Last year, Xiaomi launched its largest smart TV ever called Redmi Smart TV MAX 98”.  Almost a year later, the company has now started teasing another such model. This television is said to be announced at the Redmi K40 series launch event, which is scheduled for February 25.

Xiaomi’s official smart TV Weibo account posted a teaser for the upcoming Redmi MAX TV. In the post, the company asks netizens to guess the size of the newer model to win a Bluetooth speaker. 

So far, the company has not revealed any highlights of this TV. The firm has only hinted that the forthcoming Redmi MAX TV will be ‘so big that it almost can’t get into the elevator’.

For those unaware, the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98” released in 2020 is Xiaomi’s largest television till now. As the name suggests, this television flaunts a 98-inch LED-backlit LCD panel with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels (4K) and a 60Hz refresh rate. The screen has a 178° viewing angle, 98.8% screen-to-body ratio, and supports 85% of the NTSC color gamut.

It is powered by an Amlogic T972 SoC paired with 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage. On the connectivity front, the TV comes with dual-band WiFi, Bluetooth, Infrared, 3 x HDMI (one of them is ARC compatible), AV composite, DTMB port, 2 x USB, Ethernet, and S/PDIF.

Other features of this TV include 2 x 8W speakers, Dolby Audio, DTS-HD, HDR, MEMC, Xiao AI voice assistant, and PatchWall content aggregation service. The product debuted for ¥19,999 and it is still listed at the same price on Mi.com.

Because of its sheer size, the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98” was only available online for a long time. It finally hit a single offline store in December 2020. This television is difficult to manufacture and its installation requires a specially trained workforce.

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Xiaomi announced the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98-inch back in March in China. This is the company’s Biggest TV by-far in the country. After multiple sales across its online channels, Xiaomi is finally ready to let users experience the 98-inch madness in a store and buy it offline.

As Mydrivers reports, Xiaomi‘s Mi Home Weibo has shared an official post regarding the arrival of the TV. Accordingly, Xiaomi will open a new Mi Shenyang Changbai Wanxianghui store on December 12 in China. The Mi Home store will be located in Shenyang city, northeast Liaoning Province of the country. Anyway, at the launch, the company says it will unveil the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98-inch for the first time in an offline store.

If you recall, the company, despite announcing the TV two weeks back, launched the 98-inch TV only on 9th April, 2020 in China. Priced at 19,999 yuan($3054), the TV was available for sale online via Xiaomi Mall and official website. Now, after about eight-months of sale, the company seems to be bringing it to the offline market as well.

That said, the improvement in sales could have made the company push it for the offline segment. To be precise, the company first sold over 1,500 units in less than 11 hours back in June. Later, it followed this trend with another 1,600 unit sales in a single day. Having said that, we need to wait and see how Xiaomi manages to attract the offline audience to buy this humongous TV.

Coming back, Xiaomi says the new Store will also include gifts for people who buy the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98-inch. One such is the Redmi Note 9 as per the company’s post. However, it’s unclear if the gift will be a 4G or one of the 5G versions. Additionally, there are other surprise gifts as well but they are supposed to be limited.

The Redmi Smart TV MAX 98-inch is as tall as the company’s founder Lei Jun. The TV is huge and complex to build as well. Consequently, installing the TV at your home also requires a special professional team. Some of the notable features include a 98-inch 4K UHD display panel(LCD) that has 85% NTSC color gamut, 192 dynamic backlight zones, MEMC motion compensation, custom Amlogic T972 SoC with 4GB RAM, 64GB storage, and more image quality tuning technology.

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Xiaomi has today released a sales report related to the company’s 10th anniversary sale season. In the report, the company reveals that it managed to sell more than 1,660 units of the Redmi Smart TV Max 98.

Making the announcement on Weibo, the company said that “the 98-inch TV models sold less than 100 units per month in the market but now Redmi sold more than 1,000 units in a single day.” The company believes that it has now managed to popularize the big-screen Smart TVs and has facilitated people to have high-end big-screen TV in their homes.

