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In the past two years, if you want to buy a TV, then Mini LED is definitely the key word you can't get around. With a series of advantages such as ultra-high brightness, high picture quality and thousand-grade division, Mini LED has become the first choice of domestic high-end TV.

At the moment, if you want to choose a Mini LED TV, then TCL must be an inescapable brand.

Data from third parties show that in 2022, the market share of TCL in the domestic Min iLED TV market was as high as 53%. In other words, on average, one out of every two Mini LED TVs sold came from TCL.

In fact, the reason why the domestic Mini LED TV market is so prosperous is inevitably inseparable from the strong promotion of brands such as TCL.

So why do domestic brands prefer Mini LED now?

And why is Mini LED the most appropriate choice for consumers to buy high-end televisions?

All this is inseparable from the advantages of Mini LED itself.

Write before the evaluation: 2023, why choose a Mini LED TV? We often talk about LCD TV, that is, we are very familiar with LCD. LCD screen needs backlight. LED backlight is a kind of backlight technology which uses light emitting diode (LED) as light source.

And Mini LED, as the name implies, is to "mini" the light source structure of the original LED. Of course, it is not very accurate to describe it with mini, or rather, micron.

Why micron? Imagine that a LED TV may have dozens of LED lights, so when the TV shows bright and dark pictures, the number of these light bulbs is too small to make a delicate distinction.

Mini LED, after micron these light bulbs, can be stuffed into thousands at a time, so that Mini LED can have more accurate light control, better color performance, dynamic range and contrast when displaying these pictures.

Mini LED demo (for reference only) similar advantages, it is easy to remind you of the OELD screen, mobile phones have almost universal popularity of OLED.

But TV is different. First of all, the size of TV OLED panel is often huge, the rate of good products is low, and the cost is extremely high, which also means that consumers want large-size OLED TVs, so they have to pay more, or even more.

Second, each pixel of an OLED TV is made up of an organic light-emitting material, and the pixels can "self-emit". As such, these light-emitting materials have brightness limits and limited lifetime-such as low brightness, such as burning screens.

In contrast, the omni-directional advantages of Mini LED are shown: it combines the advantages of traditional LCD and OLED, and also has the characteristics of high brightness, high color gamut and high contrast. Moreover, compared with OLED,Mini LED, it also has higher global brightness, long life, no panel restriction, high yield and so on.

TCL QD-Mini LED schematic in recent years, many technology giants have begun to bet on Mini LED, such as Apple's high-end display Pro Display XDR,iPad Pro, MacBook Pro and other products are equipped with Mini LED technology. Mini LED has also become one of the absolute trends of display technology in the future.

With the breakthrough of Mini LED technology, it can be said that a hundred flowers blossom in the Mini LED market. For example, this year TCL released a consumer-grade flagship TV X11G with a partition and brightness exceeding 5000. In August this year, TCL brought the world's largest 115in QD-Mini LED TV, with a terrifying 20000 + backlit zone!

TCL learns that QD-Mini LED TV C11G Pro (85 inches), hereinafter referred to as TCL C11G Pro as early as 2017, TCL began the pre-research work of Mini LED, and launched the world's first Mini LED backlit TV in 2019. Thanks to this first-mover advantage, TCL can become a core leading brand in the field of Mini LED TV.

Having written so much, we should also understand why the mainstream high-end TV now uses Mini LED technology, and why Mini LED TV must not be able to bypass the brand TCL.

So, what are the outstanding contestants in the TCL TV product line?

The protagonist of this article, C11G Pro, is such a product.

Next, CTOnews.com will give you a detailed review of the experience around the many highlights of this product (85-inch version).

First, choose Mini LED TV, whether the light control technology is strong or not is the key. The advantages of so many Mini LED TVs mentioned above, do you think that as long as you recognize Mini LED? and be not so.

When you buy Mini LED, you should pay more attention to its ability to control light.

C11G Pro light control ability comes from a large number of regional point control, wide-angle averaging lens, 16bit ultra-precision backlight control, as well as the technological breakthroughs of these light-emitting chips themselves.

On the C11G Pro, it has 880 sub-zones of point-controlled light, although the number is not thousands of levels, but each wick carries a cool techs-"six-crystal square core".

Generally speaking, the traditional Mini LED light-emitting chip is a rectangle composed of two light-emitting points, while the six-crystal square core light-emitting chip used in C11G Pro has six light-emitting points. The brightness and energy efficiency of LED chips have been greatly improved.

Second, there is a wide-angle homogenizing lens developed by TCL on top of the six-crystal square core: through the design of the double-layer arch bridge, the luminous angle is raised from 130° to 160. at the same time, the optical grade lens material is strictly selected, and the backlight uniformity is greatly improved.

With the patented technology of hexagonal square core and optical lens, C11G Pro has solved a big problem-the halo of traditional Mini LED TV.

