STACK #244 February 2025

TECH FEATURE

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Get ready for even bigger and smarter TVs

The big brands revealed new innovations in TV tech that are set to bring the wow factor to home screens.

Words Scott Hocking

More AI-powered features from Samsung

Mini-LED upgrades and massive screens from Hisense and TCL Just when you thought TVs couldn’t get any bigger, Hisense revealed the massive 116-inch TriChroma LED TV, sporting a sleek 35mm-thin design to blend seamlessly into diverse interiors.

Samsung is set to enhance the overall entertainment experience by bringing AI smartphone features to TV screens, including generative wallpapers, live language translation, and click to search. We’ve all had that moment where we recognise actors but can’t remember their name or the other movies they’ve done. Samsung’s new Vision AI tech

and the generative wallpaper function can transform your TV from a big black rectangle into an eye-catching artwork. Samsung is also set to deliver its “most advanced TV to date” with the flagship QN990F QLED 8K TV, along with more lifestyle TVs including The Frame Pro, and QLED TVs that include a collection of over 3,000 artworks to display.

will enable quick searching without interrupting the movie or needing to check IMDb on your phone. Live Translate generates subtitles during live broadcasts for selected languages,

The TriChroma LED introduces Mini LEDs capable of greater colour accuracy and brightness, along with a 10% reduction in energy use. Beyond the flagship TriChroma LED, Hisense is expanding screen sizes and enhancing features across its premium ULED range. Elsewhere, at the TCL booth, the world’s largest QD-Mini LED TV – the QM891G – was on display, measuring a whopping 115”, along with the brand’s flagship TCL X11K QD-Mini LED TV, featuring an amazing 14,000+ local dimming zones. TCL is also set to integrate Google’s Gemini AI model into its flagship TV series, with plans to launch all-new Google TV with Gemini capabilities.

A see-through TV from LG

LG is pushing the boundaries of home entertainment in 2025 with a line up of innovative TVs, including the groundbreaking transparent OLED T. The new QNED EVO series will feature advanced colour reproduction tech and wireless connection transmitting 4K 144Hz content, while the next wave of flagship

reimagine how we interact with a TV. This 77-inch beauty blends entertainment and aesthetics, offering a "floating content" illusion in transparent mode, and also leverages LG's wireless tech for 4K transmission.

OLED EVO TVs will deliver three times the brightness of conventional OLEDs. But it was the OLED T that turned heads, introducing a transparent-to opaque screen capability that will

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