The numbers posted by Xiaomi are quite impressive given that almost a 100-inch TV is a new category and now many people are interested in having such as massive-sized TV in their homes nor many have the facility for this. Even if they want, not everyone is ready to shell out the money.

The Redmi Smart TV Max 98 costs 19,999 Yuan, which roughly converts to around $2,825, which is comparatively less than what other companies in this same segment charges. Thus, the pricing could a major factor behind such demand for the 98-inch TV from Xiaomi.

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For those who are unaware, the Redmi Smart YV Max 98, announced in March, comes with a 98-inch 4K UHD display panel, having 85 percent NTSC, 192 dynamic backlight zones, MEMC motion compensation, and more image quality tuning technology

It is powered by a custom 12nm processor along with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. The company is also offering a special one-to-one professional customer care service with this new TV, which includes pre-sales, site survey, installation plans, a special delivery vehicle, and a professional installation team.

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In late March, Redmi announced its largest TV dubbed as Redmi Smart TV MAX 98. This television went on sale many times since its release. But yesterday, it likely broke the sales record for the 100-inch TV segment in China as per a brand official on Weibo. According to him, they sold more than 1,500 units in less than 11 hours.

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As per Xiaomi’s data, it sold above 1000 units of Redmi Smart TV MAX 98 in just 3 minutes and 28 seconds on Xiaomi Mall (Mi.com). In total, the brand sold 1,500+ units in 10 hours, 32 minutes and 18 seconds across all channels on June 25.

Lin Faqiang, the director of Xiaomi & Redmi TV operations in China says their product likely set a new industry record. But there’s no other data to prove the claim and hence he mentions it as a probability.

Having said that, the 100-inch TV segment is a new category and there are very few customers who would be interested in buying such a massive-sized television. Even people who would like to get it will have to shell a pile of cash.

But the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98 costs only 19,999 Yuan ($2,825), which is comparatively less than other options. This could be the sole reason why the brand managed to sell these many units.

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Earlier today (12th May 2020), Wang Ziru, the founder of ZEALER (a firm that evaluates and reviews electronics products), shared a video on his official Weibo account. On the popular Chinese microblogging profile, Wang shared a video that revealed how Redmi installed its monstrous 98 inch Smart TV Max.

In the video, it can be observed that you need a dedicated logistics team and labor just to get the massive TV to ones’ doorstep. The delivery for this particular product is specially delivered and installed by trained professionals and not just simply shipped to a customer. A small truck arrives with about 4 or more employees that have to first check whether or not the large Redmi Smart TV Max 98 inch can even fit the elevator. If not, then they will be carrying it to houses in a tall storied building via the stairs.

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Interestingly, Redmi will also be compensating for any damages done to the house or building while delivering the TV and will also have a team to pick up the orders in the case of returns or repairs. For those unaware, the Redmi Smart TV Max 98 inch is currently the largest TV ever made by the Chinese company. It can even be defined as a small home theatre screen with a high display to body ratio of 98.8 percent.

Just its size can be enough of a hassle during shipping and even installation. The video shared by Wang Ziru all but confirms the hassle just to get the Smart TV Max 98 inch even to customers’ doors. Fortunately, Redmi has taken various steps to ensure that the process is mostly taken care of. Generally, installing smart TVs is only a one or maybe a two-man job, but the 98-inch behemoth takes more than twice that amount all thanks to its large size.

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Earlier today (9th April 2020), Redmi Smart TV MAX 98 inch officially went on sale. It is priced at 19,999 Yuan (2,833 US Dollars) and features a massive 98 inch 4K display with dynamic backlighting, MEMC compensation, XiaoAI voice assistant and also be linked between other smart IoT devices. Now, Xiaomi has also released the official factory video that shows the massive TV being manufactured through the official Redmi Smart TV’s Weibo account.

