What Does Mini-LED Mean?
Mini-LED is a new type of display technology, like LCD and LED, and OLED before it. It’s a display panel technology that focuses on two critical things.
First, it uses tiny diodes, around 0.2mm or smaller (hence the name). That’s super small, even smaller than the “quantum dot” diodes used by Samsung’s QLED technology.
Second, these tiny diodes can offer “full array local dimming” which means it can dim the backlights very, very accurately anywhere in the screen, allow for better contrast ratios, truer blacks, and better brightness results – along with much better HDR compatibility.
The technology for mini-LEDs has been in development for several years. However, limited production methods, high energy costs, and high expenses for producing the screens kept them off the market until production was significantly refined as other technologies caught up.
Mini-LED displays are meant to be a direct competitor to OLED screens.