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TCL's X11L targets color accuracy with Micro RGB and SQD Mini LED tech.
20,000 dimming zones and 10,000 nits push premium brightness and contrast.
A Bang & Olufsen soundbar and Google TV add flagship appeal.
This year's CES is indisputably the Micro RGB show. Virtually every major TV manufacturer is incorporating the tri-colored pixel technology, as if the transparent TVs from last year are no longer cutting-edge. TCL has other plans.
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The brand's new crown jewel TV of 2026 is the X11L, which features TCL's Super Quantum Dot (SQD) Mini LED panel, for which the company claims achieves 100 percent of the BT2020 color gamut. This is accomplished by pairing the SQD layer with a CSOT UltraColor Filter, as well as an Advanced Color Purity Algorithm.
If that assembly of tech jargon doesn't tell you it's CES (or that TCL means business), then I don't know what will.
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