Mini LED displays are coming soon to your favorite screen, making images brighter, more contrasty, and almost as good as OLED. And all without increasing the price of your favorite gadgets.

Expect to see a lot of Mini LED displays in 2021, in TVs, laptops and even iPads. The advantage of this display technology is that it can deliver superior images, but without the cost and hassle of producing large OLED displays. It’s going to be big (literally).

"I believe that with smaller pixel elements [mini-LED] the black levels and overall image quality improve," tech writer Orestis Bastounis told Lifewire via Twitter. "Blacks get closer to 'true' black—still not as good as OLED, a pixel that emits no light because it's completely turned off, but closer."

A standard display in today’s laptops and tablets consists of two parts: a backlight layer and a layer of colored LCD pixels on top of that. The backlight shines through the pixels, adding color, and can also be turned opaque to block out the backlight. The problem is that the backlight can still leak through the pixel layer, causing a halo effect. To combat this, the display can turn off parts of the backlight, but the backlight sections are relatively large, so they still shine through.