The king of OLED TVs finally climbs into this mini-LED train. Last night LG announced which plans to present its first ‘QNED’ TV at CES 2021.
While LG the QNED brand, these high-end LCD TVs will feature mini-LED technology. If you are unfamiliar mini-LEDs, are basically small LEDs that are about one-fifth the size of current LEDs. This means you can get more accurate backlighting, as well as better contrast and brightness, for less than the OLED type. According to the Virgin, LG calls its mini-LED version “QNED” because TVs combine both quantum dot color (the Q), its proprietary NanoCell technology (the N), and you know, the LEDs (the ED). Don’t confuse it with QLED and OLED.
LG’s QNED 2021 line will include 10 4K and 8K TVs, with the largest being 86 inches. If you want to delve deeper into the numbers, the TVs will have 30,000 tiny LEDs for a contrast ratio of 1,000,000: 1 and up to 2,5000 dimming zones. Like LG’s other flagship TVs, these babies will also have a 120Hz refresh rate. TL; DR: These QNED TVs should have excellent contrast, HDR picture quality and better color accuracy than a typical LED TV.
If you want to compare, TCL also uses mini LEDs Series 8 The TVs, which have 25,000 LEDs and 1,000 zones, and theirs Cheaper Series 6, which has approx 1,000 LEDs and 240 zones. Samsung is too rumored will launch its first LED mini-TVs during the first half of 2021. The wave of mini-LED screens isn’t limited to TVs either. MSI released a mini LED laptop this year, although it is rumored that Apple can adopt mini-LED already in 2021, up to six devices.
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As with most CES-related ads, we don’t know exactly how much these LG QNED TVs will cost. That said, they will definitely be cheaper than the company’s OLED TVs. At the very least, we’ll be able to watch the 8-inch 86-inch LG QNED from Jan. 11 at LG’s virtual booth at CES 2021. While it probably doesn’t look that good through our webcams shitty.