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Mini-LED is a type of screen tech found mostly in TV displays. Nowadays most of the major TV makers, like Philips,TCL,LG and Samsung, all have mini-LED TVs available to buy or they’re building new ones with Mini LED’s backlight tech inside them.

Some brands are even combining mini-LED with other kinds of new tech. For example,LG"s Mini LED TV range of "QNED" screens are now available worldwide. These TV models have both LG’s NanoCell LCD and mini-LED backlighting for the first time.

What’s more, there are already new TV announcements rolling in from the tech expo CES 2022. Samsung has announced new TVs at CES 2022 already, including MicroLED, mini-LED and QLED TV models. The new mini-LEDs are part of the brand’s Neo QLED TV lineup. The big changes to this line for 2022 are a new feature called Shape Adaptive Light Control that allows the TVs to have better control over blooming and an upgrade to a 14-bit backlight for more luminance points.

But although you’ll find mini-LED in many of today’s newest TVs, you"ll find it in other devices with a screen as well. For example, rumors suggest it might also be used in the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2. Apple also uses mini-LED tech in its all-new MacBook Pro 14-inch (2021) and itsnew iPad Pro, with reports suggesting that it could be added toApple"s MacBook Air 2022 andnew MacBook Pros as well.

Now that Apple is actively adding mini-LED to its latest products, we can expect to see it in even more devices beyond TVs from other brands in the future. It’s a very exciting time for mini-LED tech, and if you’re buying a new TV, you need to scrub up on your knowledge.

LCD pixels can’t illuminate themselves – althoughOLED can – so they need a light source behind them that can shine light through. This is what creates the necessary brightness and color. Because of this extra layer of backlighting, the pixels in an LCD display can never be turned completely off.

How does this impact your viewing experience? It’s best to compare it to an LCD screen. Blacks on an LCD screen don’t just lack the inky quality of their OLED equivalents, but if an LCD TV’s backlight is poorly implemented and controlled, there can be noticeable unevenness to the way the screen describes what should be uniform areas of black.

We know that no one ever bought a TV solely for how it handles the end credits of a film. But this kind of messy picture quality is what has increasingly made LCD technology look second class compared to its shiny OLED competitor.

However, there might still be a way for LCD technology to reassert itself among thebest TVs – and that’s through mini-LED.Today"s best Mini LED TV deals

Officially a diode no bigger than 0.2mm can be classed as ‘mini’ – but this is the consumer electronics industry we’re dealing with here, and you can expect the word ‘mini’ to be used quite loosely. The basic principle, though, is that smaller LED diodes allow for more LED diodes.

Fitting more, and smaller, LED diodes behind the LCD pixels means images can be brighter. It means backlighting control can be more targeted and precise. It should allow for better control, which ought to mean less backlight bleed and stronger contrasts.Why does mini-LED matter?If it’s deployed effectively, mini-LED backlighting should allow LCD panels to get much closer to OLED levels of performance than has been possible before. These theoretical advantages are pretty compelling.

And, of course, that’s without OLED’s perceived problems: LED/LCD technology has never been the subject of screen-burn scare stories, nor does it fall prey to the eventual but inevitable drop-off in performance that’s the price of the ‘organic’ element of OLED.

Of course, the success of mini-LED will come down to the way the technology is implemented. There’s a lot of variation in the performance of similarly priced, similarly specified LED-backlit LCD screens - you only have to have a quick glance at our numerous TV reviews to see that. And if some TVs are found wanting when it comes to controlling a few dozen backlight dimming zones, can they really be expected to be any better when they have control of what could be thousands?

The brand has also recently-unveiled the X925 and X925 Pro, it"s next slate of mini-LED TVs. We"ve already reviewed the TCL X925 Mini LED 8K TV and awarded it 4.5 out of 5 stars for its exceptional Mini LED black levels, 8K screen resolution, Google TV interface and Integrated Onkyo soundbar.

LG’s mini-LED range – called ‘QNED’ – has immediately become its premium LCD offering, combining mini-LED with quantum dot technology. It’s positioned above the NanoCell LCDs that were previously the company’s most aspirational LCD TVs.

The QNED99 is the hero of the range. It’s an 8K, 120Hz television with full array local dimming (all the better to show off exactly what mini-LED is capable of). It’s available in 65-inch, 75-inch and 86-inch variants. The QNED95 swaps the 120Hz panel of the QNED99 for just 60Hz, but retains the 8K resolution and all the other technological highlights – the 86-inch size aside.

There are a couple of 4K QNED ranges that are similarly arranged. The QNED90 has a 120Hz panel in front of its mini-LED Full Array Local Dimming arrangement, while the QNED85 makes do with a 60Hz panel instead.If some TVs are found wanting when it comes to controlling a few dozen backlight dimming zones, can they really be expected to be any better when they have control of what could be thousands?

Over at Samsung, ‘Neo QLED’ is the way the company is describing its mini-LED televisions for this year. Along with a ‘micro layer’ to guide the light of the mini-LEDs (perhaps as many as 5,000 individual diodes for a single screen) through the quantum dots, Samsung has developed its most precise dimming and power distribution algorithms to date.

The panel driver and video processing engine that’s fitted to the television, for instance, will have a huge say in the way the screen performs – and if they’re indifferent components, the sheer complexity of the Mini LED arrangement could conceivably create more, rather than fewer, backlighting and contrast issues.

Now we"re nearing the end of 2021, we"re looking forward to seeing what the next year will bring for Mini LED and if it"ll be a key focus of the biggest names in TV tech. It"ll also be interesting to hear from the top TV makers about how the Mini LEDs that are already out in the world have performed so far. Only then will we know if Mini LED tech is both effective and worth the money.Today"s best Mini LED TV deals

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Mini LED and Micro LED have been two cutting-edge technologies in the spotlight across the display industry, where relevant applications are thriving, particularly those powered by Mini LED. After Apple launched its Mini LED iPad Pro, Mini LED is expected to take off quickly in the market. However, the transfer process remains a challenge for mass production of Mini LED (and Micro LED, too). Processing a large number of Mini/Micro LEDs (which is necessary for mass production) using the existing technologies and equipment is apparently too tim...