Looking at the video, the Redmi Smart MAX TV 98 inch screen is an LCD panel, which is made from the only fully automated LCD production line in the world. Notably, the space required for the manufacturing process is about 10 times larger than that of conventional TVs and is more complicated as well. In terms of sheer size, the Redmi Smart MAX TV 98 inch stands at a tall 1.2 meters height in length, making it akin to a ping pong table when laid flat.

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Despite its size, the Chinese tech giant has paid extra focus on each display zone of the massive TV. To ensure the reduction of the bleeding effect and other issues that plague large LCD panels, Redmi has a dedicated processor chip, which is custom made, and handles all the 192 partition dynamic backlight and other image improvement technologies. Its NTSC wide color gamut sits in at 85 percent while its dynamic contrast ratio is 140,000:1.

Additionally, it features MEMC motion compensation technolgo as well, which effectively solves problems like jittering, tailing and ghosting of moving pictures. The Redmi Smart TV MAX 98 inch also supports PatchWall and features the XiaoAI voice assistant too. It is capable of smart interlinking, connecting to other IoT device in a home.

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Earlier this week, Lei Jun, the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Xiaomi Group, shared a picture online. The image depicted the senior executive alongside the new Redmi Smart TV MAX 98 inch. This showcased the massive size of the large TV and served as Lei Jun himself stood next to it as a reference of its height.

According to Lei Jun, the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98 inch has been placed in the lobby of the office and due to its large size, it garners attention and looks spectacular at first glance. Thus, he also posed next to the TV to showcase its massive size. Reportedly, the Redmi Smart TV MAX 98 inch has a height of 1255mm (excluding the base). The post was shared on Lei Jun’s official Weibo account, a Chinese microblogging website.

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This makes the new Redmi Smart TV MAX 98 inch the largest TV from the Xiaomi subsidiary, and it has been appropriately dubbed as the “theatre screen” with its large screen ratio of 98.8 percent. The TV sports a 4K resolution with 85 percent NTSC wide color gamut, 192 dynamic backlights, HDR support and is equipped with the ninth generation of image quality engine, which enables various improvements in the viewing experience.

Furthermore, the new Redmi Smart TV also features the MEMC motion compensation which solves smearing, jittering, and ghosting effects when watching high speed motion pictures on the giant screen. It even houses a custom 12nm quad core A55 processor along with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage with built in Xiao AI voice assistant as well. Due to its massive scale, it is priced high as well, with a price of 19,999 Yuan or roughly 2819 US Dollars.

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During the Redmi K30 Pro launch event, the Xiaomi subsidiary announced a few other products as well. However, amongst the others, one stood out in particular, which is the Redmi Smart TV Max 98 inch. As the name suggests its a TV with a massive screen real estate and is priced at a whopping 19,999 Yuan (or roughly 2825 US Dollars)

Specs and Features

The Redmi Smart TV Max features 4K UHD resolution on its 98 inch screen, which is apparently 13.6 percent bigger than a standard 1.2 meter single mattress bed or closer to the size of a table tennis board. It sports 85 percent NTSC alongside 192 dynamic backlight zones, MEMC motion compensation and more image quality tuning technology. Under the hood, a custom 12nm processor is housed with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage.

Previously, Lu Weibing, General Manager of Redmi, had stated that only 82 units of the previous 98 inch TV generation were sold. The reason for this was due to varying consumer obstacles like high prices along with a complicated installation process being the other reason.

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Thus, the company also promises a new one stop exclusive VIP delivery service to buyers of the Smart TV Max 98 inch. The service will include pre sales communication, site survey, installation plans, a special delivery car from the TV, a professional team for the delivery and installation. Buyers will also be offered a 1 on 1 professional customer care service as well.

Price and Availability

The Redmi Smart TV Max 98 inch will be available in the Xiaomi Mall and Xiaomi Home and will launch around 10 am on 9th April 2020. The pricing of the large TV is at 19,999 Yuan which roughly translates to about 2825 US Dollars.

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