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Video processing: The 6-Series is a 120Hz native TV with plenty of options for handling motion. In general the difference was minimal, however, and in other scenes it was much less visible. It did appear slightly less saturated than the other three at times, for example, in the faces of the soldiers or the reddish glow of the firelight. Watching 1917, for the most part I'd call its color excellent as well, as indicated by the numbers.
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Overall its bright-room image is just as impressive for the price as its home theater picture.Ĭolor accuracy: According to my measurements the TCL 635's color was excellent before calibration in Movie mode and even better afterward. Under bright lighting the 2020 6-Series' TCL's screen performed a bit better than last year's model, as well as the Sony, at mitigating reflections and preserving black levels and contrast. Just switch the mode to "Movie" or "Dark HDR" mode, which reduces light output but delivers a much better image. An accurate bright-room picture is laudably easy to achieve, however. The TCL's brightest settings, "TV Brightness: brighter" and "Picture mode: Vivid," (or "Bright HDR" for HDR content) are terribly inaccurate. Brighter TVs like the 8-Series and the Vizio PX cost a lot more - as do numerous dimmer examples like the Sony X900H. The 635 did show blooming more with brighter content, however, including HDR (see below).īright lighting: The TCL 6-Series is the brightest TV I've ever measured at this price. In content prone to blooming, for example when I brought up the playback controls during a black screen, the TCLs all did a better job controlling the stray illumination than the Sony, which lit up larger portions of the image. Compared to the 625 from 2019 its black levels were very slightly worse but shadow detail was significantly better, and all three TCLs maintained black levels better than the Sony. Meanwhile the 635 and the 8-Series were closest of all, with the only real difference being slightly better shadow detail on the 8-Series.ĭuring the extremely dark assault on Hogwarts from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the 635 again looked best aside from the 8-Series. Watching 1917 on Blu-ray, for example, after the soldier awakens in chapter 13 (1:06:38), the 635's letterbox bars and shadows looked truer and more inky than the Sony's, while I could discern more of the folds of his uniform and walls in the background than on the 625. Overall the Sony showed slightly lighter black levels than the TCLs, for a slightly less impactful and contrasty image, and between the three TCLs the 8-Series looked best by a nose. Dim lighting: With standard Blu-ray and other SDR content calibrated for a dark room, the TVs looked very similar, and any differences would be tough to distinguish outside of a side-by-side comparison.