When it comes to televisions, OLED panels have become highly desirable because of their superb picture quality. OLED achieves its picture performance in part due to one key characteristic: It has individually illuminated pixels. When an OLED pixel is turned off, it’s completely black, which gives OLED TVs their much-vaunted “infinite contrast.”
What is a mini-LED TV? Mini-LED TVs are essentially the same as standard LED TVs, except that where LED TVs sometimes use up to a few hundred individual LEDs in their backlights, mini-LED TVs use thousands of much smaller LEDs in the same space. FALD backlight zones can be synchronized with bright and dark regions of the picture. This drastically reduces the TV’s reliance on its LCD panel to block light — instead, it simply dims the appropriate zone.
Why not all mini-LED TVs will deliver better picture quality If mini-LED TVs address the contrast issue so effectively, should we assume a mini-LED TV will be just as good as OLED? No.