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The TCL P607 is a great wallet-friendly 4K TV. It performs fairly well for movies and excels at gaming.
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Pros
Pro Great for gaming
The P607 offers a responsive and fluid gameplay experience thanks to its low input lag and barely noticeable motion blur.
The input lag is really low at ~15ms for both SDR & HDR inputs, and the panel only requires ~12ms to fully change the pixels color, resulting in fast-moving objects not leaving any trails on the screen, eliminating virtually all motion blur.
Pro Great for HDR content
On top of its excellent picture quality, the P607 has everything essential to a great HDR experience: local dimming, wide color gamut, and fairly high peak brightness level.
Highlights will really stand out as the deep black levels are further improved with local dimming. It can make parts of the screen darker when the image calls for it, resulting in a fairly huge boost in picture quality as the black levels become deeper.
The wide color gamut enables the panel to reproduce the full range of colors required for true HDR playback. The screen can get sufficiently bright at a peak level of ~500 nits to light those colors up and make HDR details really pop.
Pro Excellent value for money
At $650, it's hard to find a better deal for a 55-inch 4K TV that can also handle HDR content reasonably well.
Compared to its direct competitors, its picture quality is more or less similar to them. Although the HDR performance is just a tad below them, it's still great, especially for the price.
It's also more versatile because it has better features for gaming - the input lag of ~15ms is among the lowest in 4K TVs on the market, and it has a motion blur of ~12ms that stacks up to more expensive options.
The screen size is large for the price when compared to TVs in this price bracket, such as the Sony X900E which costs ≥$250 more for the 49" model.
Pro Great color accuracy
The P607 is excellent at reproducing colors accurately out of the box.
Even without calibration, the colors are spot-on - they're very close to what the source signal demands, and any inaccuracies are generally considered imperceptible to most end users.
The overall average difference between the source signal and the panel's reproduction of the color is measured in Delta-E, where lower means better accuracy. The P607 has a Delta-E of below 2.0, and anything below 3.0 is generally considered accurate for most end users.
Pro Intuitive user interface
The P607 runs on the Roku TV smart platform, touted for its simple, straightforward, and lag-free UI.
It’s easy for anyone to grasp how navigation works, thanks to its two-column design with the menu on the left and options on the right.
There’s also no noticeable lag during navigation or menu selection.
Pro Versatile
Apart from being an excellent gaming TV, the P607 is also great for movies and general media because of its well-rounded picture quality. The decent picture quality of the TV is achieved by its multiple features, such as high contrast ratio, good uniformity of blacks, high peak brightness, and excellent color accuracy.
Cons
Con Not suitable for group watching
The P607 has poor viewing angles that makes it not suitable for group watching.
Its picture quality gets progressively worse when viewed further away from the center of the screen. At just ~10° away from the center, the blacks start degrading into greys, and colors will start looking dull at beyond ≥20° from the center.
Con Not suitable for sports
The color uniformity of the P607 is quite poor, and the viewing angle is narrow.
When displaying large same-color objects, such as football or hockey fields, certain areas of the screen will look darker than the others, resulting in uneven colors. This becomes worse when paired with the bad viewing angles that makes the picture quality deteriorate even further, and also makes it unsuitable for watching sports with a group because the picture quality won’t be consistent to all viewers.
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Pro Works well with all current-gen consoles
This TV works ideally with all current-generation gaming consoles, like the Xbox One X, Wii U, and PS4 Pro because of its full 4K 60 Hz, HDR support and low input lag of 14.2 ms where it outperforms all of its competitors in this price range.
Pro Good dark scene representation
The P607 makes dark scenes look great thanks to decent black uniformity, accurate colors and its exceptionally high native contrast of 6437:1 (can reach 7269:1 with local dimming). The VA panel of the P607 has the best contrast ratio among the LCD TVs of 2017.
Pro The panel can get quite bright
TCL P607 does an amazing job when it comes to reproducing bright scenesr because of its highly luminous panel. The peak brightness of the P607 is around 560 nits, which is a fantastic result. Its competitors, like the VIZIO M-series, Sony X800E, Samsung MU7000, and VIZIO P-series have far less luminous panels.