This week didn’t only see Xiaomi launch the impressive looking Mi10 Ultra, but they have also made people sit up and notice with the launch of their transparent OLED TV. When the TV is turned off, it simply looks like a normal panel of glass.
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The new OLED panel was announced during the company’s 10-year anniversary launch event, and is called the Mi TV LUX OLED Transparent Edition. All of the processing and other electronics is housed in its circular base that sits behind the display. But the party piece is the transparent OLED technology (TOLED).
The technology has already been standardised, believe it or not, and the Universal Display Corporation outlines how it works. The TOLED screens use transparent components all the way through the stack that makes up the screen. There is no need for backlighting either – a staple of the OLED variety of displays – which means that images can look like they are floating in the air. This display doesn’t include the reflective cathode layer that most OLED screens have (they wouldn’t be see-through even without the casing).
The transparent TV is 55-inches in size with 150000:1 static contrast ratio and an infinite dynamic contrast ratio. It also has the 120Hz fast refresh rate we’ve come to expect from high-end displays, and it covers 93% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut with a 1ms response time. It runs on MediaTek chipsets, and includes Dolby Atmos support in the base as well.
The press images will always depict the best it can possible look like, of course, so we would need to get our eyes on it to see if the quality is as good as Xiaomi claims.
As you would expect from a new segment of the industry, it doesn’t come cheap. It will go on sale in China on the 16th of August for the equivalent of R125,000.
