What just happened? TCL is expanding its line of televisions featuring integrated Google Idiot box with a model that is as impressive as it is expensive. The TCL X9 is not simply 85-inches simply also features mini-LED tech and an 8K HDR resolution. Unfortunately, the $nine,999 price puts information technology out of range for well-nigh people.

TCL unveiled its Google TV models final calendar month. It has at present expanded the line with the X9, part of its XL Collection of sets measuring 80-inches and over. In addition to featuring mini-LED backlights, it uses "OD Zip" technology, the zero part representing the 0mm altitude betwixt the backlight layer and the LCD display layer. This allows for an incredibly slim build, and one with barely visible bezels. TCL notes that the X9 is its thinnest QLED Idiot box to date.

The television also comes with a resolution that reaches upward to 8K. Viewing something in 33 one thousand thousand pixels sounds compelling, though there's all the same very little content bachelor in that native resolution.

TCL writes that the picture is enhanced by its machine learning-powered AiPQ Engine technology, which dynamically adjusts color, contrast, and clarity for the best possible 8K HDR experience—it supports Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, and HLG.

With the TCL X9 beingness so thin, the visitor includes Onkyo-tuned drivers inside a split up 5.1.2 soundbar. The Tv set also has a congenital-in photographic camera for total-screen Google Duo video calls, and information technology covers 100% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut.

"The 85" OD Zero mini-LED TV also boasts TCL's Contrast Control Zones engineering science which optimizes the image beyond individual zones to yield striking dissimilarity between calorie-free and dark areas," TCL writes.

Gamers, meanwhile, should appreciate the X9's low latency, Variable Refresh Rate, and Auto Game Mode features, too every bit two (out of 4) HDMI two.ane ports and one eARC.

All this impressive tech does come at a high price: the TCL will cost only a dollar under $10,000 when it arrives in the US after this year. But that's in line with many big-screen 8K sets from other manufacturers.