Question about LED TV's

[IAmAndre]

Hi,

 

I just watched this video about LED and QLED TV's 

 

 

Now I'm a little confused because it's mentioned that Samsung has produced only one OLED TV model, and that they focus on QLED and LCD models. I went to check online and was able to see that there are quite a lot of LED models produced by Samsung, while LG, Panasonic, and a handful of Chinese manufacturers seem to be the only ones making OLED ones. That's the confusing part. I found out that he difference between LED and OLED is the O (duh) standing for Organic, so it's basically a sister technology with another type of diodes. What I don't get is why Samsung is actually producing LED models and not OLED ones. I've heard that OLED was actually a Samsung technology so this doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

[HolaImBob]

not a lot of people are gonna pay 2k+ for a tv. its easier to sell more led ones because they are cheaper

[IAmAndre]

Just now, HolaImBob said:

not a lot of people are gonna pay 2k+ for a tv. its easier to sell more led ones because they are cheaper

What makes them cheaper?

[FloRolf]

Nonono, you got that wrong

 

LED panels are also LCD panels but with LED back light instead of tube backlight. So you only have a few rows of LEDs on the back. Maybe like 1000 LEDs. 

 

OLED is the panel itself so the pixels directly made by the LEDs. That makes the panels so thin and the blacks so black. You can turn each pixel on/off individually. 

 

QLED is what Samsung is using and not OLED, which is something else I dunno how it really works. 

 

 

UPDATE: QLED is also just a fancy man's LCD. 

[SolarNova]

OLED is self emmisive. meanign each pixel produces its own light. if a pixel needs ot display black, it turns off.

LED (LCD) on the other hand requires a backlight. if a single pixel needs to produce black, its colros turn off, but the backligth stays on, resultign in grey.

 

OLED is FAR superior to LCD tech (LED is LCD), but is still new and requirs a completly different manufacturing process. So factories that make TV panels need to be effectivyl built from scratch for OLED, whch costs ALOT. Samsung doesnt want to do that. LG does, and so LG is the primary supplier of OLED, they have investedheavily into the tech.

 

If you can afford one, or otherwise have about £1300 or more to spend, you should only really consider OLED, unless your the type of person who only ever watch one channel and that channel has a static logo on the screen all the time, in which case dont get OLED. For normal general use however, OLED is king.