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TCL 55C826K Mini LED Gaming TV 55 Inch QLED Smart TV, 4K UHD, Dolby Vision IQ & Atmos, ONKYO Audio System, Google assistant and Alexa

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ports all supporting refresh rates of up to 144Hz, Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) up to 120Hz and Auto Low-Latency Mode (ALLM). Press the Google Voice key on the remote, hold and speak, and you can make useful requests like ‘Switch to HDMI 1’ or ‘Mute’, ‘Unmute’ and so on. In 2020, it uses mini-LED backlight technology which consists of thousands of small LED spreaded on the backlight system. TVs use different sound enhancement features like TCL supports Dolby Atmos passthrough, Samsung has Object Tracking Sound+ and Active Voice Amplifier to increase the vocals incase the surrounding is noisy. We had our computer connected to one of the HDMI ports, and its white desktop set the TCL’s screen utterly ablaze.

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We had very few problems achieving a spectacular picture quality from the TCL C835, whether streaming 4K HDR from its own Google apps or playing via HDMI from an AppleTV 4K or UHD Blu-ray player. A quite high 6 or 7 for both settings was a compromise across material, with the Clear LED Motion toggle also activated, as this seemed to minimize any pasty video effect and deliver the most accurate color palette. This might not be a huge issue for you, but if you have a large family and often have get togethers to have movie night or watch sports, then a wide view angle is must. There’s support for Dolby Atmos too, though there’s only so much a TV without up-firing speakers can do to reproduce this surround-sound format. The panel uniformity is patchy and on a 5% slide there are lighter corners and a darker centre, something we expect to see thanks to the LCD filter and the edge-lit approach.

The 2022 model numbers use the number ‘3’ instead of ‘4’, with the C835K, C735K and C635K joined by the C935K, which hasn’t received a 2023 update. There’s support for 4K gaming at 120Hz, with the TV itself supporting up to 144Hz, plus VRR and ALLM support too.

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Android TV is a common, if basic smart TV platform; these days it doesn't suffer as many bugs as a few years back, but with a new Google TV operating system entering the market it's looking more and more like the product of a bygone era.The arrival of Mini LED is the biggest shakeup here, especially given that the C81 was an edge-lit set. 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.

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Motion with 24fps material was decent with no obvious added blur to images where it didn’t exist in the source material. The Mini LED concept groups thousands of tiny LEDs into 128 dimming zones on this 55-inch model (160 zones on the 65-inch), backing a Quantum Dot colour layer and an LCD panel. Skin tones look realistic in the Cinema preset with almost all of the image manipulation features disabled. For instance if you have a small room and you want to choose the TCL 6 series, then you will not have to option to choose 43” or 49” TV.TCL has this year implemented Deep Learning AI super-resolution upscaling, while mere ‘AI’ further adapts settings to specific scenarios such as grass, faces and other detected content. Dolby Vision IQ also aims to optimize performance, using a light sensor on the TV to adjust settings to your ambient lighting when you watch any Dolby Vision material. While Sound+Image lives here online as part of our group, our true nature is best revealed in the print magazines and digital issues, which curate unique collections of content each issue under the Editorship of Jez Ford, in a celebration of the joys that real hi-fi and high-quality AV can bring. Between TCL vs Samsung, Samsung is costlier than TCL and comes with a wide range of different designs from which you can choose. The advantages of using a VA panel are superior contrast and black levels when compared to an IPS type panel.

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