now that the dust and hype of CES is settled let's talk about the
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
just never change CES is a hype Fest that that's just what it is all the shiny new
gear and especially the TVs are very exciting in the moment and I think we love that about
CES that show is not the right time for me to try and be pragmatic I can barely
manage to keep up with all the model numbers and associated specs as I shoot video live from the
show floor but now now we can be a little more pragmatic we can take some time to have a chat
about which TVs are the most exciting and the less emotionally charged reasons why why they
are exciting in some cases it's because they are borderline controversial you know for as
controversial as a TV can be anyway also stick around to the end because I've got
a couple of bonus entries I'm excited to share with you okay let's hit this list
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
TV properly known as the LG Signature OLED T but I'm not don't get me wrong that TV is ridiculously
cool and I hope I get to spend some quality time with it but for as cool as it is that is the kind
of specialty TV that only a handful of wealthy folks are going to buy so exciting yes totally
will I review it I sure hope so but I want to keep focused on TVs that you out there watching
right now are likely to buy and I don't see the OLED T being one of them okay I guess I actually
did start with that one after all didn't I I digress what I really want to focus on are the
LG G4 Gallery Series OLED and its Wireless partner in crime the OLED M essentially the same TV from
a picture performance perspective it's just that the OLED M happens to come with LG zero connect
box and has an ever so slightly different form factor because of it the new LG G4 is exciting
because it has the latest gen MLA or micro lens array wed panel in it now I don't expect
a revolutionary increase in brightness here but I do think that because this new MLA panel is a
bit more efficient There's an opportunity for LG to bump up the average Picture level just a
bit leading to higher overall brightness and maybe take their foot off the gas with their protective
auto brightness limiter I'm also excited to see how LG's new Alpha 11 processor improves some key
picture quality factors like upscaling and clean up of low bit rate and bit depth starved streaming
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
Sony's awesome processing let's see how close or maybe just how different LG's latest processor
looks in comparison that alone is going to make OLED TV reviews this year super fun now I'm not
discounting LG C4 OLED here I think it could be a strong competitor this year but I'm trying to
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
Look event was dizzying in its scope Samsung had so much to see there it was hard to rep my brain
around it all but also Samsung was definitely spending more effort hyping up its latest top
tier OLED TV the S95D as well as its futuristic transparent micro Led Tech than it was most of
its other TVs I want to be super excited for the latest crop of Samsung Neo CED TVs and indeed I
think there are going to be some interesting software features built in but from a picture
quality performance aspect I don't know how much of a Leap Forward they're going to be over the
2024 models could be a lot I just don't feel like they talked about it a lot we'll find out but if
we want to talk excitement we have to talk about two main products from Samsung the first is the
new S95D OLED there are two notable changes for this TV in 2024 one it's going to have Samsung
displays more efficient and slightly brighter QD OLED panel that's the Gen 3 panel and two This TV
has a new anti-glare implementation that I think is going to be very polarizing for TV enthusiasts
and if you didn't see that obvious pun coming from me well you don't know me very well well
do you now I don't expect the S95D to be notably brighter than the S95C any more than I expect
the LG G4 OLED to be notably brighter than the LG G3 I think to detect any brightness changes we'd
have to stick the S95D right next to the S95C and even then I think you'd really have to look hard
for the brightness differences and we will do that here I'll be sticking the S95D right next
to the S95C on this channel Smack That subscribe button so you don't miss it but the real reason
I'm interested in comparing this year's Flagship Samsung OLED against last year's Flagship is to
see the net effect of the new anti-glare Tech that they've implemented in this new S95D and
you may be surprised to know that it isn't to validate the effectiveness of this anti-glare I
can tell you right now it is extremely effective like otherworldly good no I think we need to see
what tradeoffs if if any are made with this new anti-glare implementation some folks already hate
the idea that the S95D may be less glossy and it would be fair to be concerned it may not appear
to have specular HDR highlights as intense as the S95C since anti-glare almost always causes dimming
of the picture just ever so slightly but I'm optimistic that the slightly brighter third gen
QD-OLED panel might make up for any drop off and brightness caused by the new anti-glare treatment
yet still we need to talk about whether the lack of the glossy screen is really a liability and we
want to see if the screen itself in full light appears to be closer to pitch black I think a
big part of the reason Samsung has done this is because some folks were not fans of the fact that
the QD-OLEDs blacks could appear gray in a light soaked room I think that what's going to happen
is that folks who need that anti-glare because they watch and bright rooms a lot will want the
S95D and for anyone who wants the glossy screen and isn't concerned about a grayish panel or
anti-glare because they usually watch in a light controlled room anyway they'll want the s90d which
will be less expensive still I do expect some folks to be very vocal about not having an option
for a glossy screen in the S95D never mind that it makes no sense to offer two different skews of the