With the continuous upgrading of MiniLED industry, the market trend has gradually become clear. With the steady development of backlight TV and laptop display applications, the continuous innovation of small-size VR display technology, and the growing demand for intelligent EV, MiniLED backlights have become more and more popular in the market. Jufeng, a leading semiconductor soldering and electronic packaging material solution provider since 2006, recently released its ultra-fine size solder paste solution JF-ML100, which can be widely used in differ...

According to TrendForce’s “2022 Global Automotive LED Product Trend and Regional Market Analysis,” although the vehicle market demand has shrunk due to the Russia–Ukraine War and COVID-19 pandemic in China, the automotive LED market demand has steadily increased in 2022 thanks to the increasing LED headlight penetration and rise of advanced technologies such as those for intelligent headlamps, logo lamps, (intelligent) ambient lights, and Mini LED / HDR automotive displays. TrendForce has analyzed the development in the automotive ...

According to TrendForce’s latest market research report the “TrendForce 2022 Mini LED New Backlight Display Trend Analysis”, the trend of Mini LED backlights led by leading players including Samsung and Apple in 2021 has encouraged other brands to introduce the up-to-date components into their new displays in 2022. For example, TV manufacturers such as Sony, Sharp, and Hisense have decided to use Mini LED backlights this year, while MSI, Lenovo, and GIGABYTE have applied the components to MNT and NB markets. As new comers have...

Touch Taiwan 2022 kicked off on April 27 in Taipei, centering on the theme “Features on Cross Industry Integration , the Future of Displays”, during which major players––such as Ennostar, Macroblock, AUO and PlayNitride––showcased various products which they have spent years to make. Ennostar Ennostar focused on displays and sensing. The first thing catching visitors’ eyes was an ultra fine pitch display featuring 0404 RGB LED. The LED manufacturing group also exhibited solutions for small and large displays powered...

According to TrendForce’s latest report “Gold+ Member: Global LED Industry Data Base and LED Player Movement Quarterly Update”, economic activities have returned in all aspects as the COVID-19 pandemic began slowing down in 2021, boosting the global LED market scale to USD 17.65 billion (+15.4% YoY), a growth rate that beats expectations. Looking to the future, market value of Mini LED backlights and video walls will continue going up, along with increased automotive LED penetration, rising demand for high-end lighting, and expanded v...

CES 2022 is arguably the biggest event for the LED industry this week, as various Mini/Micro LED products stunned attendees on their debut. Moreover, several other events are noteworthy, including LG’s plan to ship its first Micro LED TVs this year, HC Semitek’s 1.5 billion yuan investment in Mini/Micro LED development and Xiaomi becoming a shareholder of Micro LED business Shenzhen Sitan. Let’s cut to the chase and take a glance at the following major events that happened in the first week of 2022. 【Major Events】 LG’s F...

According to the report, the Quest 3 is the first Meta VR device using 2.48-inch Mini LED screens with a resolution of 2160×2160 and unit cost of $25&nd...

Researchers from Wuhan University in China have proposed a novel full-angle Ti3O5/SiO2 DBR to enhance the performance of flip-chip blue and green mini-LEDs.

“The full-angle DBR provides a promising strategy for the development of high-efficiency blue and green flip-chip mini-LEDs for display application.” said Shengjun Zhou, a professor at Wuhan University who directed the research.

According to the latest news reports, the redesigned 27-inch iMac will be equipped with a conventional LCD panel instead of a Mini LED monitor, which is different from what the previous rumors suggested. However, display analyst Ross Young has reasserted that the new iMac will stick to the original plan of using Mini LEDs.

As suggested by the recent reports, despite not using Mini LEDs, Apple will install 30%-40% more chips in the LCD for its iMac model with higher brightness. Like the 24-inch model, various colors will be available for the 27-inch one.

High contrast and brightness Mini LED products have been developing aggressively, according to TrendForce’s investigations. Therefore, several LCD monitor brands have launched high-end LCD monitor products with Mini LED backlighting (Mini LED wafer size is defined as between 75~500µm). In 2021, the price of Mini LED-backlit LCD monitors fell between US$2,300 and US$5,000. For example, a 31.5-inch Mini LED backlit model is priced approximately 4 to 8 times that of model of the same size featuring a traditional LED backl...

On November 19, Great Wall Motor (GWM) unveiled the first model “Mecha Dragon (JiJiaLong)” under its electric sub-brand Saloon at an automotive trade show in Guangzhou.

With a design based on advanced mechanical esthetics, the new model features a sharp 160-degree angle that leads to the headlights, angular lines on both sides and Mini LED taillights with display content that can be customized.

Between 2020 and 2021, Mini LED backlight products have sprung up in consumer markets. Who has released Mini LED backlight products? What are their specifications? How much do they cost? In the tables below, LEDinside has collected and summarized information on Mini LED products that are currently available. *The information in the above tables is incomplete; please refer to the actual sales prices. According to TrendForce’s research, as Apple has launched new MacBook Pro products for the high-end markets, the shipment of notebooks with Mini L...

This year, Nantong became the first city in Jiangsu, China, to follow the government’s “open competition” policy by announcing winners of 11 core technology projects. Currently, all of the projects have been released, including the “Fabrication of Micro LED chips for high resolution and full-color displays” project proposed by Luohuaxin Display Technology Development (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd.

SINGAPORE, Nov. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:KLIC) ("Kulicke & Soffa", "K&S" or the "Company") a global leader in the design and manufacture of semiconductor, LED and electronic assembly equipment, today announced a dramatic performance enhancement in the process throughput of its recently shipped mini and micro LED platform - LUMINEX™. With the latest software upgrade, the LUMINEX™ raises the advanced display technology and applications to a new lev...

As TechPowerUp reported, AOC unveiled three AGON PRO gaming monitors (i.e., the AG274QXM, AG274UXP and AG274QG) on October 26. The three models are 27 inches in size with VESA DisplayHDR certification, one of which even supports Mini LED display.

