One advantage here is that you can compare prices of movies and shows before deciding which to purchase from. Roku's search function is also the best of any Smart TV. Notably, HBO Go, Showtime Anytime, Rdio, and NFL Now are absent from most other TV manufacturers Smart TV suites. Many are useless, but all the best Apps are included like: Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant, HBO Go, Vudu, Crackle, M-Go, Redbox Instant, TWC. The selection of Roku Apps is the best in the market with around 1800. When you stop to think about it a second, the Roku 3 or Roku Premier Box would cost you $75, and you get the same performance with this TV, so it's a great savings to have such a usable streaming system – a great option for cord cutters, especially with the new Sling TV option.Īfter initial setup, the home screen appears with the big App boxes, with the easy and spectacular search function, the Channel store and the Settings. I've used them for years and am on my second Roku (3) box, so their platform contained in a TV is always welcome. Roku is an excellent Smart TV platform, by most accounts the best in the market. Input lag is higher than most TVs on the market at around 30ms, but this level should make the S305 perfectly fine to use for gaming. Gaming Picture Note: For Gaming set TV Brightness to Brighter, set to Game Mode On, and dial back the backlight, brightness and contrast and set color temp to Normal or Cool. Our Preferred Picture Settings (TV) TV Brightness: We found ourselves using the Zoom option several times to fill the screen. Options are Normal, Auto, Direct, Stretch and Zoom. It's also important to note that the Picture Size settings for Aspect Ratio are located in the Advanced Picture Settings Menu. You will want to immediately change the TV Brightness setting to Normal to Dark depending on the room light conditions. The Movie mode is the most natural and accurate with color temp set to War. Preset Picture Mode Options include Sports, Normal, Vivid, Low Power, and Movie. The picture settings menu is very simple with not many options for fine tuning color. "We were pleasantly surprised by the black level performance" Picture Settings For the price, the picture is actually very good. You aren't spending a lot to get a superior panel or color performance on this TV. It's certainly not bad and a bit better than we expected. On the positive side, I was impressed with the brightness produced.Īll of that said, the picture is just a hair better than acceptably decent is the best way I can put it. Greens are also difficult for the TV to produce accurately. When viewing our stock Fifth Element BluRay we noted some inaccuracy in colors with a red push causing flesh tones to look flushed. ![]() With a gray or medium color screen you may see some darker shadows in various areas of the screen. From our experience with LCD TVs, it may become more pronounced over time. This is evinced by screen uniformity that is weak especially in gray scale (mid tone colors) This means that you may see some clouding along the edges or corners when displaying a black or very dark screen. ![]() ![]() In this case, full array direct lit LED to LCD is just an economical way to produce the TV much like some of the very small inexpensive 32” models we've seen from other manufactures. Another exception to the specifications is that this is not the full array direct lit backlighting you should compare with top quality and brands. ![]() Even though TCL states that the TV is enhanced to 120Hz, it's actually a 60Hz native panel. Motion blur is rarely visible, though judder (side to side jerky motion especially present when a camera pans slowly) is present due to the fact that there is no refresh rate smoothing features present in the TV. This begins at around 15 degrees off-center. From side angles contrast and color saturation degrade worse than the average LED backlit LCD TV, but less than expected. Black levels and contrast surprised to the upside, while there is noticeable screen glare or reflection at times due to the panel not being extremely bright and also due to the TCL panel not having the highest end light absorption features. I can’t honestly say that the picture quality on the 4K UHD version of the TCL Roku TV looks appreciably better than the 1080p version. This shot from The BluRay of The Fifth Element shows just a bit of screen reflection Picture Quality Rating: 78/100
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