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by zokier 2180 days ago
FALD has been a thing long since before mled was spun up. As far as I can tell, mled is just a marketing term for slightly higher number of dimming zones.
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Mini led is supposed to be quite a lot higher number of zones, but it looks like the controllers / algorithms aren't ready yet. Regular FALD tvs generally have 16-800 zones.

The tcl 8 series tv is the only miniled one i know of, and has 25000 minileds.

Unfortunately they are grouped such that there are only about 900 zones, which is very disappointing. Hopefully the next generation of miniled will deliver the hype.

If the number of dimming zones approaches the number of pixels, that could make a pretty big difference.
Approaches, but very slowly. Jumping from 1000 zones to 10000 zones might seem impressive, but it is still pretty far cry from 8+ million pixels of a typical 4k screen.