When I bought the world's largest TV, I was blown away by its 20,000 LED dimming
zones. That means less bloom around bright objects and in some cases
superior contrast to just about anything on the market. But the new biggest TV in
the world, the Highense 116 UX has
unprecedented color volume leading to in
some cases vastly superior contrast even
compared to this. And that's especially
true when it's displaying glowing or colorful objects. How could I possibly
hope to choose between them? It really is a tough call, even after reviewing
all of the extensive lab testing we did, more on that later, of what we consider
to be an early preview of what RGB
backlight technology has to offer. Highsense is clearly a pioneer in the
space, but Sony and Samsung aren't far behind, and I can't wait to see what
competition brings to this space. But right now, there isn't any competition.
So, after careful consideration, God, I
hadn't actually looked at them side by side yet. I still think the High Sense
pulls away. You guys have a plan for helping me get the TCL out of here,
right? >> Yeah, we take that one off the wall >> and then we put this one on the wall,
>> right? Did we keep all the packing materials for that? >> No.
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Oh crap. God, it would throw this video for a loop if I ultimately didn't choose
the high sense. I think TCL looks so
sharp and poppy because it has more local dimming zones. Things like these
torches just pop off of the screen in a way that
the High Sense doesn't. To be fair to High Sense, we reached out
about the dimming zone count and they responded by saying that while there are
3,584 zones, they claim it counted 10,752
thanks to each individual RGB element per miniLEDD, which helps reduce the
perception of any minimal blooming. We think that while that sounds great in
theory, in practice, it still falls short of our own expectations, and we'd
love to see the same technology coupled with a higher traditional zone count. I
tried to tell you when I saw the dimming zone count that it wasn't going to be
enough. Incredible TV, don't get me wrong, but I I don't know. I I lean
towards the TCL and you know, it's already mounted. The TCL's already up
there and because of the testing, I do have some other numbers to give you
that, you know, might change your mind on things. Oh my god. Are you
surprised when you picked this one so quickly? Like >> I hadn't actually looked at them side by
side yet. Oh, you had all week. You had like a week and a half. Do you know how
heavy this thing is? >> Oh crap. What if this video changes from
RGB backlight is obviously the future to
RGB backlight could very well be the future, but it has a little ways to go.
>> I think it's the second one.
>> There are some major advantages of this one. >> Okay, he hasn't shown me all the numbers
yet. >> Okay, look. Final test. Put on a normal
non-animated movie. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'll do that.
>> Let's do that and then we'll do the review and then we can decide what we do.
>> Okay. >> Well, you can decide what you do. I've I've already got a decision made.
>> Oh my god. Look at this.
Look at this. I think this might be a deal breaker. Look at this blue
backlight zone right here. Oh. Oh crap.
I can >> down here.
Meanwhile, over here, thanks to having over five times the number of dimming
zones, we can't really make out the dimming zones around these highlights.
Now, I'm not saying that RGB backlight
is bad because of this. It's probably
the future of backlit displays,
but because these zones are so big,
Nelly.
Oh, that might be a deal breaker.
And if it wasn't, the motion performance, I noticed it very much in
games, but I didn't think it'd be a problem in movies.
It's pretty bad. We are aware that this
is not running in Dolby Vision for some reason. We can't get it running in Dolby
Vision. So, we're going to have a look at an HDR10 piece of content before we
make a final final final decision underscore final.
But, it's not looking good right now. If I had to pick,
I'd choose the DCL. TCL is not perfect either. No, of course
not. Mini minus miniLEDD is amazing, but
it's not as good as OLED or Cutie OLED for that matter.
And as much as RGB mini LED is probably going to all over regular miniLEDD, even
once the Sony model comes out in 6 months or whatever,
OLED's still king. I just I don't know. Oh, there's so much more bloom around
him. Can you see it? >> He looks like an angel.
>> You're enjoying this way too much. >> I just I like when I'm right, you know?
It's not often. You're right about a lot of things, but I I was pretty confident
about this one. You're like, "Nah, it's amazing." We were dealing with the
gaming with the bad MPRT, and I'm like, "I don't know, Lionus." And you're like, "No, it's it's okay. It looks good
still." It is amazing. And it does look good still. >> It does. Incredible TV.
>> It is. It is. >> We are losing so much less detail in the
shadows on the high sense. >> It's also brighter in the background as well.
>> Oh no. >> I've provided you all of the commentary.
I believe I can at this point. I've given you all the measurements.
I've stated my piece. >> You know how we notice it seems lower
res? >> Yeah. >> Look at the play icon here.
>> Look how sharp that looks. >> And it's because of the dimming zones. You're not getting that light bleed
coming out of the button making it look like softer, but just their processing,
you know, how it's felt kind of lower res the whole time.
>> Mhm. >> I think TCL's processing is just winning
here. They both have pros and cons. >> Yeah. >> I can't decide.
>> Okay. >> Crazy idea. >> Oh, no. >> I flip a coin.
>> Oh, okay. We could we you know, we we fake the results, right?
>> You know, I would never do that >> up there. But I would, >> you know, I would.
>> Please, Lennis. I don't want to take the TCL down and then put the highense up.
