TCL QM8 4K Mini-LED TV Full Review - My Experience!

[@Josh_Quinonez]

STILL $500 OFF WITH THE LINK IVE PROVIDED!!👍 amzn.to/43OnBZ3 The QM8 also has Dolby Atmos which I forgot to mention. Also has a backlit remote and is very smooth when browsing through the tv. Great performance! Thanks for watching!

[@ricardojose1301]

Does it have dts?

[@kreigerbailey3550]

Portland, JAMAICA in the Building!!! 👑🇯🇲🔥🌟⭐💥💯💎

[@vonzuriel4341]

How long this discount will las my friend??? And thanks for the info. Planning to get the 75” 🙏🏼

[@SpartanGoku]

It’s November 2023, I just got mine for 899.99, 65 inch. Will received it on the Tuesday the 21st. My Sony tv broke a few weeks ago and will be getting g a TCL for the first time for budget reason

[@DAVIDJ0ANUS]

Thanks for the in dept. review Josh, this tv has to be the Oled alternative everyone has been looking for it 's even popping colors through this video I can only imagine how good it looks in person I'm sold.

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Yes it's great!

[@smlarat58]

My next TV for sure Thx for the review. Just got to wait till my older TV packs it in.

[@michaelkuhner1955]

For Dolby Vision there will not be an update that allows you to change brightness. That’s the whole point of Dolby Vision. Brightness is scored scene by scene in Dolby vision. (It’s already set if you will.) In the metadata.

[@UniqueJ]

I may be wrong but on the Hisense U8K you're able to change those settings without being restricted right?

[@loki76]

Which is BS since you can change it on any other TV that has Dolby Vision. DV IQ is one thing, but this TV seems to make it so you can't really do anything at all. It just decides for you, including gaming with not Local dimming choice. It's good in some regards this TV. In others it's utter shite.

[@deltonjohnson9239]

You literally can, I change my QM8 and I use my Apple TV mainly

[@sengan2475]

Completely untrue

[@TheModeRed]

Any word on upscaling and smoothing from low bitrate or low res sources? TCL is supposed to follow up on this. My family uses internet and various apps to watch all of our content including sports, how QM8 handles low bitrate and low res is very important to us and probably to most people who aren't consistently running high bit rate and high res content like from cable tv service.

[@michaelwyckoff7593]

Yo josh I know how this QM8 must be because my TCLR635 from a few years ago is still one of my favorite TVS. I believe it is their first Miniled TVS. It's had several updates over the years that have made the TV even better. I have 3 other TCL tvs and I like them as well. All of them are the famous 6 series models. I am happy with the 4 of them. 😊

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Awesome! I have 4 tcl tvs as well. It's all I have in my home at the moment 👍

[@JT-xi3xr]

How much of an upgrade would you say the qm8 is from the r635?I'm considering upgrading because i have some dead pixels.

[@kingtrance307]

The first mini led tv TCL made is the Series 8 in 2019.

[@lyks1727]

Great review! This will be my first TCL im excited 🎉

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Awesome!

[@plasmatvforgaming9648]

Can you please test the Motion Clarity of this QM8 at 120 with the feature that introduces back light manipulation to improve the motion for Gaming. Just simply open the UFO test and change the speed to 480 pixels per second, the Alien Eyes should look perfectly sharp based on TCL advertising 480 like motion clarity. This would make the QM8 at 60fps a true Plasma successor and at 120fps it would be half as good as a CRT with 1ms of persistence. 480Hz means 2ms of persistence, and this QM8 could potentially have 2 pixels of motion blur when moving at 1000 pixels per second.

[@byrgenwerth2097]

So the tcl 6 series I have apparently has a feature called natural motion 480. Basically, I used 120 hz and combined the backlight control option to increase motion clarity. In the UFO test, the eyes looked perfectly clear to me at 480 pixels. Im also not sure this feature is the same as bfi because I didn't see any flicker unlike on the c2 I had.

[@SLICK8116]

@@byrgenwerth2097thanks google

[@nawangwulan8558]

Thank you, your Review is why I am buying now a TCL Qm8. So Thank you :)

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Awesome! Don't forget to use the link in the description 👍

[@sont77]

I have 85 coming tomorrow can’t wait !!! Any suggestions for a dark room??

