LONDON—The latest Omdia Mini LED Backlight Market Tracker indicates that LCD TV displays equipped with mini-LED backlight units will hit 6.2 million units in 2024 and surpass the OLED TV display ...

Despite having a different acronym, an LED TV is just a specific type of LCD TV, which uses a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel to control where light is displayed on your screen and is backlit ...

The evolution of TV tech seems to move at a lightning pace. But if you already keep your eyes peeled for the latest AV trends, you may have already heard of RGB Mini LED. Sony, Hisense, Samsung, and ...

These screens work by the LCD panel being placed in front of a bright backlight, and only letting light through at bright parts of the picture. Since LCD isn’t a perfect attenuator, some of the ...

and I still remember the cold and hot spots on my first LCD monitor being so bad that I thought there was something wrong with it. Since then, LCDs have been upgraded with LED backlights ...

But a simple "LCD" designation doesn't tell you how a screen will perform. You need more information, like the backlight type the panel uses—usually LED, followed by the more expensive Mini LED.

Fortunately, with some care and attention, you can troubleshoot and fix the backlight issue. Here is how to fix backlight on ...

The backlight turns on when ... and it lights up. An LED display, meanwhile, combines this simple notion with the existing principles of an LCD. Rather than a single, overarching source of light ...

You’ll also see lots of references to LED TVs, but these are really LCD TVs; they just use LEDs in their backlights. The term LED TV surfaced more than a decade ago when companies switched from ...

This typically means the entire backlight will light up and the LCD layer will struggle to block it to display black or dark content. A mini-LED display does still use a layer of liquid crystals.

Mini-LED: Local Dimming on a Smaller Scale The backlights on most LCD displays are usually lit up across the entire screen, but TVs found a way to get better contrast by introducing local dimming.

Some 4K TVs have QLED or OLED displays, but most are LCD, and many of those have LED backlights. When you're shopping for a new TV, these are the sets you'll come across most often. We're going to ...