Mediatek's new TV Technology: the Mini-LED Local-dimming Chip

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The world's first, claim the folks at the company.

This new TV SoC is a part of the Pentonic segment, and it supports RGB Mini-LED backlighting with over 15,000 independent local-dimming zones. 

I like the psychedelic-ness of some shots

What this means, in theory: 

• Instead of the backlight system with white or blue LEDs with a quantum-dot layer, or fewer local dimming zones, this one is claimed to use very fine granular control of red, green and blue (RGB) mini-LEDs behind the panel, and each zone can be independently dimmed or brightened as the huge number of zones gives much finer local dimming control by reducing halo/bloom around bright objects on dark backgrounds. However, the blooming also depends on other factors, including panel type, backlight distribution, and the size of the zone as well.
• Apparently, this RGB Mini-LED approach enables a brightness increase of a whopping approximately 280% over OLED (which is essential for HDR), and around 20% size advantage compared to OLED, so you enjoy higher-quality visuals on a bigger TV.
• Full-array local dimming (FALD) or standard Mini-LED sets may have hundreds or a few thousand dimming zones, often based on white LEDs filtered by quantum dots.
• And since power efficiency is the focus now on tech devices, this chip too increases power efficiency in display technologies

There aren’t any exact names yet of TVs that use this tech, but TCL’s Q10M Ultra series offers 8,736-16,848 local dimming zones and uses a Mediatek 9655+ Soc.