- 98-inch, 5,200-nit mini-LED with nearly 4,000 dimming zones
- 7-speaker audio system and gaming at up to 330Hz
- Around $2,250 (but it’ll cost much more elsewhere)
Xiaomi appears to have achieved something incredible: a very high-spec 98-inch mini-LED TV with a very low price.
As spotted by Notebookcheck.net, the 2026 TV S Pro Mini LED Series appears to offer a similar kind of spec to the highly advanced TCL QM9K – and it’s doing it at a price even lower than that of the much more affordable, mid-range TCL QM7K.
In the US, the TCL QM7K is $4,999 for the 98-inch model (though has dropped to around half that in savings events) – and the flagship QM9K is $5,999. But the new Xiaomi 98-inch mini-LED is on sale in China for just￥15,999. That’s roughly $2,250.
I’d take that price with an enormous pinch of salt – not because it isn’t real, but because what TVs sell for in China isn’t what they sell for when shipping, overheads and of course tariffs are applied in markets such as the US. But it’s still an exceptionally low price for such a large TV, especially given the reported specification.
Xiaomi 2026 TV S Pro Mini LED: key features
The new TV has a peak brightness of up to 5,700 nits with 3,864 dimming zones and a refresh rate of 165Hz for 4K content. But for gamers, it can display lower resolutions at a whopping 330Hz, making it an interesting competitor to the best gaming monitors – so fast that many gaming PCs would struggle to output at that rate.
Other gamer-friendly features include VRR and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro.
The 2026 model has Dolby Vision and HDR10+, three HDMI 2.1 ports, and both USB 2 and 3 ports. And it comes with a remote that looks very like the one you get with an Apple TV 4K. There’s Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 for wireless connectivity.
There’s a seven-speaker audio system with Harman AudioEFX, version 3 of Xiaomi’s HyperOS, and the same XM9000 chip we saw in the 2025 model range. And the promotional images show a Samsung-style photo mode that turns your TV into an attractive photo frame.
You can see the (Chinese) product page here, and it all looks very impressive. What we don’t know yet is whether this TV will come to other markets to challenge the best TVs – Xiaomi has starting launching TVs in western counties, though, so it’s possible. If it does, the really interesting part will be how much the price differs from what’s being charged in China.
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