Light luxury and lightweight fusion TCL C1 curved thin TV evaluation

As consumers’ aesthetic capabilities gradually increase, consumers are increasingly scornful about those homogenized TV products. How to create highly personalized and rich high quality products has become the direction of major manufacturers unremittingly. Curved surfaces and ultra-thin became the most eye-catching topic for this year's TV industry. The industry's "complaints and treacherous disputes" once buzzed.

In September 28, TCL shocked the launch of ultra-thin curved TV C1, which ended the competition in the TV industry's future curved surface or ultra-thin direction. With only 5.9mm, 4000R gold curvature, surface high color gamut technology, speed 64-bit chips and "C Sports" and other leading TV industry leading technologies and applications, it truly brings five unique experiences: thin, curved, true, fast, and trendy. .


C1 is already the third generation of ultra-thin products launched by TCL. For TCL, which is making a great effort to become a curved TV leader in the field of heavy-duty surfaces, the launch of the ultra-thin surface C1 has further upgraded the TCL surface camp. The overall construction of a powerful surface leader. Whether it is the H8800 series with quantum dot display top product QLED2.0 or the ultra-thin series C1 product, TCL proves to the industry that it is the first TV to include high-end technology such as curved surface, ultra-thin, quantum dots and high color gamut. Enterprises, together with content platform upgrades, have achieved a truly “sea, land and air” integration and a three-dimensional competitive advantage.

Appearance Appreciation of TCL C1

The front screen of the TCL C1 is quite black and the borderless design allows this depth to be extended indefinitely. Thin as the wing of the fuselage with 4000R curvature of the screen, so that it has the most natural depth of field and the most real telepresence, and bring a broader vision of enjoyment.


TCL C1 through a new breakthrough design, making the fuselage thickness as low as 5.9mm, 20% thinner than the iPhone6S, into the surface, bringing sparkling agile beauty. At the same time, the design without a panel frame on the front side also makes the whole machine extremely technical and futuristic.


The back of TCL C1 is a black alloy one-piece back panel that combines strength and ultra-thinness. It has a smooth feel, and is elegant and exquisite. At the bottom of the back, six sound units are arranged, making the sound quality of the TV three-dimensional and layered.


The base of the metal material is exquisite and exquisite, double Y-shaped structure, stable and simple atmosphere.


Interface design, all focused on the back side. The interface type is very rich, including three HDMI interfaces, three USB interfaces, and two microphone interfaces, which ensure the transmission of ultra-high speed, ultra-high image quality and super-high sound quality, and also meet the needs of different groups of people.

Perfect combination of ultra-thin and curved surfaces

Why TCL C1 can be so thin? Its thinness stems from innovative technology. TCL C1 uses South Korea's Samsung imported module screens, panel, light guide plate, back shell are using innovative technology, the thickness is only one-third of the first generation of the surface, while ensuring the quality of the lossless rendering.


When the structure of TCL C1 is disassembled, the liquid crystal display panel is only 0.4 mm. The side-entry backlight and the wedge-shaped design behind the thin upper and lower sides and the ultra-thin integrated rear housing greatly reduce the thickness of the body.

Curved 4000R's curved surface technology brings 8 technology enhancements, with 46.7mm depth enhancement, 15% more field of view, 2.8x stronger 3D effect, 2898:1 contrast enhancement, 24% faster visual image processing, and more Image accuracy increased by 30%, distortion rate improved by 73%, and brightness uniformity increased by 13.6%. These effective improvements and enhancements have brought extraordinary visual impact to TCL C1.


At the same time, the curved screen watching video has its natural advantages. The natural curved screen makes any point on the screen equal to the eye distance, and the visual field range is increased by 15%. It has the same curvature and common rhythm as the eyeball, and it is ergonomic and reduces visual fatigue. Maximize "pleasant" your eyes; more importantly, TCL C1's intelligent depth-of-field optimization technology greatly improves the depth and depth of the picture on the curved screen, and the picture is more realistic and realistic.


