When it comes to LED-LCD TVs, there are few things that matter more than overall brightness, contrast, and color saturation. The new 110-inch Hisense UX Mini-LED TV has all these features in large quantities.
Specifically, Hisense claims that its new TV — coming later this year — can reach a peak brightness of 10,000 nits and use 40,000 local dimming zones. Sure, OLED can control brightness on a pixel-by-pixel basis, but Hisense’s new display is about 10 times brighter while still covering 100% of the DCI-P3 color space.
If the specs are meaningless to you, what’s important here is that the Hisense UX (one of the brightest TVs of 2023) comes in a new screen size with some serious specs that should make Samsung, LG and TCL shake in their boots.
Hisense UX (2024): price and availability
So when will you be able to buy one of the larger OLED TV competitors? Hisense said in its CES 2024 keynote that it is targeting a March release date, but there is no specific date set.
Regarding the price, Hisense hasn’t given us any clues but we can extrapolate it based on the current cost of the 85-inch Hisense UX which will set you back $4,999. Given that, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hisense targets a launch price of $7,999.
Hisense UX (2024): Design
At 110 inches corner-to-corner, you’ll need plenty of space and stable home entertainment for your new Hisense UX. We didn’t get the exact weight from Hisense, but it’s definitely somewhere between 150 and 200 pounds.
It houses the TV’s 4.2.2-channel speaker system that plays Dolby Atmos audio right out of the box.
However, the TV’s relatively thick design hides a lot of important features. First, it hosts a massive heatsink and ventilation system that keeps the screen cool while pumping out the brightness. On the other hand, it houses the TV’s 4.2.2-channel speaker system that plays Dolby Atmos sound right out of the box.
When we asked how powerful this speaker system was, we didn’t get an exact answer but were told that its power was over 80 watts. Hisense couldn’t speak to the exact size of the speakers, but it’s pretty safe to say that this speaker system will match — or even exceed — the TV’s picture performance.
In terms of inputs and outputs, the Hisense UX (2024) will have two HDMI 2.0 ports and two HDMI 2.1 ports. This is a bit disappointing considering that competing TVs offer four full-featured HDMI 2.1 ports, but a Hisense engineer told us that plans are in the works to fix this issue in the future.
Last but not least, Hisense is once again using an anti-glare coating on the user interface. It can’t stand up to the bright lights in the Las Vegas Convention Center showroom like the Samsung S95D, for example, but most people don’t have high-powered spotlights in their living room. However, this is one area we’ll be keeping a close eye on this year after Samsung cracked the code on matte displays.
Hisense UX (2024): Performance
Powering the Hisense UX (2024) is the Hi-View Engine The processor looks for common objects like water, trees, or the sky and applies an upscaling algorithm to make them appear sharper and richer in detail. Or at least that’s the hope.
Not only does it have the processing power to properly scale up content, it is the driving force behind all the important specifications mentioned above. If you want to manage 40,000 local dimming zones, you need a very powerful processor, and the Hi-View Engine
In terms of color saturation, Hisense says the UX will be able to cover 100% of the DCI-P3 color space and the vast majority of the Rec2020 color space – although they’re not ready to reveal the exact number yet.
At CES, the Hisense UX was only playing episodes of demo content, so we didn’t get to see what shows like Game of Thrones might look like, but it’s easy to see that high brightness and large color volume in action. The canyon scene on the screen had deep, rich colors of red, blue, brown and purple, and you could see the grains on the rocks themselves. There was a bit of noise in the sky that the Hi-View Engine
Hisense UX (2024): Expectations
The specs Hisense gave us are impressive, and the TV certainly looked great on the CES show floor (without the glare, of course). However, you should wait for independent verification of these numbers before selling your first generation Mini-LED TVs from a few years ago. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t trust Hisense, but there are always a lot of nuances in the numbers that don’t appear in the press release.
Based on the limited time we spent with it in Las Vegas, the Hisense UX looked impressive — better than any other 4K Mini-LED TV at CES. But with LG’s next-gen display panels arriving on the G4 and M4 OLED TVs, it’s going to be a tough year for any display wanting to earn a spot on our list of the best TVs of 2024.
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