For example, when some pictures with pure black picture are displayed, the black picture displayed by traditional Mini LED is not pure, especially the part close to the color, there will be obvious halo, this is because the Mini LED with lensless technology is easy to let the light in the partition spill out to other regions, illuminate other regions, resulting in halo.

TCL C11G Pro achieves the effect of focusing and halo precise control through six-crystal square core luminous chip and optical lens technology.

Let's take the actual scene as an example.

We open a picture of petals, the petals are surrounded by pure black, which is a very test of the TV's ability to control light, do not do well, there will be an obvious gray halo, the picture is very dirty, not pure.

Let's look at the performance of C11G Pro.

The first is the front view, which is taken by the mobile phone. In order to make it more difficult, the photos are taken in a darkroom environment. The reason for choosing a dark scene is that the darker the screen is, the higher the contrast, the more difficult the craft, the higher the quality. )

In the picture, we can see that the petals are colorful and rich in detail, but there is a clear division between the edge of the petals and the black background.

Whether through the naked eye observation or the use of mobile phone shooting, it is difficult to detect the existence of halo.

Even as we approached the TV screen and examined the details of the petals, there was still no sign of halo. On the contrary, the black area in the picture is particularly profound, adding more layering and three-dimensional sense to the whole picture.

Make it a little more difficult and come to the side.

It is important to know that many televisions have excellent front light control, but as soon as they come to the side, there will be obvious color overflow, poor light control and other problems.

But the performance of C11G Pro is still stable, and the imaginary gray halo is almost absent.

If you zoom in, it's still hard to feel the halo.

Change the scene, what if it's a moving picture?

For example, as shown in the GIF picture below, in the demonstration with a black background, the edge of the blue water cup and the dynamic scene of water droplets falling can not see the existence of the halo.

In the dynamic switching between petals and dark horse photos, there is no obvious halo and shadow phenomenon when the color changes, and the black area is still a "pure black" picture.

From the side, the dark horse and petals are still stable.

From the above measurement, the performance of TCL C11G Pro in light control is almost comparable to that of OLED screen. For example, when a certain part of the picture lights up, the black area is quite close to the "pure black" display effect of the OLED screen.

Visually, there is no light leakage in the black area, and there is no color overflow in the bright area. TCL C11G Pro really controls the light and dark and holds the details.

Second, the underlying technology is leading, the color picture quality is impressive in the picture quality specifications, the TCL C11G Pro 1500nits peak brightness, 15 million: 1 ultra-high dynamic contrast, 157% (BT.709) industry ultra-high color gamut value, and-- flagship X11G with the same top-class aura + butterfly star screen.

Specifically, the HDR standard is 0.005nit-1000nit, while the peak brightness of the TCL C11G Pro 1500nits means that it has the capability of the extreme dynamic range of XDR.

In some videos where the highlights are higher than the natural environment, such as dusk and sunrise, the ultra-high screen brightness can show more highlight details and bring a stronger sense of picture hierarchy.

A butterfly + butterfly star screen uses nano-scale bionic technology in the liquid crystal layer to form a butterfly-wing-like microstructure, accurately controls the light passing through the liquid crystal layer, greatly increases the contrast, is equipped with a nano-level low-reflective film, and reduces the screen reflection.

In other words, in addition to the advantages of the Mini LED panel, the outermost screen of the TCL C11G Pro also has considerable technical expertise.

With the TCL Huaxing high-end aura + butterfly star obsidian screen, so the TCL C11G Pro screen has an excellent visual angle performance, even if you look at the screen in the extreme direction such as oblique each other, there is still no great color change and loss.

Secondly, the strong anti-reflection property of the aura + butterfly star accolade screen makes the C11G Pro not afraid of the sun in the living room at noon and the reflection of all kinds of lamps in the room. This is why the C11G Pro is so pure when displaying a pure black screen.

The TCL C11G Pro also has a smart brain: the accolade chip M2+TXR Mini LED image quality enhancement chip, which is not only used to control light, but also to optimize intelligent scenes for contrast, color and sharpness.

C11G Pro also uses the latest quantum dot technology-quantum dot Pro 2023, which uses a new quaternary quantum crystal to ensure the effective luminescence of quantum dot crystals for 100000 hours with a more stable alloy structure.

In short, with the blessing of this technology, the optical properties have been greatly improved, and the color is not only pure, but also pure and lasting.

Next, through the actual picture together to appreciate the color of TCL C11G Pro and other picture quality performance!

Third, high-end design language, high-end picture quality confirms that as a high-end TV product with a price of more than 10,000, the design must also be worthy of the price of more than 10,000. TCL C11G Pro has done a pretty good job of this without compromising on any details.

For example, TCL C11G Pro gilded gold suspension base, through a new forging process, so that the base looks very precious metal delicate texture, TCL gold training, does not seem to have a trace of "grandiose" sense, just reflects the expensive and not vulgar style.

