Today’s televisions are saturated with various technologies, and manufacturers are more than ever trying to use more such technologies to better compete with other companies. Amidst such a deluge of information, one can easily get lost and fall for marketing slogans.
In the article below, you will find out which technologies currently used in TVs make a difference and what you should pay attention to when buying new equipment.
Zone backlighting is a concept that is talked about relatively little. But this is not because it is an unnecessary or unimportant technology – quite the contrary, it’s essential. Manufacturers, however, tend to put it only in more expensive models because its implementation is simply very expensive and raises the final price of the device.
How does the zone backlighting work? In simple terms, it can be said that it is responsible for local brightening and dimming of the image and guarantees phenomenal contrast. With Mini LED screens, such impressions are guaranteed by thousands of small LEDs controlled by the device.
Due to the zonal blanking of individual groups of pixels, the television can turn off the areas of the screen that are “unnecessary” at the moment and illuminate only those where you can see an image.
This makes it possible, for instance, to show subtitles accurately on a black background without the so-called “halo effect”, to display very bright points on a dark background and generally improve the visibility of the image on a black background. Similarly, things work in bright scenes, with all screen areas illuminated as the content creators planned.
While LED TVs equipped with zone backlighting do quite well with zone blanking, you’ll see the best results if you buy a TV made with Mini LED or OLED technology.
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