TCL has announced the latest addition to its 2025 TV lineup: the QM8K. According to TCL, the QM8K series is the successor to the QM851G with the latest series of products introducing the company’s own CrystGlow WHVA Panel with ZeroBorder, and its Halo Control System.
The Halo Control System is said to improve HDR performance through the use of up to 35% more dimming zones and up to 65% higher peak brightness than the previous series. The new line of televisions also incorporates Audio by Bang & Olufsen to provide consumers with complete AV solutions.
“At TCL, we are focused on continual improvement and wanted to put pressure on the market, especially in screen sizes over 75-inches, and our Precise Dimming Series does exactly that,” says Chris Hamdorf, executive vice president, TCL North America. “The QM8K represents the culmination of TCL’s commitment to R&D and its performance delivers market-leading QD-Mini LED television technology, with a thin and elegant design that is worthy of its premium designation.”
Halo Control Returns in QM8K Series
According to TCL, the QM8K is the first Precise Dimming Series model to incorporate the new CrystGlow WHVA Panel with ZeroBorder. The high contrast anti-reflective panel is said to offer an ultra-wide viewing angle that virtually eliminates color shift with a 40% wider color viewing angle than its predecessor. TCL asserts the combined width of a TV’s bezel and border makes a significant impact on its visual appearance, and the TCL QM8K reduces that total width to just 3 to 4mm (.11 to .15 inches) through special TV and panel materials and design. The QM8K series of TVs employ a one-piece aerospace-grade aluminum alloy mold for high structural rigidity, anodized ceramic film for enhanced panel stability, and now small-scale LCD panel driver circuitry along the panel edges without creating any panel deformation or light leakage, to create a new fresh, premium look.
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TCL explains the Halo Control System yields three key benefits including enhanced color accuracy, enhanced gray scale accuracy, as well as virtually no blooming, for more natural picture quality. The new system’s Super High Energy LED Chip combines high brightness with increased light efficiency while a Super Condensed Micro Lens uses a narrower light path for more precise light control. Additionally, the new TCL Micro OD reduces optical distance between the backlight and diffuser plate, helping avoid light overlap for virtually no blooming or halo effect, to produce clear, sharp edges between bright whites and dark blacks.
Additional Technology Brightens Up Picture, Drives Dynamic HDR
The company goes on to say that its enhanced QD-Mini LED backlight technology works in conjunction with a high contrast WHVA Panel to block out more of the light when the LCD closes for a better dark state, providing up to five times better native contrast. Furthermore, enhanced QLED technology combines a new Color Optimization Algorithm with more vibrant Quantum Crystals for significantly improved color accuracy.
The QM8K is also getting a processing upgrade in the TCL QM8K with Zero-Delay Transient Response for what it says is virtually no lag between the input signal and backlight response, preventing after-image blur and maximizing specular highlights. The Halo Control System also adds a Bi-Directional 23-bit Backlight Controller, allowing the finest granular control of over 65,000 levels of brightness for each LED so gray scale accuracy is elevated. In addition, the system includes a Dynamic Light Algorithm (DLA) that intelligently optimizes the incoming video to render SDR signals at near HDR level, for consistently pristine picture quality regardless of the content metadata.
For those that aren’t connecting these televisions to audio systems, TCL has also added Audio by Bang & Olufsen to the product line. Cosmetically, the QM8K Series features a thinner, flatter cabinet design to better support flush wall mounting, and the TVs come with pedestal stands for those that want to place their TVs on home theater furniture.
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