The Red Dot Award winner adopts Mini LED backlighting incorporated with a fast IPS panel. The monitor features a resolution of 2560×1440, 170Hz refresh rate, 576 local dimming zones, HDR 1000 certification and peak brightness of 1,000 nits. Regarding c...

During the product launch event held on October 21 in Taiwan, Acer debuted four NBs that will be available in the fourth quarter, namely the thin and light Swift series, ConceptD for creators, eco-friendly Aspire Vero and flagship Predator Helio 500 with a 4K Mini LED monitor for gamers.

Oct. 27, 2021 ---- Apple recently unveiled its newest lineup of 14.2-inch and 16.2-inch MacBook Pros, which represent the company’s latest effort to extend its application of display backlights with Mini LED technology from the 12.9-inch iPad Pro to the MacBook Pro range. TrendForce’s latest investigations indicate that, in light of Apple’s foray into the high-end notebook computer market with the latest generation of MacBook Pro, annual shipment of notebook computers equipped with Mini LED backlight for 2022 will likely reach five million units, a 2...

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Apple is planning to introduce a new 27-inch iMac in early 2022, according to Display Supply Chain Consultants CEO Ross Young. This information comes from both Young"s tweets and additional details that he shared with MacRumors. Young told MacRumors that the 27-inch display for the iMac will feature mini-LED backlighting, which likely means that it will have XDR branding. Young tweeted that Apple is currently planning to release the new iMac in the first quarter of 2022. Young added that the 27-inch iMac display will feature ProMotion, allowing for...

On September 27, BOE Jingxin Technology announced on its official WeChat page that its first major chip-on-glass (COG) P0.9 MLED product was delivered.

As BOE’s wholly owned subsidiary, BOE Jingxin Technology—founded on November 4, 2020 with a registered capital of 950 million yuan—specializes in the design and production of Mini/Micro LED displays as well as related solutions.

CORONA, Calif., Sept. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- TCL®, one of the world"s best-selling television brands and leading technology companies, today announced details of the first TV with TCL"s third-generation of mini-LED backlight, OD Zero™ display technology. TCL"s new 85" OD Zero mini-LED powered 8K TV – the X9 – is a marvel of technology that delivers revolutionary optics, ultra-thin design, and immersive premium audio combined with the personalized experience of Google TV™. The X9 joins TCL"s XL C...

Konka’s semiconductor business mainly comprises storage and optoelectronic products. Specifically, it specializes in the design and marketing of storage main control chips as well as packaging and testing of storage-related products. Regarding the optoelectronic sector, the company focuses on the R&D of Micro LED produ...

Following a subdued 2020 on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of Micro and Mini LED technologies has ramped up again this year. The upcoming Micro LEDforum 2021 will reveal the latest developments in the manufacturing of Micro LED displays as well as in the application of Mini and Micro LED technologies. Significant progress has been made across the different sections of the supply chain for Micro LED displays (e.g., chip manufacturing, mass transfer, mass inspection, driver design, and backplane manufacturing). The same can also be said for ...

On the evening of August 26, TCL held its Mini LED agenda event “To See with Foresight” in Shenzhen. During the event, TCL announced essential strategies for Mini LED development and plans to develop ultra-large displays, revealing its determination to compete with Mini LED display technologies.

Specializing in producing smart manufacturing equipment, Xin YiChang has witnessed rapid growth following the booming development of Mini LED and semiconductor sectors. On the evening of August 15, Xin YiChang released its 1H21 earnings report, in which the company posted an operating income of RMB 494 million (USD 76.19 million; 53.44% YoY) and a net profit of RMB 99.4483 million (USD 15.33 million; 133.96% YoY).

Taiwan-based Entire Technology is forecast to sustain its revenue growth to October as raw material prices are stabilizing with shipment increases of Mini LED products. Institutional investors predict that Entire will be out of the red in this quarter and continue to head for earnings growth.

Founded in 2003, Entire specializes in developing light guide plates and diffuser plates for backlight modules, which are applied to various monitors, eco-friendly business and home lighting products, commercial signage, appliance display modules, and biotech displays.

In the semiconductor display sector, specifically, TCL focuses on the research and development of emerging technologies including printed OLED/QLED, Mini LED, and Micro LED, aiming to get a head start on other competitors.

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Let"s start with what makes mini-LED special. By using more, smaller LEDs to illuminate the screen, a TV can have finer control over its highlights and shadows, for potentially better contrast and image quality especially with OLED, the best TV tech on the market, is that it can be more affordable, particularly in larger screen sizes. Mini-LED is an evolutionary technology, not a revolutionary one, and draws on existing LCD TV technology. In the mini-LED TVs we"ve tested so far, including the TCL 6-Series and Samsung QN90A, the picture quality improvements are the real deal, although not quite good enough to beat OLED.

Now that just about every TV maker will sell a mini-LED TV of some kind in 2022, you"re bound to hear a lot more about the technology. Here"s how it works, and why it"s so cool.

Mini-LEDs are found inside normal-size TVs but the LEDs themselves are much larger than MicroLEDs. Just like the standard LEDs found in current TVs, they"re used to power the backlight of the television. A liquid crystal layer, the LCD itself, modulates that light to create the image. MicroLED isn"t LCD at all, it"s a whole new TV technology that also happens to use LEDs.

To understand mini-LED, you need to understand standard LED, at least as far as your TV is concerned. Inside all modern LCD TVs (i.e. every TV that"s not an OLED), there"s anywhere between a few, to a few hundred light emitting diodes. These tiny devices emit light when you give them electricity and are being used everywhere in the modern world, from the flashlight on your phone to the taillights on your car. They range in size -- commonly they"re around 1 millimeter, but can be smaller than 0.2 millimeter. In your TV these LEDs are collectively referred to as the "backlight."

In some TVs the LEDs are on the edges, pointing inward. On others, the LEDs are behind the screen, pointing toward you. For improved image quality, particularly to appreciate contrast ratio between the bright parts of the image and the dark. For more on this, check out

Ideally, you"d be able to dim each pixel enough to create a visually impressive contrast ratio. This is, for example, how OLED and MicroLED work. With LCD, though, it"s much harder to do. The liquid crystal panel that creates the image only blocks the light created by the backlight. Not all the light can be blocked, so the image is grayer and has less "punch" than with OLED.

