News TCL under fire — report suggests its QLED TVs might not have any quantum dots

[admin]

Some of TCL’s QLED TVs might not have any quantum dots in them, which could prove disastrous for the QLED industry if true.

TCL under fire — report suggests its QLED TVs might not have any quantum dots : Read more

 

[johnmccain]

This is consistent with a recent video done by a Brazilian YouTuber showing striking difference between the review unit of C755 he received vs the one he bought from the store. The Latter was noticeably worse (visually) and several display functions didn't work properly. If it's QC issues as the article suggests then it is highly concerning as customers aren't receiving the product they paid for and may not be even aware of it. check out the video here.

 

[purposelycryptic]

Never buy a TV without at least spending a few hours doing your due diligence and reading reviews on it. Rtings.com seems to be the gold standard, but you should always look at multiple sources.

A good QLED can be wonderful, especially in a bright room, and you never have to worry about burn-in. But if you have a darker dedicated home theater room, or just not that much natural light in you home, and don't plan on using it for any heavy static content use (like using it as a PC monitor), you can't beat the image quality of a solid OLED.

I have a TCL Mini-LED QLED, the original 8-Series, - it looks exceptional, and gets bright enough that it can hurt my eyes in the evenings. It is fully calibrated, and has great color gamut. The only negative (and it has become more significant over time) is that it is a HDMI 2.0.

Still, I prefer it to the Samsung QLED (Q85T, or something like that?) I have in the bedroom, despite that one being HDMI 2.0, as it just doesn't reach the same intense contrast levels.

I have an LG C1 in my home office, lest you think I'm just an LED fanboy, and, since that room isn't as bright, the lower brightness isn't really an issue, and it looks gorgeous.

I also still have some final generation Panasonic Plasmas in the exercise room and guest rooms, and, while they are 1080p with no HDR, they still manage to look really good.

As long as you buy a solid, well-reviewed TV, it'll hold up well for quite a while - when there are whispers of weirdness like this, I would just hold off until the entire mess is sorted, or buy something else; it just isn't worth the risk. You don't want to risk getting stuck with something you won't be happy with, since when you get the right one, there really isn't any reason to upgrade for a long, long time.

Personally, I don't plan on upgrading until Micro-LED TVs enter mass production and become remotely reasonably priced. Just not worth it for me.

 

[purposelycryptic]

This is consistent with a recent video done by a Brazilian YouTuber showing striking difference between the review unit of C755 he received vs the one he bought from the store. The Latter was noticeably worse (visually) and several display functions didn't work properly. If it's QC issues as the article suggests then it is highly concerning as customers aren't receiving the product they paid for and may not be even aware of it. check out the video here.

That sounds more like someone passed off either a badly treated in-store demo model, or one that was dropped in the warehouse or the like.

Functions not working properly isn't going to be caused by the absence of QD film. I'm not saying it isn't possible that it might ALSO not have QD film on top of that, but I very much doubt it could be the cause of everything.

 

[johnmccain]

That sounds more like someone passed off either a badly treated in-store demo model, or one that was dropped in the warehouse or the like.

Functions not working properly isn't going to be caused by the absence of QD film. I'm not saying it isn't possible that it might ALSO not have QD film on top of that, but I very much doubt it could be the cause of everything.

Yeah, the reviewer mentioned he may have been unlucky and would've gotten a defective piece, so he has ordered a replacement to confirm it. But since the article pointed out QC issues with TCL, i couldn't but help make the comparison for that video. (visually it's completely different to the review unit, the reviewer pointed out how to identify if you may have this visually inferior tv (as it isn't obvious if you don't compare it side by side) which is what i mentioned as "display functions didn't work")