TVs may not sound like as sexy as smartphones, but there’s still plenty of innovation happening behind the scenes. Case in point: Sony’s recent reveal of an upcoming RGB backlight technology that could help LCD TVs rival OLEDs in picture quality.
Despite the extremely dry headline: “Next-Generation Display System with Proprietary Signal Processing Technology for Individual RGB Control of High-Density LED Backlights”, what Sony is trying to say isn’t that complicated. Basically, the Japanese TV maker has created an RGB backlight for Mini-LED TVs.
What you should know is that the backlight for modern Mini-LED TVs is typically white or blue. This backlight — enabled by many mini LEDs (hence Mini-LED TV) —along with a quantum-dot layer, and the actual LCD screen, work together to create the images on a Mini-LED TV. Sony’s idea is to use a backlight that can produce three colours (Red, Green and Blue) by using a host of mini RGB LEDs.
This switch to RGB LEDs means that the back…
