Mini-LED backlight technology has been increasing in popularity over the past few years, and is now a feature commonly found in the best 4K TVs. Budget brand TCL was the first to offer sets with mini-LED, and it was soon followed by Samsung, LG, and now Hisense.
The key picture quality benefits to mini-LED are brightness and contrast: sets featuring the technology are capable of much higher light output than even the best OLED TVs, while the clusters of tiny LEDs used for their backlights can be modulated to deliver deep, OLED-like blacks and refined shadow detail via a process called local dimming.
While the Mini-LED sets from Samsung and LG have been relatively costly, with the former’s flagship QN95B Neo QLED 4K TV starting at $2,300 for a 55-inch model, TCL has managed to keep prices for its smaller-screen models capped at under $1,000. They are now joined by Hisense, which…
