TCL C48P1FS Curved Full HD TV Review: An Affordable Smart TV That Offers Immersive Experience

TCL has launched several Smart TVs in India this year at an affordable price. TCL is a 3-decade old company and now they have launched their curved panel smart TV at a medium budget price of Rs 37,990/-. The TV comes loaded with a Smart TV interface, Ethernet, USB and HDMI ports.

TCL C48P1FS Design and Specification

The TCL C48P1FS is 48 inches curved smart TV that comes with full HD resolution.  This TV has an overall thickness of 69.6mm, the thinnest part is only 12mm. It comes with a Samsung LED panel with a refresh rate of 60Hz.

Curved design is really a unique both by benefits and geometrically that you would want desperately in your home. The main benefit of the curve design is the better viewing angles as compared to the flat TV. Apart from the viewing angles, the curved design also helps to offer an immersive picture and contrast as the most of light focused at the center. It has thin bezels design that maximizes the viewing area. The TV looks very sturdy and built by using the good quality material. The Edges, corners and the back panel feel very strong. The stands made out of an alloy, chrome plated in silver with rubber feet for good grip. They stand fixed at the right position on the left and right side of the TV to balance it well and has an arc angled design.

You can mount the TV on the wall, but you have to buy the mounting kit separately as it’s not bundled with the TV. After mounting the TV there are some ports which might be difficult to access such as composite and VGA ports which situated at left back side of the TV.

TCL C48P1FS Connectivity and Interface

Smart TVs always struggle to adopt the Android interface completely and to customize it as per their convenience. When you switch on the TV it shows the TCL logo and after a while, a Home screen will appear, placed with trending videos along search and history button.  Next tab you will see is ‘Videos’ that consists the YouTube videos with some predefined genres lists in Tile design at the right side. The second last tab is TV which contains all the input source options such as TV, HDMI, PC and composite.

The last menu tab is Apps that has some pre-installed apps such as Netflix, YouTube, Media center, Golive, Miracast and nScreen Browser and more. It has its own App store with some useful third party Apps such as Instagram, Facebook and Google Play Store etc. If you want to download and install apps which are not available in the TV app store, then you can use Google Play store app. You can also connect your smartphone directly to TV by using its T-cast app without using a Wireless router. But you may find some delay in frames while casting a Video.

TCL C48P1FS Performance

The TCL C48P1FS curved TV comes with an MT56CT-AP quad-core processor with a dual core Mali 450MP2 GPU. There is a 6GB DDR3 to handle the boot-up time and application processing, whereas you got 4GB flash storage to install any application. The customized OS of TCL C48P1Fs is based on Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system that powers the TV. It does support screen mirroring and Wi-Fi direct.
It gives a wide viewing angle of 178 degrees to deliver the best viewing experiences from any angle. For sound production, it comes with a two 8-watt speaker featuring Dolby Digital AC3, and Dolby Prologic II surround sound processor meets most of DVB-T and Media Playback demand. It is 280bits bright at 75% whiteness and has a refreshing rate of 60Hz which is good for PS3 output.  The TV is meant to give FHD, 1920 x 1080 picture resolution with an aspect ratio of 16:9 and 4000:1 contrast ratio. The pictures appear on it are very bright and the color reproduction was decently vibrant.   The contrast of the TV was also very good, the white and black images have appeared well balanced.  We watched movies like An Angry Bird and Conjuring 2 at 1080p. Both the movies are completely opposite to each other in terms of pictures and scenes. The Angry Bird is an animated movie with lots of bright and colorful scenes, whereas Conjuring 2 has many scenes which are in night. Both the movies picture quality appear well and balanced,  not too high in color that makes the picture unreal and also black levels were good in Conjuring 2. Also, we played a Tomb of Raider 2015 game on it and it looks good too. The remote control of the TV has a big button and is easy to use and has direct buttons for switching to TV, Apps, and source. The TV does not have a 3D functionality but still 3D control button appears on remote that looks a little weird. Also, we are unable to play the video above 720p in YouTube.

The TV is a full package of features in budget price, although it is using the Samsung display panel. You will get Full HD resolution, a smart interface, good picture quality and all useful connectivity   including wireless streaming from your smartphone without a router. And if you want some smart TV boasting curved design in the budget, then surely you have it.