Unless you buy a MicroLED for tens of thousands of dollars, regular LED-LCD TVs don’t have the benefit of being able to switch off individual pixels, like OLED TVs. The result, unfortunately, is that LED TVs can’t achieve the same deep, inky black-levels that the best OLED TVs have on offer.
But there are ways around this — to the extent where some LED TVs are approaching OLED black-levels. How? With local dimming. Local dimming has allowed LED TVs to compete, and even exceed, OLED TVs in image quality.
