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    TCL 65X925

    Dec 20, 2021 7 minutes

    8K MINI LED GOOGLE TV

    TCL is certainly packing in the technologies here for its flagship TV. It’s 8K, it’s Mini LED, it has Google TV, it even has a camera you can plonk on top if you like that sort of thing. It’s the Chinese company’s uppermost flagship, and has launched here in Australia before Europe (for once!), so we were delighted to get an early play with the 65-incher, the 65X925.

    Mini LED

    While many people will be attracted by the Google TV interface, there’s no doubting that chief among the technologies in the X925 is Mini LED. Mini LED breaks the usual LED backlighting into thousands of tiny LEDs, grouped in hundreds of dimming zones — 160 zones on this model. Those backlights excite a Quantum Dot colour layer, behind an LCD panel that controls the light levels coming through.

    All of which may seem a conceptually simple enough advance on the fewer zones, fewer lights of the past, but the many groups of mini LEDs allow extremely precise local dimming and, as we’ve found with other Mini LED sets from both TCL

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