Although there"s no accepted threshold, LEDs smaller than 0.2-millimeter tend to be called mini-LEDs. They"re often 0.1-millimeter or less. Not too small though: At around 0.01-millimeter, they"re called MicroLEDs.

Generally speaking, when you make an LED smaller, it becomes dimmer. There"s less material to create the light. You can offset this a bit by giving them more electricity ("driving" them harder), but there"s a limit here, too, constrained by energy consumption, heat, longevity and practicality. No one is going to hook their TV up to a high-amp, home appliance-style outlet.

One of the first mini-LED TVs available was TCL"s 8-Series. It had over 25,000 mini-LEDs arrayed across the back of the TV. These were grouped into around 1,000 zones. Both of these numbers are significantly higher than what you"d find in a traditional LED TV. The 65-inch Hisense U8G, for example, has 485 local dimming zones while the

Don"t expect every mini-LED TV to have that many LEDs, of course. Lower-end models will have far fewer, but likely still more than regular LED TVs. For instance TCL"s 65-inch 6-Series has 1,000 mini-LEDs and 240 zones -- more than many models at its price but clearly not at the same level as the 8-Series.

Imagine a streetlight on an otherwise dark road. A local-dimming TV doesn"t have the resolution in its backlight to only light up the pixels creating the street light, so it has to light up some of the surrounding night as well. Many LCDs TVs have gotten pretty good at this, but not as good as something that can dim each pixel like OLED. With mini-LED, you might not be able to light up individual stars in a night scene, but the moon probably won"t have a halo.

Because there"s less of a chance of blooming, the LEDs can be driven harder without fear of artifacts. So there can be a greater on-screen contrast ratio in a wider variety of scenes. The bright parts of the image can be truly bright, the dark parts of the image can be at or near totally dark.

The overall name for the technology is mini-LED. That"s what TCL, Sony and Hisense call it while LG and Samsung, true to form, prefer to use their own names.

There are bound to be differences between how these companies implement mini-LED, most notably how many LEDs are on each size of TV. On top of that, how well these LEDs are addressed and other factors will determine how good they look compared to each other and to other TV technologies.

Meanwhile TCL introduced its third-gen mini-LED televisions this year as well, called OD Zero. TCL says OD Zero TVs will be much thinner, just 10mm in the first example, thanks to a reduction in the distance between the backlight layer and the LCD display layer. That TV also happens to be an

As of early 2022 the only major TV maker that hasn"t introduced mini-LED is Vizio, but that could change once the company announced their official 2022 lineup in spring.

Deep blacks and bright whites are the Holy Grail (Grails?) of TV image quality. Add in the color possible with LG Display still the only company able to make OLED work affordably in TV sizes --

As far as band-aids go, however, this is a pretty good one. We"ll continue comparing the best mini-LED-based TVs against OLED in the near-term and, eventually, micro LED and future technologies like

(Pocket-lint) - In 2021, Apple introduced Mini-LED displays to its iPad Pro and 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro. TV manufacturers are embracing the tech, too, with models launching from LG, Samsung, Sony and more. But what is Mini LED and what benefits could it bring to your next tech purchase?

Like MicroLED, the term "Mini LED" or "Mini-LED" has popped up a lot in recent times. However, unlike that technology, "Mini LED" relates to the backlighting rather than a display"s pixels.

It utilises tens of thousands of miniature LED bulbs that sit behind the LCD substrate in a display. They combine with local dimming zones to provide more precise lighting in bright areas and better black levels in darker regions of a picture.

The difference between Mini LED and other direct backlighting technologies is that, because each LED is much smaller, the lighting bleeds less (ie. when light encroaches on adjacent pixels) and local dimming zones can be smaller and more accurate.

Usually, LED TVs adopt either larger LEDs behind the LCD substrate (and therefore are more prone to light bleed and less precise) or are edge-lit - where the LEDs are housed around the edge of the screen and shine across the panel. It is much harder to gain deep, involving black levels with each type of lighting - often resulting in a grey tone in darker areas. And black levels have a direct impact on accurate colour representation in standard and HDR images.

As we explain above, the Mini LED backlight sits behind the LCD substrate in a panel (and any other substrates included to enhance colours or picture quality) and houses thousands of tiny LEDs that are switched on or off depending on the image. They are generally grouped in zones for responsiveness, to sync the backlight to the main image perfectly.

The TV, therefore, switches them on and off in those local dimming zones, which run at a similar refresh rate to the LCD substrate. When a zone is off or barely lit, the area on the screen will seem darker or even completely black. When on, that area of the screen will be brighter. The brightness of the LEDs depends on the colour and what is required from the on-screen action.

LG"s 2021 QNED Mini LED TVs, for example, use up to 30,000 Mini LEDs in almost 2,500 local dimming "blocks" (on its 8K 86-inch flagship) as the backlight.

This, claims LG, provides a 1 million to 1 contrast ratio. And, while it isn"t quite as accurate as self-lighting technologies, such as OLED, which can switch each pixel on and off where desired, it is as close as you can get with LCD.

Mini LED and MicroLED are two very different TV technologies. MicroLED, used by Samsung for its The Wall TV system, is a technology that features self-illuminating pixels - much like OLED - whereby each pixel can switch on or off depending on the picture.

The main benefit of Mini LED over conventional LED TVs (which also use LED backlighting with an LCD panel) is that the LED backlights are so much smaller that they can be much more precise and, therefore, ensure that pictures are bolder in colour, deeper in black levels, and brighter for HDR.

Mini LED TVs won"t be quite as accurate as OLED, but a lot closer than existing LED sets and with the side benefit of being more affordable than the best OLED TVs.

In addition, as good as the recent OLED TVs are, the technology is still prone to image retention - even permanent screen burn in the most extreme cases. Mini LED TVs are not.

