| Raistline said: Short version: OLED > QLED LCD > LED LCD > LCD. OLED is currently king when it comes to display technology. It allows you to have 100% perfect blacks and is able to display more drastic HDR effects because of it. OLED displays do have more input lag but recent updates put the input lag for the Game Mode settings in line with most other LCD TV's. OLED can technically have burn-in but for the most part the problem is gone. So long as you play a variety of content it should never be an issue. No current TV technology can match the color, contrast, or quality of a good OLED. Quick note, all OLED TV's being manufactured today use an LG panel. So even if you buy a Sony OLED, you are still getting an LG panel. The only real difference will be the firmware and OS. You will not get much quality variance unless the manufacturer somehow fucked up with their firmware causing a reduction in quality. QLED is currently a Samsung only Technology. However the use of Quantum dots is not. For ease of reading and explanation I will refer to all Quantum Dot tech as QLED since it is mostly the same. QLED is just another LCD technology but on a smaller scale. The tech reduces the size of the liquid crystals used in standard LCD and adds more, and thinner layers to each pixel. It also increases the amount of Liquid Crystals per pixel to allow for more color variance and at the same time allows more light to come through. There is still a backlight that goes through a substrate that either blocks light or lets it through based on its current state. While with OLED, each individual pixel is it's own light source. Since QLED LCD tech needs a backlight there is no way for the "Quantum Dots" to block 100% of the light and so you cannot have pure black. A major advantage of QLED though is that it is able to be brighter than OLED because the light source, being a backlight, is larger and capable of outputting more light while using less energy. QLED LCD is much better than standard LED LCD since the Quantum dots allow for a larger color space due to the increased brightness and being more compact. LED LCD is the worst of the three. Since it still uses the older larger LCD substrate. This means that it cannot output as much light or get as either OLED or any Quantum dot based technology. And due to the size and thickness of the liquid crystals it cannot have as many layers and has fewer crystals per pixel. This also reduces the total color output it is capable of. However the picture can be far superior to Standard LCD as it is much brighter due to using LED backlighting instead of old larger, heavier, and hotter CCFL. Finally we have the old LCD. This tech is so outdated that is is not really worth mentioning. It is the least bright of all modern TV techs. It is also the heaviest and produces the most heat. Even now it is hard to find a new TV that uses a CCFL for backlighting. |
Great post. I still use a 10 year old CCFL LCD tv (first generation Sharp Aquos) I've always had the backlight set to lower light output (it's a range depending on ambient light yet limited below maximum) and it's plenty bright to me. Perhaps because I'm used to it, but when I look at tvs in stores they always seem to try to blind me lol. OLED tvs do look nice, especially since they get their own pristine demo material while all the other tvs are stuck with a 720p/1080i cable tv source.
After 9 years of use I finally got HDTV on my Panasonic plasma tv. The panny always looked washed out compared to the LCD yet now it has a proper source it looks a lot better. Deeper colors and blacks, odd that it could never do that with the digital SD source it had the past 9 years.
Anyway the (Q)LED tvs don't look much better than what I have and OLED is still quite expensive here. I'm kinda hesitant putting a brand new CAD 4000 tv in the livingroom with a rather wild 5 and 8 year old. They're playing fat princess coop on ps4 atm, and it still looks great anyway. I wish native 4K projectors would come down in price or rather get made more than just the Sony ones (wich are the wrong 4K 4096x2160). Replacing a 52" tv with a 55" 4K tv seems kinda pointless as I can hardly tell the difference between 720p and 1080p from the couch. HDR laser projector tech is still very expensive unfortunately.
