HKC M10 Ultra Announced with the World’s First RGB-Mini LED Backlight

HKC (HKC Technology) have recently announced the upcoming launch of their M10 Ultra monitor, the World’s first to feature an RGB-Mini LED backlight which offers a range of new capabilities and some potentially impressive performance if it can live up to the specs. According to the information shared by HKC, this new monitor will be 32″ in size (accurately 31.4″) and will offer a 3840 x 2160 “4K” resolution, a 165Hz native refresh rate and a dual-mode function that can support 1080p at 330Hz as well.

RGB-Mini LED Backlight Explained

Unlike traditional Mini LEDs, RGB-Mini LEDs do not use a single white or blue LED as a backlight. Instead, they directly integrate Mini LED chips of the three primary colours, red, blue and green, into the backlight module. This means that when the screen needs to display red, the backlight system only needs to light up the red light chip, without having to obtain red through white light passing through a colour filter. This can in theory help avoid the light energy loss and colour crosstalk problems caused by filtering in traditional solutions. It can also help with colour gamut and range.

The screen uses a total of 4,788 independent light control zones and independent control algorithms for the three RGB colours. This would mean the equivalent of a 1,596-zone traditional Mini LED backlight, just split in to the three colour chips for each zone. This should offer very good local dimming capabilities which will help reduce halos and blooming.

HDR and Colour Capabilities

The peak brightness of the panel is 1600 nits, with 1000 nits possible at 100% APL (full screen white). It’s expected to meet the VESA DisplayHDR 1400 tier as a result. It also has four built-in ultra-high definition HDR (PQ / HLG) colour curves, which can be adapted to various HDR colour grading work of TV stations and professional media video editors.

Because of the RGB-Mini LED backlight, HKC say that the screen can support 100% coverage of sRGB, DCI-P3, Adobe RGB and even >98% Rec.2020, which would easily make it the highest Rec.2020 coverage we’ve seen to date if that is achieved. Some sources even suggest 100% coverage of Rec.2020 although the slide from HKC suggests “>98%” if we’re being precise.

HKC M10 Ultra Specs

The screen is 31.4″ in size (32″ class) with a 3840 x 2160 “4K” resolution. Importantly at this time there doesn’t seem to be any confirmation of the LCD panel type being used, whether that’s an IPS-type or VA-type.

The 165Hz refresh rate will be supported by adaptive-sync for VRR from compatible systems. There’s also a dual-mode function which allows you to double your refresh rate to 330Hz, when dropping to a lower 1080p resolution if you want to for certain gaming situations.

ithome.com state that the screen “can simultaneously run DIC 2.0+FREESYNC” which suggests that it will perhaps offer a strobing blur reduction backlight mode, that can be run at the same time as VRR. More detail and confirmation of this are pending.

There is also support for hardware-level calibration to configure the screen’s 3D LUT, and apparently it will support various third-party professional software applications, although which ones are not listed at this time. Screen coating remains unclear at this time, with some sources suggesting a standard matte anti-glare coating, but others suggesting glossy. Our bet would be this ends up being matte anti-glare but we will seek confirmation.

It features an ergonomic stand that supports tilt, height and rotate adjustment (swivel should also be supported we believe). The base has a compact hexagonal design and there are 2x HDMI 2.1 ports, 1x DisplayPort 2.1 port (UHBR tier not listed), and 1x USB type-C (with DP Alt mode, 98W power delivery and data).

Pricing and availability

HKC has not yet announced the price or release date. This RGB-Mini LED technology is no doubt complex and expensive to produce, but if HKC manages to position the M10 Ultra below the high-end OLED monitor category, it could be a very interesting alternative. More info as and when we get it.

Source: ithome

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