Mini LED Backlit Gaming Monitor Displays Reviving Game Scenes with Ultimate Image Quality Also targeting at high-end gaming and niche application markets, AUO will exhibit 27 and 32-inch 144Hz gaming monitor displays adopting direct-lit mini LED backlight. Equipped with UHD 4K high resolution and quantum dot wide color gamut, and exceptional local dimming effect combined with 1,000 nits ultra high brightness, the displays boast HDR images to meet the highest VESA DisplayHDR performance level, perfectly capturing both bright and dark image details in games. Furthermore, its bezel-less design provides gamers with lifelike and immersive gaming experience. It looks like we're finally going to be getting some awesome 32' 4K 144hz G/Free Sync panels soon™. As of last year but I think this is the first time they were shown off.

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This doesn't seem to just be the larger version of the 27' 4K 144hz 384 Zone FALD panel that is currently used in the PG27UQ and X27. TFT Central Believes that it's going to be a new breed of local dimming panels supporting more than 1000 zones. AU Optronics also have plans to develop further HDR-capable panels with a new 'mini LED' technology that will offer improvements in HDR local dimming capability over current Full Array Local Dimming (FALD) backlights.

Mini LED offers much smaller chip sizes than normal LED and so can allow AUO to offer far more local dimming zones than even the current/planned FALD backlights that we've seen so far. Those FALD backlights have been limited to around 384 dimming zones on already announced 27' and 32' sized panels discussed above, certainly offering improvements in dimming capability compared with say, edge-lit panels. Improve your photos with dxo optics pro v5 free for macbook pro. The new mini LED backlight systems will support more than 1000 zones on a planned 32' panel, that's expected to go in to production in Q1 2019.

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They are a long way away, and that date could well slip, but it's interesting to see what's coming around the corner with mini LED backlights. Considering the production cost of Mini LED is still relatively high, AUO will first launch the Mini LED-lit gaming monitor, according to Michael Tsai, President and Chief Operating Officer at AUO. The company expects customers in the gaming monitor segment to have a higher price tolerance it is said from recent press releases.

In the future, expect to see even smaller 'micro LED' production to offer even more zones and direct backlighting for HDR displays. There are no dates or expectations from AUO on the use of micro LED yet though. The planned 32' panel from AUO with mini LED will be an AHVA (IPS-type) technology panel and will offer an Ultra HD 3840 x 2160 resolution, 600 cd/m2 brightness (1000 cd/m2 peak), 10-bit colour depth, 99% Adobe RGB gamut and will have two refresh rate options - a 60Hz version and the one we are interested in here for this article, a planned 144Hz version (with 8-bit colour depth on the 144Hz option we believe). Don't expect to see any Mini LED gaming screens until mid-2019 as the panel production is currently forecast for Q1 2019.

Also, what is 'MiniLED'. MiniLED: Poised to Transform LCD MiniLED backlights are poised to transform LCD by reducing the performance gap with OLED by improving contrast ratio and reducing response time. They can also help by providing product differentiation in a highly competitive market. AUO MiniLED BLU AUO's MiniLED BLU MiniLED backlight-based LCD products have the potential to be positioned in between regular LCDs and OLEDs for many different applications including TV, monitors, notebooks, smartphones, automotive and VR. According to suppliers,MiniLED costs are still high, but it does not need big infrastructure and the manufacturing challenges are not that high. Costs reductions are expected in 2019 and beyond.

That is why suppliers such as AUO, BOE, Tianma and many others showcased prototypes of MiniLED-based products in many different sizes and types of applications. MiniLED backlights can also be combined with direct backlight and local area dimming, to provide very high contrast. Tianma received a 'best in the show' award in the large exhibitor category for its 6.46' HDR LTPS LCD smartphone display prototype, with peak brightness above 1000 cd/m² and maximum local contrast over 3,000,000:1 using mini LED backlights.

BOE used MiniLED in its 27' display to get very high brightness and contrast ratio. AUO displayed many products based on MiniLED including a gaming monitor. With expected high LCD capacity coming from 10.5 Gen fabs in the next few years, MiniLED backlights have the potential to truly transform LCD technology with higher performance and open up new opportunities in the next few years.