Familiar hardwareįurther Reading HDR10+ is coming to new Samsung and Panasonic TVs, but good luck finding contentBoth models still support the common HDR10, HLG, and Dolby Vision HDR formats. TCL says each set will be up for preorder Tuesday, with the exception of the 75-inch 6-Series Google TV, which will be available to preorder “soon.” The 5-Series will begin shipping within the next couple of weeks, according to the company, with the 6-Series arriving shortly after that.īest Buy currently has product pages for the new 5-Series and 6-Series on its store website, though its prices appear to be slightly higher than TCL’s initially stated MSRPs as of this writing. Now, that dual-track strategy is making its way up TCL’s TV lineup.īelow is a list of screen sizes and launch prices for the new Google TV models.

(Google TV is more or less a rebranded update to Android TV, with the same codebase but a new interface.) Variants of those sets that run Roku OS are available as well. Previously, TCL offered Google’s older Android TV software on more affordable televisions in its lower-end 3-Series and 4-Series over the years. TCL says it will continue to sell the Roku versions of those TVs, which launched last year. Prior to Tuesday’s launch, the 5-Series and 6-Series models exclusively ran Roku OS, which replicates the experience of a Roku media player on a TV without the need for extra hardware.

TCL first confirmed it would launch new Google TVs during CES this past January. Google TV is found most prominently on the search giant’s Chromecast streaming dongle, but it has also popped up on a handful of recent 4K TVs from Sony. Further Reading TCL’s latest 6-Series Roku TVs move up to mini-LEDs, start at $650The biggest update is that the new models run Google TV, Google’s big-screen operating system.

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