RedAssedApe
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55inch is $80 more than the 605.
main thing that stood out to me when comparing the two was that the m series is slightly more expensive and the m has higher input lag.
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TCL P607 P Series ( the new mid range/budget 4k/HDR recommendation)
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55inch is $80 more than the 605.
main thing that stood out to me when comparing the two was that the m series is slightly more expensive and the m has higher input lag.
NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
NESpowerhouse said:
In addition to all this, I've also been having trouble getting the Roku app to work to adjust the advanced picture settings. First of all, my college's internet IP range (129) is incompatible with the Roku app for some fucking dumb reason, thus meaning I have to use a different network. The only other network I can connect to initially is a guest network, but I cannot do so unless I both remove my phone as a registered device at my college and get a phone number (been avoiding getting service for over a year now, would need to set up with a new carrier). As a result, I got my friend to bring over a router of his to see if we could use that for the network. He could use his phone to connect just fine to it, but for some reason, while I can get my TV to connect to the local network through the router, I just cannot get it to use the router's network to connect to the internet. If anybody might have a possible solution to this too, that would also be appreciated. This whole bullshit of hiding essential features behind an app is so fucking dumb.
Went with the 605.
Rtings settings says that local dimming is unavailable during game mode. Is this outdated info? because I can turn on local dimming w/ game mode just fine
RedAssedApe
Banned
yeah its outdated. this was changed in a firmware update.
ShadowkillXNA
Member
Ok Have the p605 and would like to know how to stop the power light under the tcl logo on the bottom front of the tv from blinking all the time while the tv is ON.
Already have the setting to turn the light off when the tv is off enabled.
Great tv for the money, I grabbed the $599 version at bestbuy a few months ago when I moved.
Only thing I don't like is the dse effect but for the price I can live it for now.
Already have the setting to turn the light off when the tv is off enabled.
Great tv for the money, I grabbed the $599 version at bestbuy a few months ago when I moved.
Only thing I don't like is the dse effect but for the price I can live it for now.
lunchtoast
Member
Noticed yesterday the 607 is now 800 on Amazon. Hopefully it'll go back down when they get more in stock...
---today it's showing as 750...
---today it's showing as 750...
DrROBschiz
Member
So glad i got mine for 600
Seems like a steal now
Seems like a steal now
Hoho for breakfast
Member
The p607 is currently $650 at Amazon and the p605 $600 at Best Buy. The p607 has gone as low as $600 at times.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Dont think you can I looked in the secret menus. Its where the ir sensor is for the remote
does anybody else have a thin white-ish horizontal line on the lower half of the screen? It's barely noticeable but it's kinda bugging me
Edit: or maybe that's normal for the picture? Idk
Edit 2: apparently this is called banding? Is there a way to fix it?
here's a picture, hopefully y'all can see what I'm talking about
Edit: or maybe that's normal for the picture? Idk
Edit 2: apparently this is called banding? Is there a way to fix it?
here's a picture, hopefully y'all can see what I'm talking about
I use these settings and think the picture looks great.
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=246984418
I'd save to get the P series.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Honestly, this TV is already being sold for a black friday price.
I seriously doubt it will get a significant discount on black friday.
Rumor has it that TCL has already stopped making these and are devoting their resources to next years models.
SO better get it while you can.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
This question gets answered every page and the answer is always the same:
It's worth it to spend the extra for the P-series.
NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
Okay, it appears that my 6-year-old receiver does not support Audio Return. I'm completely stuck on what to do now.
Also, I've pretty much given up on trying to get the mobile app to work. I'll have to fuck with it during the summer once I'm out of school. This is such a baffling design decision.
RedAssedApe
Banned
ymmv but if your credit card has price protection read up on it. most people take advantage of that during the holidays as it usually allows you to get price adjustments on things for 90 days. see it often on slick deals.
I work across the street from Ellen and can confirm this.
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
Been having problems with my set today and it may appear that certain apps will reset the settings for the display.
I have a digital UHD copy of Spidey Homecoming on Vudu so I started the app up and for the first time, I got a Dolby Vision notification rather than the standard HDR notification that pops up. The problem was the picture was really dark. I checked my settings: Bright, Dark Dolby, 100 Contrast, 50 Brightness, 100 Backlight. Looked fine there.
I jump to my FandangoNow library using the native tv channel, launch Spidey there. Picture is crisp, good brightness, not dark, same settings. Problem here is the screen cuts off and goes to that popcorn / no signal screen off and on. App appears to be bunk.
I then jump back to the native Vudu app, no notification, no dolby. still dark picture, my settings are reset and no option to choose Dolby (just movie). I try my UHD copies of Guardians 2 and Arrival on Vudu, and can't get either to play in 4K / HDR. A quick check in the Vudu settings show that 4K resolution is still my default setting.
I need to test my 4K discs and see if i notice any changes there.
The only other thing I can think of is my broadband is being bottlenecked?
I have a digital UHD copy of Spidey Homecoming on Vudu so I started the app up and for the first time, I got a Dolby Vision notification rather than the standard HDR notification that pops up. The problem was the picture was really dark. I checked my settings: Bright, Dark Dolby, 100 Contrast, 50 Brightness, 100 Backlight. Looked fine there.
I jump to my FandangoNow library using the native tv channel, launch Spidey there. Picture is crisp, good brightness, not dark, same settings. Problem here is the screen cuts off and goes to that popcorn / no signal screen off and on. App appears to be bunk.
I then jump back to the native Vudu app, no notification, no dolby. still dark picture, my settings are reset and no option to choose Dolby (just movie). I try my UHD copies of Guardians 2 and Arrival on Vudu, and can't get either to play in 4K / HDR. A quick check in the Vudu settings show that 4K resolution is still my default setting.
