What's the Difference between SMD and DIP LED Display ?

When turned off the visual appearance of a SMD screen and a DIP screen is different. When turned on, their rendering is similar.

In a DIP display, all LEDs are visible and separated from one another. For each point on the screen, you can see the red led, the green led and the blue led. These LEDs are also in relief, which sometimes gives a non homogenous contrast compared to certain SMD models that are flat and don’t reflect external light. Finally the DIP technology proposes the technology of the “Virtual Pitch” which consists of adding a fourth LED, white, to accentuate the definition and the rendering of the screen. This DIP technology is mainly used for outdoor solutions because it does not easily allow to go below the “Pitch” 7 and because it is globally more robust in time. SMD vs DIP: the DIP still wins the outdoor game.