TCL was pretty quiet at CES 2025, announcing only a single TV, the decidedly mid-range TCL QM6K Mini-LED television powered by a Super High Energy chip that it claimed would boost brightness by up to 53%.
However, the company promised it would conduct a “phased series rollout” of its 2025 Mini-LED televisions, leaving us waiting with baited breath for more, and it has now begun doing that with the launch of its TCL QM7K Series TVs.
The company is making the QM7K Mini-LED TVs available in a wide range of sizes, starting at 55-inches all the way up to a gargantuan 115-inches at the upper end. In terms of prices, the smallest model starts at just $1,300 (around £1,010), with the 65-inch version costing $1,500, a 75-inch model that will sell for $2,000, an 85-inch version priced at $2,500, and a 98-inch model set to cost $5,000. But if you want to go the whole hog and grab one of those ultra-sized 115-inch screens, mind that it will set you back a cool $20,000.
According to TCL, the QM7K Mini-LED TVs come with the same Super High Energy chipset found on the QM6K, meaning the same 53% brightness boost. There’s also a new Halo Control System with a Super Condensed Micro Lens that helps to minimise blooming artefacts, plus a Crystglow HVA Panel that helps to reduce reflections. According to TCL, the panel hits a peak brightness of 3,000 nits and provides around 2,800 local dimming zones. For gamers, they’ll be pleased to know it delivers 4K resolution at up to 144Hz, with AMD FreeSync supported and a Game Accelerate engine that enables 1080p VRR at a whopping 288Hz.
The QM7K also supports HDR formats like Dolby Vision IQ and HDR10+, as well as non-dynamic formats like HDR10 and HLG. There’s IMAX Enhanced Certification and Filmmaker Mode is onboard too.
As for the sound system, you’ll be getting an integrated 2.2-channel speaker system built by the Danish AV company Bang & Olofsen, and that supports Dolby Atmos surround sound. The operating system is Google TV.
The TCL QM7K offers some serious improvements over last year’s QM7 Mini-LED TV and is actually much more similar in terms of its specifications to the TCL QM851G that debuted 12-months earlier. As with the QM7K, the QM851G also hit around 3,000 nits brightness in Vivid picture mode.
The gaming features are also more or less the same as what we saw on the QM851G, while the new display technologies promise to deliver similar blooming-free deep blacks when watching movies and films with darker scenes.
The QM851G came with a 2.1.2-channel Onkyo sound system that’s close to the specifications of the QM7K’s 2.2-channel Bang & Olufsen audio. However, Bang & Olufsen is by far and away the more premium brand, so if anything, we should see some improvements in overall sound quality.
Best of all, you'll be getting all of this bang for a lot less buck, as the QM7K is significantly cheaper compared to last year’s starting prices for the QM851G.
