The cheapest 2022 Samsung MicroLED TV will reportedly cost $80,000

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There's a lot we already know about the more premium end of Samsung's 2022 TV lineup, including reports late last year that the firm had decided to scrap plans for a (slightly) more affordable 70-inch MicroLED TV in favour of a three-strong lineup of frankly massive 89-, 101- and 114-inch models. But one thing that has remained strictly TBA is Samsung's 2022 MicroLED TV pricing. 

Now, according to a fresh report from South Korean tech site The Elec, Samsung has set the price of its 89-inch MicroLED model at $80,000 (around £59,500 or AU$113,500) and the 114-inch model at $100,000 (approximately £74,5000, AU$142,000). 

For the uninitiated, MicroLED display technology is a next-gen heir to OLED. The tech takes all the best qualities of OLED and removes more or less all of its shortcomings, arguably the biggest of which being that MicroLEDs can go much brighter than OLEDs, theoretically resulting in incredible contrast levels.

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Becky Scarrott

Becky has been a full-time staff writer at What Hi-Fi? since March 2019. Prior to gaining her MA in Journalism in 2018, she freelanced as an arts critic alongside a 20-year career as a professional dancer and aerialist – any love of dance is of course tethered to a love of music. Becky has previously contributed to Stuff, FourFourTwo, This is Cabaret and The Stage. When not writing, she dances, spins in the air, drinks coffee, watches football or surfs in Cornwall with her other half – a football writer whose talent knows no bounds.