TCL’s display making division CSOT is set to debut a new HVA Pro LCD panel later this year that enhances its premium Mini-LED technology with higher brightness and better colours, while enabling significantly wider viewing angles.
Readers may recall that an earlier version of the new panels called WHVA was recently showcased by the company at a partner conference in November. Flatpanels HD says HVA Pro LCD (pictured, above) is an upgrade on that technology, and that CSOT plans to launch it later this year, so the panels could appear in premium TVs from TCL, Hisense, Samsung and other companies soon.
They’re said to be superior to traditional VA LCD panels, improving both the colour and contrast when viewed from wider angles, solving one of the major pain points associated with LCD displays. During last year’s event, TCL CSOT showcased an 85-inch display with a 150Hz refresh rate that could support viewing angles of up to 178 degrees, which is far better than any existing LCD panel.
But that’s not all, for Flatpanels HD said the HVA Pro panels expand the colour gamut to 88% of the BT2020 to 88%, while reducing reflections by 2% and reducing the bezel size to an incredibly slim 2.9 millimeters.
Flatpanels HD said it saw a 98-inch version of the HVA Pro panel at CES 2025, and described the colours as being especially “punchy”, approaching the quality of Samsung Display’s QD-OLED tech. It adds that the HVA Pro panel appears to pair WHVA with RGB Mini-LED backlight technology, though TCL CSOT did not confirm that is the case.
TCL, the parent company, showed off a number of RGB Mini-LED TV prototypes (below) at CES, saying it can achieve 92% coverage of the Rec.2020 colour gamut, with more than 10,000 local dimming zones to enhance contrast.
The TV maker didn’t say when it expects to launch its first RGB Mini-LED TV models, but its rival Hisense did. At CES, it announced the 116-inch Hisense TriChroma LED TV, which uses RBG Mini-LED tech, saying it will definitely be available to buy later this year. According to Hisense, it’s able to dim individual colours to achieve up to 97% coverage of the BT.2020 colour gamut, while reaching 10,000 nits of peak brightness. It’s all thanks to the “tens of thousands” of tiny RGB optical lenses integrated in the panel, Hisense said.
Most likely before we see TCL’s new HVA Pro LCD panels, we’ll see some more incremental upgrades to its existing Mini-LED LCD panels. At CES, TCL confirmed that it’s upgrading its mid-range Q-Series TVs, starting with the QM6K, with a refreshed Mini-LED display (below) that’s said to improve on contrast by reaching 98% coverage of the UHDA-P3 colour gamut.
It’s also getting a new Dynamic Light algorithm that will boost SDR content to HDR resolution, plus a novel “condensed dual-focus microlens” that’s able to deliver more focused and narrower light from each individual pixel to reduce on-screen artefacts.
The TCL QM6K TVs also get a newer, more energy-efficient chipset that will boost brightness by 53% compared to last year’s standard Mini-LED panels.
The upgraded Mini-LED panel will also feature in the upcoming TCL QM7K, which will be available in sizes of up to 115-inches, TCL said at CES.