Mini LEDs are an advanced version of the traditional LCDs that are actively adopted by many tech giants like Apple, Sony, TCL, LG, and many others. Mini LED display technology is better than the superior OLED since it offers better contrast ratios and color quality, thus resulting in better image quality.

The year 2021 was not just about Joe Biden assuming office as the US President, the entrance to SpaceX, or Prince Harry and Meghan Markle giving up their royal status but also about mini LED displays taking over the tech world and gaining momentum among top-notch TV brands. TCL, LG, Samsung, Apple, and many other tech giants have plans to expand their product portfolio and show off their new TVs with mini LED displays to stay competitive in the market. But before going any further, let’s shed some light on this brand-new mini LED technology and its advantages that make companies replace OLED displays in a heartbeat.

Mini LED is an improved version of the conventional LCD and works similar to LEDs used in LED TVs and QLED TVs but are just much smaller. With the sole purpose to light up the display, mini LEDs are less than 0.2mm and can offer better control of the backlighting which leads to better image quality. A device like a TV consists of an LCD panel with LEDs for backlighting and these LEDs are lit up completely or dimmed down for darker scenes. For instance, Apple’s MacBook models now use a strip of LEDs at the bottom while the Pro Display XDR uses 576 LEDs for backlighting. And a mini LED display works just like the Pro Display XDR but with more LEDs that provide more total dimming zones along with deeper darker blacks and brighter lights.

When it comes to display, it all boils down to superior image quality without any pixel damage and OLEDs might be better than LCDs, but the latter is more cost-effective. And micro LEDs might be the superior technology on paper but the falling prices and surging viable manufacturing only means that we are nearing the mini LEDs technology.

Besides, mini LEDs offer great contrast ratios and color quality, the two major aspects where OLED fails, and are therefore adopted by Apple’s 2021 iPad Pro which features mini LED technology with 1,000 nits of full-screen brightness.

Although the first mini LED products came out in 2021, tech companies are still rolling out plans till 2023 to continue with their innovative product launches in the same technology like Apple’s 12.9-inch iPad Pro, iMac Pro, and iPad Air, and much more. As per market analysts, the global mini LED market is expected to generate a revenue of $10,931.10 million and grow at 44.48% CAGR in the 2022-2030 forecast years. And of course, the mini LED technology is just one of the many new display technologies that is in tough competition with QLED and flexible OLED, but most laptops and tablet displays are mini LEDs which only suggests that the technology is here to stay.

The Samsung QN90B QLED is the best TV with an LED panel we"ve tested. It"s an impressive TV with amazing picture quality and a great selection of gaming features. It uses a Mini LED backlight, with way more dimming zones than most LED TVs, which allows for greater control over the local dimming feature for better dark room performance, with less distracting blooming around bright objects. It also gets exceptionally bright, meaning it can handle lots of glare in a bright room.

Unlike most high-end LED TVs, it"s also a good choice for a wide seating arrangement, as the image remains consistent when viewed at an angle thanks to Samsung"s "Ultra Viewing Angle" technology. It also has a great selection of extra features like a built-in Tizen smart interface that"s easy to use and has a ton of apps available to download, so you can easily find your favorite shows. It"s also excellent for gaming, as it supports 4k @ 120Hz gaming from the new-gen consoles, and it supports a variable refresh rate to reduce tearing.

Mini LED – not to be confused with MICRO LED (similar idea, different execution) – has been adopted by several TV manufacturers and is the display technology of choice for Apple’s iPad Pro.

It pitches itself as a more affordable rival to OLED, and as OLED falls in price, this pitches the two display technologies into battle against each other.

Mini LED are smaller versions of ‘conventional’ LEDs that are used in displays to emit light. It’s an advancement of existing LCD LED technology rather than something altogether new.

Having miniaturised the LED form factor, it allows for more LEDs to be fitted into the same space. This number can range into the hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands of LEDs to be fitted into a display, depending on the size of the screen.

More LEDs create more dimming zones. More dimming zones offer greater control over aspects such as contrast (difference between dark and bright parts of an image), black levels and blooming, which concerns halos of light that appear around bright light sources in an image.

TV manufacturers have also redesigned the lens packaging for each LED that allows for more light to be emitted resulting a brighter image, making a Mini LED display one that can gobble up HDR content.

How does Mini LED differ from other displays? MICRO LED uses micrometer-sized LED lights that allows it to eliminate the backlight and colour filters used in LCD LED displays for a thinner design.

Where MICRO LED differs from Mini LED is that it is a self-emissive technology – each pixel can be switched on or off (like OLED). That adds complexity to the production process as well as cost. Each pixel structure in a MICRO LED display produces its own light and colour, and that gives it the ability to produce lifelike colours and bright images.

Much like Mini LED, it’s happy to push brightness levels further. And despite being a self-emissive display like OLED, it’s made from inorganic materials, meaning a MICRO LED screen can last a long time, and won’t suffer from the image retention/burn-in of OLED screens. It’s not cheap either. Samsung’s 110-inch MICRO LED TV is a wallet-hungry £149,999.

OLED stands for Organic Light-Emitting Diode. Each pixel is self-emissive, producing its own light. Like MICRO LED, a pixel that’s ‘on’ can sit next to a pixel that’s ‘off’. That helps to deliver deep black levels, a high contrast ratio and wide viewing angles.

OLED can’t go as bright as either Mini or MICRO LED for a few reasons, one of which is ABL (Auto-Brightness Limiter) technology. OLEDs can also suffer from image retention or burn-in, where static images are retained in the screen. The former is temporary, while the latter is harder to get rid of.

While burn-in can happen, it shouldn’t with normal use. Brands that use OLED displays integrate features such as pixel refreshing technologies and dynamic screensavers to mitigate it. And given OLED uses organic materials, picture quality will deteriorate over the panel’s lifespan.

Chinese electronics manufacturer TCL has had success with its affordable Mini LED TVs in the US and Europe, while Samsung’s adopted the display tech for its Neo QLED TVs. Samsung utilise its own design for the LED packaging to be brighter and more light efficient and when married to Quantum Dot filters, the results have been fabulous. We reviewed the flagship QE65QN95A4K TV and called it the start of a new TV era. The 2022 QE65QN95Bis even better.

