Depending on what you do with your computer, when you eventually make your way to a desk, there’s a good chance you also lean on a monitor. After all, your laptop is only so big, and if you use a desktop, you also need a monitor to do pretty much anything.
Monitors come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but typically range from big to very big, and with technologies covering LCD, OLED, and Mini-LED, with the latter two typically being the best you can find. But they also typically arrive from specific companies, including LG, Samsung, and Dell, to name a few.
One of the leading makers of TVs in the world is looking to add its screens to what you can find in Australia, as TCL brings its quantum dot Mini-LED variety locally.
For those playing along at home, Mini-LED is one of the current pieces of technology designed to improve colour and brightness by controlling clusters of miniature LEDs backlighting the screen. Think of it as little LEDs that light up behind the screen directly controlling backlighting and better supplying colour and contrast, while quantum dot is a type of crystal technology that hones the colour, giving it a more OLED-like purity of sorts.
Both technologies tend to be high-end, but essentially will give TCL something to play with in the high-end screen space, sitting on displays that clearly aren’t TVs, but are big enough to almost be them.
At the high-end, there’s TCL’s 32 inch R84, a $1599 monitor with quantum dots and Mini-LED boasting 1400 dimming zones, a 165Hz refresh rate for games and work, and a single USB cable that can also be plugged from monitor to laptop providing 65W of power to keep it charged.
That arrives on a 4K 3840×2160 display with 95 percent of the DCI-P3 colour gamut, and two stereo speakers, not that you’ll likely use them.
“We’ve taken everything we’ve learned building QD-Mini LED into our television range and applied it to a category purpose-built for gamers, and this is just the start of our push into premium gaming displays,” said Hawke Zhang, Managing Director for TCL Electronics in Australia and New Zealand.
Two other models will bring the same technology to a Quad-HD 2560×1440 resolution with fewer dimming zones and lower brightness, albeit a slightly faster 180Hz refresh rate. The 27 inch TCL G64 will cost $699 in Australia, while the 32 inch G64 is much the same in a slightly bigger size, priced a hundred more at $799.
And if you don’t need the quantum dots or the resolution bigger than Full HD, a 25 inch TCL G54 screen keeps the Mini-LED tech with a 144Hz refresh rate for $499, but without the extra colour enhancement quantum dots afford.
The range is heading to stores now, found in select stockists across the country.
