There's a setting called Natural Cinema that's said to improve the look of film (24p) content, but in my standard test using the aircraft carrier flyover from I Am Legend, I couldn't see any difference whether the setting was turned on or off.
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Video processing: The TCL 5 series handled 1080p/24 content properly, preserving the cadence of film. All of the sets were quite accurate and color differences would be tough to spot outside of a side-by-side comparison. Again I saw no major advantage of the 5 series over the S405, however.
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The Vizio E showed a slight advantage in the warm African skin tones of Black Panther's crew, which looked closer to the color reference Sony than the TCL delivered. Natural areas, like the mountains, rivers and plains of Wakanda, looked pleasingly realistic, if less dynamic than on the sets with local dimming.
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The 5 series looked pleasingly accurate in Movie mode, lacked the S405's bluish tinge to black areas. For bright rooms, people who want accuracy should stick with Movie and simply increase the TV brightness setting to taste. The TCL's matte screen was fine at reducing reflections, albeit not as effective as that of the Vizio E.Ĭolor accuracy: I didn't calibrate my 5 series review sample, but it still delivered excellent measurements in the best settings for my dark room - TV brightness in the Darker position and the Movie picture mode. It just doesn't match the searing light output found on many TVs today, even inexpensive ones. The 5 series is still plenty bright for most room lighting situations - this doesn't seem like a particularly dim TV in person. It's worth noting that the difference in screen sizes (I tested a 65-inch Vizio E versus a 55-inch TCL 5 series) could play a factor too bigger inexpensive TVs are generally dimmer than smaller ones. Tweaking the Vizio's settings (by increasing local dimming to Medium) bumps it up to 190, but the TCL is still brighter in the accurate settings I'd recommend. In accurate settings, however - Movie/Brighter for the TCL and Calibrated for the Vizio E - the TCL outshines the the Vizio significantly 284 nits to just 115. Its brightest modes are dimmer than those on the Vizio E series, and they're even dimmer in SDR than the cheaper TCL S405.
The Vizio did show some minor blooming in some areas, for example around the logo of my Blu-ray player's screensaver, but it was rare in normal video and definitely a worthwhile tradeoff for superior black levels and contrast.īright lighting: With both standard and HDR sources, the light output of the 5 series falls short of most HDR TVs I've tested. Shadow detail, for example in the folds of the rebels' uniforms and the depths of the underbrush, was fine on the 5 series, but again less realistic than the E series.
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