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TCL C835 55" 4K Mini LED QLED TV [2022] $1095 + Delivery ($0 C&C/Instore) @ JB Hi-Fi / TheGoodGuys / Bing Lee / ApplianceCentral

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TCL C835 55" 4K Mini LED QLED TV [2022] $1095 + Delivery ($0 C&C/Instore) @ JB Hi-Fi / TheGoodGuys / Bing Lee / ApplianceCentral
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EthicsGradient on 17/02/2023 - 10:29 jbhifi.com.au (2492 clicks)
Last edited 17/02/2023 - 11:33 by 2 other users

Not the lowest it has been, but the good enough for us to finally pull the trigger.

65" also available at $1495, 75" at $2495 (which I think is not a bargain).

Appears to be a price match to Bing Lee or appliances central (who have dropped to $1070 now). I've made JB the main link as it has the best nationwide availability, but you can also try:

TGG: https://www.thegoodguys.com.au/tcl-55-inches-mini-led-google… (they were offering an additional 10% off a couple of hours ago - has gone for me, but your luck may be good).

Bing Lee: https://www.binglee.com.au/products/tcl-55-inch-4k-mini-led-…

Appliance central - cheapest @ $1070, but no idea how much delivery will hit you. https://www.appliancecentral.com.au/55c835-tcl-55-inch-4k-uh…

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  • BLAIL on 17/02/2023 - 10:37
    +1

    Appliance Central is free shipping for me (western sydney)

  • Albert10 on 17/02/2023 - 10:53

    how good and reliable is TCL?

    • 87percent on 17/02/2023 - 10:56
      +2

      always see people on Whirlpool recommend this TV

    • The Value on 17/02/2023 - 11:35
      +1

      TCL is great.

      I would get a TCL over a Samsung or Hisense*.

      Of course, I'd certainly pay a little extra (if on sale) for an LG OLED.

      • Punkboy on 17/02/2023 - 11:40
        +4

        There are a lot of OzB comments saying TCL support is non existent if you are unlucky and get a dud or it dies during warranty.

        • The Value on 17/02/2023 - 11:50
          +4

          I've personally had a poor experience with Samsung support.

        • azhar7772 on 17/02/2023 - 12:28
          +2

          Nope. My TCL TV died just under 3 years. Sent them an email - they assigned it to a local support network near my house. They came over in a week and replaced mother board. I would highly recommend TCL with their 3 year warranty over Samsung which one has 1 year.

          • Cousin IT on 23/02/2023 - 19:26

            @azhar7772: I had a TCL TV die just on the 3 year mark, although it was on 8 hours a day 24x7, so I would say it was great. Just like you, TCL support arragned me to take it to my nearest repairer to assess. They gave me a brand new unit, top it off, new model too.

            I was quite impressed with that level of support, you usually don't see that anymore.

        • drsmithy on 17/02/2023 - 12:29

          If it dies under warranty you should be talking to wherever you bought it from, not TCL.

          • EthicsGradient on 17/02/2023 - 12:37
            +2

            @drsmithy:

            If it dies under warranty you should be talking to wherever you bought it from, not TCL.

            This!

            Also use a credit card that gives extended warranty (+1 year for us), be prepared to call fair trading and make use of the ACL, and generally be the coarse grit in the after sales customer service machine.

            They came over in a week and replaced mother board

            But mostly this is the response I'd expect.

          • azhar7772 on 17/02/2023 - 13:00

            @drsmithy: Not sure that's how it works. I am sure retailers like JB, TGG would ask you to connect with TCL directly to claim warranty. If only the extended warranty was purchased from the store - then you can take it back to the store.

            • EthicsGradient on 17/02/2023 - 13:10
              +2

              @azhar7772: Warranty responsibility sits with the retailer. You only fall back to the manufacturer if the retailer goes bust. At least this was the case last time I read the ACL.

              And regardless, ACL interpretation would take a very dim view on failure to address, well, failures in a $1000 TV in 3 years or less.

            • drsmithy on 18/02/2023 - 13:11

              @azhar7772: Warranty responsibility always lies with the retailer.

              Generally speaking, the only reason you should be going back to the manufacturer for a warranty claim is if the retailer is no longer in business.

              I would expect the manufacturer to (generally, there are exceptions) tell you the same thing (ie: don't call us, call whoever you bought it from).

              All that being said, if you are getting a satisfactory response from the manufacturer, carry on. :)

      • EthicsGradient on 17/02/2023 - 12:34

        Sadly OLED is non-starter for us due to massive amounts of sun in the lounge.

        Upside, of course, is massive amounts of sun in the lounge :-)

        But it does make the backlit LED very attractive.

