Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Let me start by thanking the seller for answering all of my questions, and doing so on the cheaper version of this TV. You didn't know if I was a serious buyer or not....but yet you took the time to answer in detail every question I had....and that definitely influenced my purchasing decision. I'm a perfectionist who is very rarely happy with any product. There is only a handful of products I've reviewed on Amazon....out of the thousands of products I purchase on the site each year...and this is one of them. I'm picky to the extreme in most cases. If the color is not perfect, it is not bright enough, there is any glowing/bleeding, or less than ideal input lag I'm either selling the TV/Monitor or returning it. Over the past year....I've owned a 55" LG OLED55C7P, 55" Sony X930E, a 49" Sony X900E, Sony X720E, 49" Samsung MU7000, 43" Samsung MU6300, 32" Acer Predator XB321HK, 27" Acer Predator XB271HU, 27" Dell Gaming S2716DGR, and a 34" Dell Alienware AW3418DW....and several other less well known monitors and TV's not really worth mentioning on here. My point is that you get the idea of the quality of products I'm used to buying. The TCL is on par with all of those screens in terms of quality and speed. Most people do not know what input lag is. It is the time it takes between pressing a button a button on a controller/device....and when the action occurs on the screen. The average TV has an input lag of around +40ms. The average gaming monitor has an input lag of around -5ms. This is why most gamers do not buy TV's to play games on. However, the TCL has an input lag of around 15ms. The TCL TV's input lag is so insanely low for a TV....that it makes it almost as good as a monitor to play games on. *** I DO NOT understand why TCL does not market their extremely low input lag to gamers. Seriously guys/gals you need to put on the top of your TV's something like "LOWEST INPUT LAG FOR A TV EVER CREATED". You do not understand how many gamers are DEMANDING a low input lag. Market to those people!....The TCL 55R617 is no exception. This TV runs games flawlessly. It also has a really good peak brightness! I do not have the numbers in front of me....but I would compare the peak brightness of the TCL 55R617 to that of the X900E. The only thing brighter would be the Sony X930E that was so bright I had to turn down the brightness. I do not like dark TV's like the ones Samsung makes....but this is NOT a dark TV at all. It is very well lit. Also, this is a BACK-LIT TV and not an EDGE-LIT TV....so they did not cut corners there and you will notice the quality of the image. Audio? The audio is on par with the Sony X900E, Sony X930E, and LG OLED557CP. The audio is very good...and I did not even feel the need to hook up my sound bar. Picture quality? The quality of the picture is on par with that of the Sony X900E. You might not get the OLED realistic blacks....but the blacks are VERY good! Why anyone would buy an OLED is beyond me....when OLED TV's are famous for images burning onto the screen. How realistic will your blacks look with a logo burned in on top of them? 60 FPS vs 120 FPS. I've played on monitors that are 240 FPS. Here's the deal guys/gals....you cannot find a monitor on the market that plays 4K at 120 FPS with an HDMI 2.0 port. You will only find monitors that play games at 2K at 120+ FPS using a HDMI 1.4. The difference between HDMI 1.4 and HDMI 2.0 is that 1.4 can only play 4K at 30 FPS. To get around this most monitors are manufactured to support 2K at 120+ FPS instead of 4K at 120+ FPS. I can buy any monitor I want on the market...and I promise you guys....the 4K 120+ FPS monitor is a myth....you will not find it! I tried! So your next best option is 4K at 60 FPS. Here's the difference between 60 FPS and 120 FPS....people will tell you it is a smoother experience. Which "can" be true....but often times it is not true. When you play a game locked at 60 FPS it will not make much of a difference....but if you play an unlocked game at 60 FPS and the frames drop by 20 FPS....you will notice the drop. On the other hand on a 120 FPS monitor when the frames drop by 20 FPS....you will not notice anything. That in a nutshell is the difference between the 2. So "most" of the time you will not notice a difference. Sony TV's can run at 120+ FPS....the problem is that the input lag is around 35-40ms. Which means that even though a Sony TV can run a 100+ FPS image on the screen.....your experience overall would actually be FAR SUPERIOR on a TCL TV running at an input lag of 15ms at 60 FPS. For this reason....and the OLED burn in reason....I believe TCL TV's are by far the best TV on the market. I don't mean "best TV for your money"...I literally mean the best TV for gaming...period. Why TCL does not market their low input lag on boxes and on Amazon is beyond me. TCL used to put things like 100+ hz on their screen which confused customers who thought 100+ hz meant 100+ FPS which it does not. However, they do not do that anymore. But when they have a huge advantage over their competition in input lag....they don't market it. I don't get it. If I was TCL I'd take a picture showing the input lag for all of the TV's on the market compared to ours and at the top of the picture type "BEST TV FOR GAMING!". TCL is really missing out on the gaming market...and forcing gamers to have to do a ton of research before realizing that TCL TV's are their best option.