TCL 55-Inch Q6 QLED 4K Smart TV with Google (55Q650G, 2023 Model) Dolby Vision, Atmos, HDR Pro+, Game Accelerator Enhanced Gaming, Voice Remote, Works Alexa, Streaming UHD Television

(For the 85" Model) First and foremost, if you're a tech person who is searching around for a TV with inky blacks and 480hz refresh rates keep going, do not pass go, do not collect 200$. This is not your TV.I was creating a home theater room in my house (Something I've wanted since I was a kid.) I wanted the biggest TV I could afford while still getting a picture that would be enjoyable to look at for hours at a time. I decided on this one as I was able to get another 10 inches for the same price as most of the 75" TV's I was looking at.So this was my journey. Amazon delivered this behemoth for free, and the delivery folks brought it right into the room I needed it, and placed it right in front of where I was installing it (Going above and beyond as their instruction was to put it inside the entry way.) I tipped them for their trouble. I got a wall mount for an 85 inch TV and took down the little one for the 55" that was on the wall before. I mounted it on the wall making sure to get all 4 screws in the studs as this TCL TV weighs in at just under 100 pounds. My wife and I were then able to lift the TV and get it on the wall. It's huge so have the space to maneuver.It clipped into place with no issues. The picture out of the box is a little off. This is what worked for my eyes. I bumped up the color saturation slider by 5 and then I went into the advanced section and adjusted the black level slider down by 7 or 8. This made the colors pop and the contrast look measurably better.So here's the caveats. If you're paying under a grand for an 85" TV there's going to be some corners cut. For me they're a non issue. 1) I feel the built in google TV interface is too slow to be usable. I plugged my Apple TV in immediately. It picked it up, and detected the TV can do dolby vision and switched into that mode automatically. It looks great and works fast. 2) I did not even bother to listen to the built in speakers on the TV. Built in speakers at ANY price point are disappointing, I didn't even bother. I grabbed a Visio M series 5.1.2 sound bar with wireless sub and surround speakers. It works perfect (after some latency adjustments and configuration).This weekend after getting all this hooked up, the family and I parked our butts on the couch in our new home theater room (well it's a futon for now still saving up for the home theater furniture.) and watched 3 movies. One from the 80's (On Blu Ray), one from the One from the late 90's in Ultra HD 4k, and one brand new movie on the apple TV app. All three movies looked fantastic, the TV in combination with my Apple TV box and the Vizio sound bar created the exact feeling I was looking for.If you know what your needs are and you know that when you're buying this TV it's not a mini-led, crazy expensive TV and know not to expect that, this TV will likely be perfect for anyone looking for a big, cost effective panel that performs very well. I would say the quality is on par with my 2021 model Samsung Q70B that cost quite a bit more when I bought it on release year and it was also 20 inches smaller.

Bought it nov2023 and working good. Very good pic quality. It's OS 9s laggy but I use Google Comcast hence never had to deal with native os. Don't know about audio as I used separate amp and speakers.

