QLED vs OLED

My 2015 OLED goes blindingly bright and the newer models go even brighter. Mine is calibrated and to get a gamma of 2.2 (my day setting) the brightness and OLED light controls are pretty much in the middle. Though my room doesn't have much in the way of windows. I'd never need brighter than I have now, when scenes transition from dark to light it can hurt my eyes now.

I'd much rather have a TV capable of great blacks that be overly bright, the blacks sure are stunning. It's weird when a black screen is displayed and with my room blacked out I can't even see my hand in front of my face.
 
Superficial said:
Ok fair enough.

I just think it would be more helpful to compare QLED and OLED TV's to the levels of brightness of say near recent LED/LCD TV's rather than a tech which, although very good in many ways, isn't the best comparison when speaking about brightness specifically.
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I get that, my point was more along the lines of it being significantly brighter than a TV a lot of people were happy with.

The brightness argument gets heavily overblown... I have a bright living room during the day... that Panasonic would have struggled in there... but the OLED is more than bright enough for comfortable sunny daytime viewing... so it irks me when people start prattling on about a supposed issue that a few keyboard warriors, who were probably only trying to convince themselves it wasn't worth it because they couldn't afford it and decided to try and convince other people of it too in order to make themselves feel better... I've seen things like that happen a lot... I'm sure you have too.

The benefit of the colour vibrancy and significantly improved image thanks to the awesome contrast ratio far outweighs the benefit of a peak brightness that's too bright to take advantage of... the Samsung KS8000 I had was genuinely painful to my eyes in some situations at night... but in a brightly lit store, it's possible it could appear to have the edge over an OLED thanks to that brightness.
 
Brightness is not an issue on OLED unless you're viewing it in very bright conditions, I've found scenes on mine that are too bright and make you squint, the issue on older OLEDs seem to be more the near black detail but reports from this years sets didn't produce the issue and a firmware update for the 2016 models also improved it to the point it was no longer a problem.
 
There's a very good reason OLED doesn't "do" bright. Image retention of static Logos on most TV broadcasts. Fine if all you want to do is watch Despicable Me 3 or something in 4k on a USB stick on repeat but if you want to use an OLED as a normal TV? Well Good luck with that.
 
p28nay said:
OLED's are still very expensive compared to the QLED's?
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The top end qled TVs are similar price to oled.

I'm thinking it's marketing guff tricking the public that qled is a new tech rather than just another rebadge of LCD.

I remember when 'LED' TVs came out and a lot of people failed to realise it was just the backlight that was different.
 
No matter how you jazz it up, LCD is old tech now.

Oled is leagues better.

Just a shame we are stuck with LCD for pc monitors for the foreseeable future.
 
QLED is a marketing strategy to make it sound like it’s a technology that directly competes with OLED (kind of how ‘retina’ has a perception about it). However, it doesn’t. OLED is better in every way except maximum brightness.

All screens have problems, so don’t read too heavily into screen burn etc. Just buy from a respectable company with a good warranty and you’ll be sorted.
 
purplesky said:
OLED has a lot of maturing to do still. People are now seeing bad image retention and already a deterioration in brightness within a year
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Where are these reports from? There's still many happy users of 2014/15 sets on avforums, a place that seems to gather the most anal of consumers.

LCD has been around for years and you still see regular complaints about those sets as well
 
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You were in on the discussion about oled evidence in the
65" 4K HDR TV - under £2k
thread ?

Samsung are already cracking on the 49" qled prices, free player thrown in, so 55" will be ~£1K for xmas.

On oled brightness topic, interesting video Home Theater Geeks 341: Inside Sony Technology
excellent piece of technical communication on Sonys part, and would pursuade me to buy a sony xd9 over a qled, as Andy did in that thread
 
purplesky said:
OLED has a lot of maturing to do still. People are now seeing bad image retention and already a deterioration in brightness within a year
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I have seen temporary retention on mine but it cleared fairly quickly.

Had mine nearly 2 years now and no deterioration in brightness whatsoever. Picture is as good as the day I bought it.

People complaining of this probably have their TV set way too bright and watch it 24/7.
 
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jpaul said:
You were in on the discussion about oled evidence in the
65" 4K HDR TV - under £2k
thread ?

Samsung are already cracking on the 49" qled prices, free player thrown in, so 55" will be ~£1K for xmas.

On oled brightness topic, interesting video Home Theater Geeks 341: Inside Sony Technology
excellent piece of technical communication on Sonys part, and would pursuade me to buy a sony xd9 over a qled, as Andy did in that thread
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And yet the Samsung is better than the Sony :p
 
Do Samsung make the cameras that record the stuff you're actually watching. Or master it?

Do LG?

Do Hisense?

Errr...
 
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