joewhip9303]

Way too big for my space but it is good to have this type of option. I have an 83” a90j and that is as big as I can use.

[@craigcohen3682]

Great review, Caleb 😍

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

My living room is fine with a 70”. 100” is something I’d put in a bedroom for a movie theater room.

[@RealLifeTech187]

Isn't it just "creators intent" that the content looks a certain way? Purists will force themselves to enjoy the blurry mess and call it "artistic" 😂😂

[@peterwelpton]

my question pertains to watching live sport broadcasts - i don't generally watch sports on my Epson LS12000 because projectors don't handle it as well as a panel can.... But with your, much appreciated and thoughtful, commentary about "lessor quality content" - it makes me wonder how live sports that are 1080i or 720p from the networks going to look on a 115" OLED panel.

[@patrickroza3073]

What are the scaling options when you have bad content? I mean if you would just scale it down eg 50%, you might have a lot of black bars but quality wise you would be at 55” screen. Can the tv do this? What about a media player or some hdmi device?

[@WillAnderson4]

Does this TV have an atsc 3.0 tuner? What does OTA broadcast tv look like on this TV? Does sports from antenna look good? Does streamed sports look good?

[@mythos000000025]

Well i thonk up to 120" for good 4k content is the sweet spot. 60" to 65" tv at 1080p was great for blurays, even close so uoure just doubling the size whilst quadrupling the resolution so everything should be fine if the content is there. Now over 120" amd close(like 10ft+/-.. Thats different...then I'd go for an 8k tv

[@mrlopez7173]

KZbin compression is terrible .we need better quality

[@milanico2309]

I can just imagine how it makes subpar inputs apparent… even my 100 inch hisense makes hd cable tv look like the original moonlanding broadcast from the sixtys…

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

Could you imagine a room in your house, or basement, with this TV, loud speakers, subs and some reclining chairs from Bob’s?

[@Garcias888]

The hisense ux110 have double the diming zones at 40,000… would be amazing if you do a side by side

[@danielunderwood5217]

Question: how do you balance your media cabinet against thin, wall mounted TVs like the LG G series? I am going to wall mount a G3 77", but I feel like I am losing the value of the TV's thin, picture frame profile by putting a 15" or deeper media cabinet underneath. Wouldn't a TV centered on the deep media be more esthetically pleasing than a TV behind a deep cabinet? My 7.2.2 setup will have 2 subwoofers, 2 tower speakers and a center channel on the TV wall, with need for a media cabinet/shelf to hold a receiver, xbox, blu-ray player, the center channel. How can have the benefits of the flush TV, and avoid having a media cabinet sticking 15-20" out in front of it?

[@stephenmcgauley]

In my theater I sit 11 feet from 150in projector. Bigger is better…….unless you are playing competitive shooters lol. But I don’t think you are getting this tv as your gaming monitor.

[@magicmanchloe]

I would love to see a demo with this TV and an Nvidia shield using their AI upscaling really push that system to the limits.

[@robmartinez5653]

I know allot of mfg. Are moving away from 8K, but do you feel at this size the extra resolution even if content is upscaled would benefit the overall PQ?

[@watchcommander2012]

An amazing TV which being the first of a kind not surprising it has some issues. However if TCL deal with them as stated I suspect many home cinema owners may look at it to simplify their setup. And those thinking about a home cinema setup now have another option available.

[@deantsar6246]

People I know are downsizing their house, but obviously some people are upsizing their tv. I suspect that some people, are also buying bigger homes to fit their tv. 😂😂😂😂

[@Sas-wk9lj]

What would have been really helpful if he compared this with Sony X90L 98" TV or even TCL 98" TV and gave us his honest opinion which TV he was more drawn into most of the time when watching same content from same distance.

[@capwkidd]

Would a MadVR processor help this TV?

[@kelownatechkid]

It's a crime these TVs aren't polarized for watching stereoscopic movies... projectors are still the only option for those interested in home theater :(

[@TriMuXx]

No thanks. A giant mirror showing the living room and me sitting down on a couch during a deep black HDR scene is not my idea of quality imagery. Anyone not sitting directly in front of this are just going to see a reflection of the sliding glass door, the living room window or the kitchen. Slightly faded image is way better than insane glare.

[@Trolllololololol]

Would love to see a content comparison using a Nvidia shield pro. Curious to see how much their upscaling can help when an image is this large.

[@deltonjohnson9239]

Hisense needs to drop more info on the release of the 110UX.

[@rct8884]

Agreed, I am still waiting for the UX too. Hopefully they are doing last minute firmware updates after hearing the reviews on the TCL tvs.

[@Gamalon7]

I can't even imagine what 3,900 nits of brightness would look like in SDR content

[@MW-ii5nb]

what about blooming and off axis viewing?

