It still feels like Black Friday with deals like this. Walmart is offering a 65" TCL 5-Series (65S546) 4K Google TV for only $398. That's the least expensive brand name 65" TV we've found right now. Despite the low price tag, this is a great TV for both streaming and gaming and a nice step up from the lower-end 4-series TVs that we saw on sale during Black Friday and Cyber Mondayh.
65" TCL 5-Series 55" 4K QLED Smart TV for $398
The TCL 65S546 has the best image quality of any 65" TV in its price range. It's a nice upgrade from the 4-series because it sports a quantum dot LED (QLED) panel with full array backlighting and local dimming. The QLED panel enables this TV to retain strong color accurary and good dynamic range even at peak brightness levels. The local dimming feature allows different zones to dim or brightness independent of each other, thus allowing it to handle scenes where the brightest whites and the darkest blacks occur simulatenously.
Note that this TV doesn't have a native 120Hz panel or HDMI 2.1, so it can push a max of 60Hz at 4K resolution. You'd need to spend considerably more for a TV with those features. That doesn't mean this is a bad TV for gaming. On the contrary, the vast majority of gamers will be very satisfied with its performance. On the plus side, it has very low input lag, VRR, and ALLM. the TCL 5-series is still a good gaming TV. It has very low input lag, VRR (variable refresh rate), and ALLM (auto low latency mode). The fact that it has these features at this price is pretty amazing.
The 2021 TCL 5-series uses Google TV for its smart TV experience. If you're used to the Google TV smart interface, or you have an Android phone, then you'll feel right at home with the UI. It's definitely as good as the other smart TV options like Fire TV or Roku TV.
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