The King of OLED TVs is finally getting on that mini-LED train. Last night LG announced that plans to present its first TV ‘QNED’ at CES 2021.
While LG marks the QNED, these high-end LCD TVs will feature mini-LED technology. If you are not familiar with mini LEDs, are basically tiny LEDs that are about one fifth the size of current LEDs. This means that you can get more accurate background lighting, as well as better contrast and brightness, for less than OLED. According Border, LG is calling its version of the mini-LED ‘QNED’ because TVs match the color of the quantum dot (the Q), its proprietary NanoCell technology (the N) and, you know, LEDs (the ED). Just don’t confuse it with QLED and OLED.
LG’s 2021 QNED line will include 10 4K and 8K TVs, with the largest measuring an impressive 86 inches. If you want to dig deeper, the TVs will have 30,000 small LEDs for a declared contrast ratio of 1,000,000: 1 and up to 2,5000 dim zones. Like other flagship TVs from LG, these babies will also have a 120Hz refresh rate. TL; DR – these QNED TVs must have excellent contrast, HDR image quality and better color accuracy than a typical LED TV.
If you want to compare, TCL also uses mini-LEDs in its 8-Series TVs, which have 25,000 LEDs and 1,000 zones, and their Cheapest 6-Series, which has approximately 1,000 LEDs and 240 zones. Samsung is also rumors will launch its first mini LED TVs in the first half of 2021. The wave of mini LED screens is also not limited to TVs. MSI launched a mini LED laptop this year, although there are rumors that Apple can adopt mini LED already in 2021, in up to six gadgets.
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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 will be able to take a peek at the 86-inch 8K LG QNED from January 11th at LG’s virtual booth at CES 2021. However, it probably won’t look as good through our bad webcams.