Following its announcement last week, Xiaomi launched two 82-inch TVs with Mini LED backlight technology featuring 8K and 4K resolution. The 8K one priced RMB 49999 and the 4K is RMB 9999. Both product will be released on October 21, 2020.

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LEDinside learned that Xiaomi’s Mini LED TVs adopt the backlight solution based on a sprinkle of Mini LED components sized 1616. The 8K TV used 15,360 units of Mini LEDs to achieve 960 local dimming zones. Each of the dimming zone can deliver 4096 grayscales to realize a high contract ratio of 400000:1 and a peak brightness of 2000 nits. The 4K TV also adopts the same technology but with 240 local dimming zones.

Both TVs implemented QD technology as well, presenting excellent performance of 1.07 billion original colors and 98% P3 wide color gamut. The refresh rate is 120Hz, and supports 120Hz MEMC.

Since 2019, Xiaomi has been reportedly developing Mini LED TV and the rumor is now proved. Despite that Xiaomi has worked closely with MLS, the Mini LED backlight units of the new TVs are not supplied by MLS.