Beautiful TV
I will start off by saying I haven’t tinkered with all the settings/features of this tv yet so I can’t go into too much detail with this review. This replaced a 55″ LG TV I bought 14 years ago. It served me and my family well but it was time to upgrade. This TV is probably the closest you will get to OLED quality. The colors are much more rich and vibrant compared to the other TVs in my house. There is a color enhancement setting that you can turn on that will make them “pop” even more but I leave it off as I think it makes the colors look a bit too saturated. I was going to get the 55″ but the 65″ had a huge sale ($400 off) and it ended up being only $100 more than the 55″ so I got it. 4K and 1080p picture quality are beautiful. Colors look vibrant and the screen can get very bright! 720p broadcast tv quality on YouTube TV looks decent but it’s a little on the blurry side when watching sports. Don’t let this sway your decision as this will likely be an issue for all TV’s in the 65″+ range. It doesn’t look terrible but you can notice a bit of blurriness and compression artifacts in certain areas. I believe this is mainly due to the size of the screen. The bigger the screen, the blurrier the lower resolutions will look. There are a few sports games that broadcast in 4K on YouTube TV and they look great! The absolute best picture quality will come from 4k blu ray content as content on Blu Ray media is typically uncompressed. You can adjust a few settings to your taste for picture quality. There are also several sound modes to choose from. The sound is not bad at all. Solid bass (there is a mini subwoofer built into the rear of the tv and the sound seems to emit from the rear as well). Honestly it’s probably the best sound I’ve heard from a tv with no external soundbar or surround sound setup. With that said, the quality of the sound isn’t prefect, but it’s adequate and it can get REALLY loud. Turning the volume just to about 18 is more than enough for my family room! There are 4 HDMI ports.. one 4k-144hz port, one 4k-120hz port and two 4k 60hz ports (one with eARC). There is also an Ethernet port (I’m guessing it’s gigabit Ethernet) and a optical audio port. There is a rubber strap on the back of the tv in the lower middle and there are slots in the TV stand for you to run your cables through to keep everything looking neat.One other SMALL downside is the setup. It will take a good 15-20 min to download updates (depending on your connection speed), sign in to your accounts, choose features to enable, etc.. With everything said, in terms of price and quality, this tv is worth every penny!

Amazing Display for the Price
It is important to keep things in perspective here; this isn’t the best QLED display on the market. You can get way better for way more money. In terms of the price (sub-$500 for the 55″) this is up there when it comes for bang-for-buck for those who don’t want to blow a paycheck.I have spent a week using this (more heavily than I would normally), to make sure this isn’t something I wanted to start up a return for. I had read a ton of reviews, and was keeping an eye out for a number of different things that others had complained about. In all honesty, I was a little nervous. Out of the box – there weren’t any dead pixels (perm. white or other colors). All of the pieces/parts that were supposed to be in the box were accounted for. Adding the base/stand to the bottom (I didn’t want to wall-mount until I knew for sure we were keeping it) was doable by yourself, but it becomes WAY easier with the help of another person.Setup: If you are using the Google TV functionality, this will add time to your setup – but it will extend the library of apps you can choose from to add to the device compared to what is available as just a normal TCL display. I think the setup took me about 35 minutes in total. I only set up 3 apps (Prime, Netflix, and Plex) as part of the initial setup, and Plex was the only one of those not already installed. At this point, I no longer need the Roku Ultra nor the Chromecast w/ Google TV that are connected to the back of my other set.Picture/Performance: The default picture settings are crazy crisp. I was reminded of the early days of HD (720/1080) displays and how everything looked like it had been filmed with the family Hi8 camcorder, which wasn’t necessarily a good thing. I was also streaming a show, and was noticing some strange action during movement handling for things that weren’t lightning speed (quick hand movements and leg movements while kicking a soccer ball). The movement thing was a big fear I had – based on reviews. So I started doing some Google searches, as this set got RAVE reviews earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and many more after. Trusted sources when it comes to reviewing electronics. So clearly the display is capable of being set up and performing properly. I didn’t have to look far to find settings that a reviewer used for the QM7 (and their other sets). Switching to similar settings (start with ‘Movie’ mode and bump the contrast down from 100 to what looks right for you, the site said they used 23), immediately removed the two problems I saw with the defaults. The picture is less sharp, and the motion correction was disabled in this mode. So far I haven’t seen any further issues.Gaming: The Playstation 5 was automatically detected when connected to the HDMI port – so I didn’t have to name the input to make life easier for others in the house. The stock settings for Game mode just needed bumping a little to be a little brighter for my tastes. This could just be preference based on what I am used to from our old display. Very crisp. The color pops and the motion is fine with games with higher speed on-screen movement.Sound: While this will be connected to a sound system for better sound – for the last week we have used this with it nothing more than the built-in 2.1 speakers. While it isn’t anything to write home about, it is way better than the sound you get integrated into most displays nowadays. The small, rear-firing sub gives the sound some additional texture it otherwise would be lacking in (just like the competitors). Sometimes it is the simple things. Not everyone wants a soundbar sitting or full sound system. You have given these people a good alternative. I respect that.Shipping: You hear a lot of horror stories when it comes to shipping – regardless of who you purchase through. My preference is to pick such purchases up from a local big-box store. The reason I didn’t pick this up from a local (but national) big-box store is because their return policy is BS. Even if you buy their ‘insurance’ plan, their policy sucks. You are going to tell someone who just bough something for hundreds or potentially thousands of $$ that they can’t return/exchange it if there is a dead/broken pixel right in the middle of the screen right out of the box – even if they purchased the plan for extra money? You need to have a minimum of 3 bad pixels? Sorry, that is BS. I was unable to find something from Amazon that outlined such a policy, and was told that if I changed my mind about my purchase, I could return it. That is a win for Amazon/TCL. We were out of the house when the delivery driver was delivering it. He rang our doorbell and I talked to him. While a signature wasn’t needed, he was concerned about leaving the TV on the front porch as someone may steal it. I told him to just leave it there I had someone nearby who could put it inside in the next couple of minutes. I like the careful delivery and concern. The box was delivered in GREAT shape.Packaging: My only complaint with the packaging was the big picture of DK Metcalf (Seahawks WR) on the box sitting in the living room the past week. It would have been nice to have received a box with someone else on it, but I get it – probably a safe bet for the Northwest. The box was packaged well, and outside of something catastrophic (being dropped or a puncture from the side), the display was pretty safe inside.Bottom line: This is a great display. If you are looking for better display settings – Google for better display settings for the QM7 for watching movies or TV or playing PS5 or Xbox. You will find a community of people who have already given you a great place to start via Reddit, Youtube, and the web. And you can tweak it to your liking from there. Also, don’t be afraid to experiment – TCL has given you ways to return settings to their defaults should you not like where you have ended up and want to go back to the defaults again.