Both LG and Philips launched Mini LED TVs in 2021. LG’s interpretation is branded under QNED (Quantum Nanocell Emitting Diodes) and come in larger sizes that covers 8K and 4K resolutions. Philips has its 9636 and 9506 Mini LED TVs in 65- and 75-inch sizes. Nevertheless, both LG and Philips TV see OLED as the focus of their line-ups.

For TV brands, Mini LED has more of an impact at bigger sizes. However, it’s been (ahem) miniaturised to work in smaller displays such as Apple’s 12.9-inch iPad Pro, which we thought was very good but still susceptible to issues such as blooming.

The idea behind Mini LED is to approach the level of black depth that OLED panels can offer, as well as deliver high levels of contrast, colour accuracy and high brightness.

Out of the products we’ve tested from TVs to tablets, it certainly lives up to its potential, although we do have some issues. The technology is still relatively expensive, at least in the UK, and it’s still afflicted by problems that affect all sorts of LCD LED screens such as blooming and backlight control. And aside from Samsung Neo QLED range, it’s not available in as many smaller sizes, although the smallest we’ve tested is an £899 43-inch Samsung QN90A.

If you love films and gaming, OLED would be the more capable choice but if you’re someone who uses screens outside or in environments where there’s plenty of ambient light that washes onto a screen, then the brightness and level of precision a Mini LED display can offer makes more sense.

For a lot of folks, choosing a new TV used to come down to two factors: brand name and screen size. These days, there’s way more to consider, like display type, HDR support, smart features, and an ever-growing list of acronym-laced technologies that are enough to make the average buyer"s head spin.

If you’re shopping for a TV, mini-LED is an important term to understand. It refers to a type of TV backlight that’s quickly becoming popular thanks to its many advantages when it comes to picture quality. But before you narrow your search down to mini-LED TVs, let’s get to the bottom of mini-LED technology—how it works, why you might want it, and how to get it.

You may have heard about “LCD TVs” in the past, and it would be understandable to think that LCD and LED TVs are different things—but they aren’t. LCD means Liquid Crystal Display, and refers to the TV’s panel. LED means Light Emitting Diode, and refers to the TV’s backlight. Every LCD TV requires a backlight, and LED is the type of backlight that illuminates any LCD panel. The diodes shine through the liquid crystal to create images in both LED TVs and in mini-LED TVs—in the latter, the diodes are just smaller.

Mini-LEDs function similarly to the traditional LEDs found in a full-array backlight display, but they take on a much smaller form—as much as 75% smaller, to put a figure on it.

Smaller LEDs mean more diodes can be fit in a backlight array. When it comes to LED TVs, in general, the more backlight "zones" you have the better the picture will look. This is because the TV has a better ability to control what is (and what is not) illuminated on the screen. While it’s typical to find several hundred individually controllable LED “zones” in a high-end, full-array LED TV, you might find thousands of such zones in a mini-LED TV. Unsurprisingly, this has a significant impact on picture quality.

Because they can fit more diodes than TVs with traditional backlighting, mini-LED TVs tend to offer a brighter picture with better overall contrast. This is because the increase in LEDs—together with their tiny size—allows a TV to brighten and dim smaller portions of the picture with more accuracy than traditional LED panels.

With more control over more areas of the screen, a mini-LED TV has a better shot at limiting problems like light bloom. If you’ve ever seen a movie’s subtitles exhibit a ghostly blue or gray glow over a dark background, you’re familiar with this phenomenon. Light bloom tends to happen when a TV’s LED backlights are scant, and mini-LED backlighting goes a long way toward correcting this issue.

It"s also important to understand that just the word "mini-LED" can potentially be misleading. If a display has smaller backlights, but doesn"t offer a significant amount of extra backlight zones than a traditional LED TV, its performance advantage may be minimal or non-existant. And just because your LED TV doesn"t have mini-LEDs doesn"t mean it can"t display accurate contrast and a bright and engaging picture. That said, generally mini-LED TVs will have an advantage over their LED counterparts when it comes to displaying the brightest and darkest elements on your display.

Samsung is one of mini-LEDs greatest champions—not only has the brand been selling mini-LED TVs for years, but Samsung has also proven to be one of the most successful at implementing the relatively new display type. The company’s Neo QLED line of TVs—like the award-winning QN90A—combine mini-LEDs with quantum dots, tiny crystals added to a display that improve brightness and color. On our favorite Samsung TVs (like the Q90A), the result is sensationally bright, colorful images that maintain impressively deep black levels.

LG offers its own blend of mini-LED backlighting and quantum dot color dubbed QNED. TVs like the 8K QNED99 combine mini-LEDs, quantum dots, and LG’s proprietary NanoCell technology, which is said to absorb unwanted light wavelengths for a better picture. This year, LG is offering a brand-new lineup of 2022 QNED TVs.

TCL was one of the first manufacturers to jump on the mini-LED train. The 2019 TCL 8-Series was one of the first mini-LED TVs we reviewed and the company even brought this display tech to its 8K 6-Series TV in 2021. TCL’s OD Zero mini-LED display technology is a big part of the 2022 TCL TV lineup.

Sony has, until recently, stayed out of the mini-LED market, but at CES 2022, Sony announced that it would be releasing its first-ever mini-LED TVs: the 8K Sony Z9K and the 4K A95K.

Hisense also recently announced that it would be manufacturing mini-LED TVs beginning in 2022. At the Hisense CES press conference, it was revealed that the Hisense U9H would represent the company"s flagship TV series, blending mini-LED backlighting with quantum dot color.

Now that you know a bit more about mini-LED, that"s one more weapon in your arsenal to battle the TV hype train. While mini-LED technology does not, by itself, guarantee a great picture, you can be more confident about an LED TV"s picture quality by choosing one that puts mini-LED tech to good use, such as the examples above.

