The TCL Q7/Q750G QLED is a mid-range TV that sits right below the TCL QM8/QM850G QLED and above the TCL Q6/Q650G QLED in TCL's 2023 lineup. It's a QLED TV equipped with a local dimming feature that has more than 200 dimming zones in its bigger sizes. It's fully-featured for gamers, with two HDMI 2.1 bandwidth ports, one of which can support up to 144Hz in 1440p and 4k or up to 240Hz in 1080p. It supports all variable refresh rate (VRR) technology for a nearly tear-free gaming experience. It also comes with TCL's Game Master overlay, which gives gamers quick access to many gaming-oriented features.
The TV has the IMAX Enhanced Certification and supports DTS and Dolby advanced audio formats through its eARC HDMI port, as well as advanced video formats, particularly Dolby Vision and HDR10+. It uses the popular and easy-to-use Google operating system. It has hands-free voice control through Google Assistant and works with the Amazon Alexa and Apple Homekit smart assistants. The TV is available in four sizes: 55, 65, 75, and 85 inches.
Our Verdict
The TCL Q7 is a good TV overall. Its reflection handling is only decent, but it gets very bright, especially in SDR, so it can easily handle bright rooms. It also has terrific contrast and incredible black uniformity, so any content watched in dark rooms looks great. Plus, it has incredible input lag, which is great for gamers or those wanting to use it as a PC monitor, as inputs are very responsive. As for the caveats, the TV has a few key issues. Its viewing angle is inadequate, so it's a poor choice for any viewing arrangement where many people sit around the TV. Its calibration out of the box is also bad; its color and brightness accuracy are off, so you need to spend time calibrating the TV yourself to look its best. Finally, its response time behavior varies wildly as a game's frame rate goes up and down, making it a poor choice for gamers wanting to enable VRR in their games.
- Excellent SDR peak brightness.
- Incredible contrast and black uniformity with local dimming enabled.
- Inadequate viewing angle.
- Terrible pre-calibration accuracy.
The TCL Q7 is just decent for watching TV shows. It gets very bright in SDR, certainly bright enough to compensate for its satisfactory but unexceptional reflection handling. However, it has an inadequate viewing angle, which means that the displayed image isn't consistent when viewed from the sides. This makes the TV a poor choice for a wide seating arrangement, like if the entire family wants to watch the same show while sitting around the TV. On the flip side, it has good upscaling capabilities; low-resolution shows, like most shows on cable and even some from streaming services, are upscaled well, making text and sharp details clear. It also does a good job of clearing up streaming artifacts, like macro-blocking, due to its very good low-quality content smoothing.
- Excellent SDR peak brightness.
- Very good low-quality content smoothing.
- Inadequate viewing angle.
The TCL Q7 is satisfactory for watching sports. It gets very bright in SDR, enough to compensate for its decent but unexceptional reflection handling, so it can handle some glare in a bright room without issues. It also has a great response time, so fast action, like players zipping around the playing field or a fast-moving ball or puck, looks crisp and mostly blur-free. The TV also has good color uniformity, although there's visible vignetting, which is most noticeable with very bright sports, like hockey, making the ice look darker on the sides and corners of the screen than it does in the center. Unfortunately, the TV has an inadequate viewing angle, so the image isn't consistent when viewed from the sides; this isn't a good TV if you like to watch sports with friends seated around it at various angles.
- Excellent SDR peak brightness.
- Impressive response time with fixed frame rate content.
- Inadequate viewing angle.
The TCL Q7 is very good for playing video games, with some caveats. It has an incredibly low input lag, so your inputs are quick and responsive. Plus, it preserves its details and contrast very well when in Game Mode, so you don't have to sacrifice the lowest input lag possible for image quality. It gets very bright in SDR, and when combined with its decent reflection handling, it's certainly capable enough for a very bright gaming room. Unfortunately, the TV's response time behavior is inconsistent, varying wildly as the refresh rate goes up or down. So to get the most out of this TV when gaming, you need to disable VRR.
- Excellent SDR peak brightness.
- Extremely low input lag.
- Supports up to 4k @ 144Hz.
- Inconsistent response time when the TV's refresh rate fluctuates due to VRR.
The TCL Q7 is a good TV on which to watch HDR movies. It has fantastic contrast and incredible black uniformity with local dimming set to 'High,' so blacks look inky and dark, and they really emphasize bright highlights in dark scenes. Those highlights also get bright due to the TV's good HDR brightness, so the TV is certainly capable enough in that aspect for a good HDR experience in a dark room. It also does a good job of smoothing out low-quality content, so compression artifacts, like macro-blocking, are mostly absent when watching movies from popular streaming platforms. Unfortunately, the TV has terrible pre-calibration accuracy; it's bad enough that to get this TV to look as good as it can, you'll need to spend some time calibrating it or hire a professional calibrator.
- Good HDR peak brightness.
- Incredible contrast and black uniformity with local dimming enabled.
- Very good low-quality content smoothing.
- Supports advanced audio and video formats.
- Automatically removes 24p judder from any source.
- Terrible pre-calibration accuracy.
The TCL Q7 is a very good choice to play the latest AAA games on. It's a fully featured gaming TV with up to 4k @ 144Hz support on its first HDMI port and is compatible with every VRR technology currently available. The TV's HDR brightness in Game Mode is very good, even if slightly overbrightened. Its image quality and local dimming performance aren't impacted by the switch to Game Mode, so blacks are just as inky, and highlights are just as impactful in this mode as they are outside of it. Unfortunately, the TV's response time behavior is very quirky and varies wildly as the refresh rate goes up and down. This means that to get the most out of this TV when gaming, you need to disable VRR.
