TCL's super-sized Mini LED TV is available at a bargain price as an early Black Friday treat

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Black Friday is still a little way away, but we are seeing an impressive wave of deals flooding in from different retailers on some top-notch home cinema kit.

And, if you're looking for a super-sized TV to upgrade your set-up, you are in luck! The 85-inch TCL C7K is available for £1349 at Argos, saving you a whopping £850 off its original price.

While we cannot vouch for the 85-inch entirely as we have not fully reviewed it in our test room, it's safe to say that the C7K models we have tested are incredibly competent performers especially considering their price.

We call the 98-inch C7K's 98C7K’s picture "spectacular". When it comes to colour performance, the screen’s Quantum Dot system delivers a range and volume of colour that would normally only be found on a really top-end LCD TV, rather than one as aggressively priced.

This results in a dazzling yet detailed picture that is apparent both with general HDR images, as well as intense small HDR highlights such as reflections of sunlight on glass or metal, glints in people’s eyes, street lights, the moon, stars, candles and so on.

The 98-inch model does well with games, too. We say in our review: "High frame rate games look particularly smooth and feel impressively responsive, making it easy for gamers to bask in the glories of the screen’s bold colours, rich contrast, excellent detail and raw size."

Gamers are exceptionally well catered for when it comes to features, thanks to such features as ALLM, support for refresh rates up to 144Hz (and even 288Hz in Full HD resolution), VRR (including AMD FreeSync Premium Pro), and just 13.1ms of input lag with 60Hz games when running in Game mode.

But how does it sound? The Bang & Olufsen speakers offer support for Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, and the system in the 98-inch model delivers crisp dialogue with a reasonably expansive soundstage.

We do find it is lacking in the bass department, so there just isn’t much depth or heft to its low frequency response, leaving action scenes sounding a bit thin, and mid and treble tones sounding slightly too dominant. Still, it's a decent performer and budgeting for a soundbar would instantly upgrade its sound performance.

Still, this TCL model looks set to provide an immersive super-sized viewing experience at a price that won't break the bank for Black Friday.

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Robyn Quick is a Staff Writer for What Hi Fi?. After graduating from Cardiff University with a postgraduate degree in magazine journalism, they have worked for a variety of film and culture publications. In their spare time, Robyn can be found playing board games too competitively, going on cinema trips and learning muay thai.

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