If you want an Apple-branded monitor with true mini-LED backlighting, it’s unclear how long you might have to wait. But a Porsche mini-LED monitor is coming in June, and you can pre-order one now.

Apple claims its eye-wateringly expensive Pro Display XDR monitor uses mini-LED backlighting, but that’s kind of debatable. It certainly uses the same tech of locally dimmable LED lighting, but with 576 “dimming zones,” that falls quite a long way short of what is generally considered to be true mini-LED backlighting. The new Apple Studio Display also doesn’t offer the latest backlighting tech.

Having introduced the tech on the MacBook Pro and iPad Pro, however, it seems inevitable that true mini-LED backlighting will make it into a future Apple monitor before long, though analysts disagree about just when that might happen. Two noted analysts say June 2022 and sometime in 2023, respectively.

Porsche Design – the consumer product division of the car company – has announced its own 32-inch mini-LED monitor. However, reading the specs and description, it’s quickly apparent that the Porsche Design AOC AGON PRO PD32M is firmly aimed at gamers.

The 32-inch mini-LED display represents the pinnacle of monitor performance. It rests on a trapezoidal aluminum stand designed in the style of Porsche steering wheels. The bold, streamlined design of the monitor also takes its inspiration from the world of Porsche sports cars.

If the outside promises performance, the inside delivers: the panel, Display HDR 1400-certified with 4K resolution and a wide color space of 97% DCI-P3, ensures outstanding visual reproduction for games, streaming and graphics. The high refresh rate (144 Hz), a 1ms response time, AdaptiveSync, and the impressive, detailed graphics reproduction (peak brightness of 1.600 nits) make for an even more fluid game experience. Full range of ports as well as an adjustable stand add the convenience that most demanding gamers need.

Most modern computer monitors, and even televisions, have an edge-lit LCD display that’s fundamentally similar to the first such displays sold decades ago, but that’s not where the future is headed. The twin threats of Mini-LED and OLED want to conquer the world of PC displays for themselves.

Which will win, and where is the future headed? I spoke with Ross Young, CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants, and David Wyatt, CTO of Pixel Display (and inventor of Nvidia G-Sync), for the inside scoop.

Modern OLED displays rarely exceed 1,000 nits of brightness, and when they do, are incapable of sustaining it. LG’s C9 OLED television, for example, can’t sustain a peak brightness above 160 nits (according to testing by Rtings). Mini-LED displays like Apple’s Liquid Retina XDR, Samsung’s Odyssey Neo G9, and Samsung’s QN90A television can hit peak brightness well above 1,000 nits and sustain at least 600 nits.

Wyatt points to this as a key advantage. The best HDR standards call for up to 10,000 nits of brightness. Current consumer Mini-LED displays don’t achieve this, but it’s possible future displays will.

And Micro-LED, which uses individual LEDs as per-pixel lighting elements, can reach even greater heights. Wyatt says his company’s VividColor NanoBright technology will be capable of reaching up to one million nits.

Such brightness is not necessary for computer monitors or home televisions and instead targets demanding niche components, such as avionics displays. Still, it hints that we’ve only seen a sliver of HDR’s real potential – and that Mini-LED and Micro-LED, not OLED, will lead the charge.

OLED’s greatest strength is the opposite of Mini-LED’s incredible brightness. The self-emissive nature of OLED means each pixel can be turned on or off individually, providing a deep, inky, perfect black level.

“Mini-LED has clear advantages in sources of supply and brightness,” Young said in an email, “but OLEDs have advantages in regards to contrast, particularly off-axis contrast, response times, and no halo effect.” The “halo effect,” also known as blooming, is the halo of luminance that often surrounds bright objects on a Mini-LED display.

The advantages of OLED add up to superior contrast and depth. You’ve likely noticed this when viewing an OLED television at your local retailer. High-quality content has an almost three-dimensional look, as if the display is not a flat panel but a window into another world.

Modern Mini-LED displays often claim to rival OLED. Apple’s Liquid Retina Display XDR, for example, lists a maximum contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. In reality, Mini-LED still noticeably lags the contrast performance of OLED because it can’t light pixels individually. This will remain true at least until Micro-LED, which can light pixels individually, goes mainstream.

Mini-LED improves on traditional edge-lit LCD displays by improving the backlight. The LCD panel itself, however, is much the same as before and retains some flaws common to the technology.

Display quality can shift significantly depending on viewing angle, and significant blur will be visible when displaying fast motion. Both problems are inherent to LCD technology. The liquid crystals do not block light uniformly, so the image looks different from different angles, and require a few milliseconds to respond to a charge, causing blur or ghosting in rapidly changing images.

OLED is different from LCD technology. There’s no liquid crystals to twist or move. Each pixel is an organic element that creates its own light when a charge is applied. The light is emitted in a relatively uniform pattern and can turn on or off extremely quickly, removing the viewing angle and motion performance issues of LCD entirely.

The last few points—contrast, black levels, viewing angles, and response times—highlight the strengths of OLED technology. But, OLED has a weakness: durability.

Wyatt hammered this point during our conversation. The “O” in OLED stands for organic, and organic material will wear out. Indeed, exposure to light itself (and blue light in particular) wears down OLED, reducing the light produced by pixels over time.

This problem is most often discussed in the context of burn-in or image retention. Burn-in happens when specific pixels on an OLED panel degrade differently from those around them, creating a persistent shadow in the image.

OLED manufacturers downplay this issue. LG said in 2016 that its OLED televisions can endure 100,000 hours before they degrade to half their original maximum brightness. The company’s current OLED reliability page says that “reasonable, responsible usage” should not result in burn-in.

Want to see the effects yourself? I recommend Rting’s burn-in testing page, which shows results over a period of eight years (though, unfortunately, Rtings has not updated its result since February of 2020). This testing shows OLED degradation is indeed a thing, though its severity depends on how you use your display.

You might decide the risk is worth the reward. But if you want a display that you’ll use all day, day after day, for a decade or more, OLED isn’t the best choice. The burn-in is real.

Monitor pricing remains a sore point for PC enthusiasts. As explained in my deep-dive on upcoming OLED monitors, pricing is tied to the efficiency of production.

