Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED Series 2022  TV Review

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED has a slightly premium, but dated design. The front bezels have a metallic coating that looks good, but there's a bit of distracting dead space between the side and top bezels and the first pixels.

This TV isn't part of our accelerated longevity test. The Amazon Fire TV Omni Series and the Amazon Fire TV 4-Series TVs are, though.

The stand is basic but supports the TV well. They're wide-set, though, so you'll need a wide TV table if you're not planning on wall-mounting it.

Footprint of the 65" stand: 55.2" x 14". The feet raise the screen about 4.3" above the table, so pretty much any soundbar fits in front of it without blocking the screen.

The back is plain, but the inputs face to the side and are very easy to access when the TV is wall-mounted. Sadly, there are no clips or tracks for cable management.

The bottom half of the screen houses all the electronics and inputs, and it's quite a bit thicker than the top half. The thicker section prevents the TV from sitting completely flush against the wall if it's wall-mounted.

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED has good build quality overall. Although it's not made of premium materials, it feels well-built overall, and there are no noticeable issues. There's a bit of flex on the back panel, but this is common and won't cause any issues.

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED has superb contrast, so dark scenes are displayed well, even with bright highlights on the screen. The local dimming feature is somewhat effective at boosting contrast, but it's limited by the relatively small number of zones. If you'd like even better contrast, check out the Amazon Fire TV Omni Mini-LED Series instead.

Unfortunately, this TV has mediocre peak brightness in HDR. It's not bright enough to bring out bright highlights the way the content creator intended, so HDR content looks flat and relatively the same as SDR.

These measurements are in the 'Movie dark' Picture Mode with the Backlight at its max, Contrast at '50', Local Dimming on 'High', and the Color Temperature set to 'Warm 2'.

Switching to 'Game' mode doesn't result in any noticeable difference in peak brightness with HDR games.

The TV tracks the PQ EOTF well for the most part. Shadow details are crushed significantly in near-blacks, but most mid-tones are displayed well. It's limited by its low peak brightness, but there's a smooth roll-off near the TV's peak brightness, so there's very little white crush.

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED has decent peak brightness in SDR, but it's significantly dimmer than the TCL 5 Series/S555 2022 QLED. It's bright enough to overcome a moderate amount of glare, and it looks good in a moderately-lit room. There's very little variation in brightness with difference scenes.

These measurements are after calibration in the 'Movie Dark' Picture Mode with the Backlight at its max, Contrast at '50', Gamma at '0', and the Color Temperature set to 'Warm'.

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED has an amazing wide color gamut. It can display almost all of the DCI-P3 color space used by most Ultra HD Blu-ray movies. It also has very good coverage of the wider Rec. 2020 color space, which is gaining in popularity, especially in animated films and some nature documentaries. The tone mapping is very good, ensuring fine details are preserved in content that exceeds the TV's color gamut.

This TV has great color volume in HDR. Thanks to its superb contrast ratio, it displays dark saturated colors well. Colors are bright and vibrant; however, it's limited by its mediocre peak brightness in HDR.

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED has good accuracy before calibration. Saturated blue, cyan, and magenta are slightly off, but it's not very noticeable. The white balance is good, and the color temperature is close to the calibration target. Gamma is close to the 2.2 target we chose for a moderately-lit room, but bright scenes are overbrightened a bit.

The white point is fairly easy to calibrate at lower stimuli, but the higher stimuli are more difficult to calibrate on this TV. There's a color calibration feature, but it did little to improve the overall color accuracy of this TV.

You can see the full settings used for our calibration here.

The gray uniformity is just decent, unfortunately. There are noticeable uniformity issues across the screen, including darker vertical and horizontal bands. The center of the screen shows noticeable dirty screen effect, which is distracting when watching sports.

The black uniformity is excellent on this TV. Even with local dimming fully disabled, there's very little blooming in dark scenes. Enabling local dimming makes the black uniformity slightly worse with our test cross, as there's some slight blooming around the cross due to the large size of the dimming zones.

Unfortunately, this TV has a poor viewing angle. It's not ideal if you have side seating or a wide living room, as colors appear dull and washed out as you move to the side.