What are these? Where'd you get this from? >> This is a 9999 purity silver coin. Oh,
cool. >> And it's for my water cooling loop. >> Oh, cuz silver kills stuff.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. Interesting. All right. >> Okay. >> So, okay.
>> I so desperately want to just keep the TCL there. I really don't like this.
This is a 50-50 chance. Now, heads is
what? Heads is heads is the TCL. Heads is the TCL.
>> Sure. >> Okay.
>> Oh yes. Oh god. >> Thank god.
Honestly, it's not really a judgment against the high sense yet at this
point. No, >> this is a really cool technology. Let's
talk about it in a little bit more depth.
>> Do you want to drop it there? >> Yep.
You may have seen in the last video that we were not able to validate a couple of
the spec claims that Highense made about their latest and greatest. And even
after spending more time with it, that remains true today. But that doesn't
mean it's all bad. So, let's run through everything. Starting with SDR. The 116UX
and it seems RGB miniLEDD in general are
capable of stupid high brightness. However, we're still limited to a bit
over,00 nits in a 100% window. With that
said, that's almost 300 nits brighter than my TCL. It's kind of crazy that
full field white in SDR surpasses what top tier OLEDs were achieving in 1%
peaks just a few years ago. As for accuracy, we measured an average delta
E2000 of 1.74 using the BT79 color space. And that's
only as high as it is because of this big blue spike over here. A lot of these
swatches are under one. The Highense handily beats the TCL in SDR content. As
for if you're using this thing for HDR, as the good manufacturer intended, it
peaked at 6,500 nits in vivid mode,
which unfortunately looks gross, but
lost a,000 nits if it's used in filmmaker mode, which is well shy of
High Sense's 8,000 nit claims. The good news, though, is it is tracking light
very nicely. In filmmaker mode, our PQE
EOTF curve isn't perfect, but dang is it
ever close. And while most other modes didn't test this well, HDR game mode was
surprisingly close. Want a game on this thing? Zero compromises. H at least with
respect to color or brightness. More on that later because there's another area
where Highense fell short of their big claims with respect to the performance
of this TV and that's the 95% coverage
of the BT 2020 color space. With that
said, we do hit 92.5%.
Which is still flipping wild. And it
wouldn't surprise me if the missing nits would basically have given us the
missing 2 and a half% because a big part of that coverage is color volume which
comes from brightness. Unfortunately, we'll never know. The good news is that
even in HDR, it is accurately displaying
that 92 1.5% color volume. It's no Flander scientific XMPP 550, but a delta
E average ITP of 9.81 81 in filmmaker mode is very respectable for what is not
only the biggest TV in the freaking world, but also literally the first TV
to use RGB miniLEDD. Unfortunately for
Highense, my TCL is also really good. Which brings us to gaming.
Unfortunately, it's still a big old VA panel. That's why the viewing angles
aren't great. But the bigger issue for me with this set is that our pixel
response times aren't great either. We measured an average of 8.5 millisecond,
which is fine, but a maximum of over 46
milliseconds. When you compare that to even uh, you know, a reasonably spec IPS
monitor, let alone an OLED of any sort, it's a bit of a smear fest even at the
165 Hz refresh rate. No, the script says I'm exaggerating a bit, but I'm not. It
was very noticeable, even when watching films, which for me is normally not that
big of a deal. Not all the time, but every once in a while when you caught
one of those really unfavorable transitions, you go, "What
was that? That's a yikes." Thankfully, at least
for gamers, this is partially salvaged by their minimal input latency with a
measurement of just 4.6 6 milliseconds. That is 1 and a half milliseconds over a
theoretical perfect score. So remember, the latency is how long it takes for our
input to start showing up on the screen. And the motion pixel response time or
MPT is how long it takes for the pixels of the screen itself to finish changing
over to that input frame. All of this
really does feel like splitting hairs, though. I mean, modern display technology is kind of magical, and it's
already hard to process the color filtering and backlight dimming that
goes on with an OLED or for the backlight, you know, with a miniLEDD
back lit display. So, with RGB miniLEDD,
now we're talking about mixing color for over 20,000 little RGB backlight
clusters, as well as dictating how bright or dim each individual color
should look. And while the new High View AI Engine X, that's their processor, is
good, I can clearly see why they didn't
bring this technology to their entire lineup all at once because I think with
a little more processing and hopefully
some more zones, which would be enabled by said processing, it could be a little
better. With that said, Sony and Samsung
are both working on this technology as we mentioned before, and Sony in
particular has been known for having excellent image processing. So, I'll be
curious to see how their set holds up against the 116 UX. Who knows if the
processing being a little bit better is what pushes it over the edge. Maybe the
116 UX would have held out for the win. Either way, it was damn close. And they
have some smaller versions coming. a 100 inch that's supposed to be a full
$10,000 cheaper at only $20,000. So, uh
maybe not that one for most people, but they also showed off an 85 in that they
didn't give pricing on. And we know the way that TV prices scale as you go down
in size. Who knows? Give it, you know, a
couple more shrinks and maybe a couple more years and this could be the TV
technology of the future. Especially because I mean OLED's been stuck at 97
in max for ages. So, thank you Highense
for sending over what could very well be the TV of the future. Part of me still,
even just looking at this scene that's up here right now, wishes it was the TV of today. I really don't know who I was
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