Mini LED

An LCD backlight made of thousands of tiny LEDs in local-dimming zones for very high brightness and deep blacks.

Mini LED is still an LCD, but its backlight is broken into thousands of tiny LEDs grouped into hundreds or thousands of local-dimming zones. Each zone can dim or brighten independently, giving much deeper blacks and stronger contrast than a conventional LCD.

Its big advantage over OLED is brightness: Mini LED can sustain very high full-screen brightness for punchy HDR without any burn-in risk. The downside is 'blooming', a faint halo around bright objects on dark backgrounds where the dimming zones are coarser than OLED per-pixel control.

Why it matters when buying

Pick Mini LED if you want extreme brightness, HDR highlights and zero burn-in worry, especially for long work sessions or bright rooms. More dimming zones mean less blooming, so check the zone count where it is published.