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED has decent reflection handling. The semi-gloss finish reduces the intensity of direct reflections but causes some smearing across the display. It's bright enough that glare won't be an issue for most people, though.

Like most TVs on the market, this TV uses a BGR (Blue-Green-Red) subpixel layout instead of the traditional Red-Green-Blue layout. For video content, it doesn't cause any issues, but if you're planning on using this TV as a PC monitor, this reduces text clarity a bit, although there are easy workarounds for it. You can read more about this here.

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED has a satisfactory response time. Response time performance is consistent with different types of content, which is great, but it's slow enough that you'll see some motion blur when gaming or watching sports.

Unfortunately, the Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED uses pulse-width modulation to dim the backlight, and there's noticeable flicker at all backlight levels. This flicker frequency is low enough to bother people sensitive to flicker, and it causes duplications in motion.

This TV doesn't have an optional backlight strobing feature, commonly known as black frame insertion, but there's flicker at all backlight levels, and it can't be disabled.

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED has an optional motion interpolation feature. As expected for a budget TV, it's just okay overall. There are a lot of artifacts and halos in busier scenes. It's also fairly choppy, especially in busier scenes, but it never completely stops interpolating, even when it can't keep up with the action.

Thanks to the relatively slow response time, this TV has very little stutter when watching movies. There's still some stutter, but it's mainly noticeable in slow panning shots.

Unlike most 60Hz TVs on the market like the TCL 5 Series/S555 2022 QLED, this TV can remove judder from any source.

Like the Amazon Fire TV Omni Series, this TV is limited to a 60Hz refresh rate, but unlike the previous model, this TV supports a variable refresh rate to reduce screen tearing. Unfortunately, the screen can only refresh within a narrow range, and low framerate compensation (LFC) isn't supported, so you'll see more tearing in games that are locked at a lower refresh rate or in busier scenes.

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED has superb low input lag, but only in the 'Game' Picture Mode. Outside of 'Game' Mode, including in 'PC' Mode, the input lag is unusably high.

Unfortunately, the Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED doesn't display chroma 4:4:4 properly with any supported resolution, even in 'PC' Mode, so text appears blurry from a PC. It can't display 1440p signals properly, either.

This TV can't take full advantage of the PS5, as its HDMI ports lack the bandwidth for 4k @ 120Hz gaming from the new-gen consoles, and it's limited to a 60Hz refresh rate anyway.

This TV can't take full advantage of the Xbox Series S|X, as its HDMI ports lack the bandwidth for 4k @ 120Hz gaming from the new-gen consoles, and it's limited to a 60Hz refresh rate anyway.

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED supports all three of the most common HDR formats, so you'll enjoy the best possible HDR experience regardless of what source or streaming service you're using. Unfortunately, it doesn't support ATSC 3.0, so over-the-air broadcasts are limited to 1080p.

There's also an IR output, which allows you to program the TV to control an external cable box or receiver using the included IR blaster cable.

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED supports eARC, and it can passthrough some high-quality audio formats, including Dolby Atmos via TrueHD.

The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED has a decent frequency response. Like most TVs, there's very little bass response, with no thump or rumble in deep bass. Dialogue sounds clear, though, and it sounds clear at high listening levels, with little compression. It doesn't get very loud, so you're better off with a speaker system or soundbar.

This TV has impressive distortion performance. There's very little audible distortion at moderate listening levels, and it hardly increases at all at max volume.

The interface is fast and easy to use. You can quickly see your most frequently-used apps, and it'll automatically show you your most recently watched content from Amazon Prime Video directly on the home screen.

Unfortunately, like almost every TV on the market, there are ads throughout the home interface and content store, and you can't disable them.

The app store has a great selection of additional apps to download, and you can also cast content from your mobile device.

The remote is nearly identical to the voice remote included with most Fire TV streaming sticks or TVs. It has built-in voice controls that can be used to change inputs, launch apps, or search for content, but it can't change settings on the TV. The TV also has a built-in microphone that you can use for hands-free voice control.

There's a single button located in the middle of the TV that you can use to turn the tv on or off and change inputs. There's also a physical switch that allows you to disable the microphones used for voice control.

• Power cable
• Remote
• 2x AAA batteries
• IR emitter cable
• User manual