when I was a teen anything bigger than 48 inches was considered a giant big
screen TV and they were big this 65-inch
Mitsubishi weighed over 330 pounds but
these days 55 to 65 inch TVs are quickly
becoming mainstream and in many homes anything smaller is probably pulling
guest bedroom Duty and why not these giant screens somehow keep getting
cheaper so today after a two-year Hiatus
we're gonna take a look at the forces behind this trend with another
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the reasons that 65-inch TVs like this
TCL are getting more and more popular is because one that's what consumers want
bigger TVs and two it's becoming more
and more cost effective to make them this big thanks to improvements in the
manufacturing process just like in the world of CPU silicon TV
manufacturing capabilities are specified by Fab generation with the latest being
generation 10.5 but these Fabs rather
than being defined by how small the transistor gate length is in nanometers
like a processor are defined by how big
of a piece of glass you can make if you've ever Stood Beside an 86 inch TV
you know how impressive a single piece
of perfect glass that larges but that's
only the tip of the iceberg because TV screens aren't actually manufactured as
individuals instead they're cut from an
even larger sheet of what is appropriately called mother glass
when I graduated high school in 2004 TV
Fabs were on gen 7 and could produce sheets of mother glass that were about
114 inches diagonally they probably could have made one giant weird shaped
TV out of it but that size was actually chosen because it was optimal for making
up to eight 40 inch panels which were a
lot easier to sell at prices that consumers could afford like this hoodie
from lttstore.com today the most common Fab generation is
Gen 8.5 which being about the size of two pool tables pushed together can be
cut into six 55-inch TV panels or into
three 65-inch panels with some extra
left over to make smaller devices like monitors 632 inchers to be precise but
while 55-inch screens used to be the sweet spot where consumers and
Manufacturing cost met today ATV manufacturers are aiming more towards 65
inch and the mother glass coming out of the New Gen 10.5 facilities which are
currently all in China can be cut into eight 65-inch TVs
wow but why does cutting up a bigger piece
of glass make the individual TVs cheaper it's because many of the components of a
TV substrate are put together using deposition which happens across the
entire mother glass sheet at once so the
length of time to process a sheet is roughly the same regardless of its size
meaning that larger sheets are more economical because you can process more
surface area at a time there's already more than a few gen 10.5 Fabs in
operation and soon there are going to be dozens meaning that thanks to increased
competition TVs like rtcl over here are
only going to get cheaper and that is pretty remarkable when you consider that
this is a 3840 by 2160 UHD TV with a
direct LED VA panel and it already costs
under 500 US Dollars it's an especially
good deal for gamers considering it's low input leg we measure just one to
three frames in CS go with game mode on and the pixel response time is good
enough that fast-paced games don't get too much blurrier than they have to
just don't expect some of the more advanced gamer features like freesync or
a 120 hertz native refresh rate for that stuff you guys should check out our
upcoming reviews of LG's 2020 TVs which
are on their way to our lab now so get subscribed for that if you think about
it though that's kind of the story of this thing
and the answer to why is everybody buying it it covers the basics and does
it well but without the extra Frills for
example it technically supports HDR in the form of hdr10 but given that it's
got an 8-bit panel and a peak brightness of around 200 nits the color volume and
contrast just aren't enough for it to really check my HDR box
the VA panel does give it pretty decent contrast in dark environments but when
the sun comes out you're gonna be fighting glare so I wouldn't put one of
these in a bright room also if you haven't guessed by now that relatively
low performance means it has no support for dual division
none of which means that we're not recommending it for the price the i o is
typical even if it's a little underwhelming with a side accessible
jackpack containing three HDMI 2.1 ports RJ45 Ethernet a lone USB 2.0 port spitif
and just in case you have a really long cable a headphone jack the industrial
design is Spartan with basic bezels a
stamped metal back and simple feet that screw directly to the set and one thing
to note is that those feet are 50 inches apart so you're going to need a pretty
wide table to sit it on unless you decide to wall mount it which might be a
pretty good idea there's a 400 by 200 millimeter vase amount on the back and
the TV is relatively light so you should be able to get it up there without too
much trouble in the Box you get an adapter that breaks out the composite
Port into its constituents and a pair of batteries for the Roku remote which
feels a little small like kind of like a kid size remote but I still support this
decision TCL has opted to integrate Roku inside their TV for their Smart TV
experience that would otherwise cost you about 40 bucks if you bought it on a
stick and it's not as slick as LG's web OS as versatile as Android TV or as
Snappy as well the same OS running on a TV with a faster processor but it's easy
to use and supports most major streaming apps and it's certainly better than if
they had tried to Homebrew something so bottom line there are obviously
compromises but I don't want to sound nitpicky either for an entry level set
tcl's s425 lineup which launched in 2018
still packs a lot of value for people on a budget or for people who just aren't
that concerned about having the most mouth-watering picture quality on the
Block I'd even go as far as to say that most people I know outside of the
techosphere would never complain about
this one except for one thing that I think we can all agree needs Improvement the speakers
the pair of 8 watt down firing drivers are harsh and baseless and speech can
actually be kind of hard to make out especially if you're listening to
someone who has an accent that you're not used to so maybe if you do go for
something like this consider an inexpensive sound bar like this one that
we checked out in a previous episode of this wonderful why are you all buying
this stuff series and if you liked our discussion on Fab Generations by the way
maybe check out our companion video so to speak on Quantum dots and the future
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