[@glideslope69]

If there were ever a TV that just shouldn’t even have speakers, it’s this one. I can’t imagine anyone using the built-in speakers on a $20k TV. Imo, Sony is the only one who’s ever gotten speakers right for a high end TV, by letting you connect it to your receiver as the center channel

[@100toeface]

Agree, it seems like such a waste not to be able to use the tvs speakers in conjunction with external speakers to create a more immersive sound field.

[@cemsengul16]

The pixel per inch is poor on a 115 inch 4k television so lower resolution content like a DVD would look horrid.

[@aliazimi91]

would be cool to see a comparison video of all 98" inch tv's to see which one wins.

[@tomasbaer9070]

Excellent video. Covered almost everything.....does this tv support 3D ???...if not will not even consider it. sorry.

[@BurritoKingdom]

If 100+ inches tv becomes the norm will manufacturers start pushing 8k again? For the longest time 8k only seemed noticeable in VR or a ridiculously large screen.

[@uzishooteruzishooter]

Regarding hitting studs for the tv mount. If you are building a room or finishing a basement, always eput blocking in anywhere you might hang a disply. Then there is no question you will have a rigid support as needed.

[@danielunderwood5217]

Question. I have denon AVR-S730H, capable of 7.2 or 5.2.2 surround sound, which is the best setup? I would think 5.2.2 for the atmos content on streaming and 4k discs, but I also have a lot of blu-rays that have 5.1 or 7.1 and obviously no atmos. Bonus question: if I have all the surround and ceiling speakers in place, is there a way to quickly switch between the 5.2.2 and 7.2 without needing to rebalance the sound of the system?

[@Sas-wk9lj]

Yes, with modern AVRs you can have 4-5 different channel configurations/ setup saved and you can easily switch between them any time by getting into the AVR's settings.

[@100toeface]

Which would you recommend, this TV or the 97" wireless LG OLED? Both are similar price.

[@Jimster481]

This is the most wild thing I've ever seen.... 4000 NITS? WTF will anyone do with that? Are you going to try to watch movies in full sunlight outside? Because seriously; I have a 2020 Sony Master 8 OLED and it hits like 900 nits peak and it is way too bright in HDR mode. We don't even use full brightness in SDR especially when watching at night (we have the sensor on to adjust brightness). My wife watches content on our Lenovo OLED tablet at like 300 Nits most of the time (dark settings) or 600 nits in bright settings... 4000? It just makes no sense... in a bright room; 1000 is already overwhelming depending on how far you are from the screen. I type this on a laptop that has a 440 Nit OLED screen and its at 85% right now in a fully lit room with lights on and a massive window... I use dark mode because it is so bright on white backgrounds... what would anyone do with 2000 let alone 4000 or 6000 (as he mentioned the other 98" model has)?

[@JayMane-z7c]

TV's of this size are awesome ...however the purchase "Price" is waaaaaaaay too high & when you need to get repairs or service (especially when out of warranty) you're going to pay really "BIG"bucks too. You'll be much better off in the long run with a good Projector that can be purchased for approx. $1000 - $1800 that can be easily & cheaply shipped to the Manufacturer for repairs if/when needed. 😀

[@WiseGuy02]

Seinfeld on Netflix looks absolutely shite. It was much better on Amazon. And many other shows and movies on Netflix as "4K", looks like regular DVD.

[@civicscreamer]

I love your channel but I'm in the UK and the part numbers you talk about don't match up or aren't sold here. Can you recommend a channel or expert over here that reviews uk tvs ? Thanks

[@ccdccd8615]

1) When you are reviewing a TV this big and this expensive, I think it has to be compared to the best UST projectors. What does this TV offer which is not matched by UST projectors costing half as much (or less). 2) Why do companies spend so much money on sound quality??? I can’t believe anyone buying this TV is not using an external sound system. I have a 98” TV in my TV room which is paired with an expensive wireless sound system. I wouldn’t have it any other way and really don’t want to pay for a sound system in the TV which I will NEVER use

[@AnimalnatureYT]

Should I get the s90d woled (in my region) or lg c4 woled?

[@HansAramburo]

Everyone forgets about perspective. To a wealthy person 20k is like spending 1000 on a TV. To a billionaire it's probably like spending less tha than 100 dollars. Go tell a poor person from a third world country that you spent 1500 on a TV and they will think you are crazy.

[@bjt81366]

Don't buy this TV now. Don't make the mistake I made in 2006. When Hi Def came out I spent $3000 on the new 1080 46 inch TV. The next year that same TV was $600. This TV will be half this price in 18 months.

[@ZachChen1996]

The experience isn’t unmatched, if money is truly no object, you can get Samsung MicroLED TVs at this size and larger with superior picture quality.