Other than OLED, two of the top-performing TV technologies are mini-LED and QLED. While neither offer OLED's incredible image quality, they're close and most often brighter. These two display types also typically cheaper and available in a wider range of screen sizes. They're more similar than different, which is good news for anyone trying to decide between the two.

Both mini-LED and QLED use LEDs, aka light-emitting diodes, to create light. In front of that backlight is an LCD layer that creates the image. This is different from OLED and microLED where the light-creating and image-creating parts are the same. We've reviewed TVs using all these technologies and several have regularly made it onto our guide for the best TVs .

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