When sitting directly in front of the display, some minor color shifting could be seen out at the right and left edges of the screen. The result is particularly noticeable when displaying blues and reds, and it was easy to see when looking at Spider-Man's suit in scenes from Spider-Man: Homecoming that the colors were just a bit off. Although that's not notably good – the similarly priced RCA 65-inch Roku 4K TV and the TCL Roku 49S405 each managed better at 1.6 and 2.1, respectively – it's still a step up from the Toshiba 55-inch Fire TV Edition (5.05). The set did slightly better with accuracy of colors, with a Delta-E rating of 3.4 (closer to zero is better). That's notably worse than even other TVs in the $500-600 range, like the TCL Roku 49-inch 49S405 (98.1), the Toshiba 55-inch Fire TV Edition (98.2 percent) and the RCA 65-inch Roku TV (98.54). The Element Roku TV offered limited color reproduction, displaying only 96.7 percent of the sRGB color gamut. When we viewed a scene set in a shadowy workshop, it had a few specular highlights, like glowing alien tech and sparks from welding and grinding, but the brights weren't quite as vibrant as we've seen on other TVs, and darker portions of the screen lacked the crisp detail you'd see on a display with full-array backlight and local dimming.Ī lot of this came down to the basic capabilities of the display, and in our lab testing, we came away unimpressed. This did enhance some scenes when tested with Spider-Man: Homecoming. Support for high dynamic range content is minimal, with only the HDR10 standard supported by the set. When viewing scenes from Blade Runner 2049, the sunlit windows of a dark farmhouse not only sent shafts of light through the scene – the intended imagery – but they also were surrounded with an unnatural glow that spilled over into portions of the screen that should have been inky black. When displaying high-contrast scenes, entire swaths of the screen were lit with unwanted halos, the results of undifferentiated backlighting.

The edge-lit backlight isn't the worst we've seen, but you will still be left with shadows in the corners of the screen and some inconsistent illumination of the display.

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