I've now had this TV for 3 months and am so sorry I went with this one. Nothing but never ending glitches and problems every time I try to use it. I see no mention in the other reviews of the negatives of this TV, so as a counterpoint, here they are:The primary reason that I went with TCL over LG was that LG places ads on their TVs as a known thing. TCL allegedly didn't, well guess what? Everytime I turn on this TV I have to watch a Nissan ad which takes precedence over the TV SLOWLY loading up it's OS, delaying it further. Others have mentioned that the TV is slow and "laggy", but that is so understated. It's not just slow, it actually frequently goes backwards if you are faster than the processor. I know the key sequence to get to live TV after it turns on- it will eventually get to the live TV screen, but then takes you out of TV, back to the GoogleTV main screen after a few seconds so that it can show you the commercial that you bypassed by going too quickly on startup and SLOWLY loading recommendations and updating your watch history. Creepy that it has shows that I've watched on other TVs in the house, including the ROKU. There is apparently no way to remove from "continue watching", only wait for it to fall off, so if you are 5 minutes into a show and just not feeling it, it stays up there to continue watching BUT if you select something that you actually want to continue watching from that menu, it usually does not pick up where you left off, but starts it all over again from the beginning!What I liked about the old ROKU was that it was EASY to pause/ record live TV. I made sure that this TV had that when I was making the decision of TCL or LG and it does, but it is not as easy as ROKU, there is conflicting information on the internet of how to set it up, including on the TCL site. I finally got it to work after a month, but it's very hinky-dinky and it ruined 3 USB drives to do it.First, the drive has to be formatted properly, I did not see it anywhere, but it has to be formatted to NTFS, EXFAT and FAT32 that are used on others and are pre-written to most drives did not work. When you insert the drive, it will ask you if you want to format it, DON'T. If you format the drive at that point, it will use the drive as storage for the TV/ apps and it will not allow you to use it to pause live TV, insisting that there is no USB in the drive. Go to the Live TV menu, select a show, press the quick menu button on the remote and go to pause live TV that is grayed out and select it. It (sometimes and eventually) will pop up with the onscreen menu to use the drive to record TV and guide you through the process. The thing is, if you leave the USB drive for pausing the TV in the back of the TV, EVERY SINGLE TIME you power the TV on, it will detect the drive/ USB, eject the USB, do some other background stuff, "discover" the USB a few seconds later and what happens next is up to who knows what- sometimes it brings up an "explore this drive" option over most of the screen, sometimes it will give you a notification to "format this drive for this TV" (which if you do, it then becomes TV memory, and you can no longer pause TV on it). It's especially annoying since the startup is already so slow, these steps with the USB just add more time and are unpredictable. USUALLY now, if you just do nothing, the TV will eventually figure it out on it's own and go away, BUT if you press any button on the remote it will often select an undesired option when it finally gets around to processing the input from the remote.PICTURE QUALITY:Everyone raves about the clear and bright picture, which it does have if you are watching slow moving native HD content. The direct lit screen is VERY BRIGHT, but that also means bright spots in the picture, especially in dark/ black. There is a bright spot to the left center of my TV that is appreciably brighter than the rest of the screen that irks my nerves and is distracting.This TCL was $150 cheaper than the LG equivalent at the time, not a great difference but enough to have impact on my decision, as well as double the stated "effective motion rate" for the TCL. BS- the motion on this TV is the worst I've ever seen on a TV. It was so bad that on the factory settings, trying to watch "Gladiator" caused me to vomit. Literally VOMIT. I'm not prone to motion sickness and no other TV ever caused anything like it, nor the 120" projector that I had. It's not the size of the screen, it was the HORRIBLE motion control that tries to do more than the processor can handle at once. The result was bright "soap opera" look. Bright, gauzy, floaty and bouncy but any rapid, not even FAST movement caused blocky blurry pixelation in the area of the movement and surrounding it as well. My pet peeve with 60hz is confetti falling where I notice it the most, but that's pretty rare to see while watching anything. This has that falling confetti look/ distortion on simple things like someone waving their hand. Instantly looks like "Minecraft" with Instagram beauty blur shot through gauze.I spent 2 hours trying to change the settings to continue watching the movie and when I thought they were good, I went back to watching and it discarded all of the changes and went back to the bright and bouncy version from before. It wasn't bothering my partner so I continued on with the movie with my eyes closed for most of it, debating whether I should send it back (I've never returned a TV before). The next day when I was talking about it at work I got the name of someone to come and "Tune" the settings. That cost $75 or half of the savings going with TCL over LG.He was here 10 minutes and from what I can tell, the