Near-perfect colors. Gorgeous highlights and bright-room performance. Nearly zero bezels. Solid Google TV interface. Native 144-Hz panel for gaming.

The QM8K is an impressive TV and a notable step forward for TCL. It rightfully stands toe-to-toe with the best TVs of the year so far. It has exceptional brightness and backlight control, improved HDR and color accuracy, and some nice quality of life tweaks.

The TCL QM8K is a marked improvement over its predecessor, with refined local dimming for solid, ‘halo-free’ blacks, and a new Ultra Wide Angle feature that ensures pictures look equally good from a range of viewing positions. The Dolby Atmos speaker system delivers sound that is better than average, although it is somewhat light on bass. The Google TV software is serviceable, and it has a good selection of gaming features, including 4K 144Hz support. Value is perhaps the strongest suit of the QM8K, which offers very solid picture quality, sleek design, and useful features at a lower price than the premium competition.

On spec, the TCL QM8K is an outstanding TV and absolutely worth the upgrade. When you factor in other options and constantly fluctuating prices of the modern TV market, though, things get a little trickier. At full price, it is just a couple of hundred dollars less than our favorite TV of the year, the LG C5. Given the small price gap, I'd recommend going with the OLED.

The TCL C8K is a little bit unique at this price point when compared to other Mini LEDs in the respect that you can get away with some critical movie viewing when sitting directly onto the TV in a dim room. It is similar to the Sony BRAVIA 9 in this respect, with local dimming control that is good enough to give you deep, fluid and detailed black levels, without obvious LCD TV drawbacks that we usually expect to see.

This was a common issue with all of the TCL's SDR picture modes. All of them measured poorly compared to other TVs of its type, and the "least bad" mode was Filmmaker.

The TCL QM8K is an excellent TV. It's a versatile choice with high peak brightness for daytime viewing but deep, uniform blacks for nighttime watching in a dark room.

The TCL QM8K has a bright picture, good color, and a nice feature set. But given the competition — like the more affordable Hisense U8QG — its pricing puts it in a difficult position.

TCL continues to refine its approach to premium performance at a more accessible price point, and the QM8K is another step forward.

In the end, folks, I saw and watched the QM8K for a good long time and i enjoyed it tremendously.

The TCL QM8K is an impressive LED TV, with excellent peak brightness, exceptional halo suppression, and a stunning borderless frame.

TCL C8K/QM8K is a worthy successor, featuring an upgraded miniLED backlight, a WHVA LCD panel that genuinely improves viewing angles, and the welcome addition of Filmmaker Mode. It builds on last year’s expanded storage for Google TV – still offering nearly every relevant app – and the new remote control. That said, it is a shame that TCL did not include the faster Pentonic 800 chip, which support more HDMI 2.1 ports.

The costly QM8K is a worthy flagship model in TCL's TV lineup, with excellent mini-LED picture quality, good speakers, and plenty of features.

That said, a few critical issues hold it back. HDR tone mapping inconsistencies, flickering at low frame rates, and disappointing sound quality are not what you’d expect from a premium-priced product. The $1,799 price tag is hard to justify when the QM6K offers 90% of the performance (If you don't include the QM8K's MUCH higher brightness) at nearly half the cost—and OLED alternatives inch closer in price each month.

The C8K’s winning blend of extreme brightness, outstanding backlight control and aggressive pricing makes it one of TCL’s most exciting TVs yet