Most Exciting 2024 TVs | The TV's We'll All Be Talking About
Summary
TLDRCES 2024 has wrapped up and it's time to reflect on the most exciting TVs showcased, beyond just the hype. LG's G4 Gallery Series OLED promises better brightness and processing. Samsung's S95D OLED boasts a new anti-glare screen that may trade off intensity for black level accuracy. Samsung's 75" MicroLED could finally be consumer-ready. Hisense's affordable U7N and U8N mini-LEDs aim to compete on value, while its 110" monster touts extreme specs that test processing limits. TCL's flagship QM8 battles Hisense, and Sony's unnamed champ should make waves. Beyond TVs, SVS speakers and Dolby Flex Connect carry potential too.
Takeaways
- đ Caleb discusses the most exciting new TVs showcased at CES 2024, focusing on models with practical appeal vs just flashy concepts
- đş The LG G4 Gallery Series OLED interests Caleb due to its new panel and processing tech for better picture quality
- đ Caleb is curious to compare Samsung's S95D QD-OLED against last year's model to evaluate the new anti-glare layer
- đŚ Hisense's U8N and TCL's QM8 mini-LED models seem poised to compete for best value 4K TV this year
- đ A theoretical upcoming Sony mini-LED TV has Caleb predicting it could be the 'toast of 2024' thanks to Sony processing
- đ¤ Caleb wonders if 2024 will finally see a mini-LED TV truly challenge OLED picture quality
- đ The LG OLED M features an external zero connect box for a clean install
- đ Caleb is excited but skeptical of specs like 10,000 nits and 40,000 zones on Hisense's 110" model
- đ Dolby Flex Connect has intriguing future potential for TV audio
- đ¸ Caleb highlights SVS's new Ultra Evolution speakers for both audiophiles and home theater
Q & A
Which LG TV is Caleb most excited about and why?
-Caleb is most excited about the new LG G4 Gallery Series OLED and its wireless partner, the OLED M. He is interested in seeing LG's latest MLA panel technology and Alpha 11 processor for potential improvements in brightness, upscaling, and picture quality.
What change is Samsung making to its 2024 OLED TVs that Caleb finds controversial?
-Samsung is implementing a new anti-glare layer in its 2024 OLED TVs, which Caleb thinks some enthusiasts may find controversial as it removes the glossy screen that many prefer. He wants to test if there are any tradeoffs to this new anti-glare approach.
Which Hisense TVs stand out to Caleb this year and why?
-Caleb calls out the U8N, which offers great value, and the bright 110-inch UX with 10,000 nits peak brightness. More than the specs, he is interested in testing Hisense's processing capabilities with such high demands.
What makes Caleb predict that Sony's 2024 flagship mini-LED TV could challenge OLED?
-Caleb is optimistic about Sony's processing capabilities combined with their new backlight technology. Even without record-breaking specs, he thinks Sony could produce the "toast of 2024" that finally gives OLED a run for its money.
What interests Caleb about the TCL QM89?
-At 115 inches, the QM89 is the largest direct-view TV Caleb knows of headed to the US market. Beyond the size, he wants to evaluate its performance with 5,000 nits brightness and 20,000+ dimming zones.
Which speaker announcement has Caleb excited and why?
-Caleb calls out SVS's new Ultra Evolution speaker lineup for its potential as a "game changer" for both audiophiles and home theater use. He is eager to review them on the channel.
What bonus tech reveal does Caleb think is most notable?
-Caleb highlights Dolby Flex Connect, which may show up in some 2024 Hisense and TCL TVs. He sees exciting future potential and will have an upcoming report focused just on this announcement.
Which TV model does Caleb ask viewers to predict as superior?
-Caleb asks viewers to guess whether the TCL QM8 or Hisense U8N will prove to be the better TV this year. He promises to revisit predictions later and see who was right.
What does Caleb request from viewers related to his list?
-Caleb asks viewers which TV announced at CES they think he should have included in his list. He invites discussion in the comments about other exciting TV options.
Why does Caleb think pragmatic analysis of the TVs announced at CES is better saved for after the show?
-Caleb says the CES show itself is too much of a "hype fest" to allow for pragmatic analysis in the moment. With some distance, he now wants to have a calmer discussion of the most truly exciting releases.
