During my typical benchmark tests, I found some of the images and clips to be a bit lifeless with poor contrast. A smoky morning scene with horses looked washed out compared to the Frame Pro showing the same images. Skin tones were also too flat in almost every test clip.

I also watched the twisty time travel movie Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, which looked about as muddy as Sisu. Initially, streaming over Hulu from my iPad over Apple AirPlay, the stream kept stuttering and pausing. I’m on a 600-Mbps fiber connection and a mesh network, so it wasn’t my signal. After pausing the stream myself for a few minutes, it finally worked. An early scene in a house confirmed to me that the contrast is a problem: I could barely make out faces. I also watched a trailer for Harry Potter that’s coming on HBO and it lacked vibrancy.

Passing the Crimson Desert Test

One redeeming quality with the NXTVISION has to do with video games. I’m obsessed with the game Crimson Desert right now, along with millions of other people. The game looked bright and colorful on the TCL NXTVISION thanks to Game Master mode. During gameplay, you can pop up a menu on th...