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Best Buy has
98" TCL QM7K Series 4K HDR QD-Mini LED Smart Google TV (2025, 98QM7K) +
Free TV Wall Mount Service (mount sold separately) on sale for
$1899.99.
Shipping is free or select free store pickup where stock permits.
- Note: For free wall mount service, select the "Delivery + Installation" option. Availability for pickup may vary by location.
Amazon has
98" TCL QM7K Series 4K HDR QD-Mini LED Smart Google TV (2025, 98QM7K) for
$1897.99.
Shipping is free.
TCL also has
98" TCL QM7K Series 4K HDR QD-Mini LED Smart Google TV (2025, 98QM7K) on sale for
$1899.99.
Shipping is free.
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Note: The Wall-Mount Services are for
installation only; a wall-mount is not included.
Specs:- Resolution: 3840 x 2160 (4K)
- Refresh Rate: 144Hz
- Motion Rate: 480
- Panel Type: Mini-LED QLED
- FreeSync Premium Pro (AMD Adaptive Sync)
- Dolby Vision/HDR 10+/HDR 10/Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG)
- Google TV Smart Platform
- VESA Mount: 600 x 500mm
- Ports:
- 4x HDMI (2x HDMI 2.1, 1x eARC)
- 1x USB-A 2.0
- 1x USB-A 3.0
- 1x RF Input
- 1x Ethernet
- 1x Digital Audio Optical
Top Comments
I have this very set sitting in my living room right now, and it is indeed a solid HDR television. However, for those attempting to compare it to the QM8K, I want to provide some lived context that will hopefully help people who are currently on the fence.
I've had the privilege of having access to all three of the TVs in this TCL range, and I also lived with an LG G5 OLED for a period of almost three months to compare them against. To give you an idea of my current signal chain: I have a 98-inch QM7K in the family room. For the bedroom, I first auditioned an 85-inch QM8K, transitioned to a 77-inch LG G5, and finally upgraded to my current set—an 85-inch QM9K. It has been a steady, step-by-step march through these displays over the past six months.
The QM7K's Unique Panel Advantage
The QM7K holds some unique structural advantages that I don't believe its bigger siblings achieve. Its physical native contrast ratio is unusually excellent for a TV in this price bracket. While I don't have absolute laboratory proof, I firmly believe this panel's lineage is directly tied to the Sony Bravia 9. Sony sourced its open-cell panel for that flagship from CSOT (TCL's display division), and the QM7K benefits from this orthogonally. It likely utilizes panels that didn't make the absolute top-tier Sony binning cut for that production run, but are still physically magnificent.
This deep native contrast ratio allows a level of shadow detail extraction that is terribly difficult to replicate outside of an OLED. The QM8K and QM9K—despite their significantly higher dimming zone counts—fail to match this specific native performance. As a result, the real-world HDR impact of the QM7K is incredibly solid when you consider the actual light output from the back panel. The perceived performance to the naked eye, specifically in the nit windows most people are comfortable with for daily viewing, actually outpaces its bigger brothers.
In my opinion, the QM7K is the true sweet spot of the lineup. Most people will tire pretty quickly of a "light cannon's" massive output and will inevitably reduce the settings to more manageable levels for a "set-it-and-forget-it" everyday viewing experience.
Where the Flagship "Light Cannons" Add Value
With that said, you would be fooling yourselves if you think the greater luminance of the larger brothers is not noticeable, or that it doesn't add value to the HDR experience. The ultimate job of these displays, after all, is delivering true HDR impact. The term "impact" itself has to take relativity into account when making comparisons like this.
To state it cleanly: there is a significant difference between the QM7K and its bigger brothers. You are paying for premium bright-room HDR performance and those dedicated movie nights where you sit down to truly enjoy a film with an hour of retina-bleeding joy. Some viewers will value this raw headroom more than others. There is a massive shift in light output that cannot be denied, and once you experience it, you will find it hard to go back to the QM7K.
The Ultimate Choice: Flagship Mini-LED vs. Tandem OLED
If you decide to move on from the QM7K and shift your focus to its premium siblings or an OLED, that is where the true decision-making needs to happen. To summarize it quickly for those who need a bottom line:
The QM9K is the real value target if you need true, uncompromised HDR impact in brighter rooms.
The OLED wins in darker rooms, and thanks to the new Tandem stack architecture, it still outperforms them all from a pure quality-vs.-light-output standpoint, even when ambient light is present.
The OLED ultimately lost its spot in my room solely because of near-black dithering and panel banding issues. I noticed it immediately, and once your eye locks onto that artifact, it doesn't matter how many software optimization tricks LG tries to pull—you cannot unnotice it. And no, that native panel problem is not completely gone from the newer LG G6 series either. That persistent uniformity issue is exactly why I ended up keeping the QM9K.
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I don't regret the purchase at all. I have a 65" and a 77" Oled in other parts of the house. The QM8K isn't quite that good, but nobody other than me has noticed. The TV is bright, beautiful, and a blast to play video games on.
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I went from a front projector setup to this and and I am overall very happy. I had a 120" screen before so I miss the size. The overall picture quality improvements, especially in brightness, are worth the smaller screen size.
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Almost non existent! I went from a front projector to this TV and I am overall happy with the change. How bright this TV can get is really amazing. I usually have the brightness set to 30 with most normal HD material.
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I've never done an open box purchase before.
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