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I’ll let you know, hopefully getting the C935 in the next week or two. I can say for sure it’ll be much better than the C1 for me due to the brightness. The C1 was way to dark, and playing SDR games looked like I was wearing dark sunglasses while looking at the screen. Fair points. Another consideration for my personal circumstances is that it would be placed near a south facing window so quite bright. However, during the week, I’ll rarely be watching until gone 8pm so not much of a problem.
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On the side we find all connections. That’s two HDMI 2.0 connections and two HDMI 2.1 connections . The latter two have 48Gbps bandwidth. They support 4K120, ALLM, VRR and eARC. The ‘Film’ image mode is also excellently calibrated. The gray scale has a little bit of red in excess, but that is hardly visible in practice. The color rendering is excellent. Considering the improvements in terms of contrast and dimming, these are very strong performances. The 65C835 will be ‘Calman Ready’ later this year so it can be calibrated automatically. We do all our testing to the industry standards for TV and film content, which means that TVs should have at least one picture preset that tries to match these standards, so you can see the content as it was supposed to be seen and as mastered. As the TCL does not have ISF, THX or Filmmaker Modes we used the Cinema preset. We made sure to switch off all image manipulation features, global dimming and image smoothing.
After correcting the greyscale, the white point now sits where it should meaning that the colour points now sit where they should be in most cases. There are a few very small errors with some points, but mainly at 100%, which is not as important as 75% and below, where the majority of images we watch are made up from. Overall, with DeltaE errors under one, we have no visible issues at all with TV and film content. HDR Results TCL's first mini LED TV to hit the UK leaves John Archer mostly impressed, but ruing some missed opportunities
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Google TV, meanwhile, delivers tons of content recommendations. In the first place, they appear centrally on the screen, and showed us Disney+ content, regardless of whether you use that app. Our most important comment therefore remains that you cannot change the organization of that screen. Furthermore, Google TV naturally offers an extremely wide range of apps. No worries. I’ve been in the exact same position as you recently searching for the right TV. It’s been a long annoying process. Both LG’s weren’t for me, and now I’ve finally settled on the TCL. It’s great value for money for the C935. The equivalent version from Sony, the X95K is double the price of the C935 for the 75 inch version and has worse local dimming on it. Not worth it at all for the Sony. Tone mapping of HDR10 content is very important to get the best out of every image. The TCL respects metadata and shows white detail up to 4,000 nits. For that you have to leave ‘Dynamic Tonemapping’ activated. With this, the TV neatly brings out all the white detail, so that every clear nuance remains visible. However, the image loses a little contrast, it seems to us that the tone mapping unnecessarily lifts the dark tones. TCL is aware of this issue and a software fix is in the works. You can also mitigate the problem a bit by activating “local contrast”. I went and got a C1 recently and had to return it for being too dark. SDR gaming looked way too dull too. Under the hood, the C835 still uses a quad-core ARM Cortex-A73 with 3GB RAM and Mali-G52 MP GPU that are sufficiently powerful for a smooth user experience. The C835 runs on Android 11 and is now also equipped with the Google TV interface. You can largely perform the installation using the Google Home app, which is more convenient than with the TV remote. However, during the last part of the installation, we notice that TCL asks you to log in with a TCL account. That in itself is not surprising, every manufacturer asks this, but optionally. At TCL this is now mandatory. As a user, you do not get any real benefit from this, the only difference is that you can place your device in the TCL Home app. While you do have to create an account again. So here’s a call to TCL to keep this optional.There are two supplied remote controls with one large unit with access keys for nearly every function of the TV along with direct access keys for streaming services and Freeview Play. The second smaller remote has only the most used keys available and is designed to be an every day pared down controller. Both are made from plastic but are robust and sit neatly in the hand during use. On paper, everything about the C935 seems great. The features, and especially the cost compared to some of the other TV’s on the market today. TVs are getting an increasingly higher brightness and color range to display HDR content as strongly as possible. The C835 improves the performance of the C825 one more step. We see a significant step forward, especially in terms of clarity. On a 10% window it achieves 1,313 nits (against just under 1,000 nits on the C825) and on a completely white screen it achieves 638 nits (540 nits on the C825). It is striking that on a 25% window it even goes up to almost 1,600 nits. Some high-end (AKA more expensive) mini LED rivals provide far more dimming zones than that, it has to be said. Experience suggests, though, that it's not always how many zones you've got that counts, but what you do with them. Also, some mini LED rivals, such as the Samsung QN85A and LG's QNED ranges, use IPS LCD panels that typically deliver weaker contrast than VA designs.
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The C815 features both the major dynamic metadata HDR formats Dolby Vision and HDR10+ as well as normal HDR10 content. There is also an Onkyo 2.1 soundbar at the bottom of the screen and the TCL supports Dolby Atmos decoding with ARC support via HDMI 1 and the C815 also supports DTS audio. The first brand to seriously introduce mini LED technology to the TV world was Chinese giant TCL. Yet sadly for UK shoppers those debut mini LED models didn't make it to our shores. That's changing for 2021 courtesy of TCL's new C825 range, represented here by the 65in 65C825K. the TCL manages to convey HDR content in a balanced manner with decent colour accuracy, skin tones and some shadow detail The color range of the quantum dots is equally impressive. The C835 achieves 93% P3 and 70% REc.2020. This equals the performance of an OLED, but combines it with a lot more brightness. Colors and light are therefore the strong side of this device, the images have an enormous intensity. Despite improvements, VA displays remain sensitive to changes in brightness at wide viewing angles. In concrete terms, you lose contrast and brightness when you are not sitting directly in front of the TV. Colors are well preserved. This screen handles reflections well.TCL supplies two remotes with this device. One is the usual TCL remote. It has remained unchanged for several years, it is long and narrow with pleasant rubber keys. TCL's mid level 4K Mini-LED, QLED range for the UK in 2022 delivers 1500 nits and 288 dimming zones via the latest mini LED direct drive technology along with HDR Premium 1000 as well as support for HDR formats including HDR10+, Dolby Vision, Dolby Vision IQ plus 144Hz Motion Clarity Pro for smooth, sharp and colourful HDR picture quality. Gamers will benefit from Game Master Pro, HDMI 2.1, ALLM, 144Hz VRR, Freesync Premium and TCL Game bar. The Smart TV system is delivered by Google TV with Google Assistant built-in giving access to a huge variety of content via hands free control. With the ONKYO 2.1 speakers, viewers can enjoy immersive Dolby Atmos and DTS:X sound quality on the TV or pass it to a TCL Sound Bar. There's a bezel less design with a matching central stand allowing the TV to fit on any surface at home. Release Date
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