Unlike other hardware specifications (which are usually listed on the side of a TV box or on the manufacturer’s website), information about a TV’s LCD panel type is a bit more inside ... picture ...

With IPS and VA monitors side ... being used to light up the picture, the brightness and contrast can be more finely and accurately controlled. MiniLED and microLED panels use smaller, more ...

and VA panels – in that order – with the VA panel being obviously much darker. Note, image brightness is falsely high in these photos to demonstrate the effect. Which LCD panel type is best ...

and noticing how doing so caused local picture distortion of the sort you get with VA panels, but not IPS panels. Once I’d noticed it, though, LG confirmed with me that VA panels are being used ...