    • leetec on 17/02/2023 - 11:40
      +1

      pretty good TV, best buy even better than more expensive TV. Just last week I tell a friend to buy a TCL miniLED TV, then try it on 4K movie, image look amazing especially the detail, feel different with my 2yrs old LG OLED but both are good. The new Onkyo speaker is very impresive, much better than my Bose TV speaker. Faster respond and love the Google TV OS. For $1700 65" MiniLED that is well spent.

      • habib23q on 17/02/2023 - 13:48

        While I agree with you everything you said about the TCL, the $1700 65" price tag maybe ok now but if like me you had bought this back in last November from TGG, they had cashback options that brought down the price of the 75" to that level. But they were out of stock for a while and had issues with their website at the time too.

      • Retchey on 17/02/2023 - 17:39

        Not better than more expensive TV's, any brand that still requires software updates via download onto a USB stick like tcl does , is not good , their software is buggy and absolute rubbish in all areas, I have ridden this horse , they are rubbish, did I mention they were rubbish ?

        • leetec on 18/02/2023 - 01:55

          I think you are talking about low end model, I remember there is OTA on mini LED model. And you said Google TV OS is rubbish?

          • Retchey on 19/02/2023 - 14:34

            @leetec: I had a high end QLED , it was just rubbish , slow android system , and the proprietary software was just rubbish , slow , clunky , and didn't work as expected, a few hundred more spent on a TV makes a massive difference, as I found out .

        • Irribotz on 18/02/2023 - 23:11

          Lol i can tell you havent owned this tv.

          • Retchey on 19/02/2023 - 23:49

            @Irribotz: I can tell you have never owned anything to compare it to.

            • Irribotz on 20/02/2023 - 05:59

              @Retchey: Lol clown. It runs on google tv so all this propriety software shit you are talking about makes no sense.

              • Retchey on 02/03/2023 - 08:08

                @Irribotz: Lowest form of intelligence is when you can't defend yourself and resort to name calling , the software I'm referring to is the TCL software , built into the TV, not the operating system, press the setting button on the tv remote next time and you will see TCL software. Hope I have educated you today .

                • Irribotz on 02/03/2023 - 08:33

                  @Retchey: Its not slow though so you still make zero sense. Nice try buddy.

                  • Retchey on 02/03/2023 - 10:32

                    @Irribotz: I'm referring more to the TCL software , HDMI arc, just never worked , routing to the sound bar would always have to be selected again , it's just rubbish , that's my point , having moved to a mid range lg I see the difference, the lg does not miss a beat. Its more polished and engineered far better . So maybe go back and read my original post my bro

                    • Irribotz on 02/03/2023 - 10:40

                      @Retchey: So what model TCL did you have?

                      • Retchey on 02/03/2023 - 11:20

                        @Irribotz: 65x4us was not a cheap set, I seriously should have spend the few hundred extra , anyway hindsight is 20/20 as they say.

                        • Irribotz on 02/03/2023 - 11:25

                          @Retchey: So not this model, funny that, seems like what I said to start with.

                          ARCS fine
                          OTA updates are fine
                          speed of use is fine

                          • Retchey on 02/03/2023 - 11:30

                            @Irribotz: Read the post under our thread , it's more the proprietary software it's just junk compared to lg Samsung Sony, my son has the c635 always whinging it's buggy.

    • 3d3e3fae on 24/02/2023 - 16:58

      I bought a new TCL TV (C635) recently, I can say there are some glitches / bugs / quirks which I have never experienced before:

      • Voice / video can get out of sync, even for live television. My old Sony from year 2008 never had that problem. It goes away after a reboot but it can be annoying.
      • Never was an OTA update available over Internet. The latest firmwares can only be found in a Telegram thread. Also, there are no changelogs available for these firmwares.
      • Picture sometimes have a red tint and would fix itself after switching between apps or a restart of the video.
      • The built-in video player would randomly frameskip on high quality video (e.g. 4K HDR content), as if the CPU is busy running some background tasks. Because it does it at random places given the same video, it isn't because bitrate was too high and decoder not fast enough.
      • The built-in PC mode, although capable of displaying text with no sub-sampling (4:4:4) at SDR, looks as if a sharpening filter is applied and cannot be switched off. Other modes don't have this problem but cannot display text clearly.

      I can't tell if these problems are common for all TV brands because how TVs are more complex today…

  • Jono258 on 17/02/2023 - 11:17

    Bought this tv recently to replace a Hisense, I am pretty happy with it.

  • drsmithy on 17/02/2023 - 12:28

    Damnit. Stuffed around too long at Christmas deciding whether or not to buy a 75", and now it won't come back down to $2,000 and I'm sitting on a bunch of JB gift cards. :( :)

  • Tzeeman on 02/03/2023 - 00:43
    +1

    Jb showing 75inch is $1495! At the moment

    • habib23q on 02/03/2023 - 07:54

      That's an amazing price for it. Even at the $1700ish I got it from TGG a few months ago I was happy with it.

      • Tzeeman on 02/03/2023 - 12:37

        It has gone back to normal price now.

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