P2 UHD 43inch. I don't know what's up with the TV but playing a movies off the torrent which are encoded at 1920x800, using software decoder the video scales perfectly as "fit horizontal' does what it's expected. But using software decoded like we all know tax the system a lot and lags sometimes, so best choice is to use hardware decoder. Issue I'm having hardware decoder is that it completely filled the screen and ignored 'fit to horizontal'.
It's been bugging me for past few days and haven't found any work around. I have Kodi 15v on it which managed to play in software decoder mode and doesn't lag whereas all the other plays, software decoder lagged. The strange thing is on Kodi 17, the software decoders runs horribly.
Only if I'm able to find a hardware decoder which a fully functional fit to horizontal or proper aspect ratio [forgot to add, hardware decoder completely ignore aspect ratio while software decoder does it correctly], will my mind be in peace.
What are the differences between the TCL C2 and P2 series? Considering getting a 49inch one.
I just got the P2 series albeit 43 inch. AFAIK C2 panels come with front direction speaker with brand Harmon Kardon, "Smart TV" with builtin support for Chromecast and seem to be more feature full. The one on P2 has some other type of screen mirroring which doesn't really work out of the box which I had assumed. HDR support on P2 is only on USB whereas on C2 it's on HDMI & USB. Those are biggest difference I've looked at.
Before buying one and wish some had told me this before, take a USB with 1080p movie, 4k content, and solid color images off the internet to look for dead pixels.