The Samsung Q80B is alright for watching movies in dark rooms. The main downside is that it has a low contrast ratio that makes blacks look gray in dark rooms. Its full-array local dimming feature fails to improve the picture quality in dark scenes, which means there's blooming around bright objects.
You may also find some models labelled with Direct-lit LED panels. This tech is like full array LEDs but without the local dimming feature. Most LED TVs these days come with an IPS panel, but when looking for gaming monitors, you may also come across VA panels. VA panels offer greater levels are contrast but have poor viewing angles.
FALD stands for full-array local dimming and is an expensive, as well as the most premium, type of backlight technology found in LCD displays, including PC monitors and TVs.
FALD, or full-array local dimming, is a fancier kind of LCD. Instead of employing lights around the perimeter of the display, FALD TVs spread the love uniformly across the entire panel.
Full-array TVs have a similar LED placement, but the number of LEDs is significantly more, and these LEDs are divided into different zones. But unlike both direct-lit and full-array TVs, edge-lit TVs have LEDs on the perimeter, and depending on the TV, these LEDs may or may not be grouped into multiple zones. The LED backlight zones in full
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