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65" TCL Q5 Q-Class 4K QLED HDR Smart TV:

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Best Buy has TCL Q5 Q-Class 4K QLED HDR Smart TV (Various Sizes) on sale as listed below. Shipping is free or select free store pickup where available.

Thanks to Community Member Champagne13 for finding this deal.

Note: Availability for store pickup may vary by location.

Available sizes:Specs:
  • Resolution: 4K (2160p)
  • Refresh rate: Native 60Hz, Motion Rate 240
  • Panel type: QLED
  • HDR: HDR 10, HDR 10+, Dolby Vision, Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG)
  • Smart platform: Google TV
  • Inputs:
    • 3x HDMI
    • 2x USB
    • 1x Composite
    • 1x RF Antenna
    • 1x Digital Optical
    • 1x Ethernet

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Written by qwikwit | Staff
  • About this Offer:
    • The 65" TV is $200 lower (33% savings) than the regular price.
  • About this Product:
    • These Q5 class TVs are exclusive to Best Buy.
  • Refer to the forum thread for additional deal discussion.
  • No longer available:

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Best Buy has TCL Q5 Q-Class 4K QLED HDR Smart TV (Various Sizes) on sale as listed below. Shipping is free or select free store pickup where available.

Thanks to Community Member Champagne13 for finding this deal.

Note: Availability for store pickup may vary by location.

Available sizes:Specs:
  • Resolution: 4K (2160p)
  • Refresh rate: Native 60Hz, Motion Rate 240
  • Panel type: QLED
  • HDR: HDR 10, HDR 10+, Dolby Vision, Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG)
  • Smart platform: Google TV
  • Inputs:
    • 3x HDMI
    • 2x USB
    • 1x Composite
    • 1x RF Antenna
    • 1x Digital Optical
    • 1x Ethernet

Editor's Notes

Written by qwikwit | Staff
  • About this Offer:
    • The 65" TV is $200 lower (33% savings) than the regular price.
  • About this Product:
    • These Q5 class TVs are exclusive to Best Buy.
  • Refer to the forum thread for additional deal discussion.
  • No longer available:

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BadBoyBilly
For picture optimization I used this as baseline, it's the Q650G (better version of this TV) and changed a few things as necessary from there. (https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews...d/settings)

For performance improvement, i first installed Projectivity Launcher from the play store (https://play.google.com/store/app...rojengmenu), you can also install FLauncher from the play store and see which one you like better (https://play.google.com/store/app....flauncher). Both of these are open source, ad-free and allow you to customize the home screen. You aren't constantly bombarded with promos from Google.

Once you are happy with either of the above launchers you can connect via adb to your TV and run the commands from this thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidT...hromecast/). This disables the primary google home launcher and lets you launch one of the ad free ones from the ones I linked above when you press the home button.

Next I installed tvQuickActionsPro (https://play.google.com/store/app...ickactions) this lets you remap buttons of popular streaming apps that you can uninstall/disable via adb. One example is disabling YouTube, installing SmartTube from here (https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases). This is YouTube for android TV but with adblocking and sponsorblock in built and remapped the YouTube button on the TV to SmartTube.

I also uninstalled most of the extra streaming services to remap their buttons, prevent them from using system resources and disabled these apps which I found to be bloat but you can keep let them be on in the background if you want. This disables alexa, google assistant.


com.google.android.katniss
com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx
com.android.messaging
com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith
com.google.android.marvin.talkback
com.android.camera2
com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom
com.google.android.youtube.tvmusic
com.google.android.tts
com.google.android.videos
com.tcl.partnercustomizer
com.google.android.youtube.tv
com.tcl.smartalexa
com.tcl.messagebox
com.google.android.tv.assistant
com.google.android.play.games


Hope this helps!
doltran
Compared to the '22 models looks like:

6 series > Q750G > 5 series > Q650G > 4 series > S450G


So almost directly in between the old 4 and 5 series TCL TVs if it really is the exact same specs as the Q6...but I dunno about that. Someone on AVS said it had a lower max brightness compared to the Q6 when comparing them.
rattlingabhi
i paid $150 for the 50 inch. SO 65 inch should be $250 to be a great deal. This is meh !

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Oct 23, 2023
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BadBoyBilly
Oct 23, 2023
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank BadBoyBilly

Quote from hydman :
Would you please mind sharing details of how you improved its performance? Also, if you've optimized picture settings, can you please share as well?
For picture optimization I used this as baseline, it's the Q650G (better version of this TV) and changed a few things as necessary from there. (https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews...d/settings)

For performance improvement, i first installed Projectivity Launcher from the play store (https://play.google.com/store/app...rojengmenu), you can also install FLauncher from the play store and see which one you like better (https://play.google.com/store/app....flauncher). Both of these are open source, ad-free and allow you to customize the home screen. You aren't constantly bombarded with promos from Google.

Once you are happy with either of the above launchers you can connect via adb to your TV and run the commands from this thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidT...hromecast/). This disables the primary google home launcher and lets you launch one of the ad free ones from the ones I linked above when you press the home button.

