First announced at CES 2025 in January, the 136" true micro-LED TV, advertised with 10000 nits peak brightness, is now available to buy in the US for $100,000.
Unlike miniLED and RGB LED LCD, micro-LED is a self-emitting display technology like OLED. It fully eliminates the need for an LCD panel since its LEDs are small enough to function as individual sub-pixels.
In other words, a 4K-resolution micro-LED TV has a total of 24.88 million microLED subpixels, divided equally among red, green, and blue (3840×2160×3 = 24,883,200).
At CES 2026, Hisense also exhibited larger and smaller micro-LED TVs. Photo: FlatpanelsHDStill very expensive
MicroLED displays remain very expensive even after all this time. We have previously seen Samsung's 110" micro-LED launch for around $155,000 and a 89" launch for $100,000. TCL's 163" micro-LED costs around $110,000 and LG's 136" micro-LED an eye-watering $300,000.
We would not call Hisense's 136" micro-LED TV (136MX) cheap in comparison but it is slightly less expensive at $100,000 in 136 inches. It is sold in the US via specialty dealers.
At CES, Hisense said that the TV delivers 95% of the BT.2020 color space and up to 10,000 nits peak brightness, with a 1,000,000:1 native contrast ratio. It features 120Hz, VRR, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, 3x HDMI 2.1, Filmmaker Mode, Vidaa OS, and more.
Micro-LED was once touted as an OLED rival, but eight years after Samsung unveiled The Wall, the industry is still struggling to bring production costs down.
