blooming / haloing on my Asus laptop mini-led screen with 1024 zones is about 10 times WORSE than on my 5 year old Sony TV with only 35 zones ...

so Sony was right, and there is more to local dimming performance than zone count ...

in TVs it is accepted that Sony has the best local dimming algorithm, with Samsung in 2nd place ...

but this Asus Laptop algorithm isn't just worse than LG and Vizio - it doesn't seem to have one at all.

of course to get the best local dimming performance on Sony you need to select Cinema mode which adds like 100 milliseconds of delay and even 5 milliseconds would be unacceptable on a gaming machine ...

still, the main reason the Asus screen mini-led local dimming is so bad is just because it's a 1st gen product ... whereas Sony FALD ( full array local dimming ) is like 10th generation ...

well actually when it comes to Mini-LED Sony is on the 1st gen as well, which is also why i'm skipping this gen of TVs ... my main TV is a 360 zone FALD Sony that does NOT use Mini-LED and is still the pinnacle of TVs ...

the problem with Mini-LED is the zones are sharply defined rectangles with very noticeable edges - whereas on my Z9J Sony the "zones" are each a single LED with a lens diffuser producing a gently feathered out "zone" with no visible edges ...

idiots were sold on Mini-LED based on marketing BS but reality is old FALD tech was better ... however i expect by 3rd gen or so Mini-LED tech will catch up to where normal FALD left off ... the industry had to move to Mini-LED because it is thinner than FALD and customers don't accept thick TVs ...

it's the same as how industry had to move to SUVs because customers wouldn't accept station wagons, despite station wagons being better than SUVs in every way ...

status beats practicality every time ...