For example, the invisible design of the lower front frame has achieved a frameless immersion on all sides, the TCL C11G Pro bright screen rear frame can almost be visually "ignored", the picture is like hanging in the air, so that users can be completely immersed in wonderful images.

There is also the Premium Mini LED gold mark on the upper side of the frame, which is the proof of the high-end picture quality, which not only highlights the high-end attribute of the product, but also is not so "noisy". But when guests inadvertently see this logo on the TCL C11G Pro, they will feel that the product will not be cheap.

Even if you can't see the details on the back, the C11G Pro is quite careful-the streamlined integrated design cuts off the raised backpack of the traditional TV, and the overall body of the C11G Pro is as smooth as streamline, so that the TV does not protrude too much from the wall when hanging on the wall, better integrated into the living room and a stronger sense of integration.

For example, the whole backplane on the back uses the starry sky texture design, and the staggered texture lattice corresponds to the backlight partition. There is also the vinyl CD texture in the audio part, which symbolizes the outward expansion of sound waves and is also the embodiment of the classic Hi-Fi original sound.

Although no one will look at the back of the TV, and it can even be said that the contact between the user and the back of the TV may only exist on the side of buying back the TV when it is installed, the C11G Pro makes these invisible details a "work of art".

In the design of the remote control, the C11G Pro is equipped with three custom buttons of red, green and blue, which can quickly open the custom application. There are also shortcut keys for brightness adjustment on the side of the remote control, which is convenient to adjust the light and shade of the screen.

These detailed designs add great points to the experience.

As for the interface you are concerned about, the C11G Pro is also directly full: up to four HDMI 2.1 interfaces, and even two of them are still full of blood design, supporting 4K@144Hz and 4K@120Hz input, and accessing the next-era game console can also be perfectly adapted, this configuration will not be out-of-date for a long time in the future.

In addition to the four HDMI 2.1s, it also includes USB3.0*1, USB2.0*1, AV input * 1, network LAN*1, RF antenna input * 1, digital audio output * 1 and other interfaces. Whether in home entertainment or work applications, these interfaces can meet the needs of users.

Fourth, 90W power speakers amazing, boot without advertising is the highlight of sound, C11G Pro equipped with Anqiao 2.1.2 HiFi sound system, equipped with 7-unit loudspeakers, with 90W power, support vertical AI sound field, space adaptive and other functions. Anqiao brand has more than 70 years of professional audio technology precipitation, with 90W power, the performance is of course.

The old rule is to play a song "Ferry" to make everyone's ears moist.

From the author's subjective sense of hearing, the sound quality of the C11G Pro can be summed up in one sentence-the balance is amazing. The specific performance is that the low frequency is very flexible, not boring, the medium and high frequency is not bad, and the sound of stringed instruments is relatively clean and layered. The human voice is also very moist and transparent. In addition, the C11G Pro sound field is very wide, in different locations in the living room, there is a very strong sense of presence.

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In the interaction part of the system, the smart desktop created by TCL is very interesting. this desktop system breaks the traditional aggregation desktop design, leaving blank components, and users are free to add the windows and resources they want to see.

Of course, you can also choose the traditional aggregation desktop.

Smart desktops are somewhat similar to smartphones in interaction design, with very high custom settings. For example, you can customize desktop film and television content, functional applications and sorting in combination with use scenarios. You can also set your own desktop according to your own and family preferences and habits.

This is very friendly for consumers of all ages. Young people can create their own desktops that they and their families like according to their own preferences. For example, under the family's exclusive desktop, you can find the content and channels that the family likes with one click. Or it is a function, so you don't have to learn too much.

More importantly, the C11G Pro does not have boot advertising.

TV is used so frequently that when it is turned on every day, annoying advertisements will encroach on dozens of seconds of time, and the time wasted is by no means a small amount.

Watching TV is supposed to be a simple thing. Only without advertisements can you really watch TV, right?

No boot advertising, is the greatest respect for users, this, we must give TCL likes.

Summary: after writing so much, let's make a simple summary for everyone.

First of all, in 2023, if you choose TV, you must choose Mini LED.

One of the reasons is that Mini LED has become the common choice of major TV companies, and Mini LED will become the dominant position for a long time in the future.

Second, and more important reason, unlike in earlier years, with the progress of technology, Mini LED is also more mature, for consumers, within the budget, Mini LED is the most cost-effective choice.

Back to the C11G Pro product, this is a Mini LED technology to control light, sound and picture quality and other aspects of the performance of the product. In particular, the excellent ability to control light is impressive.

To sum up, if you need a large-screen TV with excellent picture quality, choose Mini LED.

If you need a Mini LED TV with balanced performance in all aspects, bright spots in the interaction of picture quality and sound quality system, and no advertising, choose C11G Pro, which is more suitable for you.

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