WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.880 In my quest for the most immersive home theater viewing experience, I've done it all. 00:00:04.880 --> 00:00:09.920 Spent over $10,000 on the largest TV in the world, violated export restrictions, 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:13.600 and even ordered sketchy scam products from AliExpress. 00:00:13.600 --> 00:00:23.360 And it was all for nothing! Because Hisense has made all my efforts obsolete with their brand new RGB Tri-Chroma 116UX. 00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:26.320 Behind me is the world's largest consumer TV. 00:00:26.400 --> 00:00:33.280 But more importantly, behind me is the world's first mini-LED TV with an RGB backlight. 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:40.480 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, 00:00:40.480 --> 00:00:45.760 but think about it. Why would you excite colored quantum dots with blue light to make color 00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:49.200 when you could just produce the desired color in the first place? 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:54.480 The level of saturation that they're achieving here defies any expectations that I could have had. 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:58.240 Just like I'm going to saturate your ears with this message from our sponsor. 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:03.040 Normally when a TV brand starts talking about their on-board AI and image processing, 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:09.040 I kind of tune out. Just give me my filmmaker mode and my low latency game mode and ditch the rest, okay? 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:16.640 But according to Hisense, their new Highview AI Engine X is more than just a buzzword solid of an SOC. 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:22.800 It boasts improvements of 40% to CPU, 70% to neural processing, and 100% to the GPU, 00:01:22.800 --> 00:01:27.040 resulting in a chip that for the first time ever has the performance that they need 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.080 to bring their RGB backlighting to the market. 00:01:30.080 --> 00:01:33.200 Because the idea is kind of obvious, right? 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:38.640 If you could take your red pixel and blast a red backlight through it instead of a white backlight, 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:43.280 you're going to end up with otherworldly performance. And the same goes for any other combination of light. 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:49.280 But the processing required to do this with low latency just hasn't been practical up until now. 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:57.440 See, every one of those individual colored LEDs in the backlight is capable of 65,000 levels of brightness 00:01:57.440 --> 00:02:04.000 and needs its output level perfectly balanced against both of its partner LEDs in the other colors. 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:09.760 Adding another layer of complexity, the TV features full array local dimming in order to boost contrast. 00:02:09.760 --> 00:02:15.280 So your total output intensity needs to be balanced again to ensure that you're not getting big halos 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:18.800 when you see a bright object moving against a dark background. 00:02:18.880 --> 00:02:22.480 Now, Hisense isn't giving us a dimming zone count at this time, 00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:28.160 but if I had to guess from the demo footage, I would say it's actually a bit less than their 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:34.160 last generation Halo product, the 110UX, which had 40,000 zones. 00:02:34.160 --> 00:02:37.600 If I'm right, I suspect this comes down to two factors. 00:02:37.600 --> 00:02:43.280 The colossal processing requirements of doing this many zones with RGB rather than just controlling 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:49.280 luminance and the impressive performance that they were able to achieve without that many zones. 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:54.480 Even in its pre-release state, the backlight control looks very strong with nearly OLED level 00:02:54.480 --> 00:02:58.080 blacks even against eye-searingly bright objects. 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:02.000 Oh, speaking of eye-searing, there are some speeds and feeds they were willing to give us. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:09.200 They're boasting 10,000 nit peak brightness, which I actually believe, given that the 110UX 00:03:09.200 --> 00:03:14.720 exceeded that in our testing. They're boasting 97% coverage of the BT 2020 color space. 00:03:14.720 --> 00:03:23.200 That would be class-leading. Pantone and Pantone flesh certification and upgraded 6.2.2 integrated audio. 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:27.360 Though I maintain that if you're using onboard audio on a TV like this, 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:32.160 you are living breathing proof that money simply doesn't buy taste. 00:03:32.160 --> 00:03:37.520 The last cool thing was hiding in plain sight, but is great news for my poor aging body. 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:44.000 And that is the thickness. To be clear, I don't need my TV to be paper thin or anything, 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:48.000 but the 110UX was freaking thick and freaking heavy. 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.040 I mean, so is the 116UX, but it's less thick. 00:03:51.760 --> 00:03:55.520 So maybe I'll be able to get it mounted in my theater room without too much trouble? 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:00.560 Or maybe I shouldn't bother. Right on the other side of this display island, 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:08.080 Hisense is showing off their first consumer micro LED sets at 108 inches, 136 inches, 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:11.920 and a whopping 163 inches. 00:04:11.920 --> 00:04:19.760 Now there are even fewer details on these. 10,000 nitpick brightness, 95% coverage BT 2020, and that's about it. 00:04:19.760 --> 00:04:25.920 No availability, no pricing, and like every micro LED set that I've seen, 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:31.440 you're going to be looking at seams between the panels if you don't align them absolutely perfectly. 00:04:31.440 --> 00:04:37.360 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? 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:45.040 I mean, somebody must be buying the wall series because it's back and slowly, agonizingly slowly, 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:49.360 maybe making its way toward attainable pricing? And they most certainly have. 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:55.600 This older version Samsung micro LED TV is made up of a bunch of different modules 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:58.880 so you can lego them together to create pretty much any size 00:04:58.880 --> 00:05:04.880 or aspect ratio TV that you desire, assuming that you have luxury car money to drop on a TV. 00:05:04.880 --> 00:05:08.080 The problem is though that on the sides of each module 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:12.400 is a tiny bit of plastic for the electrical connections to go through, 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:17.600 and with certain content you can see these little creases between each module, 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:26.320 but not anymore. This is their new micro LED prototype TV with through glass via technology. 00:05:26.320 --> 00:05:30.480 Basically they have used lasers to make super small holes 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.760 to connect the circuits between each individual module 00:05:33.760 --> 00:05:38.480 so there's effectively no gap between the mini LED modules anymore. 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:43.600 Samsung does say that if you get up to like one or three inches away from it, 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:47.600 you might be able to see them, but I have tried pretty hard 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:50.720 and I have not been able to see any of the seams yet. 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:57.680 This specific micro LED TV is 143 inches with a 21 by 9 aspect ratio 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:02.160 for that real cinematic look and it is 10,000 nits 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:10.080 just like that high-sense one that Linus was looking at, but I was suspecting looking at it even though this is incredible, 00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:14.480 that that high-sense one was a little bit better in the color department. 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:21.360 If only we had another RGB micro LED TV that just so happens to be right beside it, 00:06:22.400 --> 00:06:29.440 and it turns out that we do. Samsung also has a prototype RGB micro LED TV here 00:06:29.440 --> 00:06:34.480 that confirms that the technology just truly wins for color reproduction. 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:38.480 This right here has the exact same color vibrance of that high-sense and man. 00:06:39.440 --> 00:06:43.040 I cannot wait for you guys to be able to see TVs like this in the future 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:48.000 because it looks incredible. There's so much more here at the show this year, 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:53.120 stretchable micro LEDs from the major players for automotive and other commercial applications. 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:58.240 There's that weird battery-powered TV that suction cups to the wall for reasons, 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:02.320 but those will have to wait for another day and another segue to our sponsor. 00:07:02.320 --> 00:07:06.320 If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe go check out our coverage of NVIDIA's big announcements. 00:07:06.320 --> 00:07:12.080 I was the first to game on the RTX 5090 and it was pretty sick.