LG may be the company that is generally synonymous from OLED TVs, however this evening it’s reporting what’s in store from its LCD-based sets in 2021. Like different makers including TCL have just done (and Samsung is relied upon to before long participate on), LG is embracing Mini LED innovation for its top notch LCD 8K and 4K TVs coming one year from now.

LG says Mini LED takes into consideration “a giant leap forward in LCD TV picture quality.” The best LCD TVs today have what’s classified “full-array local dimming,” where LEDs — now and again many them — fill in as the backdrop illumination behind the screen. These can be controlled in zones, and each zone can be diminished as suitable for dark scenes, which improves black levels and difference.

Little LED changes up the technique a piece by utilizing a lot more modest LEDs (yet route a greater amount of them) for more noteworthy difference than TVs that may finish out at several hundred diminishing zones.

For LG’s situation, the company says its new backlight “comprises up to almost 30,000 tiny LEDs that produce incredible peak brightness and a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1 when paired with up to 2,500 dimming zones and advanced local dimming zones.”

The final product is better difference, more unique HDR, and improved shading precision over the company’s earlier LCD sets. Like the entirety of LG’s 2020 leaders, invigorate paces of up to 120Hz are supported.

LG has marked these upper-end LCD TVs as “QNED,” with the Q alluding to quantum speck tone and the N apparently representing LG’s “NanoCell” branding. It falls off somewhat off-kilter — particularly since TV customers should fight with a blend of OLED, QLED, and QNED TVs when at their nearby Best Buy.

The nearest correlation 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 speculating those prior numbers come from.) TCL’s 6 Series additionally utilizes Mini LED, however the complete number is a lot of lower than the expensive 8 Series.

However, as the main OLED TV brand, LG is being mindful so as to underline that OLED is still where the most perfect picture can be had — even with every one of these headways on the LCD side. 2020 saw Vizio enter the OLED TV field and attempt to undercut LG on cost, however LG isn’t going to effectively surrender its situation at the top. (Sony additionally makes top of the line OLEDs; each of the three companies use boards from LG Display.)

Last, don’t make the mistake of mixing up Mini LED with MicroLED. Consider Mini LED another development of LCD TVs, though MicroLED is a more extreme overhaul that eliminates the backdrop illumination from the condition through and through (much the same as OLED) and consolidates a large number of self-emissive LEDs that possibly light up when they’re required. MicroLED TVs are still outrageously costly, and keeping in mind that we won’t know estimating for LG’s QNED TVs for a couple of more months, it should be substantially less eye-popping.