In September last year, Philips’ senior director of product strategy and planning, Danny Tack, told What Hi-Fi? that Micro LED belonged more in the lab than in the home, but a fresh conversation with him this week suggested that he very much considers it to be the flagship TV tech of the future.
I started by asking him whether he thought Mini LED has much of a future when OLED TVs can now hit 3000 nits of brightness, as is the case with his brand’s new OLED+909 and OLED+959 models. He pointed out that while some brands might be taking essentially a dual-flagship TV approach, with a Mini LED model on one side and an OLED on the other, Philips has a clear hierarchy, with OLED at the top, Mini LED in the middle, and standard LCD/LED below. But he then went on to talk about the next step in TV tech:
