‘TCL’s 65-inch mini-LED LCD TV will be released in Europe at the end of this year for 2500 euros’
TCL is reportedly going to release the 65″ version of its X10-4k LCD television in Europe at the end of this year. The X10 is a mini LED television based on an LCD, in which a relatively large number of small LEDs form the backlight.
TCL plans to release the 65″ version of the X10 in Europe in November or December for 2,500 euros, FlatpaneldHD writes. This 4K LCD TV will also be released in the US with 75″ and 85″ screen diagonals. but in Europe only the 65″ version would be available. Vincent Teoh of HdtvTest comes with similar information, saying based on his findings from the IFA that the European release of the X10 is likely to be sometime in mid-November. TCL says the 65″ version of the 4K mini LED TV will be available “late this year”.
According to Teoh, that means a delay of about two months for Europe, while this television in the US with the name 8 series should be released soon. On the one hand, the European delay has to do with the use of a different layer of quantum dots in the European model than in the American model, which, according to Teoh, still requires some fine-tuning in terms of the clarity of the European model. According to him, some work is also needed in fine-tuning the algorithm for the fald. The rest of the hardware on the European and American models would be identical.
The 65″ version of the X10 has a total of 15,360 LEDs and with the 75″ version that increases to more than 25,000. However, the 65″ version still has 768 individual dimmable zones; the LEDs cannot yet be individually switched on or off, such as with micro LED screens or OLED TVs. Partly due to the high number of LEDs, the X10 should be better than other LCD screens. TVs are able to minimize the blooming effect, keeping black areas blacker, and bright areas and colors appear more convincing.
At the IFA, TCL already showed a mini LED LCD TV with an 8k resolution and 5000 dimmable zones, where an active matrix is applied. The latter is more expensive; the X10 still uses a passive matrix. That is probably the main reason that the number of dimmable zones on the X10 does not yet exceed a thousand. With LCDs, a passive matrix stands for different wires that control the pixels, while with an active matrix this is done by capacitors. Incidentally, TCL says it will release a 75″ 8k mini LED TV with 25,200 LEDs, a brightness of 1200cd/m² and 900 individually dimmable zones in the second quarter of next year.
The X10 comes on the market in Europe with an integrated 2.2-channel soundbar that forms the foot of the TV, as it were. Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision and HDR10+ are supported and the TV also achieves a brightness of 1500cd/m². The X10 runs on Android TV.