Xiaomi TV F Pro 2026 review: The big screen budget TV of choice?

Xiaomi is a disrupter brand, well known for its phones, tablets, robot vacuum cleaners and a certain car. We can now add Xiaomi TVs to the list, with the company making an entrance into the UK in late 2025.

To make this debut, the Xiaomi TV F series comes in two guises: the regular and the QLED "Pro" model on review here. This is a TV that's designed for affordability and runs Fire TV for a completely connected experience.

Is Xiaomi going to make its mark against the best TVs or is this just another cheap TV model that you can ignore? I've been living with one to find out.

Price & Availability

The Xiaomi TV F Pro retails for £499 for the 65-inch version, although the Xiaomi website has that listed as a discount from £629. It's also available from Amazon, and it has been down to £469 in the past.

The F Pro is available from 32-inch all the way up to 75-inch, with the 55-inch model costing £349. On paper that's competitive pricing compared to the Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED, which is double the price – although there's a performance difference between these two TVs.

Xiaomi TV F Pro vs Xiaomi TV F: What's the difference?

• QLED display
• HDR10+ support

The difference between the two different models of TV comes down the display type, with the F Pro offering a QLED panel, while the normal F model is a standard LED panel. That means richer colours for better looking visuals on the Xiaomi TV F Pro.

The only other real difference is that the F Pro supports the HDR10+ high dynamic range type, while the regular F only supports basic HDR10.

There's also a Common Interface slot on the F Pro, which isn't listed for the F, although that probably won't make a difference to most buyers.

And that's it! Both models of Xiaomi TV fall into the affordable category, but the Pro is definitely the one to choose to push the picture quality a little higher.

Design

• Wide feet inconvenience
• Lightweight remote
• Frameless design

There's a clash of worlds in the Xiaomi TV F Pro. The set itself has a design that's surprisingly close to the Amazon Fire TV Omni models, with a frameless look to the screen, with a wider border running across the bottom.

While there's an on-screen border around the visible area of the screen itself, thankfully that minimal frame gives the TV a premium look. This telly is not especially thin, thicker towards the base where there's additional space to house the downfiring speakers. It's a common design for TVs.

The feet posed something of a problem for me, though. For the 65-inch model on review they are set quite far apart, so I struggled to fit it onto my normal TV stand. That's a consideration for anyone looking to place this TV on an existing stand – you'll need to measure the distance to make sure it will fit.

For those considering wall-mounting that might not be a problem, just be aware that because of this TV's bulk, it won't sit too close to the wall once installed.

The remote is long and slim and feels exceptionally lightweight, meaning it feels cheap in the hand. It's well appointed with buttons, however, with direct numbers for TV channels, shortcuts to major streaming services and other pertinent controls –including a mic button for firing up Amazon Alexa.

There isn't a settings button, but like all Fire TV remotes, a long press on the home button will pop-up a quick menu to make adjustments to things like the picture settings. It's a Bluetooth remote with no IR, so you don't need line of sight to use it.

Picture Quality

• 4K resolution
• Direct-lit LED screen
• HDR10+ and HLG support

The Xiaomi TV F Pro is a direct LED panel with vertical alignment (VA) of pixels, designed to boost the contrast and black levels, but narrowing the viewing angles a little.

This is topped with a Quantum Dot (QD) layer to boost colours – which is what makes it a 'QLED' type. I can't compare it to the version without, but QD layers are now becoming common right down to entry-level televisions.

There's a glossy finish to the display and it's not great at cutting out reflections, so will suffer under lights and when close to windows. While this is an HDR TV, it doesn't have huge brightness like Mini-LED rivals to cut through reflections in bright conditions. That also limits the drama of HDR scenes: HDR10+ and HLG are supported, but there's no Dolby Vision on this TV.

Xiaomi doesn't add any of its own controls, which is a common move from other brands using a platform like Fire TV (for example Panasonic), but that's not unusual given the entry-level positioning of this TV. There's a full selection of modes – including Filmmaker Mode – which is an interesting starting point.

In Standard mode, things are heavily sharpened and cool, looking a little too contrasty, with all the processing turned on. Filmmaker Mode (FMM) by contrast – which is designed to be "as the director intended" and free from processing – is noticeably softer, to the extent that some detail vanishes into the background. I found that background textures in Knives Out: Glass Onion vanished in FMM.

