Realme SLED 55-inch 4K Android TV Review: An Able Contender for Your Diwali TV

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Realme SLED 55-inch 4K Android TV Review: An Able Contender for Your Diwali TV Upgrade



Realme is one of the newest smart TV brands in India, which premiered with two affordable TVs earlier this year. Earlier this month, Realme officially entered the most popular television segment of India – budget 4K LED smart TVs. This particular bit of the industry saw Xiaomi gain an early boost thanks to its reliable Mi TV lineup. Their primary competitors were the underrated TCL and India-bred Vu. In recent times, the budget 4K smart TV market has seen iconic smartphone brands such as Nokia and Motorola being introduced by Flipkart, possibly in hope that the relatability of the brand names, coupled with interesting software features, would increase competition in the market. Now, spicing things up yet again is Realme, which decided to make a case for itself by claiming a new LED panel technology altogether. Enter, the Realme 55-inch SLED 4K Android TV, at an introductory price of Rs 39,999 (set to increase to Rs 42,999 shortly).

Realme's big pitch with the SLED 4K Android TV is its new display technology. The SLED display technology replaces the traditional white LED backlight of typical LED TVs with an RGB spectral power distribution (SPD) backlight. In essence, Realme claims that this display tech will help reduce the strain on your eyes, by reducing the amount of exposure to blue light that you get when watching TV. This claim is a less visibly evident one than other display technologies, such as QLEDs (that produce higher brightness and vibrancy) and OLEDs (that produce deeper blacks and higher contrast ratios). Will this claim be enough to make the Realme SLED 55-inch 4K Android TVs successful?

The SLED display technology, like we mentioned before, replaces the white LED backlight with a spectrally distributed array that breaks the white light into red, green and blue. This seemingly helps in lesser incidence of blue light in comparison to standard LED technology, thanks to a second RGB filter – which in turn apparently helps the eye.

In the real world, the panel's differences aren't immediately apparent, but you will tend to think that the overall colours feel more washed out, than what they do on most other TVs. As for the main claim of putting strain on the eyes, viewing content on the Realme SLED TV in brightly lit rooms does not seem to make too big a difference, except for the overall brightness and sharpness levels being a bit low.

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