- 98-inch, 5,200 nits mini-LED with nearly 4,000 dimming zones
- 7-speaker audio system and games up to 330 Hz
- About $2,250 (but it will cost a lot more elsewhere)
Xiaomi seems to have achieved something incredible: a very high quality 98-inch mini-LED TV at a very low price.
As spotted by Notebookcheck.net, the 2026 TV S Pro Mini LED Series appears to offer a similar type of spec to the highly advanced TCL QM9K – and it does so at an even lower price than the much more affordable mid-range TCL QM7K.
In the US, the TCL QM7K costs $4,999 for the 98-inch model (although it’s dropped to about half that price during savings events) – and the flagship QM9K costs $5,999. But the new Xiaomi 98-inch mini LED is on sale in China for just ￥15,999. That’s about $2,250.
I would take this price with a huge pinch of salt – not because it isn’t real, but because the price TVs sell for in China is not what they sell for when shipping, overhead and of course tariffs are applied in markets like the US. But that’s still an exceptionally low price for such a large TV, especially given the advertised specs.
Xiaomi 2026 TV S Pro Mini LED: main features
The new TV has a peak brightness of up to 5,700 nits with 3,864 dimming zones and a 165Hz refresh rate for 4K content. But for gamers, it can display resolutions below 330Hz, making it an interesting contender for the best gaming monitors – so fast that many gaming PCs would struggle to produce 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 USB ports 2 and 3. And it comes with a remote that looks a lot like the one you get with an Apple TV 4K. There is 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 promotional images show a Samsung-style photo mode that turns your TV into a pretty picture 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 make it to other markets to compete with the best TVs. Xiaomi has, however, started launching TVs in Western countries, so it is possible. If so, the really interesting part will be how much the price differs from what is charged in China.
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