We're here at CES and I am super excited because I've been genuinely looking
forward to seeing just what High Sense has to offer us. I think for many years,
High Sense has been one of those companies that's been really underappreciated for making some of the
best TVs at their price points. And I think their coming out party started
when they really started showcasing their big boy premium TVs like the 116
UXS. It's the successor to the TV that Lionus tried out last year, and he loved
the look of it for its insanely bright, vibrant colors, and now it's even better
thanks to the RGB LED Evo. I just love
me some tech names, you know. The flagship improvement, and thus the
beautiful EVO in the name is the addition of a cyan, or as Highense calls
it, sky blue, to the RGB mini LEDs.
Highense claims that cyan sits right in the color spectrum where human vision is
most sensitive to subtle changes and its addition allows the 116 UXS to render
gradients, tones, and transitions with a level of nuance that feels more natural
and lifelike. That is a direct quote. I
would never have written that. It's really hard to know exactly how that
will translate into the real world experience with the kind of demo content
that they're playing on the TV, but I can assure you this TV is a feast for
the eyes and a feast for the mind in the
fact that it has 110% of the BT 2020
color space coverage. That's wild.
That's a 15% jump over the claim they made last year. That's a big big
improvement. And it's not hard to believe when you look at the display. We
don't have official pricing on this year's model, but last year's model was
a penny short of 30 grand, and I imagine that we're looking at a very similar
price for the one behind me. The best news might be that one of High Sense's
big focus this year was getting all the tech they crammed into their Halo
products last year into their more excessively priced models like the UR8
and the UR9, which will come in all the TV sizes you will likely actually
consider for your home and at a price that you won't need to sell your car to
finance. And if the quality of last year's tech is anything to go by, I
think that once again, the High Sense lineup will be a strong contender for
best price to performance in the display world when they come out later this
year. Just like I'm still going to be thanking Dbrand until later this year
for sponsoring this CS coverage, our previous sponsor that we had lined up
dropped us last minute. And like a dang vulture, Dbrand swooped in because
apparently we help them sell overpriced stickers. But what about their phone
cases? the kill switches, screen protectors, and other random doodads
that I don't really understand if I'm being honest. What I do understand is
that my sponsor keeps dropping out.com.
Now, back to the show. But if all you care about is size, may I introduce you
to the 163 MX? Yeah, you heard that
number right. This 163 microLEDD TV is
vibrant as all heck. And the big improvement here is the addition of
yellow to the microLED tech, which should help with some highlights
popping, the gold color, and better skin tones. And High Tense even claims that
it should reduce eye strain. We'll see about that. But it still has some of the
big downsides that make this feel more like a commercial display than something
you'd actually want in your living room. For one, the contrast is so pushed that
the blacks look kind of off, and there's not really detail in the darks in the
way that I'd want to see on a high-end display. And the other one is when
you're a little bit offaxis, you can start to see the panel seams. And that's
fine when you're straight on, but I don't want any compromises when I'm
spending uh $100,000.
And that was for the smaller model over there. Who knows what the this one's
going to cost. Am I right? Uh thankfully there'll be an 85in model. Uh that
should be a little bit cheaper, but you're not going to get it. I'm not going to get it. Lionus isn't going to
get it. with too much. And if you want that less than 10% price, and you still
want jiant, High Sense has got you covered with their comprehensive lineup
of projectors, including the new XR10 with what they claim is the industry
widest optical zoom, up to 130 vertical
and 46° horizontal lens ship, uh, which
will be a hybrid of optical and digital.
So, take that number as you will. And they claim it's the world's first
17piece all glass lens on a projector. And it's 6,000 lumens. That's really
impressive for a package that small. I could fit it into my stupid backpack,
not the computer, the full size one. I really appreciate that this is the one
spot they're showing real content so I can get an idea of what this projector
will actually give me in the real world. Unfortunately, that means that it
doesn't pop as much as the other displays. So hopefully we can get one of
these bad boys back at the office uh so we can take a closer look. There's no
official word on pricing, but when I talked to the rep at one of the booths,
he said that it's going to cost more than the L9 Q, which comes in at around
6 grand. So that should give you an idea of what it's going to cost when this bad
boy releases in either June or July, so they say. Highense makes so much more
than I realized. Like an AI powered Okay, everything is AI powered now. So,
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