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by account42 927 days ago
Eh, depending on the size of the dimming zones, the halo can be much worse than the shitty LCD contrast it is trying to improve. At the extreme you have edge-lit displays which is just 100% useless at improving the contrast in any realistic scene while introducing very noticeable giant halos for mostly-black screens. You can get used to global shittiness but local and temporal artifacts will always stand out.

It's all just an ugly hack compared to real emissive display technology where each pixel can be set to any value on the full brightness range individually.