[@Josh_Quinonez]

If you're in a dark room I would add some LED lights in the back of the tv. Makes the viewing experience so much better. I recommend Govee Lights👍

[@RWJSJG]

I need a new TV 😊 thanks for the review

[@Josh_Quinonez]

You can't go wrong with this one. It's still $500 using the link I've provided in the description and pinned comment👍

[@UniqueJ]

Is either this one just 85' for me or the Hisense U8K 85' So far I'm leaning towards Hisense. 🤔🤷🏽

[@jsbgaming6585]

same but then I found a lg c1 65 inch for 1100 bucks a couple days ago on Amazon

[@justhere8149]

Get the LG C2 OLED its on sale right now you wont regret it. I recently upgraded from a 10yr old TV and I tried a couple Hisence and had ro take both back horrible Dirty Screen Effect (DSE). While researching DSE on the Hisence so many commnets said something like (get the LG C2) and so I did, best advice ive been given in a long time its so very good and no DSE none.

[@JohnBerthoty]

Nice Josh, thanks! This is a top contender for me. Question: is the eARC HDMI 2.1 and everything you would hope for?

[@user-ld6lo7vd1i]

Great video Josh. How would you compare the QM8 to the Sony X95L or Samsung QN95C? Is it as good in picture quality? Thank you Peter

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Thanks! I personally have not had a chance to test out those tvs. But I can say picture quality is great and of no disappointment with this tv👍

[@user-ld6lo7vd1i]

@@Josh_Quinonez Thank you Josh. If you do get a chance to review those tv's perhaps you could render your opinion

[@TheRealLegendoz]

How is the QM8 compared to the C935 ?

[@nickbasquezable]

Best way to do the wall mount on this Qm8

[@stevenwasserman1430]

Great review. But I do have one concern. Is this tv a good choice to use as a monitor for my older HP desktop? I would be connecting the computer to the HDMI eARC port. If you could respond to my question, I would greatly appreciate it.

[@donjaun540]

This TV is so beautiful.

[@Josh_Quinonez]

It is!

[@jayholm2142]

I wonder how the brightness compares to the Vizio P Series Quantum X 🤔?

[@Scoobasteve2343]

How is this TV for football Sundays? I’m seriously considering buying it I just want to make sure it can handle sports specifically streamed over like KZbin TV

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Great for sports👍

[@MRSTEEL15]

How is this better than the S5 ? Im looking to buy either 98' ? Help me make my decision 😊

[@teslacybertruck750]

The price difference from 85" to 98" is just insane

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Yup, you gotta pay to play

[@MrKbarker360]

Hold on if you have a soundbar the tv speakers still work? It’ll all work together?

[@danielfitzgerald4089]

What's your opinion of upscaling from normal broadcasts or older movies? Compare this to Sony, Samsung and so forth. Thank You

[@Josh_Quinonez]

For the most part I'd say it does upscaling pretty well. Some movies or shows can tend to seem oversharpened depending what it is. But overall not bad.

[@StationOutlook]

I wonder what gives the 98" such a massive price jump

[@ireeeebz]

Insane panel size with low demand and low production numbers

[@StationOutlook]

@@ireeeebz I see. Still quite a jump.

[@jsbgaming6585]

@@StationOutlookfr you would expect it to be at least below 5k like 3500-4000 considering a 75 to 85 is only 500 more but for 13 more inches it’s over 7000 more

[@StationOutlook]

@@jsbgaming6585 exactly.. even like 7000 sure..

[@akasinned52]

regarding brightness could it be some intelligent setting turned on by default ?

[@Korey72590]

Why do people like dolby vision? Its too dark...

[@deltonjohnson9239]

I own a 85 inch QM8, there’s definitely Dolby bright in the settings

[@mr.ihabissa8442]

QM8 is still using the same SoC from 2021 ...Hisense U8K using MediaTek MT9618 also very similar. This chip has some shortfalls , same chip that resulted in resolution halving at 4k @ 120hz in the x900h , Sony X85k , J , etc.. ( 3840 × 1080p) or not full chroma at 4k 120hz ( 4 2 2 instead of 4 4 4) QM8..... MT9615 Platform (MediaTek MT9615 aka MT5889) CPU Cortex A-73x4 1.3GHz GPU G52(2EE)MP2, 550Mhz RAM 3GB DDR4-2666 ROM 32GB :eMMC5.0 Q10H..... MT9653 Platform (MediaTek MT9653 aka Pentonic 700) CPU Cortex A-73x4 1.4GHz GPU G52(2EE)MP2, 550Mhz RAM 4GB DDR4-3200 ROM 64GB :eMMC5.0 See less

[@1349LL]

75” qm8 or u8k for mixed usage, games, KZbin, Netflix?

