Anyone got one? Now the prices are coming down, wondered if anyone could give their experience of it. Just a quick look in a shop is never the same as living with one.
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Anyone got one? Now the prices are coming down, wondered if anyone could give their experience of it. Just a quick look in a shop is never the same as living with one.
was in Pissy World yesterday
one of the staff had a T-Shirt with the slogan
"It's OLED, not OLED."
I still haven't got a clue
tim
Are you sure it wasn't "It's QLED, not OLED"?
Samsung have been using it in an ad campaign for their qled TVs.
Very thin screen as no backlight. Screen pixels are comprised of actual LEDs so you get zero colour shift or brightness +-90 degrees vertically and horizontally unlike LCD screen which require a backlight (as in an LED backlight) and rely on light polarization to modulate light transmission. As screen is made up of LED's they can turn fully off, giving maximum blacks and therfore a very high contrast ratio. We have had one for 3 years now, would not ever go back to an LCD based screen.
Yeah and QLEDs *do* have (LED) backlights.
Any sign of screen-burn? Or do you think it's been overcooked as an issue?
Yup, I have a 4K LG OLED... TL;DR summary, yup I like it, and would buy again.
This one IIRC:
Upscaled SD content is impressive. HD very good. 4K in resolution terms is better - but not massively so (depending a bit on screen size and viewing distance), however most 4K stuff is also HDR[2], and that is a noticeable and dramatic enhancement, transforming the image into something pretty close to cinematic.
Pros I don't care about: most of it is very thin and would look flash on a stand (however, given the way its mounted [1] its wasted on me). The sound on it is ok for a flat screen - but I never use it since its setup as part of a proper surround sound system.
Cons: There is a very slight halo effect around high contrast areas on some scenes, that tweaking sharpness etc does not quite get rid off. (current models may have fixed this)
Very dark scenes on non HDR stuff can show some solarisation down in the close to black levels. Note this may be a limitation of the content rather than the TV though since its not obvious in HDR stuff.
There is also sometimes a shadow image style artifact - looks a bit like mild screen burn, and is a feature of many OLED displays. Its not permanent, and the TV will clear it from time to time - but now and then you will see some artefact of something that was displayed previously when showing a background of a single colour.
[1] The chap in Sevenoaks's hifi was bigging up how slim it was... I mentioned that as long at it was less than about a foot deep I did not care since I knew what I was going to build it into:
I once had some screen burn - last Christmas I put a 4k Youtube video on it of a log fire - just to be chrissmassy. Was on about 4 hours and could detect the fire on video after that for a day or two. Its not so much a burn as a difference in emissivity of the different colour LED's if they have been thrashed for a while. As I say it completly went after a couple of days as the TV calibrated it out. The TV has a setting where it can remove fixed artifacts in the backgrount when the TV is on standby. I'm guessing it recalibrates/normalises each LEDs drive current as it apparently takes several hours to recal the whole panel.
Nice cabinet. The tv fits very tidily.
I wanted to fit a 65", but could not come up with a design where it looked right.
Indeed!
I'm thinking of doing something similar in an alcove. Your design seems to set the TV a little high maybe? And is that a soundbar, or a centre speaker underneath the TV? I'm trying to work out if I can fit a centre and two front speakers in a 1m wide space.
What is Qled then? Brian
One issue I do have with leds generally is there non linearity with current and voltage. I wonder if they have finally conquered the sample variation to make this idea work, and how do they keep them cool and long lived enough I wonder? Brian
They do have powerful processing in the set, not sure if that includes per pixel calibration on OLED sets, I know the backlit LCDs divide the screen into many areas and use selective dimming on each.
Some TVs do have fans in them, probably harder to squeeze in now with such thin screens.
quantum dots, here's a speech-based video about them
A mate has the new top of the range Sony OLED, yes of course it's very, very nice but even showing content from a 4K Blue Ray, my eyes can't really see what the fuss is about. (6/5 6/6 uncorrected with normal colour vision before anyone asks :) )
Oh and it is *not* as bright as the Samsung Qled, due to design constraints. Of course in a dark room that is probably not going to matter to anyone.
Would a "Home cinema calibration" make it look any better? Possibly, but he is the type to drill down therough comments on AVS and similar fora and set it up appropriately.
Should mention that I have an OLED Android tablet and I don't find the display on that any better that SWMBO's iPad...
Have been looking at such things as I have been in PCW and other places. Some fo the screens look really good.
Trouble is, none of the better technologies are available under forty inches. We have 32" at present, and wouldn't mind increasing size slightly - maybe 90cm/35", but we neither need nor want 40"+. Please, someone, make an intermediate size?
Most now jump from 80cm/32" to 110cm/43" - though there are quite a few 100cm/40" models.
It isn't that we couldn't make the space so much as we see no reason to have such a large television as we can both see it perfectly well.
Reading that back it sounds a bit trolly or tinged with jealousy ;) That wasn't the intent. I'd like to qualify that I meant I personally don't find the mid to high OLED is *that superior* to a recent high end LCD. Of course it's going to be very much better than older or "budget" LCD panels.
Said mate from previous post also recently changed his main speakers because "they don't sound right" - needless to say the replacements don't sound any different to me :) :)
Really? I'm space limited to 43" and I've not seen any OLEDs of that size. Admittedly I haven't looked that hard . . .
Then there's content - I don't have ready access to HDR/UHD material. I think I'm right in saying I'd need to subscribe to Netflix or somesuch for HDR/UHD? Which I don't fancy doing right now.
Generally, though, I'm OK with my LG 4k TV. I'd like blacker blacks, a decent processor driving the smarts, and better off-axis viewing. But it can wait.
There a QLED of 43:
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