The most astounding is TCl exclusive Nature View TV + true color display technology, it realizes color gamut from backlight components, backlight algorithm, backlight control technology, image quality processing technology, NV color gamut enhancement technology and other latitudes. The comprehensive improvement of image quality parameters such as value, contrast, energy efficiency, and brightness improves the display quality. Of course, the most popular HDR high dynamic image decoding technology TCL C1 is also indispensable, it greatly enhances the brightness of the TV, while reducing the darkness, the brightness range is closer to the perception of the human eye, and better reflected in the people in the real environment In the visual effects.

Screen shot proofs









From the screen shot proofs, we can see that TCL C1 has perfect control over dynamics, colors, and light and shade. Whether it is a tennis racket, a running football, or a splash, it can display its dynamic effect very well. There are dropped frames, smears, ghosting and other phenomena; the sense of hierarchy of the sky, the old sense of the building, and the details of the shadows of distant buildings can be well displayed, demonstrating its powerful light control and detail reduction capabilities; Beautiful dresses, blue-purple style buildings and green vegetation, TCL C1 have shown a strong but not brilliant, as in the natural accurate color reproduction ability.

Strong performance and trend entertainment

With an elegant appearance and exquisite picture quality, how can you reduce the powerful performance? TCL C1 adopts 64-bit chips with advanced process technology. With 2GB of memory, it doesn't require long boot waits. It only has a quick and smooth control experience. It can be easily controlled whether it is a large-scale game, multi-task operation, or ultra-high-definition playback.


TCL C1 is also the TV of choice for a tidal wave of women who have transformed into your sports social smart terminal. C1 built-in "C exercise" fitness applications, through an external smart sports blanket and family equipment can begin a healthy journey. The multi-player aerobic jogging, fitness dance with music rhythm beats, and professional yoga to soothe heart-beat and health-shaping make it easy for you to experience sports fun without leaving home. There are also interesting somatosensory games that can make you move!



As a TV, rich and high-quality video content resources are of course essential. TCL C1 cooperates with the ICNTV broadcast control platform, carrying Tencent video, built-in rich video resources, penguin theater everything, television drama coverage of the year's hit broadcast drama, more than high-definition variety art resources, all year round uninterrupted music sports live, more HBO, NBA and other overseas exclusive resources, and exclusive H.265 and HD area for TCL users.




What is even more powerful is the Golive Synchronous Cinema Resources, both of which are movies that have been hit by cinemas during the same period. The film is a source of high-definition resolution, and uses an encrypted download playback method, which is a non-stopping movie viewing experience.



The tide is not just about playing and watching, but also chanting. TCL C1 has a built-in mass HD MV library, which is updated with major KTVs. New song singers can be found. Supports downloading local K songs, smooth HD without buffering. You can also choose to use the camera for professional recording and scoring, with a higher level with friends and family, is an essential artifact family party entertainment.


It is certainly not just content that can support you to sing. It must also be excellent in sound quality. TCL C1 equipped with TCL low-frequency enhancement and matrix audio technology to listen to the sound system, not only can restore the low-frequency signal, but also can significantly improve the midrange sound effects.




WeChat, as the largest social platform in China, can certainly not be less on TV. By binding WeChat account, mobile TV can be seamlessly connected and easily share pictures and videos. Even if you are far away from home, you can share your recent life with your mobile phone on your TCL TV at home.

Summary: In the evaluation article, we can see that TCL C1 is ahead of others in terms of product appearance, excellent picture content, rich playability and so on. The ultra-thin surface C1 is a very good practice of the concept of fashion and high-quality experience. It brings higher product value than other TVs, and greatly compensates for the market gap of light luxury TV. A TV, two kinds of enjoyment, C1 stunning released, breaking the imagination of the industry, giving the market a great stimulus, is expected to ignite the consumer enthusiasm of light luxury TV.