5 Best Mini-LED TVs in 2024

In the world of televisions, there are many technologies to choose from. While LED, QLED, and OLEDs are the more popular panel technologies in the market right now, mini-LED panel TVs are quickly becoming popular because of their high price-to-performance ratio. In this list, we bring to you the best mini-LED TVs that you can buy.

Hisense U8K

Hisense claims this TV can touch 1500 nits peak brightness in HDR. For context, this is generally double and in some cases triple the number that most OLEDs can do. Plus thanks to the fact that it has a high number of dimming zones, this TV can provide excellent contrast for improved dynamic range.

TCL QM8

Much like the option above, the TCL QM8 also offers a high price-to-performance ratio and a rich feature set that’s tailored for gamers and cinema buffs alike. Interestingly, this one is a Google TV — something that helps make it an easier recommendation. While the dark scene performance of the U8K is generally on point, the only place it suffers is in terms of color accuracy in tricky scenes.

LG QNED85

It uses the company’s advanced α7 Gen5 AI Processor which helps the TV upscale low resolution content well. Plus, thanks to LG’s color science, the TV is also capable of providing accurate colors in most scenes. The dark scene performance of the TV is nothing to rave about, so it does suffer in some movies with a lot of dark scenes. But overall, it can be chalked off as a small price to pay for the TV’s high brightness levels and its overall decent performance for reproducing content.

Samsung QN90B

Besides delivering good HDR brightness, the TV can also get sufficiently dark for deep and detailed blacks. The latter is courtesy of its mini-LED backlight being used in tandem with the company’s new Shape Adaptive Light Control System. Samsung QN90B is also a TV that promises vivid images and high levels of color accuracy. But one quick thing to keep in mind before you go ahead and buy this TV: There’s no support for Dolby Vision and the TV only supports HDR 10 and HDR10+ mastered content.

Sony Bravia X93L

This mini-LED TV offers very good picture quality and generally great color reproduction. However, it suffers a little from blooming issues in dark scenes. It also doesn’t provide extremely good viewing angles. For gaming, it’s a decent enough offering as the X93L supports 4K gaming at 120Hz along with Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM). The only drawback here for gamers though is the fact that the HDMI 2.1 interface is restricted to only two out of four HDMI ports.

Are Mini-LED TVs Worth the Hype?

As the name suggests, mini-LED TVs derive from the more easily available LED TVs. They use smaller LEDs than you’d find on standard LED TVs. Ergo, more LEDs are present in the panel as compared to an LED TV of the same size.

This automatically helps them offer better contrast and a far greater number of dimming zones, thus significantly improving the low-light performance of the TV. This coupled with their ability to get bright helps them outshine LED TVs and simpler OLED panels, which remain expensive for the lack of a better descriptor.

While it’s true that mini-LED TVs can’t get completely dark because of their lack of pixel-level control, they can get dark enough and bright depending on the need to provide great contrast ratios. They also do not suffer from issues such as screen burn-in which further makes them great alternatives to OLEDs for watching movies and playing games on them.