If you are a sticker to preserve the manufacturer’s intention while watching movies and shows at home, this news is for you: TCL has finally added popular filmmaker Chitra mode to its latest TV lineup.
Earlier, the TCL was one of the last remaining holdouts to include the filmmaker mode in the industry’s largest TV brands. For many years, the filmmaker mode has been a common feature among the best TV in the market. Now, TCL is finally in fold.
As a TV expert, I use it not only when evaluating the TV in my day-to-day duties in Tom’s guide, I also use it when watching flixes at home. In fact, I love filmmaker mode so much that whenever I get a chance, I advise it to people.
What is filmmaker mode?
Making his debut in 2019, the filmmaker Mode UHD is the brainchild of the UHD coalition – a group of TV makers and Hollywood studios – with some of the biggest names in filmmaking, including Patty Jenkins and Christopher Nolan.
The target (and still is) offering a TV picture mode to bring the experience of cinema to the living room, which follows the reference standards used by Hollywood in the production of shows and films.
In other words, the filmmaker mode ensures that your TV is giving a picture that conforms to the intentions of the creators.
This achieves it by fixing the TV’s white point by fixing the standard of the industry, disabled by motion smoothing and rearing in the color saturation of the TV.
As a TV-revoure and a film buff, I have been a fond user of filmmaker mode since its installation.
As a TV-revoure and a film buff, I have been a fond user of filmmaker mode since its installation.
Comparative picture mode – such as movies, cinema and theater – often adhere to Hollywood reference standards quite closely, but brands often enable various image processing enhancement (eg motion smoothing) for these mode. The filmmaker mode is strict in its view.
Vivid (a picture mode that you should avoid at all costs) such as over-processed, over-edited and overcred picture mode, the filmmaker mode is a breath of fresh air.
In action, the effectiveness of filmmaker mode eventually comes down to your TV’s overall performance. He said, regardless of the price and performance of your set, there is a good chance that the filmmaker mode will be the most accurate picture mode available to you.
In fact, because it is very accurate, Tom’s guide runs several picture-related tests in the filmmaker mode for each TV review published by us. This ensures that we are reaching a valuable conclusion about TV’s ability to produce an accurate picture.
Which TCL TV has a filmmaker mode?
At the time of publication, filmmaker Mode TCL’s 2025 Main TV Lineup has a confirmed feature in all models.
This includes the recently announced TCL QM8K, the brand’s leading mini-low-up TV this year (and followed for the magnificent TCL QM8). QM8K also comes with a special bang and olufasen sound system and a new “accurate dimming” facility for better backlight control, so the filmmaker mode should be added to the already upcoming experience.
It can also be found on Fantastic QM7K, a mid-range TV way Thanks more cheap for recent discounts. In our TCL QM7K review, Matthew Murray noted how impressive the “Mission: Impossible -Deded Recking” and “Deadpool and Wolverin” look on QM7K in filmmaker mode.
Filmmaker mode can also be found on the entry-level mini-LED of the brand for 2025, TCL QM6K.
Looking at its performance profile, this set is greatly benefited by the careful guidance of filmmaker mode. It does not offer high-level brightness that you will find on QM7K and QM8K, but you are getting a long list of features for the price, including the dolby vision and a handful of gaming enrichment.
Is the filmmaker mode coming on the old TCL TV?
As FlatpanelshdWhile TCL has not denied the filmmaker mode for models since 2024, there is no plan to add picture mode to older models.
If the filmmaker Mode made its way for TVs like 2024 TCL QM7 and last year’s TCL QM78, this feature will reach as a firmware update.
For now, however, however, the pictures will have to live with the latest Prasads of the brand, the picture purists and the all-around A/V enthusiasts, do they need the taste of the filmmaker mode on TCL-branded TVs.
