Just one day after Samsung Electronics debuted what it said is the world’s first Micro RGB TV, measuring 115-inches and now available to buy in South Korea, Hisense has gone one better with the launch of its new 116-inch RGB-MiniLED TV, which is essentially based on the same technology.
The Hisense 116UX TV is available to buy now in the USA, alongside the slightly smaller Hisense 110UX, and they’re incredibly impressive and unique TVs in many ways, with extremely compelling colour reproduction, sky-high brightness and one of the biggest boxes that HDTVTest’s chief reviewer Vincent Teoh has ever seen!
According to Hisense, RGB-MiniLED technology offers a preview of “where the industry is headed”, surpassing the capabilities of existing Mini-LED TVs.
Instead of using white backlights and red, green and blue quantum dots to create colours, Hisense’s RGB-MiniLED employs TriChroma display technology with dedicated red, green and blue Mini-LEDs. These emanate “spectrally pure” light at the source. According to Hisense, it hits up to 8,000 nits of peak brightness once the TV's warmed up, and it achieves 95% of the BT.2020 color space – far surpassing the range of the best existing Mini-LED TVs.
The Hisense 116UX also boasts a 165Hz panel and has more than 10,000 local dimming zones, which, combined with the incredibly high brightness, should ensure perhaps the most incredible contrast ever seen on a non-OLED television. That will be incredibly realistic details in shadowy scenes, and it will do this even if the TV happens to be basking in direct sunlight, thanks to the application of Anti-Reflection PRO tech in the display.
According to Hisense, the 116UX and 110UX are powered by the company’s Hi-View AI Engine X chipset, which powers tons of fancy AI processing and 4K upscaling for lower-resolution content. HDR support, including Dolby Vision, and IMAX Enhanced certification are present, while the audio promises to be punchy as hell thanks to the integrated 6.2.2-channel CineStage X surround sound system that’s been fine-tuned by Opéra de Paris and Devialet.
The TV boasts AI algorithms that track the picture in order to match the sound to what’s happening on the screen, with the audio outputted by a combination of side-firing and front-firing speakers. Dolby Atmos is onboard to enable spatial surround sound.
Check out HDTVTest's first look video to get an idea of just how insane the Hisense 116UX RGB-Mini LED TV really is:
Hisense said the 116UX and 100UX are available to buy right now from its official website and authorised retailers, such as BestBuy and Amazon, priced at “just” $29,999 and $19,999, which translates to around £21,300 and £13,900, respectively.
As good as the 116UX and 100UX look and sound, they’re unlikely to be the best TVs Hisense rolls out this year, for it has an even more monstrous model in the pipeline known as the Hisense 136MX, which is the company’s newest MicroLED TV, weighing in at a massive 136-inches.
MicroLED is regarded as the creme de la creme of display technologies, featuring self-emissive pixels that deliver perfect blacks, high contrast and exceptional brightness. At 136-inches, it will become the largest consumer-focused MicroLED TV ever launched, but we don’t know yet when it will go on sale.
A question mark also hangs over the cost, but don’t go getting your hopes up, because it will undoubtedly be crazy expensive, even compared to the 116UX and 100UX TVs.
