- The Hisense L9Q offers 100 to 150 inches of 4K image
- Comes with a next-generation light-rejecting projection screen in 5 sizes
- Dolby Atmos/DTS:X support with 6.2.2 built-in speaker channels
Hisense has presented its new laser TV before CES 2025, called Hisense L9Q. Upgrading its previous L9 Laser TV model is all about making it bigger and better: specifically, increasing the projection size to 150 inches instead of 120 inches and adding a powerful new set of Dolby Atmos speakers to the projector.
If you’re not familiar with laser TVs, they’re basically ultra-short throw projectors with a few key spec tweaks to make them work more like the best TVs work, rather than the best projectors.
For example, home theater projectors often don’t have streaming or TV tuning technology built in, so they rely entirely on other boxes to provide content, but the Hisense L9Q not only has Google TV built in for streaming, it also It has an ATSC 3.0. tuner for broadcasts.
Laser TVs also tend to come with a matching projection screen, and the Hisense L9Q will come with an ambient light rejection (ALR) screen, which comes in five sizes: 100, 110, 120, 136, and 150 inches. ALR screens greatly increase the brightness of projector images by reflecting only the light you are supposed to see; I’ve written about the difference this type of projector screen makes to images before.
The L9Q will debut with Hisense’s next-generation ALR display with “nanoscale light enhancement” that promises to be able to deliver 1,500 nits of peak brightness when used with the L9Q or the Hisense PX3-Pro UST projector. This will put the brightness on par with the best OLED TVs, which will make things interesting.
But enough about the general concept of a laser TV, let’s get into the specifications and design of the new Hisense L9Q.
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The Hisense L9Q’s 4K laser projection is promised to be a lot brighter than its predecessor, offering a brightness of 5000 lumens, well above the 3000 lumens of the L9. On top of this, it will supposedly offer 110% of the BT.2020 color space, which is the same as claimed for the extremely impressive Hisense PX3-Pro, which we rate as the best ultra-short throw projector overall.
As I mentioned above, it has a built-in sound system, which Hisense describes as 6.2.2 channels and “ensures rich, multi-dimensional sound that rivals professional cinemas.” I’d approach that statement from Hisense with a fair bit of skepticism, given that I’ve seen this projector in person and while it’s a big beast, it’s nowhere near big enough to deliver “pro theater” sound, but it should hold up. even a good quality sound bar.
Hisense says there’s 116W of power in those 10 speakers and that the “15° tilted sound container, inspired by Roman amphitheatres, creates an immersive soundstage with Dolby Atmos [and] DTS VirtualX”, so maybe this is one for the classicists out there.
In a world where TVs are getting bigger, laser TVs can be a valuable way to get the scale of projectors in a package that’s easier to use and closer to the convenience of TVs, especially with this new brighter brightness. high. screen. Unfortunately, Hisense hasn’t announced a price or release date yet, so we won’t know exactly how good the new model is until later, although I suspect it will be quite premium. The company also announced a range of giant TVs made with more traditional display technology at CES 2025.
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