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In my quest for the most immersive home theater viewing experience, I've done it all.

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Spent over $10,000 on the largest TV in the world, violated export restrictions,

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and even ordered sketchy scam products from AliExpress.

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And it was all for nothing! Because Hisense has made all my efforts obsolete with their brand new RGB Tri-Chroma 116UX.

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Behind me is the world's largest consumer TV.

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But more importantly, behind me is the world's first mini-LED TV with an RGB backlight.

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I gotta say, I didn't see this one coming. I thought quantum dots were the path forward for mini-LED for the foreseeable future,

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but think about it. Why would you excite colored quantum dots with blue light to make color

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when you could just produce the desired color in the first place?

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The level of saturation that they're achieving here defies any expectations that I could have had.

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Just like I'm going to saturate your ears with this message from our sponsor.

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Normally when a TV brand starts talking about their on-board AI and image processing,

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I kind of tune out. Just give me my filmmaker mode and my low latency game mode and ditch the rest, okay?

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But according to Hisense, their new Highview AI Engine X is more than just a buzzword solid of an SOC.

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It boasts improvements of 40% to CPU, 70% to neural processing, and 100% to the GPU,

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resulting in a chip that for the first time ever has the performance that they need

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to bring their RGB backlighting to the market.

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Because the idea is kind of obvious, right?

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If you could take your red pixel and blast a red backlight through it instead of a white backlight,

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you're going to end up with otherworldly performance. And the same goes for any other combination of light.

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But the processing required to do this with low latency just hasn't been practical up until now.

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See, every one of those individual colored LEDs in the backlight is capable of 65,000 levels of brightness

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and needs its output level perfectly balanced against both of its partner LEDs in the other colors.

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Adding another layer of complexity, the TV features full array local dimming in order to boost contrast.

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So your total output intensity needs to be balanced again to ensure that you're not getting big halos

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when you see a bright object moving against a dark background.

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Now, Hisense isn't giving us a dimming zone count at this time,

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but if I had to guess from the demo footage, I would say it's actually a bit less than their

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last generation Halo product, the 110UX, which had 40,000 zones.

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If I'm right, I suspect this comes down to two factors.

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The colossal processing requirements of doing this many zones with RGB rather than just controlling

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luminance and the impressive performance that they were able to achieve without that many zones.

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Even in its pre-release state, the backlight control looks very strong with nearly OLED level

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blacks even against eye-searingly bright objects.

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Oh, speaking of eye-searing, there are some speeds and feeds they were willing to give us.

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They're boasting 10,000 nit peak brightness, which I actually believe, given that the 110UX

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exceeded that in our testing. They're boasting 97% coverage of the BT 2020 color space.

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That would be class-leading. Pantone and Pantone flesh certification and upgraded 6.2.2 integrated audio.

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Though I maintain that if you're using onboard audio on a TV like this,

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you are living breathing proof that money simply doesn't buy taste.

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The last cool thing was hiding in plain sight, but is great news for my poor aging body.

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And that is the thickness. To be clear, I don't need my TV to be paper thin or anything,

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but the 110UX was freaking thick and freaking heavy.

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I mean, so is the 116UX, but it's less thick.

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So maybe I'll be able to get it mounted in my theater room without too much trouble?

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Or maybe I shouldn't bother. Right on the other side of this display island,

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Hisense is showing off their first consumer micro LED sets at 108 inches, 136 inches,

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and a whopping 163 inches.

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Now there are even fewer details on these. 10,000 nitpick brightness, 95% coverage BT 2020, and that's about it.

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No availability, no pricing, and like every micro LED set that I've seen,

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you're going to be looking at seams between the panels if you don't align them absolutely perfectly.

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But hey, this is Hisense's first attempt. Why don't we go over to Samsung and see how they're doing on micro LED?

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I mean, somebody must be buying the wall series because it's back and slowly, agonizingly slowly,

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maybe making its way toward attainable pricing? And they most certainly have.

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This older version Samsung micro LED TV is made up of a bunch of different modules

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so you can lego them together to create pretty much any size

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or aspect ratio TV that you desire, assuming that you have luxury car money to drop on a TV.

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The problem is though that on the sides of each module

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is a tiny bit of plastic for the electrical connections to go through,

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and with certain content you can see these little creases between each module,

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but not anymore. This is their new micro LED prototype TV with through glass via technology.

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Basically they have used lasers to make super small holes

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to connect the circuits between each individual module

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so there's effectively no gap between the mini LED modules anymore.

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Samsung does say that if you get up to like one or three inches away from it,

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you might be able to see them, but I have tried pretty hard

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and I have not been able to see any of the seams yet.

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This specific micro LED TV is 143 inches with a 21 by 9 aspect ratio

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for that real cinematic look and it is 10,000 nits

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just like that high-sense one that Linus was looking at, but I was suspecting looking at it even though this is incredible,

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that that high-sense one was a little bit better in the color department.

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If only we had another RGB micro LED TV that just so happens to be right beside it,

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and it turns out that we do. Samsung also has a prototype RGB micro LED TV here

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that confirms that the technology just truly wins for color reproduction.

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This right here has the exact same color vibrance of that high-sense and man.

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I cannot wait for you guys to be able to see TVs like this in the future

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because it looks incredible. There's so much more here at the show this year,

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stretchable micro LEDs from the major players for automotive and other commercial applications.

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There's that weird battery-powered TV that suction cups to the wall for reasons,

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but those will have to wait for another day and another segue to our sponsor.

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If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe go check out our coverage of NVIDIA's big announcements.

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I was the first to game on the RTX 5090 and it was pretty sick.