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Features high refresh rates, low latency, and MEMC-enhanced motion and gaming experience.
Mumbai: Haier Appliances India, a global major appliances brand for 15 consecutive years, has announced the launch of its latest Smart QLED Series S800QT. Designed to elevate the home entertainment experience, the series has a 4K QLED display and comes in four sizes 75”,65″, 55″ and 43”. It will be available across all channels starting at a price of Rs 38,990.
The all-new QLED series builds upon Haier India’s widespread acclaim of providing an unparalleled entertainment experience, offering enhanced features, and mesmerizing design elements. With quantum dot technology at its core, the S800QT series delivers an exceptional spectrum of colours, incredibly lifelike visuals, and unmatched clarity with a 4K display. This revolutionary series seamlessly integrates cutting-edge technology with a visually captivating look, aiming to immerse consumers in an unparalleled cinematic journey from the comfort of their homes.
Haier India president NS Satish stated, “At Haier, we are dedicated to continuously redefining the home entertainment experience, and with the feature packed S800QT QLED series, we’re delivering a harmonious blend of cutting-edge technology and aesthetic finesse. Catering to consumers who seek uncompromised visual brilliance and an immersive cinematic haven in their own homes, Haier India aims to meet the evolving needs and preferences of consumers, offering them an unparalleled home entertainment solution. The launch of the new QLED series highlights our commitment to providing consumers with best-in-class technologically advanced products that combine style and innovation.”
Dolby Vision Atmos:
With Dolby Vision Atmos, you can truly feel an immersive viewing and listening experience with a deeper connection to the movies, shows, music, sports, and games you love. Prepare to hear what you’ve been missing with an unparalleled immersive experience that will leave you craving for more.
The new series is poised to set a new benchmark in home entertainment, inviting consumers to indulge in the brilliance of advanced technology and superior design. With this latest offering, Haier India reaffirms its position as a pioneer in the industry, consistently driving innovation to meet and exceed the evolving needs of its discerning customers.
Google TV:
Haier’s S800QT seamlessly integrates with Google and provides access to a vast range of apps, content, and streaming services, allowing consumers to experience endless entertainment possibilities at the touch of a button. It also provides you with curated recommendations based on your watching habits.
Smooth gaming experience with 120Hz DLG and 2GB RAM:
The new range offers ultra-smooth motion reproduction and reduced motion blur during fast-paced action sequences, ensuring a truly immersive viewing experience with DLG (Dual Line Gate) technology. The TV automatically detects the content and adjusts its refresh rate up to 120Hz and has a super low latency than ever before. This offers a much smoother gaming experience at your fingertip with 2GB RAM and 32GB storage.
Unparalleled viewing experience:
It comes power-packed with MEMC, the UI is faster and smoother, and gives exceptional clarity in every frame, this TV is destined to enhance your movie-watching and game-playing experience. Equipped with a Variable Refresh rate and DLG 120Hz, the S800QT QLED Series ensures smooth and detailed visuals, allowing you to fully immerse yourself in fast-moving images.
Hands-free voice control with far field technology:
The series introduces effortless TV control through hands-free voice commands. With the power of hands-free voice control, users can effortlessly adjust settings, switch channels, search for content, and perform various other tasks, all without the need to lift a finger by just saying ‘OK Google’.
Micro dimming:
Enhance picture quality and detail through advanced micro-dimming technology, providing deep contrasts and vibrant colours for a lifelike experience.
Elegant metal design:
Taking consumer preferences to heart, Haier India has meticulously crafted the S800QT series to seamlessly blend into modern living spaces. The sleek and elegant metal design exudes sophistication and elevates the overall aesthetics of the series.
Price and offers
Starting at a price of Rs 38,990, the Haier S800QT QLED series will be available on both online and offline channels.
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UK’s OnlyFans seeks US investor at $3bn valuation after owner’s death
The adult video platform is seeking stability after the death of its billionaire owner
LONDON: OnlyFans is looking for a new partner. The London-based adult video platform is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake of less than 20 per cent to Architect Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm, in a deal that would value the business at more than $3bn (£2.2bn).
The move is driven by an urgent need for stability. Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-American billionaire who owned OnlyFans, died of cancer last month at the age of 43, leaving the future of one of Britain’s most profitable privately held businesses suddenly uncertain.
The choice of Architect Capital is not arbitrary. The firm has deep expertise in financial services, which aligns neatly with OnlyFans’ ambitions to offer banking products to its creators, many of whom have long struggled to access basic financial services because of the nature of their work.
The numbers behind OnlyFans are, by any measure, staggering. The platform posted revenues of $1.4bn in the year to 30th November 2024, with a pre-tax profit of $684m, up four per cent on the prior year. Payments to creators totalled $7.2bn over the same period, a rise of nearly ten per cent. Radvinsky personally collected $701m in dividends from the business in 2024 alone, on top of more than $1bn in such payments he had already received. The platform, run through its parent company Felix International, hosts 4.6m creator accounts, with performers keeping 80 per cent of subscription proceeds and the platform pocketing the remaining 20 per cent. It has 377m fan accounts in total.
The current minority stake talks represent a notable scaling back of ambitions. In January, OnlyFans was reported to be in discussions with Architect about selling a majority stake of 60 per cent. Before that, the company had explored a sale to a consortium led by Forest Road Company, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. Neither deal materialised.
OnlyFans has built an enormously lucrative business on content that mainstream finance has long refused to touch. Now, with its owner gone and a $3bn valuation on the table, it is looking for the kind of respectable institutional backing that might finally persuade the banks to take its calls.
