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expiredsknick posted May 29, 2023 1:57 PM
65" TCL QM8 Q-Class 4K Mini-LED QLED HDR Smart TV
$1,300
$1,700
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Best Buy has 65" TCL QM8 Q-Class 4K Mini-LED QLED HDR Smart TV (65QM850G) on sale for $1299.99. Shipping is free.
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- Resolution: 4K (3840 x 2160)
- Refresh rate: 120Hz
- Panel type: Mini-LED QLED
- HDR: HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision, Dolby Vision IQ, HGL
- Ports:
- 2x HDMI 2.0
- 2x HDMI 2.1
- 1x USB 2.0 Type-A
- 1x RJ45
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- 1 Year Limited Warranty
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Best Buy has 65" TCL QM8 Q-Class 4K Mini-LED QLED HDR Smart TV (65QM850G) on sale for $1299.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member sknick for finding this deal.
Specs:
Thanks to community member sknick for finding this deal.
Specs:
- Resolution: 4K (3840 x 2160)
- Refresh rate: 120Hz
- Panel type: Mini-LED QLED
- HDR: HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision, Dolby Vision IQ, HGL
- Ports:
- 2x HDMI 2.0
- 2x HDMI 2.1
- 1x USB 2.0 Type-A
- 1x RJ45
Editor's Notes
Written by megakimcheelove | Staff- About this product:
- 1 Year Limited Warranty
- See forum thread for additional deal discussion.
- Get 1%-5% cash back on deals like this with a cash back credit card. Compare the available cash back credit cards here.
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Model: TCL 65-Inch QM8 QLED 4K Smart Mini LED TV with Google TV (65QM850G, 2023 Model) Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, HDR Ultra, Game Accelerator up to 240Hz, Voice Remote, Works with Alexa, Streaming Television
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At these prices, I'd give it a shot and see if the issues are tolerable. But you could probably wait and see if the DV/HDR10 issues are fixed/made better, and this price will probably be back a few more times over the next few months. And like others have said, keep an eye on the thread over at AVS!
2) Ignoring #1, you could buy a Roku stick for like $25 and be right back to using that if needed. The platform the TV is running on is rarely a reason to buy it or not, especially not at the high end.
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That being said, you're going to get into the OLED vs. MiniLED debate.
MiniLED is (usually) cheaper, brighter, no burn in risk & supposed to be better for a bright room.
OLED is usually accepted to be better in a dark room & obviously has perfect blacks & contrast. QD-OLED & MLA have allowed the newer Gen OLEDs to close the brightness gap with MiniLED/QLED.
The newer OLED tech is only in LG C3/G3, Samsung S95B/S90C/S95C & some Sony sets that are more expensive.
At these prices, I'd give it a shot and see if the issues are tolerable. But you could probably wait and see if the DV/HDR10 issues are fixed/made better, and this price will probably be back a few more times over the next few months. And like others have said, keep an eye on the thread over at AVS!
I highly question the need for 1000nit brightness, unless you're watching purely outdoors (1000 nits is how bright it gets in a lot of cell phones to get readability in direct sunlight). While human eyes are marvelous in self-adjusting to surrounding brightness to keep light from harming your light sensitive nerves, they need to do that over minutes (which is fine when you're in a natural environment doing outdoor activities), but they are not tuned to sudden changes in brightness like what's shown on TVs/movie scenes. A lot of people (especially reviewers) get excited about new technology because it can do something that was never capable before (like 1000 nits of average brightness on a TV), but whether that is a useful thing (for 99.5% of the people who don't watch their TV on the patio under direct sunlight) or a good thing (for your health) long term remains to be seen (and studied).
Reviewers need to stop chasing numbers, because after a certain point it becomes pointless. If next year they come out with 2000 nit, 3000 nit TVs, are those objectively better than the 1000 nit TV just because it can go higher? I think we've reached a ceiling with non-self-illuminating LCD TVs (anything not OLED and micro-LED) and the best sets can no longer outdo their previous incarnations, but companies either chase pointless features or downgrade their mid-range TVs or both (looking at you, TCL) to make their high-end appealing. OLED and micro-LED still has enough drawbacks to not be able to completely replace LED-LCDs yet, so right now is actually a good time to buy mid-range and wait for the next gen to reach parity.
