Quantum dot TVs beat RGB LED TVs, says the company that makes QDs for TVs

At the Los Angeles Convention Center, two 85-inch TVs sat side by side inside the Nanosys meeting room at Display Week — a yearly business-to-business convention focusing on the technology that goes into displays of all types. One TV was a mini-LED panel with super quantum dots, and the other was an RGB LED — this year’s hottest TV trend. Both TVs were showing the same content at the same time to highlight the differences between the two technologies — or more specifically, to show the potential failings of RGB LED backlights when compared to super quantum dot (SQD), which uses blue LEDs for the backlight. I should probably mention that Nanosys made the quantum dots in the first TV. During the side-by-side demo, the TVs played the same content simultaneously for easy comparison. Photo by John Higgins / The Verge The TV on the right, with the Nanosys super quantum dots, was labeled as the TCL X11L — the striped lower grille confirming as much — and the other was most likely the TCL RM9L. Nanosys wouldn’t confirm as much, but I’ve seen the RGB LED TVs from Hisense, Samsung, LG, and Sony in person, and it wasn’t any of those. Jeff Yurek, vice president of marketing at Nanosys, informed me that both TVs were in Filmmaker Mode and color was set to native to allow both to hit the largest gamut possible. As a quick refresher, RGB LED TVs use red, green, and blue LEDs grouped into zones to create a colored backlight based on the image displayed on screen. …