Special Report
Mini-LED BLU Technology and Mini-LED TV Market
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January 9, 2021
Introduce
Products with more advanced LCDs appear. It is an LCD that has greatly improved brightness, HDR, and color reproducibility by adding QD film and mini-LED to BLU. The existing top-level LCD used a full array local dimming (FALD) BLU with a local dimming zone of about 300 to 500.
When the local dimming zone is increased to more than 3,000 by using mini-LED, the contrast ratio is significantly improved, and the halo effect is reduced compared to FALD BLU LCD TVs. In order to realize the same performance as OLED, the local dimming zone must have as many pixels as the number of pixels, but due to the limitation of LED size reduction, mini-LED TVs to be sold this year will have a local dimming zone of 1,000 to 3,000 products. Driving is a PM method.
A TFT substrate is required for AM driving. It is still under development, and oxide TFT and LTPS TFT are expected to be used.
UBI Research prepared this report, expecting that mini-LED TVs will compete in picture quality with OLED TVs in the future and will grow rapidly.
This report consists of three parts: technical content related to mini-LED BLU, mini-LED TV market forecast through cost analysis, and supply chain.
The mini-LED BLU technology, development status, and mini-LED BLU business feasibility are easy to understand.
Contents
1. Outline
2. Competition Between LCD and OLED
2.1 Limitations of LCD and Advantages of OLED
2.2 OLED’s Dominating Premium TV market and LCD’s Survival Strategy
3. LCD BLU Technology
3.1 LCD Evolution
3.2 BLU Type and Structure
3.3 The Latest Trends in BLU of Set Makers
4. Why Local Dimming Is Necessary
4.1 Why Local Dimming is Necessary
4.2 Local Dimming and Halo Effect
4.3 Local Dimming Zone
5. Mini-LED BLU Technology
5.1 Why We Need a Mini-LED Backlight
5.2 BLU Structure and Thickness Comparison
5.3 LED Size
5.4 Mini-LED Type
5.5 Backplane Type
6. Mini-LED BLU Manufacturing Process
6.1 POB/COB Type LED
6.2 COG Type LED
7. Mini-LED TV Exhibition Trend
7.1 TCL
7.2 LG Electronics
7.3 Changhong
7.4 BOE
8. Mini-LED Application
8.1 Mini-LED TV
8.2 Mini-LED Monitor & Notebook
9. Cost Analysis of Mini-LED BLU for TV
9.1 Cost Calculation Basis and Method
9.2 65-inch Mini-LED BLU Cost Analysis
10. Mini-LED TV Market Forecast
10.1 Mini-LED TV Price Prospect
10.2 Set Makers’ Mini-LED TV Sales Strategy Analysis
10.3 Mini-LED TV Market Forecast
10.4 Mini-LED TV and OLED TV Competition
11. Mini-LED BLU Supply Chain
11.1 Supply Chain
11.2 Supply Chain by Company
11.3 Mini-LED BLU Related Companies
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