TCL 6-Series Review: The Best TV for Gaming Under $1000 By MMORPGcom

Hello everybody I'm Chris from mmorpg. com, and this is the TCL six series, the TV so good that I wanted it to take center stage in this review, and so I'm sitting behind the mic for this one, but guys I've got to tell you this TV beeped out all the Black Friday sales. For me, I did a ton of research, and it is just the best TV that has real thousand nits HD are for under $1000 that you're going to find, and I had to bring it here and show it to you guys. So that's what we're going to do now. Specifically, this is the 55-inch model which retails for $649. There is a 65-inch model out there that retails for 999 dollars, and if you keep a keen eye, you can't actually find this on sale, but even if you can't, and you're in the market for a TV, this is definitely one to look at.

So let me keep it just a little background on how I came to this TV as you kind of watch it in action. So around Black Friday I got the clear for my wife to find a new TV and we'd been using an old one, is probably a 7 or 8-year-old, 1080p Toshiba. It was time to upgrade, so I started to look at all the Black Friday sales and I realized all the sale price TVs every one of them where TVs that fell underneath the vast specifications he released, they were already outdated, which is why they were on sale. So I started to do my research I, dug around I, looked at probably 20 TVs until I finally found this one and guys the specs on this thing, rival TVs that cost way more money really way more money. It's an amazing deal that they sell this TV for the price they do.

This is one of the few TVs under $1000. You can find that has real a thousand net HDR, which is real HDR. That's what people talk about when they're talking about HDR, and it's just an amazing find so, let's just talk about it a little now. This is a 4k display, obviously, but it also supports full HDR 10. It supports Dolby Vision.

It supports Dolby Atmos, it's full array: local dimming, on the 55-inch model, there are 96 zones on the 65-inch model, there's a hundred and twenty zones of local dimming. Furthermore, it has a dual-core, CPU and GPU, which is kind of amazing, we're in an age where TVs have dual-core processors in them, and it also has 802 DAT, 11, AC, Wi-Fi and an Ethernet port, because it's also a Roku smart TV. So this thing has a lot going for it right out of the gate, but take a look at that picture now at 4k. It just gets such detail in the images that it puts up on the screen. The first thing we did is we pulled up a YouTube video, the same video that you're actually looking at now, and you can just see the amazing level of detail in there now.

What you're watching you're, not gonna, get it in its full glory, but take my word for it. It's just it's stunning that was the word my wife used, and she's about. As far from a techie as they come, the HDR, though, is really the amazing feature on this thing before actually sitting down with this TV people had told me, HDR is better than 4k, and I didn't quite believe them, but after trying it on this TV, it is the honest-to-god truth. I mean look at the videos that we have there is it does that wipe across it's just it's stunning in the vibrant colors that it has really great for games really great for movies in the local dimming I was very impressed by no local dimming is kind of approximating the OLED effect where you get those really, really nice blacks, but by turning off those lights behind each zone, they are they're like pitch black blacks, I've, been extremely impressed by that and just taken as a whole. The picture is just amazing on this thing, but of course I'm in it for gaming I'm a gamer.

This is a gaming website. So, of course, we looked at it for gaming and I came into this with an Xbox 1x feeling like at 1080p. Even with that console like the cat, this console generation was beginning to feel a little dated after actually playing on a high quality TV. It's its just so much better. It's like a brand-new experience.

I actually went out when I got a PlayStation, 4 Pro to go along with it, and more and more games are coming out that support 4k and HDR, even games that don't or partially do because they're not all updated for that. Yet they still look better on this screen. It's really something special with that. Now the thing to keep in mind with this TV and really any newer TV is they're doing so much stuff behind the scenes that you can get something called input lag, which is the difference between when you pull the trigger on the controller and when you see the gunfire on the screen now the TC l6 series has a really effective game that will cut your input, lag dramatically so without game mode at 4k you're going to get about 122 milliseconds, which is substantial. But if you turn game mode on it, cuts out all that background processing, and you're going to cut that down to under 20 milliseconds, which to me, I can't even feel that I held the controller up to the screen pulled the trigger it looks.

