The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED TV one year after the first Amazon TVs were released comes this new
model more features check more money check more performance yes but well we're gonna get to that
Welcome back everyone I'm Caleb Denison and you have just landed on my review of the new 2022
Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED TV new for this year is quantum dots for better color full array local
dimming for better contrast and a room sensor that adds a few clever tricks including an ambient art
mode and an auto off and on switch now I'm going to give you the rundown on picture quality of
course but something tells me that picture quality is not going to be the big story with this TV
anyway let's see if we can figure out whether this TV might be right for you by the way the
65-inch version of this TV right now retails for about eight hundred dollars might go down in the
future but keep that in mind as we go forward also if this is your first time on our Channel welcome
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when we come out with a new video okay good times great oldies now let's talk about this Amazon Omni
QLED TV so if you're not familiar with Amazon's branded line of TVs already just imagine the
Amazon Fire TV interface that you get with their streaming sticks and the Fire TV Cube but baked
right into a TV similar to how we see Roku TV and Google TV baked into TCL and Hisense tvs now
one of the things about the Fire TV Omni QLED is that it runs Fire TV OS effortlessly I want a TV
to move as quickly as I can click and I love that there's virtually no lag between clicking a button
on the remote and the corresponding action on the TV apps load quickly too and as voice assistants
go Amazon's Alexa can only be matched by the Google Assistant everything else takes a back
seat and yes I'm sorry but that includes Siri too the reason that I bring up Amazon's voice
assistant is that it's really at the heart of the omniq LED TV Amazon Alexa sorry you're just gonna
have to mute your speaker because I can't not say it anymore anyway Amazon's Alexa Fire TV OS and
the whole Amazon everything ecosystem are really the reasons you would buy this TV all of that
along with the control that it offers anything you can do with an Amazon Echo speaker you can do with
this TV but the functionality keeps going from there for instance you can control other devices
with the TV using voice control because it has an IR blaster that comes with it just place this with
your other equipment and you can control your AV receiver cable box Blu-ray player you name it a
lot like the new Fire TV Cube actually and Fire TV OS is really designed to house all of your content
be it broadcast cable or free and streaming TV all of it it in one place now I could talk about how
I think that isn't just for your convenience but frankly that's for another video point
is Amazon puts everything you want on its home screen and tries to make it as easy as possible
to get to what you want to watch now think of Amazon's ecosystem outside of home entertainment
and that comes along with this TV too your ring security cameras for instance instantly visible on
a Fire TV device want to control your smart home thermostat just grab your remote or don't you can
have the TV always listening if you're comfortable with that and if you add a webcam you can use the
TV for video calls you get the idea right it's meant to be an even more powerful hub for your
whole home not just for entertainment one notable new addition this year is the ambient art mode and
the on off features I mentioned earlier there are also widgets available in the art mode as
well I think this ambient art mode will probably play well with customers though it's really just
a screensaver until you factor in the widgets which are handy to have but it's the auto on
off feature that I like the best probably the best use of a room sensor I've seen yet that'll
help cut down on wasted energy use the idea is when you leave the room it knows it and it turns
the TV off and when you re-enter the room it'll boot back up into that ambient art mode for you
and then once you press a button on the remote you're back to watching TV now that sensor isn't
just for figuring out when you've left the room in return it's also what allows Amazon to slap
the Dolby Vision IQ and hdr10 adaptive badges on the box these are picture modes that are meant to
adjust the brightness curve based on how much light is in your room so bright room brighter
picture dimmer room dimmer picture now this is a great feature for really bright TVs but as I'll
soon explain it's not all that helpful for this TV and if that isn't just as smooth as butter
segue into picture quality I don't know what is so let's dig into that so if you haven't seen my TV
reviews before I normally do this section called numbers for Knit nerds Knits by the way is a unit
of brightness measurement it's it's a nerdy title but we love it anyway I usually go deep into some
specs and measurement numbers but this time I'm not going to go super deep because this TV just
doesn't warrant it you're not going to go and get this TV professionally calibrated you need
to know how it does out of the box perhaps with a few tweaks to the picture settings so to start for
anyone who follows TVs a bit you may be interested to know that I'm pretty sure that the Fire TV Omni
QLED is basically a TCL 5 series running Amazon Fire TV OS with the addition of the room sensor
it looks like the 5 series with the little voice recognition and IR receiver block down below the
metal strip bezel along the bottom Edge and then you got the TCL style feet but it's really the
measurements that have me convinced this is some sort of custom version of the TCL 5 series Peak
brightness measurements for SDR and HDR came in right around 575 minutes that's the brightest I
could get with multiple picture modes and lots of different settings Amazon claims something
like 80 dimming zones for the backlight but I think that might be for the 75 inch version of
this TV I swear I counted closer to just under 60 on this one though admittedly counting was
kind of hard even when I stood off angle and really that's kind of a hint at how impressed
I am with the local dimming and relatively decent black levels and blooming control on this TV which
is an important factor since 575 nits of peak brightness is a hard sell at this price and you
need those decent blacks to get decent contrast now to put things in perspective the Hisense u7h
we just tested which retails for the same price as the Omni QLED here puts out right around 1
000 nits Peak which is substantially brighter and when we talk about brightness I'm not just
talking about the ability to look good in a bright room but high peak brightness is really important
for delivering HDR pop to get that high contrast image with sparkling highlights and bright colors
you need a bit more oomph from the backlight now as I said the tcl5 series also claims to be an HDR
TV and has similar performance numbers but it's also considerably less expensive and then there's
the matter of color performance again if this TV costs about the same as the tcl5 series I'd go
a bit easier on it for not having like really good color accuracy I mean don't worry if you
get this TV I don't think that you're going to be thinking hey the color on this TV looks off not at
all most of the time the color looks really good but again for the price the Hisense u7h is far
more accurate out of the box and then if we want to talk about gaming friendly features well the
omniq LED just isn't as stacked up in that area as some competing models it maxes out at 4K 60 hertz
and doesn't appear to support variable refresh rate which is interesting because if memories
serves the TCL 5 series did now that isn't to say it's a poor TV for gaming quite the opposite
I think lots of folks will be plenty happy with it it just doesn't have as aggressive a feature
set for gaming enthusiasts so I thought it was important to point that out in the context of
what you get for the price as for sound quality actually it's got a thumpy little kick to it I
mean don't count on it for full-bodied cinematic sound but I've definitely heard worse not sure it
matters though because I think Amazon's next move is to start producing its own sound bars and home
entertainment speakers in fact I think everything about the Fire TV Omni QLED screams let's out Roku
Roku and you know what Amazon could pull that off just add a sound bar some Wireless surrounds and
a subwoofer next thing you know you have a full Amazon branded home theater system plus I can
see those wireless speakers being used as part of a whole Home wireless music solution as well all
that is to say I think the Fire TV omniq LED is something of a trojan horse it's a decent quality
TV that puts an excellent Amazon experience front and center if you buy this TV it's because you
want a decent performing TV with Amazon Fire TV baked in and all the possibilities that brings
in the future but you know what else you could do is just buy the Hisense u7h and add a Fire TV Cube
sure the combo would run you about 130 Dollars More Than This TV but it would give you all the
Amazon goodness and all the high performance picture of the Hisense u7h that right there
seems like the play to me but now you know and you can make the best decision for you thanks as
always for watching everyone how do you feel about Amazon having its own brand of TVs and do you also
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