I need to test my 4K discs and see if i notice any changes there.
The only other thing I can think of is my broadband is being bottlenecked?
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
It's a 10-bit according to rtings.
RedAssedApe
Banned
rtings is a bit weird with their labels. if its 8-bit+frc and they don't see banding in their test they label it as 10-bit
//ARCANUM
Member
Not sure if this helps, but the TV has completely different settings for each mode. 4K settings, HDR settings, Dolby Vision settings (yes HDR and DV have different settings), so you have to set everything up for each, both on the tv and the app. It sucks but once its all set up properly it looks great. We watch stuff on Vudu 4K DV all the time and it looks fantastic.
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
Have you watched anything in the last couple of days? All my movies are dark now. The night scenes in Spider-Man were unwatchable
I think the native vudu app on the tv had a bad revision. Specifically, selecting the UHD setting makes it go near pitch black. Changing it to HDX brings back the color and appropriate contrast and brightness. All same TV settings
//ARCANUM
Member
Oh crazy! No I havent tried in the past couple days. Man that would suck if they screwed it up. We watch most of our 4K stuff on Vudu. Ill have to check it out tomorrow.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Anyone playing shadow of war? Ugh. Some of those gray transition screens really highlight the uniformity issues. That combined with the narrow viewing angle resulting in brighter columns on left and right edges of the screen :
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
Oh crazy! No I havent tried in the past couple days. Man that would suck if they screwed it up. We watch most of our 4K stuff on Vudu. Ill have to check it out tomorrow.
same. let me know. during the movie, go to the vudu menu bar at bottom and switch between hdx and uhd. does screen get darker / brighter?
Calvinpewpewpew
Neo Member
Forgive me if I have missed this in the rather lengthy thread - I am about to pull the trigger on the 43' version - I don't have space for the 55 - and wanted to know if there were any thoughts here on it. Gets pretty darn good scores from RT.
There is only the 55in model of this tv.
RedAssedApe
Banned
some more info about the forthcoming Roku OS update:
https://blog.roku.com/pages/roku-os-8-release-notes
This stood out to me
This sounds like it'll help with judder?
https://blog.roku.com/pages/roku-os-8-release-notes
This stood out to me
This sounds like it'll help with judder?
NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
Yeah, I'm still having trouble getting my PC to display on my TV through 1.4 mode. Somehow, I managed to get it to appear yesterday once when I rebooted the PC in safe mode. However, the sound still wouldn't work. At least this time the windows sound manager displayed that it was using the Denon receiver as the audio device. However, there was still no sound coming out through the receiver. As soon as I changed the HDMI mode back to 1.4 from another one though, the screen returns to being blank. Otherwise in 2.0 mode, Nvidia control panel is still displaying the connection as DVI when In reality it's HDMI, and it is not giving me any options to change the audio device. Again, just to reiterate, I cannot use audio return as my receiver does not support it for some dumb reason. Does anyone think this might be fixable without getting a new receiver?
RedAssedApe
Banned
Yup. Definitely annoying to have to activate each app separately.
I don't think it will, in this case. The OS revision is for Roku OS TVs and also for stand-alone Roku devices. I believe this feature only applies to the latter.
lifetimeofnot
Member
I can only confirm yes for Netflix and YouTube as I don't have hulu. You do have to pay for a more expensive Netflix account if you want 4k. It's really nice not haviing to turn my ps4 on just to watch some YouTube videos. The twitch app is really great as well except that as far as I can tell you can't view chat. Giant bomb have an app as well that's just ok. It takes forever to load the app and the videos are displayed in a weird order.
RedAssedApe
Banned
boo...ok expectations tempered.
Brad Grenz
Member
Every problem I had getting a picture and sound from my PC to this TV through a receiver was solved with a new HDMI cable. Make sure you try that.
DirtyLarry
Member
Been a long time since I have posted in this thread but that is because overall I am super happy with my purchase, especially for the price and also especially after I received my dead pixel less replacement from Best Buy.
The reason I am posting is I am very curious to know if anyone has ever figured out the TV code or Model # that one needs to put in to get the XBox One OS to recognize this TV and control it?
I use Cortana to control all of my devices and prior to this TV I was able to also turn on and turn off my TV using XBox One and voice commands "Cortana, XBox On" & "Cortana, XBox Off" respectively, but I have not been able to figure out what the code is for this TV on the One OS, and I just tried again earlier today. The database has some other TCL Roku apps, and I tried a few of them, but still no luck.
Any help in this department would be extremely appreciated.
The reason I am posting is I am very curious to know if anyone has ever figured out the TV code or Model # that one needs to put in to get the XBox One OS to recognize this TV and control it?
I use Cortana to control all of my devices and prior to this TV I was able to also turn on and turn off my TV using XBox One and voice commands "Cortana, XBox On" & "Cortana, XBox Off" respectively, but I have not been able to figure out what the code is for this TV on the One OS, and I just tried again earlier today. The database has some other TCL Roku apps, and I tried a few of them, but still no luck.
Any help in this department would be extremely appreciated.
T0885 is the code you are looking for.
NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
I tried that with a multitude of cables. No dice. :/
FearlessBelgian
Member
How this TV can be Dolby vision compatible when the X900E cannot be ? ...
RedAssedApe
Banned
They paid Dolby the licensing fee so that it can be used. Sony has it in their higher end tvs so Im thinking the hardware isnt good enough to do it or they dont want to pay the fee since for your average person hdr10 is good enough.