And they have negatives as well
Banding
image retention /Burn
High Prices
Low Brightness
Try finding a 34" ultrawide one
banding - yup it is a lottery but nowhere near as much of a lottery as it is for monitors i.e. severe IPS glow and bleed and even then, if you get an oled with quite bad banding, it is only visible on "torture" tests i.e. split second scenes with a near all dark grey background, nowhere near as bothersome as the ips glow/bleed and just general **** blacks/contrast ratios on all lcd monitors that ruin any dark content
image retention - not had mine long enough but it seems to be a non issue for this years models, I've seen people say they have hundreds of hours raked up in gaming etc. and they have had no "permanent" burn in
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/40-ol...r-oled-tv-exhibit-image-persistence-burn.html
I've spent a couple of hours sessions playing games and not seen any on mine. If you use it for desktop usage then yeah, it might/will be an issue
High prices - depends on the person, £1500+ I would agree, anything less not really imo, you are getting a quality display and if you are already spending £900+ on a monitor then you might as well spend the extra few hundred to get arguably a superior display if size + sync tech isn't an issue
Low brightness - if you have seen one, you wouldn't be saying, mine is stupidly bright and my room has a ton of lighting, it goes far brighter than my monitor. Watching HDR content is actually quite eye straining on bright scenes....
34" ultrawide oled - precisely my point, you won't get that any time soon and when you do, you can be guaranteed the QC will be even worse, prices will be MUCH higher. That is the good thing about 55" and OLED too, create a custom 21.9 res. and you have perfect blacks so the bars on the top and bottom aren't an issue and the screen real estate is bigger than 38" 21.9 monitor still
Yeah, it's all very well banging on about using TVs as monitors, but not all of us have room or want a minimum of a 40" screen. If I wasn't at a desk then a TV would be a no-brainer, but I did think about getting a 40" TV for my desk but decided it would cause more problems than it solved.
As for the question in the OP, just pick the one you will find easiest to live with and try and be happy with it for a few years. I decided on the X34 and like most its not perfect, but I'll be keeping it for a long time if it works, and I wont be bothering to tease myself with whatever flavour of the month may or may not be around the corner.
Yup if you are intending on just having 1 display/tv as your primary monitor for everything then I certainly wouldn't get a 40+" TV, let alone an OLED one, that is why I am keeping my monitor for all desktop/browsing/work related stuff and the TV for all gaming/media related stuff.
.. I've only browsed the first few results but googling '8 bit vs 10 bit' etc isn't exactly definitive either