Outlines
đLG's new MLA panel and Alpha 11 processor in G4 and M OLED TVs
The LG G4 Gallery Series and M Wireless OLED TVs feature a new micro lens array panel for improved efficiency and brightness. The Alpha 11 processor also aims to enhance picture quality with better upscaling, cleanup of streaming content and processing compared to Sony TVs.
đşKey aspects to review on Samsung's anti-glare S95D QD-OLED and 75" MicroLED TV
The 2024 Samsung S95D QD-OLED TV has a new anti-glare layer that is extremely effective but may cause slight dimming. Key aspects to examine are its impact on picture quality, black level perception in bright rooms and whether the lack of a glossy screen option is acceptable.
đAssessing Hisense's U7N, U8N for value and the 110" UX for processing of 10K nits/40K zones
Noteworthy Hisense TVs are the U7N providing U8K performance at lower prices, the potentially competitive U8N, and the 110" UX with 10K nit peak brightness and 40K dimming zones. Critical to examine is how Hisense's processing handles these extreme specs without content to match.
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Keywords
đĄCES
đĄOLED TVs
đĄMini LED TVs
đĄMicro LED TVs
đĄQD-OLED TVs
đĄPeak brightness
đĄUpscaling
đĄAnti-glare layer
đĄBacklight control
đĄDolby Atmos
Highlights
First significant research finding
Introduction of innovative methodology
Key conclusion and practical applications
Transcripts
now that the dust and hype of CES is settled let's talk about the Â
most exciting TVs coming out in 2024 but also let's talk about the real reasons we should be
excited welcome back everyone I'm Caleb Denison and I say this every year because some things Â
just never change CES is a hype Fest that that's just what it is all the shiny new Â
gear and especially the TVs are very exciting in the moment and I think we love that about Â
CES that show is not the right time for me to try and be pragmatic I can barely Â
manage to keep up with all the model numbers and associated specs as I shoot video live from the Â
show floor but now now we can be a little more pragmatic we can take some time to have a chat Â
about which TVs are the most exciting and the less emotionally charged reasons why why they Â
are exciting in some cases it's because they are borderline controversial you know for as Â
controversial as a TV can be anyway also stick around to the end because I've got Â
a couple of bonus entries I'm excited to share with you okay let's hit this list Â
following the order in which I saw the TVs at CES which means we've got to start with
LG now it would be fair of you to guess that I'd be starting this list with the LG transparent OLED Â
TV properly known as the LG Signature OLED T but I'm not don't get me wrong that TV is ridiculously Â
cool and I hope I get to spend some quality time with it but for as cool as it is that is the kind Â
of specialty TV that only a handful of wealthy folks are going to buy so exciting yes totally Â
will I review it I sure hope so but I want to keep focused on TVs that you out there watching Â
right now are likely to buy and I don't see the OLED T being one of them okay I guess I actually Â
did start with that one after all didn't I I digress what I really want to focus on are the Â
LG G4 Gallery Series OLED and its Wireless partner in crime the OLED M essentially the same TV from Â
a picture performance perspective it's just that the OLED M happens to come with LG zero connect Â
box and has an ever so slightly different form factor because of it the new LG G4 is exciting Â
because it has the latest gen MLA or micro lens array wed panel in it now I don't expect Â
a revolutionary increase in brightness here but I do think that because this new MLA panel is a Â
bit more efficient There's an opportunity for LG to bump up the average Picture level just a Â
bit leading to higher overall brightness and maybe take their foot off the gas with their protective Â
auto brightness limiter I'm also excited to see how LG's new Alpha 11 processor improves some key Â
picture quality factors like upscaling and clean up of low bit rate and bit depth starved streaming Â
content in short I'm excited to see how LG's best OLED TV stack up to Sony's we go on and on about Â
Sony's awesome processing let's see how close or maybe just how different LG's latest processor Â
looks in comparison that alone is going to make OLED TV reviews this year super fun now I'm not Â
discounting LG C4 OLED here I think it could be a strong competitor this year but I'm trying to Â
stick to the most exciting TVs and for me that's the LG G4 and by extension the new OLED M Wireless
models next up is Samsung first off guys a little behind the scenes narrative here Samsung's First Â
Look event was dizzying in its scope Samsung had so much to see there it was hard to rep my brain Â
around it all but also Samsung was definitely spending more effort hyping up its latest top Â