Next I installed tvQuickActionsPro (https://play.google.com/store/app...ickactions) this lets you remap buttons of popular streaming apps that you can uninstall/disable via adb. One example is disabling YouTube, installing SmartTube from here (https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases). This is YouTube for android TV but with adblocking and sponsorblock in built and remapped the YouTube button on the TV to SmartTube.

I also uninstalled most of the extra streaming services to remap their buttons, prevent them from using system resources and disabled these apps which I found to be bloat but you can keep let them be on in the background if you want. This disables alexa, google assistant.


com.google.android.katniss
com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx
com.android.messaging
com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith
com.google.android.marvin.talkback
com.android.camera2
com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom
com.google.android.youtube.tvmusic
com.google.android.tts
com.google.android.videos
com.tcl.partnercustomizer
com.google.android.youtube.tv
com.tcl.smartalexa
com.tcl.messagebox
com.google.android.tv.assistant
com.google.android.play.games


Hope this helps!
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Oct 23, 2023
162 Posts
Joined Nov 2013
Oct 23, 2023
hydman
Oct 23, 2023
162 Posts
Quote from BadBoyBilly :
For picture optimization I used this as baseline, it's the Q650G (better version of this TV) and changed a few things as necessary from there. (https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews...d/settings)

For performance improvement, i first installed Projectivity Launcher from the play store (https://play.google.com/store/app...rojengmenu), you can also install FLauncher from the play store and see which one you like better (https://play.google.com/store/app....flauncher). Both of these are open source, ad-free and allow you to customize the home screen. You aren't constantly bombarded with promos from Google.

Once you are happy with either of the above launchers you can connect via adb to your TV and run the commands from this thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidT...hromecast/). This disables the primary google home launcher and lets you launch one of the ad free ones from the ones I linked above when you press the home button.

Next I installed tvQuickActionsPro (https://play.google.com/store/app...ickactions) this lets you remap buttons of popular streaming apps that you can uninstall/disable via adb. One example is disabling YouTube, installing SmartTube from here (https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases). This is YouTube for android TV but with adblocking and sponsorblock in built and remapped the YouTube button on the TV to SmartTube.

I also uninstalled most of the extra streaming services to remap their buttons, prevent them from using system resources and disabled these apps which I found to be bloat but you can keep let them be on in the background if you want. This disables alexa, google assistant.


com.google.android.katniss
com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx
com.android.messaging
com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith
com.google.android.marvin.talkback
com.android.camera2
com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom
com.google.android.youtube.tvmusic
com.google.android.tts
com.google.android.videos
com.tcl.partnercustomizer
com.google.android.youtube.tv
com.tcl.smartalexa
com.tcl.messagebox
com.google.android.tv.assistant
com.google.android.play.games


Hope this helps!
Thank you so much. I truly appreciate you taking the time to share your knowledge.
Oct 23, 2023
374 Posts
Joined Nov 2015
Oct 23, 2023
shaff
Oct 23, 2023
374 Posts
Quote from BadBoyBilly :
For picture optimization I used this as baseline, it's the Q650G (better version of this TV) and changed a few things as necessary from there. (https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews...d/settings [rtings.com])

For performance improvement, i first installed Projectivity Launcher from the play store (https://play.google.com/store/app...rojengmenu [google.com]), you can also install FLauncher from the play store and see which one you like better (https://play.google.com/store/app....flauncher [google.com]). Both of these are open source, ad-free and allow you to customize the home screen. You aren't constantly bombarded with promos from Google.

Once you are happy with either of the above launchers you can connect via adb to your TV and run the commands from this thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidT...hromecast/ [reddit.com]). This disables the primary google home launcher and lets you launch one of the ad free ones from the ones I linked above when you press the home button.

Next I installed tvQuickActionsPro (https://play.google.com/store/app...ickactions [google.com]) this lets you remap buttons of popular streaming apps that you can uninstall/disable via adb. One example is disabling YouTube, installing SmartTube from here (https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases). This is YouTube for android TV but with adblocking and sponsorblock in built and remapped the YouTube button on the TV to SmartTube.

I also uninstalled most of the extra streaming services to remap their buttons, prevent them from using system resources and disabled these apps which I found to be bloat but you can keep let them be on in the background if you want. This disables alexa, google assistant.


com.google.android.katniss
com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx
com.android.messaging
com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith
com.google.android.marvin.talkback
com.android.camera2
com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom
com.google.android.youtube.tvmusic
com.google.android.tts
com.google.android.videos
com.tcl.partnercustomizer
com.google.android.youtube.tv
com.tcl.smartalexa
com.tcl.messagebox
com.google.android.tv.assistant
com.google.android.play.games


Hope this helps!
You are a scholar and a gentleman! Thank you, BadBoyBilly.
Oct 23, 2023
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Joined Feb 2007
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techie333
Oct 23, 2023
1,659 Posts
How does this compare to the older 4k TCL 5 series S517/S515? Will I see a big jump in quality difference? Or is it worse?
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slammin_sammy
Oct 23, 2023
322 Posts
Quote from Redflyer :
Ouch inflation huh? I bought a 65" 4K Hisense in 2020 for $199. This seema a bit expensive.
This is a QLED tv, not a regular LED
Oct 24, 2023
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Oct 24, 2023
SethW8811
Oct 24, 2023
2,422 Posts
Very nice prices. I still absolutely love my 2022 55S555 so I think I'd be satisfied with one of these, but everyone in the house is happy with Roku and may not be too keen on Google TV. Might be worth it, even if we have to add a Roku Stick or Ultra. BF deals may be slightly better but probably not much.

