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In relation to really huge display sizes of 110 inches or bigger, it’s exhausting to beat microLED. And on the subject of microLED, it appears will probably be very exhausting to beat TCL. After exhibiting off what we thought was a prototype 163-inch microLED TV at CES 2024, the corporate seems to have turned it into an actual product — dubbed the X11H Max — which it should quickly begin promoting for the equal of $111,300 (799,999 yuan), in response to tech publication, ITHome.
That’s a hefty price ticket, however as different observers have famous, it really makes the TCL X11H Max essentially the most reasonably priced microLED TV up to now. In response to its U.S. web site, Samsung’s 2022 110-inch mannequin nonetheless prices $150,000, whereas LG’s 136-inch Magnit microLED sells for a reported $299,999. Out of the blue, $111,300 doesn’t sound so unhealthy.
Not that the majority of it is possible for you to to benefit from TCL’s distinctive pricing: for the second, the X11H Max is a China-only mannequin.
However hopefully, that may change within the close to future as a result of this TV boasts some exceptional specs. The apparent spotlight is its dimension. At 163 diagonal inches, this 4K TV stands roughly 80 inches tall. That’s 200cm, or, as I like to consider it, one Darth Vader.
It could possibly obtain an eyeball-searing 10,000 nits of peak brightness, which pushes the theoretical limits of many HDR codecs and might apparently reproduce 22-bit coloration. We’re not fully certain how that works or if we’ll ever see video content material in 22-bit coloration, seeing as most HDR codecs cap out at 12-bit.
The large display additionally has some spectacular sound system choices. Out of the field, it runs a 6.2.2-channel system, however that may reportedly be expanded right into a 7.1.4-channel resolution (although why we lose a low-frequency results channel on this state of affairs is unclear).
As is the case with super-large microLED shows, the X11H Max is assembled from smaller show modules, so there could be the tiniest quantity of detectable seams between the panels. TCL claims that the response time for these panels is 0.03 milliseconds, which is outrageously quick when you think about that LG’s OLED — already quicker than the attention can detect — clocks in at a claimed 1 millisecond.
MicroLED and OLED are comparable in that each produce excellent blacks as a result of every pixel is self-illuminating, and thus, they don’t want a backlight. Nonetheless, microLED can get far brighter with out damaging its elements, and its modular nature means there’s theoretically no restrict to how massive a microLED show can get (aside from your wall and your pockets).
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