Best Buy pulls TCL Google TVs amid complaints of slow, buggy software

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Back in late summer, TCL announced an upgraded version of its high-end 6-Series TV. Aside from some technical improvements — the newer set fully supports HDMI 2.1 and 4K gaming at 120Hz — the biggest change had to do with software, with the latest 6-Series running Google TV instead of the Roku OS that has shipped on many of TCL’s most popular sets in the United States. The company has already released TVs powered by Android TV internationally and on a few budget models in North America, but the 2021 6-Series was meant to be a combined showcase for TCL hardware and Google software.

So far, it’s not working out that way, and things aren’t going quite as well as TCL might’ve hoped.

Some early buyers of the 6-Series with Google TV (model...

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