I highly question the need for 1000nit brightness, unless you're watching purely outdoors (1000 nits is how bright it gets in a lot of cell phones to get readability in direct sunlight). While human eyes are marvelous in self adjusting to surrounding brightness to keep light from harming your light sensitive nerves, it needs to do that over minutes (which is fine when you're in a natural environment doing outdoor activities), but they are not tuned to sudden changes in brightness like what's shown on TVs/movie scenes. A lot of people (especially reviewers) get excited about new technology because it can do something that was never capable before (like 1000 nits of average brightness on a TV), but whether that is a useful thing (for 99.5% of the people who doesn't watch their TV on the patio under direct sun) or a good thing (for your health) long term remains to be seen (and studied).
Reviewers need to stop chasing numbers, because after a certain point it becomes pointless. If next year they come out with 2000 nit, 3000 nit TVs, are those objectively better than the 1000 nit TV just because it can go higher? I think we've reached a ceiling with non-self-illuminating LCD TVs (anything not OLED and mini-LED) and the best sets can no longer outdo their previous incarnations, but companies either chase pointless features or downgrade their mid-range TVs or both (looking at you, TCL) to make their high-end appealing. OLED and mini-LED still has enough drawbacks to not be able to completely replace LCD-LEDs yet, so right now is actually a good time to buy mid-range and wait for the next gen to reach parity.
This is not a fraction of the price though. 65" OLED is $1500 for a new set (S95B, LG G2) going off past Slickdeal posts. It's 85% of the price.
I still might snag a C2, to see firsthand how it does. Throw a 5 year Best Buy warranty on it and with how I/family members watch the TV, I'll be getting a new one before the warranty expires lol
S95B is 2022, it's the oddball first gen tech & it has QC issues you have to lookout for if you're choosing it. It's been as low as $1260 for 65". No argument on that one if you get that deal & have none of the issues with panels bending or noisy power supply.
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S95B is 2022, it's the oddball first gen tech & it has QC issues you have to lookout for if you're choosing it. It's been as low as $1260 for 65". No argument on that one if you get that deal & have none of the issues with panels bending or noisy power supply.
I would personally wait for the Hisense U8K and the reviews from that. It also has 1000+ local dimming zones and should be priced more competitively than TCL.
All Mini-LED does is to try to make an older, cheaper-to-make technology more appealing, so they can have a higher profit margin.
When judging a deal, I don't think year of release is what matters. The question is usually within a price ceiling, what is the best feature & performance you can get. Or given the features & performance target, what is the lowest priced product with those targets.
In my books you either pay 1/2 of the price to get a good enough LCD-LED set, or make the leap to OLED for around this price, which regardless of whether it is QD-OLED or W-OLED or just plain old OLED will still be better than any LCD-LED with enhancements to try to look like OLED.
My take is that in 4-5 years TV technology will converge, picture quality will be nearly indiscernible so it wont matter if you pick OLED or microLED (hopefully by 2027-2028), so the real differentiator will be price. OLED will have a significant advantage on that front since it will have been on the market for much longer.
If OLED manufactures can continue to mediate burn in issues, its hard to see it going away anytime soon.
fraction of the price ???
the 75 inch is on par with the 77 inch B2 for me fraction of the cost would be at least an 40-50 % saving so the 75 inch miniled should only be around 1k or less
the 75 inch is on par with the 77 inch B2 for me fraction of the cost would be at least an 40-50 % saving so the 75 inch miniled should only be around 1k or less
That changes this year though, as Hisense is adding MiniLED to all series 6/7/8. But the 6/7 series will still have less dimming zones, etc, so it will be interesting how the reviews compare to last year.
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