tier OLED TV the S95D as well as its futuristic transparent micro Led Tech than it was most of Â
its other TVs I want to be super excited for the latest crop of Samsung Neo CED TVs and indeed I Â
think there are going to be some interesting software features built in but from a picture Â
quality performance aspect I don't know how much of a Leap Forward they're going to be over the Â
2024 models could be a lot I just don't feel like they talked about it a lot we'll find out but if Â
we want to talk excitement we have to talk about two main products from Samsung the first is the Â
new S95D OLED there are two notable changes for this TV in 2024 one it's going to have Samsung Â
displays more efficient and slightly brighter QDÂ OLED panel that's the Gen 3 panel and two This TVÂ Â
has a new anti-glare implementation that I think is going to be very polarizing for TV enthusiasts Â
and if you didn't see that obvious pun coming from me well you don't know me very well well Â
do you now I don't expect the S95D to be notably brighter than the S95C any more than I expect Â
the LG G4 OLED to be notably brighter than the LG G3 I think to detect any brightness changes we'd Â
have to stick the S95D right next to the S95C and even then I think you'd really have to look hard Â
for the brightness differences and we will do that here I'll be sticking the S95D right next Â
to the S95C on this channel Smack That subscribe button so you don't miss it but the real reason Â
I'm interested in comparing this year's Flagship Samsung OLED against last year's Flagship is to Â
see the net effect of the new anti-glare Tech that they've implemented in this new S95D and Â
you may be surprised to know that it isn't to validate the effectiveness of this anti-glare I Â
can tell you right now it is extremely effective like otherworldly good no I think we need to see Â
what tradeoffs if if any are made with this new anti-glare implementation some folks already hate Â
the idea that the S95D may be less glossy and it would be fair to be concerned it may not appear Â
to have specular HDR highlights as intense as the S95C since anti-glare almost always causes dimming Â
of the picture just ever so slightly but I'm optimistic that the slightly brighter third gen Â
QD-OLED panel might make up for any drop off and brightness caused by the new anti-glare treatment Â
yet still we need to talk about whether the lack of the glossy screen is really a liability and we Â
want to see if the screen itself in full light appears to be closer to pitch black I think a Â
big part of the reason Samsung has done this is because some folks were not fans of the fact that Â
the QD-OLEDs blacks could appear gray in a light soaked room I think that what's going to happen Â
is that folks who need that anti-glare because they watch and bright rooms a lot will want the Â
S95D and for anyone who wants the glossy screen and isn't concerned about a grayish panel or Â
anti-glare because they usually watch in a light controlled room anyway they'll want the s90d which Â
will be less expensive still I do expect some folks to be very vocal about not having an option Â
for a glossy screen in the S95D never mind that it makes no sense to offer two different skews of the Â
same model the other Samsung TV I think we need to watch out for is the 75 in version of Samsung's Â
micro LED TV Samsung has not promised that this will be for sure a model that you can buy in Â
2024 but I have a feeling it could very well be if it is we are going to have a ball testing it out Â
jury still out on how expensive it might be though still this is the most normal person size of this Â
new display Tech and if it becomes a consumer level television that's exciting and I think Â
a very big deal next in order would be Hisense there are three Hisense TVs I'm excited for the Â
most obvious is the 110in UX though perhaps not for the reasons you might think I'll get to that Â
and the other two are the U8N and the U7N so let's start with those last two the U7N looks a lot like Â
2023 is U8K and if I'm no Hisense that means you'll be able to get U8 performance this year Â
for last year's U7 prices that just that would shift Hisense's value proposition into overdrive Â
but the U8N I mean this may be the TV to beat this year I suspect we'll have to compare it to Â
Samsung's QN90D and TCL's QM8 and whatever Sony comes out with which I'm getting to shortly but Â
also we can't talk about Hisense's 2024 TV lineup without talking about the monstrous 110in UX model Â
which promises 10,000 nits Peak brightness with some 40,000 local dimming zones for its mini LED Â
backlight array now let's toss aside that Hisense is clearly in a Specs war with its chief rival TCL Â
and just focus in on those numbers 10,000 nits is a lot 40,000 zones is a lot those numbers Â
sound very exciting but what I'm really excited to see is how Hisense handles all that power Â
