Twenty thousand dimming zones is the number I keep coming back to, not the ten thousand nits. Sitting in the same awards list, TCL's own 75C8L is quoted at 2,584 zones and Hisense's 100-inch RGB set at over 2,500, so the 98X11L is running something like eight times the zone count of its own stablemate. That is the part that would actually change what you see on screen, and it is the part that never makes the headline.
The 10,000-nit peak means very little until somebody says what window size it was measured on. A 1 or 2 percent window figure on a mini LED tells you the backlight can flash hard on a specular highlight for a fraction of a second. It does not tell you what the panel holds on a 10 percent window, and it says nothing at all about full field. I have watched sets advertised in four figures drop to a fraction of that the moment more than a sliver of the screen lights up, and no sustained numbers have been published here.
Everything else reads like the current flagship checklist: Super Quantum Dot panel, Ultra Colour filter, full BT.2020 coverage claimed, near-zero blooming claimed. No price, no availability, no independent measurements. For a 98-inch set that will cost whatever a small car costs, I am not forming an opinion until somebody with a meter has one in a dark room.
Has anyone actually stood in front of a 98X11L yet? And if so, did the near-zero blooming claim survive a starfield or white credits on black?
The 10,000-nit peak means very little until somebody says what window size it was measured on. A 1 or 2 percent window figure on a mini LED tells you the backlight can flash hard on a specular highlight for a fraction of a second. It does not tell you what the panel holds on a 10 percent window, and it says nothing at all about full field. I have watched sets advertised in four figures drop to a fraction of that the moment more than a sliver of the screen lights up, and no sustained numbers have been published here.
Everything else reads like the current flagship checklist: Super Quantum Dot panel, Ultra Colour filter, full BT.2020 coverage claimed, near-zero blooming claimed. No price, no availability, no independent measurements. For a 98-inch set that will cost whatever a small car costs, I am not forming an opinion until somebody with a meter has one in a dark room.
Has anyone actually stood in front of a 98X11L yet? And if so, did the near-zero blooming claim survive a starfield or white credits on black?