It feels instantaneous, and I play a lot of shooters, and it just performs excellent with game mode on there now I also do a lot of streaming. Like all of you watching this right now, I have a Netflix account and one of the first things I did is I upgraded that to Netflix Ultra, because everything that's Netflix branded on there is going to come in at 4k, so there really is a lot. That's on Netflix, but outside of Netflix. The array of things you can watch like really popular series is a bit limited right now. Now one of the cool things is that the TV comes built in with a bunch of 4k sources through its Roku functionality, which I'll get to in just a second.

But I was a little concerned that when I watched 1080p that would upscale- and it wouldn't look as good, but imagine my surprise when the picture at 1080p U is actually better than on my old native 1080p TV, and it really is that upscale that they have built in there is very good now. I do push up the sharpening just a little and adjust some picture settings through a really easy to access easy to navigate menu that it really just gets everything at your fingertips. Now the one thing that's kind of strange is they do have action smoothing, which is their motion interpolation on by default. So you get a little of that soap. Xperia effect as its smoothing it out there I do turn that off.

I, don't know about you, but I can't stand it. You might love it, and it's there and for what it is it works well, but for me, I turn that off and the picture is really very good now, given that you're spending under a thousand dollars on a TV that has all these awesome features like the real HDR like the Dolby Vision, which adjusts your HDR brightness per screen, there are a few sacrifices, you're going to get one of them is set. It has decent viewing angles, but they're, not amazing. So, as you move away from the center, you do get a little of effects. Discoloration, there's also a little of glare that can come up on the screen and really to get rid of that you're.

Paying way more money with some other models. I didn't really find it that much of an issue, though I guess in our house. We just kind of sit mainly Center in front of it in the glare it's there, but it's it never really was distracting because the screen is so bright, then it kind of over the glare the speakers are also good. I was actually very impressed with those compared to many others. I'd heard they get nice and loud, but they do like a little of the bass that you're going to get with a sound bar there's also a weird thing that sometimes happens where you put on content for the first time, and it will default to a different level of brightness for the HDR, and it can be a little jarring when you go from a very bright scene to so-called dark HDR, and it's quick to reset it, but I do wish it would just kind of keep the setting that you stuck with, instead of changing it for whatever you're with now.

The other thing I want to talk about is Roku and I know guys I'm late to the party with us, but Roku is awesome. It gets all of your content right at your fingertips. There are way more streaming services that this thing puts in front of you than I even knew existed, and it's so cool to be able to just search out by actor by specific title, for something by series: episode name any of that stuff, and it'll just pull it up and show you the services where you can buy it from and then just start streaming if it's. It's making it so easy now, I'm, not kind of guy that likes to just go with kind of one vendor for that kind of stuff, but with this it makes it so easy, I'm a lot more likely to just go and click in to watch the thing that I want to watch and spend that 5 or 6 dollars, whatever it may be, to get the content that I was after now, turning to the build quality. This thing: it's not that heavy despite its size, if you are going to mount it, you are gonna, want to people just to keep it safe, and it is pretty easy to mount at that.

But you're going to want to be aware that the actual mounting holes are in the lower third, not right in the middle and me mounting this TV for the first time read a guide that said plan on them being in the middle and I wound up mounting my TV about eight inches too high, so just be aware: they're not right in the middle. This thing also has all the inputs. You're gonna need as three HDMI 2.0, so you are going to have to reset that in the menu, if you do want to get HDR in your consoles just be aware, one of those is an arc port, so you can have two-way audio video. You have a USB port for your media. Furthermore, you have an Ethernet connection for Wired internet.

If you want to have it, it really has everything you would want to have, and I'm actually a big fan of the brushed metal finish on it as well. In with that guys, we're just going to wrap up and say this I did their research. I looked at all the sale price, TVs I watched at every TV I could find it had. Four HD are under $1,000, and this was the winner by a pretty significant margin. I read the reviews.

I did all of that that due diligence that I'm sure you're looking at doing right now- and this was the winner now, even if you can't get it on sale, even if you have to pay a little more for it, I would still recommend picking this up. That fulled, our brightness, those local dimming zones is, is just amazing, and you're not going to regret spending that money, because you're going to be able to put off buying another TV even longer. So with that guys. We're going to get out of here be sure to visit us over at mmorpg. com for a new tech review every day and visit our sister site over at game space comm we're recovering tech in video games on the daily be sure that subscribe button hit the bell for notifications.

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