TCL 65X10 QLED MINI LED 4K TELEVISION
The latest 2020 televisions are seeing various companies making real attempts to beat OLED on its own turf: unsurpassed black levels, precisely fitted to the images on the screen. TCL’s premium range this year is the X10 series, and we were able to lay hands on the 65-inch version, the 65X10, even before the model hit TCL’s Australian website. And here the company is challenging OLED with what it calls QLED ‘Mini LED’ technology.
The TCL 65X10 QLED Mini LED TV provides superb black performance, if at the cost of some pixels in certain circumstances. Subjectively, it’s about as good as OLED. This is one fine TV.
Equipment
OLED manages its black-level precision thanks to every pixel acting as its own light and being able to ramp smoothly all the way down to zero. LCD TVs have tried to approximate this with ‘Local Dimming’, which uses a grid of individually-controllable backlights behind the LCD panel. The backlights behind the bright parts of the picture are turned up on a frame-by-frame basis. Those in the dark areas are turned down low.
How well this works is largely determined by how many
