LG’s new ‘QNED’ TVs will have up to nearly 30,000 tiny LEDs behind the screen

LG might be the company that's most similar with OLED TVs, but tonight IT's announcing what to expect from its Liquid crystal display-based sets in 2021. The like other manufacturers including TCL receive already through (and Samsung is expectable to soon join in along), LG is adopting Mini LED technology for its premium LCD 8K and 4K TVs coming future year.

LG says Mini LED allows for "a giant leap forward in LCD TV picture superior." The best LCD TVs nowadays have what's named "full-raiment local dimming," where LEDs — in some cases hundreds of them — do every bit the backlighting behind the screen out. These posterior represent restrained in zones, and each zone can be low-beam Eastern Samoa appropriate for dour scenes, which helps amend hopeless levels and contrast.

Mini LED changes up the scheme a bit by using overmuch little LEDs (but style to a greater extent of them) for greater direct contrast than TVs that might apical out at a couple hundred dimming zones.

In LG's shell, the company says its new backlight "comprises up to nigh 30,000 tiny LEDs that get incredible peak brightness and a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1 when paired with up to 2,500 dimming zones and innovative topical anaestheti dimming zones." The end ensue is better contrast, more dynamic HDR, and improved discolour truth over the company's prior LCD sets. Like all of LG's 2020 flagships, refresh rates of up to 120Hz are supported.

LG has branded these top-ending LCD TVs as "QNED," with the Q referring to quantum window pane color and the N presumably standing for LG's "NanoCell" branding. It comes off a little awkward — especially since TV shoppers will have to contend with a mix of OLED, QLED, and QNED TVs when at their topical anaestheti Best Buy.

The closest equivalence for LG's QNED TVs would be something like TCL's 8 Series, which contains 25,000 LEDs in around 1,000 control zones. (LG says the QNED will come in sizes up to 86 inches, which is the one I'm guessing those earlier numbers pool come through from.) TCL's 6 Series likewise uses Mini LEDs, though the complete number is some lower than the pricey 8 Series.

*Shrinking the LEDs allows Television makers to use many much of them for greater line and better blacks.*

Only as the leading OLED Telly denounce, LG is being careful to underline that OLED is still where the absolute best picture can be had — even with all these advancements on the LCD side. 2020 proverb Vizio enter the OLED TV field and try to undercut LG on price, but LG ISN't about to easily give up its place at the elevation. (Sony too makes high-close OLEDs; all three companies use panels from LG Display.)

Last, wear't make the mistake of mixing up Mini LED with MicroLED. Think about Mini LED as another evolution of Liquid crystal display TVs, whereas MicroLED is a more radical upgrade that removes the backlight from the equation altogether (just like-minded OLED) and combines millions of person-emissive LEDs that entirely deficient up when they're needed. MicroLED TVs are still outrageously expensive, and piece we won't know pricing for LG's QNED TVs for a fewer more months, it should Be much less center-popping.