[@Josh_Quinonez]

That's tough... hopefully my Comparison video will help you out👍 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpLcoIqAnK9kqacsi=osv0UbCvxQdP6A96

[@jadenblackerby3325]

How are the viewing angles on this tv? I know it uses a VA panel so they viewing angles won't be great

[@stefanb974]

Review the u8k as well.

[@Josh_Quinonez]

I will try👍

[@wesleypatterson9149]

Do you think this tv is worth the extra money over the q7?? The q7 has pretty good reviews and I’m struggling with which one is worth the money!

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Haven't had the chance to fully use a Q7 yet. But when I saw it at CES it was really nice. Of you're looking to save a bit more money, then you won't be disappointed with the Q7 from what I saw. But I will say that the QM8 is definitely worth the price. It's like a Q7 on Steroids💪 Lol Check my link. I think its still $500 off👍

[@sengan2475]

Q7 has a peak brightness of about 900 nits. While the Qm8 Is about double that, along with multiplying the dimming zones multiple times over and being mini LED. I'd say it's worth it, I'd wait for black Friday

[@wesleypatterson9149]

@@Josh_Quinonez I ended up going with the 85 inch Q7 for 1500$. Seemed like too good a price for a 85 inch and my room isn’t that big. Should be perfect! Thanks for the help!

[@wesleypatterson9149]

@@sengan2475 I ended up going Q7 85 inch. 1500 seemed like a great price for a tv like that! Hopefully I will love it! Thanks for ur help!

[@MrBjorn6]

I'm looking to upgrade my TV's in my basement. However the 98 inch is too expensive plus it doesn't do 3d. Meanwhile the AWOL 3500 does 3D. I've already ordered the Nakaimichi dragon 11.4.6 sound system that's the only reason im upgrading my Sony Z9D 75 inch tv which does fantastic 3d also.

[@RjTheTrigun]

Please let me know about that dragon bruv. It's been on my wish list for a while. I've been waiting on reviewers to post their testing on it

[@djd-loc9477]

If you ever find 3D in this age please let us know lol

[@Miguel85NYC]

This TV is going for 900 now, is it worth it?

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Worth it 👍

[@EdmundMyers]

How well does the tv upscale DVD content or anything below 1080p content?

[@sengan2475]

It's known to be very poor at that. But your DVD player is the one upscaling content so it shouldn't matter much

[@sengan2475]

It's specifically bad at 480p, nothing wrong with 720 or 1080. But low bitrate content looks bad

[@byrondavis2012]

🎉is it 3.0 nex gen ready ?

[@euphorichaggis8486]

My son works for a hifi shop in my country and he gets staff rates for everything they sell including TVs( parents of staff, can get the staff rates too) I can get this TCL TV in a 75 inch size for $1842.95 US. I hear it doesn't have a next gen(ATSC 3.0) tuner. Deal breaker? wait for next year when next gen Tv will be added to TCL TVs ? or don't worry about it & grab the bargain now?

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Using the link I've provided in the description the price is $1,799.99. Great price and worth it👍

[@mikhanch1228]

Thats a lot. I bought the 75 inch QM8 at best buy for $1,699.99

[@euphorichaggis8486]

@@mikhanch1228 Unfortunately in the country I live in we don't have Best Buy. We get ripped off down here in New Zealand for TV's Home Receivers etc. The price I quoted is after NZ to US conversion rate currently. It will fluctuate day to day but was what it was when I did the conversion. We unfortunately also have a 'Government Savings Tax' added to all our products (GST) which makes things more costly. Annoying as F***!

[@DaveG-ur1wm]

No tv stations are going to support (ATSC 3.0). I watch cord cutters news on KZbin and he said only 3?stations have it but aren’t supporting it due to they’ve been having issues with it,cost that the equipment will cost and other tv stations around the United States don’t see it being viable for the foreseeable future.

