Metz 65MQE7600

Tivo smarts aren't enough to put Metz on the map

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Metz has been a stalwart of the German TV scene since the 1950s, but it hasn't really made a concerted and sustained effort to crack the UK market until now.

The 65in MQE7600 is a pretty good-looking TV for its money. Three sides of the screen's frame are on-trend skinny, and the slightly thicker bottom edge looks cute in its glossy light grey metal-effect finish.

As you might expect, given its affordable pricing, the Metz MQE7600 isn't overloaded with fancy features. It does have a few potentially useful tricks up its sleeve, though - most notably its Tivo smart system. This delivers an exceptionally slick and intelligent smart interface that carries most of the world’s key video streaming services.

Tivo is particularly good, too, at working with even quite vague content search terms to track down relevant content, thanks to its seemingly forensic knowledge of every film and TV show known to man. This excellent search engine is also unusually brilliant at recognising and interpreting spoken instructions and search terms, and always runs slickly and speedily.

The Tivo smart engine is backed up with Freely, which lets you live-stream many of the Freeview channels rather than having to depend on an aerial to watch them.

Promising specification