I don’t rush to believe everything I read or see in a review. I take stuff like that along with anecdotal accounts with a huge helping of salt. Sometimes it’s user error, laziness, a user just not understanding a new or different design choice from they were accustomed to, a firmware bug e.t.c.
So I try to look beyond stuff like that and see if there’s a fundamental issue with the hardware and technology itself that would be the underlying cause of such.
I’ve seen people say all sorts of things about certain TCL models, while other users have not had the same experiences.
Some TVs or systems in general may perform to one’s liking out of the box while others may need some adjustments.
I’m saying this also from the perspective of someone who has used high end and mid-range TVs from multiple manufacturers who now owns and uses a TCL QM751G as my daily driver.
Based on most of the reviews I looked at on YouTube, there doesn’t seem to be any cause for concern in that regard. There was one very vocal reviewer who had negative things to say about that one area you mentioned but what is the context of those statements?
Different people are sensitive to different things, firmware is still relatively early as well. I’ve had an extremely positive experience with the updates I’ve received on my QM751G over the last year and a half.
In closing, there was nothing in the RTINGS review which was any cause for concern especially when it came to motion and gaming performance.
“On paper” measurements are very important metrics as they help to rule out conclusions based on potentially subjective, biased and flawed testing.
Another thing about that TV and my reason for including it here is the mere fact that we have reached to this point in our history where we have more than enough brigtness headroom for accurate CRT emulation, in a TV with an R-G-B subpixel layout and probably the largest colour gamut, contrast and blooming performance of any LCD display before it!
Look at the price of that thing though. It’s hardly a mainstream offering. So I look forward to seeing what the QM8L and QM7L can bring to this space.
I also await more reviews and updates regarding RGB miniLED technology. One camp is saying that there are issues with colour crosstalk but Sony just revealed their offering and that phenomenon was nowhere in sight and those who witnessed it had nothing bad to say about that. If Sony can figure it out maybe other manufacturers can as well.
I’m sure you’re aware that TCL recently acquired Sony’s TV and consumer electronics business. So let’s see what that brings to the table in the not too distant future.
One thing I wanted to add, it’s TCL, a company known for making great budget TVs which gamers have enjoyed for over a decade which have excellent input lag. The TV uses the new MediaTek Pentonic 800 SOC which is a more powerful processing chip than the ones in its predecessors. We’ve seen WHVA 2.0 in action before in the QM8K and QM9K.
It’s input selection is finally on par with LG’s boating 4 full bandwidth 48Gbps HDMI 2.1 ports.
What would have to happen under the hood for it to have issues with input lag and motion blur?
The only thing that comes to mind besides immature firmware is probably heat. Maybe the internals get so hot that it can affect the SOC performance under certain conditions? Who knows? It’s still early days though and the vast majority of reviews didn’t seem to have any of those issues.
