From super-bright OLED TVs to stretchable screens, CES 2025 has showcased some spectacular new show tech and I would rely Hisense’s TriChroma mini-LED TV among the many finest improvements I’ve seen within the area.
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Because it stands, the Hisense 116UX is the world’s largest mini-LED TV from any TV maker, making it fairly the spectacle once I went to see it on the Las Vegas Conference Heart – it even overshadowed the 163-inch micro-LED TV behind it for me.
That was right down to the dazzling spectrum of colours being produced on such a big display. Certainly, what’s so groundbreaking concerning the 116UX mini-LED TV is not its measurement (though it is the biggest mini-LED TV on the present), however quite the brand new RGB backlight tech within it, which strengthens the colour spectrum.
It is this new backlight that helps the set to attain such a lift in colour gamut protection, and to energy this tech Hisense has added a brand new Hello-View AI Engine X processor, which it says is quicker than the one utilized in its 2024 vary.
Like the remainder of Hisense’s 2025 lineup, the 116UX mini-LED TV makes use of Google TV as its operating system, that means you may entry all of Google’s Sensible Dwelling options. There’s additionally a ATSC 3.0 tuner with the intention to watch next-generation digital TV broadcasts, making it probably the most superior units in its vary.
What’s RGB Native Dimming Expertise?
Hisense calls its new backlighting tech ‘RGB Native Dimming Expertise’ and says that it helps to optimize the image and sound high quality within the mini-LED TV together with new AI capabilities on the extra highly effective processor.
RGB mini-LED backlights are new in 2025, with ideas utilizing it additionally being unveiled by TCL and Samsung (although Samsung is looking its model a RGB micro-LED backlight), however Hisense is the one to announce an actual product. Present mini-LED backlights us a grid of blue LEDs to create the sunshine, which then passes via colour filter to create the colours on the display. This new panel makes use of blue, pink and inexperienced LEDs within the backlight, so it creates loads of the colour earlier than it ever hits the pixels.
By creating colours within the unique gentle of the TV, the 116UX mini-LED seems a lot richer, obtain 97% of the BT.2020 colour area in keeping with Hisense. This backlight tech additionally individually dims every of the mini-LED’s colours, so there’s extremely robust management of the image.
Peak brightness hits 10,000 nits in keeping with Hisense, and but since you now lose much less gentle to paint filtering and because of the improved processing energy within the TV, it is claimed to be 10% extra vitality environment friendly than different equal backlights from the corporate.
On the wellness entrance, Hisense additionally says that its ‘RGB Native Dimming Expertise’ additionally reduces the depth of dangerous blue gentle by 40%, making it a way more snug watch by defending your eyes and skill to fall sleep after film evening.
It is unimaginable tech to see in particular person that basically does give the Hisense 116UX mini-LED TV an attention-grabbing enhance in colour. It is promised to launch later in 2025, although there is no official worth being introduced. We’ll get it straight onto our overview bench after we can, although.