[@loki76]

The reasons why I wouldn't get the TV although it is nice with black level and blooming etc. Is because you cannot change settings in DV and you cannot choose local dimming in gaming. They just decide for you. No thanks. I Decide what I want in brightness and LD and DV settings etc. Really dumb choice by TCL. Maybe if they change that next year I could consider it. It's a shame because it has good qualities about it. But also these annoyances and issues.

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Understandable

[@kingtrance307]

You can switch between DV bright, low and IQ mode. Choose bright.

[@chrismcalister4428]

Any idea on the stand size? Length says 11.7"". I cannot find width.

[@Josh_Quinonez]

13&1/2" from left to right and 11&3/4" from front to back👍

[@chrismcalister4428]

@@Josh_Quinonez Thanks!

[@daviddougher8637]

How is the dirty screen effect...tcl is known for it pretty bad.

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Not sure what you mean. My screen has been pretty clean

[@TejanoScrewHead956]

The 75 inch is $1,800 right now at best buy 🧐

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Nice! On Amazon as well using my link👍

[@stefanschuchardt5734]

But what about brightness?

[@Josh_Quinonez]

I talked about brightness👍

[@stefanschuchardt5734]

You mean brightness?

[@lld401]

Can you do 1440p 144hz on pc?

[@blacktallsmart1914]

Off topic. But I have that exact shirt you have. Looks good

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Haha nice!!

[@doughightower2771]

Great video!!! You have a new subscriber.

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Thank you! Much appreciated

[@princevalium25]

Any tips on calibration for the best picture possible? Im a first-time Dolby Vision user and honestly, it's too dark for my taste. I've watched Black Panther Wakanda Forever and Evil Dead Rise, and in both movies there were scenes where I could barely make out what was going on.

[@sengan2475]

Are you using dolby vision bright? Make sure to turn off the power saving modes

[@princevalium25]

@@sengan2475 Yes I'm using DV Bright, and I have all power saving modes off.

[@heartlessmadness8812]

I find it that leaving it on sports mode helps a lot with color / picture quality

[@marvinkmooneyoz]

65” going for $900 now

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Awesome deal!!!

[@metalcrip89]

This vs The Hisense U8K PRETTY PLEASE 😁😁😁

[@Hustle_256]

So everytime you play a game and watch a movie so you gotta change the movie mode everytime?

[@Josh_Quinonez]

No. Game mode only kicks in when gaming

[@Hustle_256]

@@Josh_Quinonez thanks for the reply bro ✊🏾

[@CarlosMartinez-mr1qb]

Great Review!!!

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Thank you!

[@jarrodm9299]

Good video

[@darrelarmstrong2408]

on a 75" TCL QM8 what is the maximum height of a soundbar that will fit under it? I was thinking about a Samsung HW-Q990C ... I don't have any stores around my that will carry TV or soundbar I have to order it all by mail... this info will stop me from making a wrong selection.... thank you

[@chrisy4011]

What are the vesa mount dimensions?

[@ireeeebz]

300x400

[@kingtrance307]

@@ireeeebz- Nope it’s 600x600

[@ireeeebz]

@@kingtrance307 not on the 65”. Source: I have one hanging on my wall

[@cod4787]

Cheeky, Cheeky TCL. They are globally marketing the Tv with the same name but sending different panels for different regions...This review is related to the USA model which has the highest specs among all the others. Be aware!

[@Josh_Quinonez]

This is a review of last year's model 2023

[@cod4787]

​@@Josh_QuinonezI know. Don't get me wrong, You did a great job. I just wish that people could mention this fact in their reviews or unless they do it only for the USA market.

[@Josh_Quinonez]

@@cod4787 noted 👍

[@momohit1255]

the yapper just kept yapping

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Yup👍

[@donjaun540]

Great review 👍

[@Josh_Quinonez]

Thanks!

[@mikhanch1228]

Where are you getting these prices from? I bought my 75 inch QM8 for $1,700

[@Josh_Quinonez]

From their website and Amazon. Literally checked right before I made the video. But I just checked my link again and it says $500 off again 👍 But the prices I mentioned are the actual prices without the discount.