changes he made were to turn off all of the TCL "picture enhancements" hidden in various menus, switch the color profile to "Movie" and dim the brightness to 50%.It was better and no longer made me seasick watching TV when I paid him. Later I found out that no matter what settings you have set, the TV will override them if the source is 4K/ HDR/ Dolby what ever and it goes back to the predetermined by TCL settings that are bright, bouncy and blocky. Well Eff me, that's why it kept reverting back on "Gladiator". LSS, I can't really watch UHD on this TV since the TV will only play it in a format that makes me dizzy.Another of the TCL "features" is the "upscaling". HOLY COW IS IT HORRIBLE!!! Instead of a slightly blurrier picture/ less definition over the whole screen, it seemingly just adds in white specks. The result is a distorted picture that looks like old-school static/ interference to the signal. It sends me back to childhood, before cable. Kids, this is what the picture looked like on antenna TVs when it was getting ready to storm. Putting aluminum foil on the wifi router did not help in this case, lol. It's just turning that "feature" off every time it decides to turn on by itself. I don't know why this thing keeps turning things on randomly, but it's really, really annoying to have to keep setting up and resetting the thing every few days. It has a mind of it's own and will do what it wants... like Cartman.The biggest failure yet is "Ambient Mode"/ screensaver. This was SUPER ANNOYING before, when the screen saver would come on while paused- both live TV pause/ recording or a pause in streaming to go to the bathroom. If you hit the back button to go back to what you were doing before pausing, it takes you out of whatever you are in a back to the GoogleTV main screen, that it AGAIN SLOWLY populates and refreshes before you can go back to what you were watching in a streaming app from square 1, and if you were "recording live TV" after finally setting it up correctly. WONK, sorry it's lost, gone forever, no longer saved on the drive. So really, you can only pause TV for 8 minutes.BUT WAIT, that was before! NOW the screen saver /ambient mode is coming on every 10 minutes while actively watching TV or streaming! This started last weekend after an update. I assume it was an update as the TV was even buggier than usual, then restarted to the TCL and Google splash screens while watching TV. After 5 minutes of flashing, it went back to the GoogleTV "smart page" as usual to then show me a Nissan ad over the top half of the screen- jittery, pixelated, starting and stopping using system resources to play an ad instead of loading all of the now constant on-screen notifications. This is unacceptable to me, every 10 minutes watching TV is interrupted with the screen saver popping up! I've tried everything to turn it off completely to no avail. The internet hack of unselecting all selection boxes of what to display when it turns on no longer works and there is no "Disable ambient mode" on this version of Google TV!I finally contacted TCL support at the beginning of the week and heard back today finally that there is no way to turn off ambient mode and instructions of how to use "sleep mode". This is after HOURS of providing "ownership documentation" (that was previously put in when I set up my TCL account for this TV and it took 5 minutes sending information back and forth before initial setup could continue 3 months ago. Nope, anything to delay a response since they are "Experiencing higher than normal..." blah blah. HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE, delay any real resolution as long as you can, then reply with an off topic "solution" after several days, when each "response" has a ticking clock from them that they are "closing the ticket" as resolved, have not answered any of the basic questions, then respond with a random copypasta that has nothing to do with any of the many problems.The TV randomly freezes or turns itself off, BUT I have determined that it just gives up after being on for 7 hours in a row. I guess the processor is just too overwhelmed and sputters off/ clocks out. When it exhausts itself/ fill up it will not respond to the remote AT ALL and the only thing you can do is UNPLUG IT FROM THE WALL AND WAIT TO PLUG IT BACK IN. "Cold reboot", lol. What kind of backward regressive technology is this?The rants can go on, it seems like every day is a new glitch/ issue and the problems are getting worse and MORE FREQUENT. WAY TOO Many problems with a "new for 2023" TV with no manufacturer support. This is my first and last TCL TV. I'm sorry I bought it, it's getting worse and I feel that MANY of the claims made are "puffery" as to it's abilities and a lot seem like blatant lies.There's lots of positive promoted compensated "reviews" of this TV and I feel taken by believing them. yes, it's a big, bright picture, but it's not that "cheap" after all and the "leading edge technology" is backed with old, outdated equipment that just can't deliver.EDIT: Just noticed that the specifications were "updated" to correctly show that this is a 60Hz TV, it was previously stated as being 120Hz in all 3 areas/ with 240 acceleration! So Amazon and TCL misrepresented the product that they sold to all early buyers before they made the change to reflect what is actually inside the TV. So who is stepping up to take this crap TV back? Amazon? TCL? Now I'm VERY UNHAPPY and better understand the "motion issues". I relied on misinformation provided by Amazon/TCL.Down to 1 stars for deceit!

The picture is great but navigating the menus is next to impossible because of how slow the software is.