For as long as we've had film, we've had an interest in producing images for movies and television shows that display lifelike color. Early efforts to capture true-to-life color accuracy included dye processes popularized in films as far back as the 1930s. However, with the rise of 21st-century digital cameras and editing technologies, we've been able to capture lifelike color and broadcast it directly into viewers' homes.
There’s just one problem: Your TV may not be reproducing that color as accurately as it was captured. Most in-home television sets, whether budget-friendly or high-end, use a single backlight that's filtered into the colors ultimately displayed on the screen. Many displays start with a blue or white light, resulting in a significant loss of color accuracy by the time the displayed color is filtered onto your screen. Many displays across all price points can have significant drops in color accuracy when more colorful images are on screen. It’s entirely possible that once a broadcast makes its way into your home, the colors you see are significantly different from what was intended.
You may be wondering why that matters, but color is an important storytelling element. A sad scene can be emphasized with dull colors — gray skies and dull blue hues — highlighting the emotional impact of what we’re viewing. Color evokes emotion and heightens our viewing experience. A joyful scene in your favorite movie, in which bright colors might evoke feelings of happiness, can lose its sparkle if all the colors are dulled by your TV's filtering process.
Some TV manufacturers are pushing modern television technology forward with improved color rendering. Hisense, for example, has spent nearly a decade innovating for better color output on home televisions, including early work on Tricroma laser TV technology. One notable solution to improving your TV's color display is the arrival of RGB MiniLEDs. These new displays utilize thousands of individual red, green, and blue light sources and use those sources to build your display’s color from the three primaries without filtering any light, making your colors appear more lifelike and less dull or muddy.
Hisense has put a lot of effort into understanding the science behind color and television displays, so it's no surprise that the brand was the first to bring RGB MiniLED technology to market. The flagship UR9 from Hisense offers a premium viewing experience using RGB MiniLED technology to show rich, deep blacks and a more vivid display that goes beyond rich color. RGB MiniLED televisions, such as the UR9 and its more attainable counterpart, UR8 from Hisense, offer depth and texture that make your favorite entertainment come to life in a brand-new way.
Both the Hisense UR8 and UR9 televisions utilize three individual red, green, and blue lights that work independently to create color, achieving up to 100% of BT.2020 color coverage. Hisense has paired this RGB MiniLED technology with its powerful processing systems to create smart TVs that enhance image output by reading the display and making necessary color corrections in real time to ensure you have the best picture possible without even touching the settings button. Even in bright daylight, the ultra-low-reflection Obsidian panels used for these televisions offer consistently clear pictures without glare distracting you from what’s happening on screen. The Hisense UR9 and UR8 family of RGB MiniLEDs is designed to stay smooth and sharp without blurring while being easier on the eyes even during longer viewing sessions.
For most of us, the television is the largest screen in the house. We gather around to watch important news unfold, spend quality time with loved ones sharing entertainment and lose ourselves in immersive stories. Despite its central place in our homes and daily lives, we rarely consider updating our TVs until something goes wrong. Televisions tend to be long-term investments that we hang onto even as the technology within them becomes dated. We think little of updating the other screens in our lives when new features become available. Maybe it’s time we see televisions as the technological centerpieces of our homes that they are and give them the upgrade to the RGB MiniLED display we deserve.
