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Prices of Very Large Flat TVs are Falling Fast

Okay. Got myself a TCL 85C7K (or QM7K in some other parts). The difference between C7K and C8K doesn’t seem to be mega large, and in some things the C7K seems to be slightly better. And for less money, I could get an extra 10”. Total light output is then still higher than a 75C8K.

It is indeed plenty bright at 3000 nits max, and more than large enough for my room. Image quality is quite excellent. Coming from a 55” G1 OLED, that’s pretty good. Contrast is excellent and I haven’t seen any obvious blooming yet. Overall, for a relatively budget TV, very nice. I was a bit scared about the viewing angles, but really it’s plenty for my seating area. Have it wall mounted, no visible cables.
 
voodooless said:
Okay. Got myself a TCL 85C7K (or QM7K in some other parts). The difference between C7K and C8K doesn’t seem to be mega large, and in some things the C7K seems to be slightly better. And for less money, I could get an extra 10”. Total light output is then still higher than a 75C8K.

It is indeed plenty bright at 3000 nits max, and more than large enough for my room. Image quality is quite excellent. Coming from a 55” G1 OLED, that’s pretty good. Contrast is excellent and I haven’t seen any obvious blooming yet. Overall, for a relatively budget TV, very nice. I was a bit scared about the viewing angles, but really it’s plenty for my seating area. Have it wall mounted, no visible cables.
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They are £900 here, it's not a lot for a screen that size.
 
Some more info on Samsung’s forthcoming Micro RGB model, Vincent says subjectively it compares favourably to the Hisense one.

Also mentions the panel is TCL manufactured, who also seem to be coming out with their own model. Can’t wait for this tech to shrink (and cost) down.
 
masterhw said:
Some more info on Samsung’s forthcoming Micro RGB model, Vincent says subjectively it compares favourably to the Hisense one.

Also mentions the panel is TCL manufactured, who also seem to be coming out with their own model. Can’t wait for this tech to shrink (and cost) down.
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It will definitively be interesting tech if prices go down and they come up with complete model/size line up.

Never owned Hisense, but have TCL 98X955 for almost 2 years. TCL was in no hurry with the firmware improvements and original one, in retrospective, was not really good. 6 mos latter they came up with decent firmware that really improved video processing and got rid of most quirks. Most recent update came month ago and again was further meaningful improvement in video processing to make it cleaner and more 3D. Compared to initial firmware, my TV now seems like a newer and much better model. Pity it took them this long to figure it out. Not to say that there is no room for further improvement but this is excellent.
 
The 'Review Pipeline' page for TV's to be measured at Rtings dot com now shows they purchased five very large (98 to 100 inch diagonal) TV's on October 15, 2025. I believe this is the first time Rtings dot com has purchased TV's of this size.

Hisense 98QD5QG
Hisense 100U8QG
Sony Bravia 5 98
TCL 98QM8K
Samsung 100QN80F

www.rtings.com

Review Pipeline

See what TVs are in our review pipeline.
www.rtings.com www.rtings.com
 
Power Pop 23 said:
The 'Review Pipeline' page for TV's to be measured at Rtings dot com now shows they purchased five very large (98 to 100 inch diagonal) TV's on October 15, 2025. I believe this is the first time Rtings dot com has purchased TV's of this size.

Hisense 98QD5QG
Hisense 100U8QG
Sony Bravia 5 98
TCL 98QM8K
Samsung 100QN80F

www.rtings.com

Review Pipeline

See what TVs are in our review pipeline.
www.rtings.com www.rtings.com
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Hmm...shame about the Bravia 5. Maybe I will have to consider a TCL this year.
 
masterhw said:
Some more info on Samsung’s forthcoming Micro RGB model, Vincent says subjectively it compares favourably to the Hisense one.

Also mentions the panel is TCL manufactured, who also seem to be coming out with their own model. Can’t wait for this tech to shrink (and cost) down.
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Vincent and our own resident reviewer @Spocko are my to go sources for TV and projector information. Whatever is boiling in that world, both are great people to listen to.
 
