The TCL was set to Dark HDR, but within this, there are also options for Darker, Dark, Normal, Bright, and Brighter. The Hisense picture preset was set at Filmmaker mode, though I got similar results with HDR Theater mode. I ran a comparison of HDR content simultaneously on both TVs using their built-in YouTube app. Figuring that out has taken a lot of my time. But for now, if we accept that the Hisense U8H is a bright TV, we naturally want to find out how the TCL 6-Series compares. Whether that’s good for you is something I’ll get to below. And it’s not just the peak brightness for HDR highlights that’s brighter - it’s bright all the time. It likely won’t come as a surprise that the Hisense U8H is, on balance, a brighter TV. But for a TV like the R655 6-Series or even some of TCL’s higher-performance TVs, that limited access causes a few concerns for me and for anyone else who really wants to get the best out of their TV. In fact, I think it’s a bonus because it helps keep things simple for folks who want simple.

For a Roku TV like the TCL 5-Series or 4-Series, or even some of the lower-end TVs like Hisense’s Roku TVs, that’s not a problem at all.

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