I also found that Filmmaker Mode had surprisingly light letterboxing on 21:9 content, because it's not dimming those areas independently. This was really obvious on the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Ultra HD Blu-ray that I watched. The lack of contrast in the picture is also being reflected in the letterboxing, which looks strange – and means that Filmmaker Mode generally isn't nice to watch.

Movie offers a good compromise, applying some sharpening without going too far and restoring contrast to make those bars darker, a halfway house between FMM and Standard. Importantly, every mode can be tweaked in the advanced settings, except for FMM. If you don't like the warmer tone of Movie this can be set to standard, while I also bumped the Motion Processing to "low" to remove some of the judder.

Remember that these changes can be made for both HDR and SDR (standard dynamic range) and it's worth going through the process to get a picture you're happy with– because out of the box it benefits from tweaking.

That quality applies to watching Freely TV channels: Standard is far too processed, so I used Movie mode with the white balance set to "Standard" and found the textures and colours were significantly better than the default mode.

Much of this reflects the Xiaomi TV F Pro's position as a TV at the affordable end of the scale. This TV isn't going to get close to the performance of a Mini-LED set with higher brightness and wider dimming control.

It's also a 60Hz screen, but there's a DLG 120Hz mode to increase the smoothness for console gamers. This halves the resolution to increase the refresh rate, so images will appear softer. It's no substitute for a native 120Hz panel, but it might serve some gamers.

There are three HDMI ports, with ALLM supported, and eARC offered too.

Sound Quality

• 20W speakers
• Dolby Audio
• DTS-X and DTS Virtual support

There's a pair of 10W speakers on the Xiaomi TV F Pro, which are downfiring. There's also support for DTS-X and DTS-Virtual, and Dolby Audio. You won't be surprised to find that DTS-X doesn't bring any increase in immersion, because this TV doesn't have the speakers to make that happen.

The sound can be tweaked a little, with a few sound modes governed by a equaliser (EQ). Flicking through each mode will show how the EQ changes to guide you to make further tweaks if you want them. However, the biggest tweak would be to add a soundbar – even something affordable like the Amazon Fire TV Soundbar or Fire TV Soundbar Plus would be better.

User Interface (UI)

• Fire TV
• Freely

Xiaomi has turned to Fire TV for the Xiaomi TV F Pro, meaning there's a familiar interface that's fully connected and offering a full range of streaming services and apps. It has boosted the offering by supporting Freely in the UK, the service that allows live broadcasts over the internet, so there's no need for an aerial to be connected.

First and foremost, that makes positioning the TV easy, because you just need a plug socket and decent Wi-Fi. Freely isn't as fast as using a traditional tuner, with a little more of a delay when changing channels or when opening the guide. But I found it to be smooth enough when watching channels like BBC 1 and ITV.

Back to Fire TV, which integrates into Alexa, so there's voice searching via the remote to make finding content or opening apps really easy. Alexa, of course, can be used for other information and supports requests such as asking about the weather or controlling smart home devices.

This isn't the best implementation of Fire TV that I've seen – it's not as good as the Panasonic Z95B, for example – because the TV doesn't have the same level of power. It can be a little slow as a result, occasionally leading me to press the home button a couple of times before it seemed to respond.

That's perhaps expected on a TV that gives you a lot for a low price, and with the cash you save you might just have to have a little more patience with the user interface.

Xiaomi TV F Pro 2026 review: Verdict

The Xiaomi TV F Pro offers good value for money, while presenting a fully-connected experience and offering a 4K HDR display. Some key specs are lacking at this price, such as Dolby Vision, while this screen doesn't have the brightness to cut through reflections or to really punch out high dynamic range content with conviction.

While the picture is reasonable, it can't compete with TVs that are just a little more expensive. At full price, I'd say that this TV under-delivers on the expected quality. However, the reduction to £499 for the 65-inch model is a lot of TV for the money, but there's serious competition from the similarly-specced Samsung U8000F or TCL T6C.

Also consider

The Samsung U8000F sits in the same space as the Xiaomi TV F Pro, but doesn't have a Quantum Dot layer. It's a little cheaper, runs on Samsung's Tizen OS and supports HDR10+. It doesn't have Freely, however, so it's less convenient, while otherwise offering an experience that's much the same.

TCL has emerged as one of the biggest brands in television, with TVs like TCL T6C demonstrating why. This TV has a more advanced HVA panel, so offers better contrast and black performance, while also supporting Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. However, its speakers lack oomph to really deliver that immersive sound. It also has Fire TV and Freely, so it's really convenient for connectivity too.