same model the other Samsung TV I think we need to watch out for is the 75 in version of Samsung's
micro LED TV Samsung has not promised that this will be for sure a model that you can buy in
2024 but I have a feeling it could very well be if it is we are going to have a ball testing it out
jury still out on how expensive it might be though still this is the most normal person size of this
new display Tech and if it becomes a consumer level television that's exciting and I think
a very big deal next in order would be Hisense there are three Hisense TVs I'm excited for the
most obvious is the 110in UX though perhaps not for the reasons you might think I'll get to that
and the other two are the U8N and the U7N so let's start with those last two the U7N looks a lot like
2023 is U8K and if I'm no Hisense that means you'll be able to get U8 performance this year
for last year's U7 prices that just that would shift Hisense's value proposition into overdrive
but the U8N I mean this may be the TV to beat this year I suspect we'll have to compare it to
Samsung's QN90D and TCL's QM8 and whatever Sony comes out with which I'm getting to shortly but
also we can't talk about Hisense's 2024 TV lineup without talking about the monstrous 110in UX model
which promises 10,000 nits Peak brightness with some 40,000 local dimming zones for its mini LED
backlight array now let's toss aside that Hisense is clearly in a Specs war with its chief rival TCL
and just focus in on those numbers 10,000 nits is a lot 40,000 zones is a lot those numbers
sound very exciting but what I'm really excited to see is how Hisense handles all that power
specifically I want to see how Hisense's high view picture processor handles the incredible demand of
40,000 local dimming zones I want to know how it handles upscaling content to look good on such a
huge screen and perhaps most importantly how is Hisense going to handle the ability to get up to
10,000 nits now we know that Peak brightness will only be achieved in very very small highlights but
what about the brightness range leading up to that how will Hisense map the TV's brightness when it
well exceeds any HDR content that's available for us to watch today at best we can get a few
titles that have been mastered at 4,000 nits how's hense going to choose to display that
content with a TV that can go so far beyond the source materials information now if you recall
from my 85in UX review Hisenses processing was the weakest link in that TV now the stakes are
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
QM89 the latter of which is TCL's monster 115in TV the largest direct View tv to ship to the us
as far as I know capable of 5,000 nits of peak brightness with over 20,000 dimming zones I mean
first of all I got to wonder will TCL ship me a 115 in TV what will that look like here that
alone is exciting for me at least and I think you're going to love seeing it too but also how
will TCL handle those 5,000 nits how good is the control over those 20,000 zones that's half the
brightness and half the zones Hisense is claiming for its Flagship but in a bigger TV now honestly
I don't expect there to be a big performance Gulf between the TCL QM89 and the Hisense UX
so that conversation about how specs don't tell the whole story I don't know that there's ever
been a better example on display for that argument at least that's what I'm suspecting but most of my
excitement is over getting to find out if you haven't figured it out already we're going to
be talking a lot about peak brightness dimming zones and the use of mini LED this year and TCL
and Hisense are going to be at the forefront of that conversation but frankly I think the TCL qm8
is the real TV to watch this year from TCL and seeing it do battle against the Hisense U8N is
going to be a treat real quick in the comments let me know which one you think is going to win
the TCL QM8 or the Hisense U8N we'll circle back later this year and see how good we were
at that [Music] prediction next up is a TV we did not see at CES in fact we haven't seen it
at all technically it doesn't exist it doesn't have a firm model number either actually we only
know of its potential existence thanks to a special trip I made to Tokyo I am of course
speaking of what ever Sony's Flagship mini LED TV will be in 2024 now I don't think Sony is
going to break any nits records or local dimming Zone count records and I don't think it needs to
with Sony's processing and their new backlight Tech I think this Flagship mini LED TV from Sony
is going to be the toast of 2024 that's a bold prediction I know it but I'm 100% comfortable
with it the question is is this the mini LED TV 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
I'm holding on to some optimism about its new Pro Series that it announced just before CES
I really hope that that is a super competitive TV especially for Roku's sake now as promised
I've got a couple of bonuses to share I know they aren't TVs but they're TV adjacent so let's just
go with it first SVS has a new flagship speaker lineup called Ultra Evolution now I didn't get
Chris and Zeke out to SVS's booth with me so my iPhone footage is about the best we
can do here but I am telling you these have all the makings of a game changing speaker lineup I
can't wait to get some in and review them both from the audio file perspective as well as the
home theater perspective then and I think this is a pretty big one Dolby Flex Connect now I
have a full report on it coming out soon that I don't think you're going to want to miss I
think we're going to see this tech implemented in some Hisense and TCL TVs this year and I'm
stoked to see how it's implemented this year but it's really where uh it's going in the future
that I'm most excited about I will say right now that it has some pretty awesome potential though
that's my list thanks as always for watching everyone what did I miss was there a TV shown
at CES that you think I should have included let's talk about it down in the comments while
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