LG Electronics has announced that the first ever LG QNED Mini-LED TV will be available to South African consumers in October this year. First unveiled at CES 2021, LG QNED Mini-LED TVs combine the brand’s state-of-the-art NanoCell filtering technology with Quantum Dot colour enhancement and mini-LED backlighting. LG has called it a “revolutionary leap in the world of modern television”, and it is. QNED Mini-LED tech has taken LCD technology to new heights, delivering better contrast, more accurate colours, and HDR quality far beyond conventional LCD displays.
Take a closer look
LCD TVs rely on backlighting to illuminate every pixel, which has a direct effect on the level of brightness and colour accuracy of the display. The problem with conventional LCD displays is that backlighting is unevenly distributed and poorly controlled, causing backlighting to bleed into dark pixels or creating a halo effect around objects in a darker scene. This is where QNED technology provides a solution.
While normal LCD TVs usually only have a few hundred LEDs, LG’s QNED TVs use up to 30,000 mini-LEDs in their backlights. These mini-LEDs are not only greater in number but also much smaller, allowing them to produce brighter images at a much greater level of detail. QNED Mini-LED TVs also feature Full-Array Local Dimming, which dims the light source behind a certain part of your screen to match the picture demands, with the improved precision of 2500 dimming zones. With more mini-LEDs and more dimming zones, the QNED Mini-LED TV’s backlighting is more luminous while producing deeper blacks with less bleeding, giving it an impressive 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. A typical LCD display has a contrast ratio of only 1000:1.
LG’s QNED Mini-LED TV is also the first display in the world to use both NanoCell and Quantum Dot technologies. NanoCell uses nanoparticles to filter and refine colour impurities for more accurate and richer colours. Along with Quantum Dot colour enhancement, which uses semiconducting nanocrystals to boost the brightness and widen the colour gamut, LG QNED Mini-LEDs bring together the latest LCD technologies all in a single TV. Combine that with the fact that they’re coming to South Africa in stunning 4K resolution, which has four times more pixels than a standard full HD television – and a smooth 120Hz refresh rate – these TVs are going to be a feast for the eyes.
The tech inside QNED Mini-LED TVs
QNED Mini-LED TVs have a lot more to them than just their cutting-edge hardware. LG’s 4th generation ?9 AI processor uses deep-learning algorithms to perform scene analysis and categorise content into one of four scene types — Scenery, Night, City, and Other – which enhances the picture quality based on what you’re watching. The TVs also come standard with Dolby Vision – essentially a better version of HDR – which similarly optimises picture quality for a broader range of contrast and colour depth.
QNED Mini-LED TVs perform similar enhancements for sound. LG AI Sound Pro identifies voices, effects, and frequencies and optimises the sound according to the genre. The AI can also up-mix two-channel sound to convincingly recreate 5.1.2 surround sound, allowing movie-lovers to watch older classics with more immersive audio. Additionally, these TVs come with Dolby Atmos which produces true 3D audio by adding a height dimension to sound, and places individual sounds more accurately within the ‘soundscape’ of your living room.
A new benchmark for LCD
Today’s technologies are improving at an incredible pace. LG has certainly set a new benchmark for best-of-class LCD displays, and with their 75-inch QNED Mini-LED 90 Series 4K Smart TVs being brought to South Africa, we’re going to have a good reason to stay glued to our screens this year.
CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za.