specifically I want to see how Hisense's high view picture processor handles the incredible demand of Â
40,000 local dimming zones I want to know how it handles upscaling content to look good on such a Â
huge screen and perhaps most importantly how is Hisense going to handle the ability to get up to Â
10,000 nits now we know that Peak brightness will only be achieved in very very small highlights but Â
what about the brightness range leading up to that how will Hisense map the TV's brightness when it Â
well exceeds any HDR content that's available for us to watch today at best we can get a few Â
titles that have been mastered at 4,000 nits how's hense going to choose to display that Â
content with a TV that can go so far beyond the source materials information now if you recall Â
from my 85in UX review Hisenses processing was the weakest link in that TV now the stakes are Â
even higher so what kind of processing progress has Hisense made that's what I'm excited to
see next up is TCL and the two TVs I'm most excited for here are the new QM8 and the new Â
QM89 the latter of which is TCL's monster 115in TV the largest direct View tv to ship to the us Â
as far as I know capable of 5,000 nits of peak brightness with over 20,000 dimming zones I mean Â
first of all I got to wonder will TCL ship me a 115 in TV what will that look like here that Â
alone is exciting for me at least and I think you're going to love seeing it too but also how Â
will TCL handle those 5,000 nits how good is the control over those 20,000 zones that's half the Â
brightness and half the zones Hisense is claiming for its Flagship but in a bigger TV now honestly Â
I don't expect there to be a big performance Gulf between the TCL QM89 and the Hisense UX Â
so that conversation about how specs don't tell the whole story I don't know that there's ever Â
been a better example on display for that argument at least that's what I'm suspecting but most of my Â
excitement is over getting to find out if you haven't figured it out already we're going to Â
be talking a lot about peak brightness dimming zones and the use of mini LED this year and TCL Â
and Hisense are going to be at the forefront of that conversation but frankly I think the TCL qm8 Â
is the real TV to watch this year from TCL and seeing it do battle against the Hisense U8N is Â
going to be a treat real quick in the comments let me know which one you think is going to win Â
the TCL QM8 or the Hisense U8N we'll circle back later this year and see how good we were Â
at that [Music] prediction next up is a TV we did not see at CES in fact we haven't seen it Â
at all technically it doesn't exist it doesn't have a firm model number either actually we only Â
know of its potential existence thanks to a special trip I made to Tokyo I am of course Â
speaking of what ever Sony's Flagship mini LED TV will be in 2024 now I don't think Sony is Â
going to break any nits records or local dimming Zone count records and I don't think it needs to Â
with Sony's processing and their new backlight Tech I think this Flagship mini LED TV from Sony Â
is going to be the toast of 2024 that's a bold prediction I know it but I'm 100% comfortable Â
with it the question is is this the mini LED TVÂ that really challenges OLED we're going to find
out okay now honorable mention needs to go out to Roku which did not exhibit TVs at CES but Â
I'm holding on to some optimism about its new Pro Series that it announced just before CES Â
I really hope that that is a super competitive TV especially for Roku's sake now as promised Â
I've got a couple of bonuses to share I know they aren't TVs but they're TV adjacent so let's just Â
go with it first SVS has a new flagship speaker lineup called Ultra Evolution now I didn't get Â
Chris and Zeke out to SVS's booth with me so my iPhone footage is about the best we Â
can do here but I am telling you these have all the makings of a game changing speaker lineup I Â
can't wait to get some in and review them both from the audio file perspective as well as the Â
home theater perspective then and I think this is a pretty big one Dolby Flex Connect now I Â
have a full report on it coming out soon that I don't think you're going to want to miss I Â
think we're going to see this tech implemented in some Hisense and TCL TVs this year and I'm Â
stoked to see how it's implemented this year but it's really where uh it's going in the future Â
that I'm most excited about I will say right now that it has some pretty awesome potential though Â
that's my list thanks as always for watching everyone what did I miss was there a TV shown Â
at CES that you think I should have included let's talk about it down in the comments while Â
you're down there consider giving this video a like and sharing it with your friends I'll see Â
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