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Sony Bravia XR X95L Mini LED

The Sony Bravia XR X95L Mini LED and its “disappearing” legs.
The Sony Bravia XR X95L Mini LED and its “disappearing” legs. Photo: Carlos Zahumenszky / Gizmodo

Think the A95L, but with a Mini LED panel, and you will have a perfect idea of what the X95L has to offer. Mini LED TVs are… you guessed it. They are LCD-LED screens with smaller LEDs. The LCD Panels that define colors of a TV Screen do not emit their own light, so they need a layer underneath that provides that light. Reduce the size of the LEDs that form that white light layer and you have the Mini LED technology.

Mini LED TVs don’t offer the same brutal contrast that’s in QD-OLED or OLED counterparts (in which the pixels are capable of lighting up on their own, allowing them to turn off completely and create perfect blacks), but they greatly help to improve contrast, reduce blooming and cut power consumption. That’s because the smaller the LED, the easier it is to create more “local dimming zones,” which collectively group LEDs in them to fit a certain brightness. Sony’s claiming a 60% increase in local dimming zones this time around. The X85L will be available in 85, 75, and 65-inch sizes.