- Good HDR peak brightness.
- Extremely low input lag.
- Incredible contrast and black uniformity with local dimming enabled.
- Supports up to 4k @ 144Hz.
- Inconsistent response time when the TV's refresh rate fluctuates due to VRR.
- Terrible pre-calibration accuracy.
The TCL Q7 is a very good choice to use as a PC monitor, with some caveats. While it has only decent reflection handling, it gets very bright in SDR, so glare from office lights isn't an issue. It also has incredibly low input lag, so mouse inputs are very responsive, but unfortunately, you can't have both chroma 4:4:4 and Game Mode simultaneously, so you have to choose between the text clarity of 4:4:4 or the lowest input lag possible. The TV's viewing angle is inadequate; if you're sitting close to it, the image on the sides of the TV doesn't look the same as it does in the center, with noticeable brightness and color shifting. The big caveat, however, for using this TV as a PC monitor is for gaming; this TV's response time varies wildly as the refresh rate goes up or down, so it's not a good choice at all to use with VRR enabled.
- Excellent SDR peak brightness.
- Extremely low input lag.
- Impressive response time with fixed frame rate content.
- Incredible contrast and black uniformity with local dimming enabled.
- Supports up to 4k @ 144Hz.
- Inconsistent response time when the TV's refresh rate fluctuates due to VRR.
- Inadequate viewing angle.
- Terrible pre-calibration accuracy.
- Can't have both chroma 4:4:4 and Game Mode enabled at the same time.
- Cannot go past 120Hz at any resolution when TV is connected to an NVIDIA graphics card.
Changelog
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Updated Apr 14, 2025:
We mentioned the newly reviewed TCL QM7K in the Contrast section of this review.
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Updated Jan 10, 2025:
Added a link to our new Best Google TVs recommendation article in the Compared To Other TVs section of this review.
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Updated Nov 07, 2024:
We've gone over the text, with minor updates for clarity, to ensure the review is up to date.
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Updated Oct 16, 2024:
We changed the TV's Native Refresh Rate to match its maximum refresh rate at its native resolution in the Variable Refresh Rate section of this review.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We bought and tested the 65-inch TCL Q750G (65Q750G), and these results are also valid for the 55-inch, 75-inch, and 85-inch models, as the larger sizes perform roughly the same. The 85" model has different feet from the smaller sizes, as they are angled differently to better support the bigger model's increased weight. The 85" model also has a different back design, with a flatter upper section.
| Size | Model | Dimming Zones |
|---|---|---|
| 55" | TCL 55Q750G | Unknown |
| 65" | TCL 65Q750G | 160 |
| 75" | TCL 75Q750G | ~200 |
| 85" | TCL 85Q750G | ~200 |
Our unit was manufactured in April 2023, as shown on the label.
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The TCL Q7 is a good TV for the price, as it's a very solid performer for what you're paying for, with amazing contrast and black uniformity, as well as high SDR peak brightness. But it comes with some annoying quirks and issues, mostly affecting gamers and people who really care about image accuracy, which its competitors don't necessarily have. For this reason, other similar products in the same price range are more stable and consistent overall, like the 2024 Hisense U7N.
For more options, check out our recommendations for the best TVs, the best Google TVs, and the best 4k gaming TVs.
The TCL Q750G is better than the TCL Q651G. The Q750G has a local dimming feature that drastically increases its contrast ratio, so it displays much deeper blacks. The Q750G is much brighter overall, meaning it overcomes more glare in a bright room and displays brighter highlights in HDR content. Colors are more vibrant on the Q750G, and it has better image processing as well. Regarding gaming, the Q750G has HDMI 2.1 bandwidth for up to 4k @ 144Hz gaming and has a faster response time, so it's fully compatible with modern consoles.
The TCL Q750G and TCL QM6K are closely matched. The Q750G is a bit brighter in HDR and in SDR, but in turn, the QM6K has deeper contrast than the Q750G, albeit with more visible blooming. The Q750G has better image processing overall, but the QM6K is far more accurate in SDR out of the box. For gaming, the newer QM6K also has the edge, but barely, due to being able to game at 1080p @ 288Hz; the Q750G tops out at 240Hz. Both TVs can also game at 4k @ 144Hz. Overall, if you already have the older Q750G, it's not worth upgrading to the QM6K, and inversely it's not really worth considering the older set if you're shopping for the newer one.
The TCL QM751G is better than the TCL Q750G. The new TCL QM751G has much better lighting zone transitions and is better with local dimming enabled. Otherwise, the QM751G is also noticeably brighter in HDR and is the more colorful of the two, providing a better HDR experience overall. Overall, the newer QM751G is an incremental improvement over the Q750G.
The TCL Q750G and the TCL QM5K deliver similar overall picture quality, but the Q750G has the slight edge. The Q750G is slightly brighter in both SDR and HDR, particularly in scenes where the entire screen is brightly lit. The Q750G is also better suited for gaming, as it achieves a higher refresh rate with its native 4k resolution.
We buy and test dozens of TVs yearly, taking an objective, data-driven approach to deliver results you can trust. Our testing process is complex, with hundreds of individual tests that take over a week to complete. Most of our tests use specially designed test patterns that mimic real content, but we also use the same sources you have at home to ensure our results match the real-world experience. We use two main tools for our testing: a Colorimetry Research CR-100 colorimeter and a CR-250 spectroradiometer.
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