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QLED, Dolby Vision, 64-zone local dimming: features basic TVs don’t have at any price
A basic non-smart TV at $279 in 55 inches delivers a standard LED panel with fixed brightness, no HDR processing, no local dimming, and no smart platform. The Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED at the same price delivers Quantum Dot color technology that expands the color gamut beyond what standard LED panels can produce, Dolby Vision IQ that adjusts HDR processing dynamically based on scene content, HDR10+ Adaptive that optimizes brightness and contrast for the ambient lighting in the room, and 64-zone full array local dimming that produces deeper blacks and brighter highlights simultaneously by controlling backlight intensity independently across 64 sections of the panel.
That local dimming specification is worth dwelling on: 64 individual zones means that a dark night sky and a bright moon in the same frame can be rendered with the moon at full brightness while the surrounding sky dims to near-black, which is what separates a convincing HDR image from one where the dark areas look grey because the backlight behind them is also illuminating a bright object in the same zone. Basic LED TVs without local dimming illuminate the entire backlight at a uniform level, which compromises both the darkest and brightest elements of any high-contrast scene simultaneously.
