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Data: Premium TV Shipments Show Modest Recovery

advanced | Sep 21, 2023 |

Q2 saw global premium TV shipments rise 4%. China and APac rose 18% and 5%, but N. America and WEurope dropped. Samsung lost 6% market share while TCL and Hisense’s shipments surged 58%, 125% respectively. OLED TV shipments dropped 2%, though 77+ inch models grew 26%. LG retains 50% of the OLED market, while Chinese companies dominate the $500-$1000 range; Samsung/LG lead in premium range.Q2 saw global premium TV shipments rise 4%. China and APac rose 18% and 5%, but N. America and WEurope dropped. Samsung lost 6% market share while TCL and Hisense’s shipments surged 58%, 125% respectively. OLED TV shipments dropped 2%, though 77+ inch models grew 26%. LG retains 50% of the OLED market, while Chinese companies dominate the $500-$1000 range; Samsung/LG lead in premium range.

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TCL Quietly Adds Q650F Class of 4K QLED Fire TVs

Jun 25, 2023 |

Hot on the heels of the release of its Q650G 4K QLED TV Class TVs based on the Google TV smart TV platform, TCL has introduced on Amazon a second version of the 2023 TV class based on Amazon’s Fire TV OS 7 smart TV platform. Like the TCL Google TV version, the new Q650F Class TCL Fire TVs offer direct-lit LED backlighting and quantum dot color enhancement filters that produce a wide percentage (better than 90%) of the P3 color gamut. We recently reviewed here the 65-inch version of TCL’s Q650G (currently available at $549.99 from Amazon) Google TV Class of 4K QLED direct-lit LED LCD TV and found it to be an impressively accurate mid-range SDR TV performer of the box, with only moderately bright HDR peak brightness levels of under 500 nits at typical picture mode settings. We also point out that Amazon’s Fire TV 0S 7 smart TV OS is based on the Android TV 9 OS platform, so both versions are likely to have similar performance characteristics, but with subtle differences in findin…

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