“OLEDs are less costly than MiniLEDs in tablets and notebooks if comparing them to Apple’s iPad Pro and MacBook Pro,” says Young. “On the other hand, in monitors, OLEDs are more expensive than MiniLEDs, and are not as bright.”

This explanation is backed up by the hardware you can buy today. OLED panels are available at reasonable prices in notebooks like the Dell XPS 13 and Samsung Galaxy Book Pro. OLED panels for monitors, on the other hand, are so expensive most manufacturers don’t even bother. The LG UltraFine 32EP950, which briefly went on sale this summer, retailed for $3,999.99.

Mini-LED is also expensive, but more affordable than OLED. Asus’ 32-inch ROG Swift PG32UQX retails for as little as $2,899.99 and Samsung’s super-ultrawide Odyssey Neo G9 is $2,499.99.

This advantage will likely continue in the near future. OLED pricing is reliant on availability of OLED panels, which are not as widely produced as LCD panels. Companies looking to build Mini-LED displays can design the backlight somewhat independently of the LCD panel and choose panels as needed based on the panel’s capabilities and pricing.

Because of this, there’s more ways for manufacturers to deliver Mini-LED displays in notebooks and monitors, which may lead to a more aggressive reduction in price.

The current OLED vs. Mini-LED battle is give-and-take. Mini-LED wins in brightness, HDR, durability, and pricing (of full-sized monitors). OLED wins in contrast, black levels, viewing angles, and motion performance.

OLED’s big break may come with the introduction of new fabs. Young says they will “lower costs significantly for 10-inch to 32-inch panels, giving OLED fabs the same flexibility as G8.5 LCD fabs, meaning the ability to target multiple applications from a single fab.” The first of these new fabs should start producing panels by 2024.

Affordable OLED seems alluring, but Wyatt champions a different approach. He believes the Micro-LED technology championed by Pixel Display will meld the strengths of LCD and OLED while ditching the weaknesses of both.

However, Micro-LED is a technology more relevant to the latter half of this decade. The more immediate fight will see OLED attempt to improve brightness and durability while Mini-LED pursues increasingly sophisticated backlights to mimic the contrast of OLED.

Personally, I think Mini-LED shows more promise—when it comes to PC displays, at least. The static images, long hours, and sustained brightness of Mini-LED displays pinches on OLED pain points, which will remain even if pricing becomes more affordable.

If you’re looking to upgrade your TV to the best possible big-screen experience, a Mini-LED TV is what"s going to give you next-level picture performance.

Most TVs on the market are powered by LED, thanks in large part to their brightness and longevity. An LED TV uses an LCD panel, and LEDs function as the backlight, or “engine” of the TV, shining through the LCD panel to make your picture. While the LCD shows the picture, the more light that comes through from the LEDs, the brighter, more vibrant, and more colorful the picture will be.

Mini-LEDs, as the name suggests, are smaller LED diodes that around 0.2 millimetres in size or smaller. Because they’re smaller, manufacturers of Mini-LED TVs (like in TCL"s 6-Series) are able to pack in a higher number of LEDs compared to standard LED TV backlights—in some models upwards of 25,000 micrometer class Mini-LEDs—compared with maybe a few hundred on a traditional TV.

TCL introduced the world’s first Mini-LED TV in 2019 and has continued to produce TVs using this revolutionary technology thanks to its powerful picture performance. TCL’s 3rd generation of Mini-LED technology has been introduced, as other TV brands were just introducing their first!

While this type of TV delivers great dark room viewing, they even shine in bright rooms (pun intended). Imagine having your buddies over in the middle of the day to catch a ball game. You’ve got the blinds up and are letting in natural light so that you can entertain. That’s where thousands of Mini-LEDs make a difference to produce a bright, vibrant picture – under all lighting conditions.

This is a huge benefit compared to other TV technologies that don’t get bright enough and only perform their best in a dark room with controlled lighting.

TCL’s Mini-LED TVs feature Contrast Control Zones™ technology, also known as local dimming, which uses the Mini-LEDs to deliver dramatic contrast between bright and dark areas of an image simultaneously. Using this technology is the only was an LED TV can display the blackest-blacks and whitest-whites on screen at the same time.

Picture a scene in a movie of a pre-dawn horizon. It starts mostly dark, right? Then the sun starts to peek over the horizon at sunrise. On a Mini-LED TV, that sun really lights up, in a captivating, lifelike picture, while the rest of the sky around it still displays deep, inky blacks.

The striking brightness of a Mini-LED TV works with powerful contrast control to produce more dramatic highlights and an ultra-vivid picture so close to reality, it makes you forget you"re looking at a screen.

Mini-LED TVs offer more powerful pixels as we’ve discussed, lending themselves to delivering great contrast and a life-like picture. But they also produce intense colors.

TCL’s Mini-LED TVs also feature QLED, or quantum dot technology. It’s another technology pioneered by TCL, having launched the world’s first big-screen TV with QLED several years ago.

Remember learning about colors in grade school? Do you recall mixing two colors together to get a new color? With QLED, TCL TVs start with a palette of over a billion colors to display out of the box. Combining that huge color space with the brightness of Mini-LEDs lends not only a colorful picture, but one that’s vibrant and lifelike no matter the lighting conditions!

TCL has a selection of Mini-LED TVs with a wide range of features and performance levels. Best of all, you can upgrade to a wide range of sizes, even wall-devouring screen sizes.

Imagine a more immersive way to enjoy your favorite sports, movies, and video games. At 75-inches and above, a TCL big-screen TV (especially one with Mini-LED technology) can take your viewing to the next-level.

Dramatic contrast for amazing detail. Stunning color accuracy and incredible realism. Vibrant picture, even in the brightest rooms. TCL"s Mini-LED TVs sure do stand out.

While other TV display technologies do certain things well, most fall short in offering so many benefits to viewers. Mini-LED technology is becoming synonymous with the best TV experience simply because it checks so many of the boxes that most people look for in a new big-screen TV.

Even the likes of Apple have embraced the power of Mini-LED