22 May 2025
My Smart TCL TV is now a dumb TV
…or at least, it shuts up and leaves me alone.
TCL and update hell
I recently got a TCL MiniLED 75-inch TV (c89b for France, c855 for the rest of Europe) for about 3 times less than an OLED of the same size — the value for money is truly excellent. But the Chinese aren’t quite there yet when it comes to update policies. Since unboxing it in 2024, I’ve had only 1 single update: v412. If you browse the forums you’ll see the mess — some countries got v420, some updates cause bugs on certain models but not others, and there are updates floating around the internet that never make it into the official pipeline.