Looks like Hisense and TCL understands most users of such large screen 4K TV don't need to spend the extra (double or more?) $ to go OLED, and still reach or surpass the point of fast diminishing return in terms of picture quality? May be those two Chinese TV manufacturers are in the process of making similar quality/reliability leap that Toyota (sorry for another electonics/automobiles analogy example) has done in the last 50 years! I have never tried TCL, and Hisense iirc is rather new, but I remember the quality of those TVs were noticeably bad vs Samsung, LG, Sony's even just watching their demos side by side in the Costco stores, now, they looked just about as good.
 
peng said:
Looks like Hisense and TCL understands most users of such large screen 4K TV don't need to spend the extra (double or more?) $ to go OLED, and still reach or surpass the point of fast diminishing return in terms of picture quality? May be those two Chinese TV manufacturers are in the process of making similar quality/reliability leap that Toyota (sorry for another electonics/automobiles analogy example) has done in the last 50 years! I have never tried TCL, and Hisense iirc is rather new, but I remember the quality of those TVs were noticeably bad vs Samsung, LG, Sony's even just watching their demos side by side in the Costco stores, now, they looked just about as good.
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Perhaps they may have planned that, as Korea is the place where OLED is developing, they might as well, save themselves the issues of third parties and develop a technology akin to OLED in terms of pixel by pixel reproduction. Such technology does exist, but the key is reducing the prices.
 
peng said:
Looks like Hisense and TCL understands most users of such large screen 4K TV don't need to spend the extra (double or more?) $ to go OLED, and still reach or surpass the point of fast diminishing return in terms of picture quality? May be those two Chinese TV manufacturers are in the process of making similar quality/reliability leap that Toyota (sorry for another electonics/automobiles analogy example) has done in the last 50 years! I have never tried TCL, and Hisense iirc is rather new, but I remember the quality of those TVs were noticeably bad vs Samsung, LG, Sony's even just watching their demos side by side in the Costco stores, now, they looked just about as good.
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TCL has been in the top rated budget brand on Wirecutter for years now.
 
peng said:
I have never tried TCL, and Hisense iirc is rather new, but I remember the quality of those TVs were noticeably bad vs Samsung, LG, Sony's even just watching their demos side by side in the Costco stores, now, they looked just about as good.
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I haven't paid any attention to their picture quality but the experience I've had with friends and neighbors is that they never lasted too long.
I heard a lot of complaints like "I only had that set a year or two and it died" ?
 
Sal1950 said:
I haven't paid any attention to their picture quality but the experience I've had with friends and neighbors is that they never lasted too long.
I heard a lot of complaints like "I only had that set a year or two and it died" ?
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The Costco sales rep recommended Hisense but I was concerned about reliability so I went with LG. Their G models seems expensive so I opted for the C5, hope it will last at least 10 years.
 
We are still watching our 42 inch Panasonic Plasma screen, and it still looks great. Since we can only fit a 55 inch screen, we may well have to get somenthing new sooner rather than later, given that 55 inch is now considered so small that the options are getting fewer.
 
Willem said:
Since we can only fit a 55 inch screen, we may well have to get somenthing new sooner rather than later, given that 55 inch is now considered so small that the options are getting fewer.
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So... this is what really "gets me" (as they say) about these ever-larger TVs... are people getting exponentially larger homes, or just adding wall space somehow? Maybe covering up windows?!?
In the US at least, houses are getting (far) less affordable and in many regions (including the area where we live) the availability of houses is fairly limited.
Our house isn't small (it's moderate by US standards, which I think would be fairly large by ROW expectations), but we don't have room for a large TV.

We have... windows... they're not all that large, but there are quite a few of them.



The resolution and color fidelity watching the world through them is... I'd like to think... better than any 4k TV of any size. ;)



maybe it's just me... ;)
 
Sal1950 said:
I haven't paid any attention to their picture quality but the experience I've had with friends and neighbors is that they never lasted too long.
I heard a lot of complaints like "I only had that set a year or two and it died" ?
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A lot of those complaints!
The same as what I have heard and seen from people that I personally know.
 
Our house is rather large by European standards, but the sitting room (and the connected dining room) have very large full height windows. We also use the large stereo system for TV sound, so the TV will have to sit in between the large speakers. The wall behind those includes a large panorama window from about 1 meter and above, so the TV will have to hang on the wall below that. So the larger the screen, the lower it will be. Those are the specifics of our situation, but I am sure many will face similar challenges. Finally, we do not want to have huge piece of ugly black glass in an otherwise elegant room with modern design furniture. TV is not that important in our lives.
 
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