Hisense is going high-end at CES 2025, with two XXL-size TVs that leverage new display technology. For 2025 the company has queued up a 136-inch micro-LED TV and a 116-inch mini-LED TV that uses RGB backlight for improved color. The Chinese company’s 2025 TVs all feature a new Hisense Hi-View AI Engine X processor that the company says is faster than last year’s and uses artificial intelligence to optimize the picture and sound, as well as energy consumption. The models also have built-in ATSC 3.0 tuners for NextGen digital TV broadcasts. No word yet on pricing or availability.

The Hisense 136MX (below) utilizes an array of over 24.88 million microscopic LEDs — each pixel is its own light source, composed of independent red, green and blue LEDs. This eliminates the need for traditional backlight. The self-emissive design “achieves a near-infinite dynamic contrast ratio, delivering deep blacks, dazzling brightness, and remarkable clarity,” according to Hisense.

The 136MX is capable of up to 10,000 nits of brightness and 95 percent BT.2020 color space coverage and features an ultra-low reflectivity screen. It features Dolby Vision IQ, HDR10+ and Filmmaker Mode, which dynamically optimizes the picture to match the content and viewing environment.

Audio is enhanced with Dolby Atmos and DTS Virtual X, with Google TV and Hisense’s own VIDAA OS as smart TV platforms (compatible with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa).

Micro-LED TVs are still pretty rare. Samsung has been releasing consumer versions in the U.S. since 2021, expanding the lineup in 2024 with prices of $100,000 to $150,000 per display.

ZDNet describes the dimming technology of the Hisense 116-inch TriChroma as “a bridge between today’s mini-LED advancements and the next frontier of micro-LED.”

The new TriChroma 116UX (below) is “the world’s largest mini-LED TV from any TV maker, making it quite the spectacle,” reports TechRadar, which calls it “the future of TV.” At up to 10,000 nits, it is also one of the world’s brightest.

Digital Trends runs through “the basic setup of an LED TV — backlights of blue or white LEDs shine through a color filter (in 2025, often a quantum dot filter) to produce the colors we see,” then details how the TriChroma differs: with “tens of thousands of RGB Local Dimming optical lenses that each contain a red, green, and blue LED.”  Controlled in clusters, the dimming occurs “at both the optical lens level and the RGB chip level.”

“Having individual red, green, and blue LEDs allows for a much wider color gamut — much like Hisense is able to do with its TriChroma Laser TVs — and it achieves 97 percent of the BT.2020 color space (according to the Hisense test lab),” Digital Trends notes, comparing the mini-LED model to the new Hisense short-throw projector.

To improve the performance of its premium and laser TV lines, Hisense has partnered for Pantone Validated on the picture-side and Devialet for audio expertise.