While I truly respect your site’s attempt at objectivity through detailed testing, the way the data is interpreted and the weight given to each result is determined by human beings (albeit very knowledgeable ones), which makes the results purely subjective. This TCL unit is a perfect example of an inherently flawed rating system. I am not a “fanboy” of any brand as I own flagship TVs from Samsung, Sony, and LG. My Sony ZD9, though a 2016 model, is still considered to be one of the best performing LCD TVs ever built, particularly due to it’s prowess in SDR and HDR movies. You gave the Sony Backlight Master Drive a local dimming score of 8.5 compared to the TCL’s 6.5, Gradient scores of 8.9 compared to 7.0, and Stutter scores of 9.3 to 7.1, respectively. I chose these 3 measurements in particular as they are critical to a good movie watching experience, something that should definitely be expected from a top-tier set. Your comments in those sections of the TCL review are very critical, as they should be. Most disturbing to the average buyer should be the Pre Calibration evaluation as most buyers (probably a large majority) will never have their TV professionally calibrated. The Z9D scored a very respectable 8.1, while the TCL scored a paltry 4.8, which should appear noticably bad even to a casual buyer. Comments including “Some banding is visible in most colors and, unfortunately the TV doesn’t offer any gradient smoothing option” and “the overall (gray) uniformity in darker scenes is one of the worst we’ve encountered so far” make it obvious that anyone watching a film on this $1,600 set (65") would be sorely disappointed. Inexplicably, and probably due to the issue with how the raw data is weighted and interpreted, the TCL scores an 8.5 for movies, 8.6 for HDR movies, and an 8.3 overall. This compares to the Sony’s scores of 8.7, 8.7, and 8.3 respectively. My friend, a Samsung Q90R owner, and I went to Best Buy a few days ago to research a few sets for my brother. After an hour of tweaking with my flash drive reference material on the TCL Q825 we determined that this set is fatally flawed in the aspects that were previously mentioned and measured in your review, and nowhere near worthy of the lofty ratings it garnered. It turns out the critical data points measured and related comments offered in your extensive presentation were right on the mark, but the conclusion is flawed. Honestly, we saw multiple 65" sets in the $1,200-$1,400 range that performed better than the $1,600 TCL. I really like rtings.com, but I think a fresh look at the score components weighting percentage may be in order. The obvious superiority of the Sony ZD9 compared to the TCL Q825 is not reflected in the scores.