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Oct 24, 2023
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pdm07
Oct 24, 2023
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Quote from HappyDome8591 :
Looks like a direct competitor to Hisense A65K. Not sure what the difference is between this and the Q6 (which RTing reviewed).
I'm also very interested in how this TCL Q5 compares vs the Hisense A65K.
Oct 25, 2023
879 Posts
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Oct 25, 2023
skyghene
Oct 25, 2023
879 Posts
Quote from Redflyer :
Ouch inflation huh? I bought a 65" 4K Hisense in 2020 for $199. This seema a bit expensive.
I got a 32" for 800$ in 2006. I would say flat screen tvs are one thing that has not increased in value over the last 20 years. That tv is still working and the 65 Hisense I got for Black Friday in 2019 for $300 just died.
Oct 25, 2023
461 Posts
Joined Oct 2006
Oct 25, 2023
c4chomdetta
Oct 25, 2023
461 Posts
Quote from BadBoyBilly :
For picture optimization I used this as baseline, it's the Q650G (better version of this TV) and changed a few things as necessary from there. (https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews...d/settings [rtings.com])

For performance improvement, i first installed Projectivity Launcher from the play store (https://play.google.com/store/app...rojengmenu [google.com]), you can also install FLauncher from the play store and see which one you like better (https://play.google.com/store/app....flauncher [google.com]). Both of these are open source, ad-free and allow you to customize the home screen. You aren't constantly bombarded with promos from Google.

Once you are happy with either of the above launchers you can connect via adb to your TV and run the commands from this thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidT...hromecast/ [reddit.com]). This disables the primary google home launcher and lets you launch one of the ad free ones from the ones I linked above when you press the home button.

Next I installed tvQuickActionsPro (https://play.google.com/store/app...ickactions [google.com]) this lets you remap buttons of popular streaming apps that you can uninstall/disable via adb. One example is disabling YouTube, installing SmartTube from here (https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases). This is YouTube for android TV but with adblocking and sponsorblock in built and remapped the YouTube button on the TV to SmartTube.

I also uninstalled most of the extra streaming services to remap their buttons, prevent them from using system resources and disabled these apps which I found to be bloat but you can keep let them be on in the background if you want. This disables alexa, google assistant.


com.google.android.katniss
com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx
com.android.messaging
com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith
com.google.android.marvin.talkback
com.android.camera2
com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom
com.google.android.youtube.tvmusic
com.google.android.tts
com.google.android.videos
com.tcl.partnercustomizer
com.google.android.youtube.tv
com.tcl.smartalexa
com.tcl.messagebox
com.google.android.tv.assistant
com.google.android.play.games


Hope this helps!
amazingly helpful comment, thank you for this.
Oct 25, 2023
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link626
Oct 25, 2023
5,279 Posts
Quote from StuGrimson :
I like tcl but I don't like 60hz. I think I got a 43" 4k 120z for less than this just regular price 3 years ago at any big box storeā€¦ I think this is special because of qled but it's an immediate no for me

what 43" has true 120hz for under $250?
Oct 26, 2023
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Jonwinns
Oct 26, 2023
3 Posts
Anyone know the difference between this tv (q550g) and the q650g?
Oct 31, 2023
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ShrewdRailway975
Oct 31, 2023
30 Posts
Quote from AquaGalley8616 :
Yep! And I don't think the extended holiday policy is in effect now ( I checked best buy for return policy) , but should be posted soon. But we could be wrong, but, I'm waiting for the SUPER BF and CM tv sales to kick in, since we are so close to slick deal time of the year on tv's.
FYI... Just bot a freezer from BB and the holiday return policy WAS in place for that sale.
Oct 31, 2023
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Oct 31, 2023
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Quote from rattlingabhi :
i paid $150 for the 50 inch. SO 65 inch should be $250 to be a great deal. This is meh !
What world do you reside in? I want to shop there

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nkaaa
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What's a better deal? This or the 55" Series 6 also available for $400 at BB? Mostly using for watching movies at 1080p

TCL - 55" Class 6-Series Mini-LED QLED 4K UHD Smart Google TV
Nov 1, 2023
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Jonwinns
Nov 1, 2023
3 Posts
Quote from nikhsterboi :
What's a better deal? This or the 55" Series 6 also available for $400 at BB? Mostly using for watching movies at 1080p

TCL - 55" Class 6-Series Mini-LED QLED 4K UHD Smart Google TV
If your willing to spend the extra money, the tcl r6 series is much better as it has FALD, 120hz native, and mini-leds. You can also check rtings.com for the review and see how they compare.

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