{"id":2393,"date":"2020-11-20T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalview.com\/blog\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2020-12-20T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T22:37:06","slug":"led-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalview.website\/blog\/led-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"LED Terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ever since a well-known TV manufacturer started marketing LCD TVs with LED backlights as LED TV&#8217;s there has been confusion over LED terminology.  The following is only a guide as no one seems to stick to terminology with 100% consistency:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>MiniLED<\/strong> is most commonly used by the LCD TV industry to refer to a moderately high-resolution LED backlight to an LCD display designed to provide higher contrast. The LED video wall industry also refers to mini-LED for its higher resolution LED panels, for example, 0.6mm to around 1.0mm dot pitch seems to attract mini-LED descriptions. <\/li><li><strong>MicroLED<\/strong>: From what I see on the Internet, so far Micro-LED only refers to direct-view LED displays (see next item) and is the next level of high resolution for LED. Competing with other TV display technologies Micro-LED will potentially be a direct challenger to LCD and OLED technologies.  <\/li><li><strong>Direct view LED<\/strong>, or as I have also seen it written, DVLED, refers to LED displays without an LCD in front. A distinction may arise that for large direct-view LED-based displays, the display is made up of many modules tiled to make a complete display. For mobile devices using a micro-LED, and as LED modules get larger, there may be a distinction between single module direct-view LED and tiled module versions.  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether it is as a backlight technology or as a direct-view display, LED has clearly become the most significant display-related technology. That kind of volume is bound to produce continued development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.digitalview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lcd-panel-structure-1024x701.jpg?resize=1024%2C701&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Structure of an LED TV panel showing the LCD front with an LED backlight\" class=\"wp-image-2396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.digitalview.website\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lcd-panel-structure.jpg?resize=1024%2C701&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.digitalview.website\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lcd-panel-structure.jpg?resize=500%2C342&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.digitalview.website\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lcd-panel-structure.jpg?resize=768%2C526&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.digitalview.website\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lcd-panel-structure.jpg?resize=1536%2C1051&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.digitalview.website\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lcd-panel-structure.jpg?w=1844&amp;ssl=1 1844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Structure of an LED TV panel showing the LCD front with an LED backlight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ever since a well-known TV manufacturer started marketing LCD TVs with LED backlights as LED TV&#8217;s there has been confusion over LED terminology. 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