“what is the difference between a QLED and an OLED TV besides the price?”
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QLED is an LED. It is playing off OLED for marketing. It is their top of the line LED with a “full array” . LEDs get their light from a bunch of back lights, the more backlights (if you smashed your tv you would see a bunch of lights” a good LED vs a crappy one would have less lights. The more, the better contrast and bleeding, aliasing, etc. “Bleeding” is a term used define light that bleeds off a “pixel” (a dot on the screen that makes your whole image”. UHD 4K is 3840x2160 (4x more than 1920x1080 aka 1080p, a TV standard). With backlights if you have a big white circle in the middle of the black screen you will see bleeding, depending on how good the TV and how pro your eye is, will depend on how much. Look at the promos of a OLED vs LED (QLED) vs an OLED with Dolbyvision HDR. The contrast is not compatible to a professional colorist or VFX supervisor (which I am). LED if you don’t mind the less contest (the difference between blacks and whites) and that the white circle I discussed above bleeds a little white into the black (learn why by reading my OLED quick definition) then save money and get an LED but mind your remember to look at the images on the promos. The LED stuff shows all colorful and full screen stuff while the OLED stuff is always showing off black and white images and colors on blacks. In a word, OLED just look better when there are lots of blacks and lots of movement (especially with blacks). Contrast is not king of LEDs. Plasmas were as good or better than OLEDs but somehow lost out to LESs because I think the margin on the TVs was higher on LEDs and they are already low margins. So big nutshell, sorry, if LED looks just fantastic to you get it but... OLED is a pixel for pixel affair. In the above LED example on a 3840x2160 UHD LED, a full array I believe is 24 back lights, an OLED doesn’t have any. “Wait I thought you said more backlights is a better LED” and I did but OLED EVERY SINGLE PIXEL is lit on its own, like an iPhone X (not the 11) and pretty much all computer screens and ones like the Retina display have more pixels per inch than the standard 72dpi (dots per inch). On an OLED TV there are 3840x2160 backlights essentially but they are not backlights, they are the individual pixels on the screen and each one is its own color. You can have a perfectly white and perfectly black set of 30 pixels (or one) right next to each other and the light from one pixel WILL NOT bleed into the color or brightness of its neighbor giving you near perfect contrast and eliminating things like aliasing (the artifacts created by image. Also has to do with the CODEC (compressor/decompressor) of the image but I won’t get into that to keep it simpler. OLEDs are more like plasma and look smooth like plasma for this reason. It has HDR DolbyVision with near perfect contrast and to the more initiated eye, a much better image like one on a good computer screen. Final word, aside OLED being better for picture because every single pixel is its own backlight, because there are no backlights, the TV is light and small. Next time your shopping take your phone and put it on the side bevel of an OLED, it’s thinner than your phone and WAY lighter. Try to lift the OLED, you can lift an entire side with one hand. So the cons of each, if a pixel dies on an OLED, it is gone forever but there are millions of them and some WILL die over time and it is not cost effective to fix but even worse if an LED backlight dies, it will do significant damage to your TV and is fixable but also expensive but not prohibitively and usually covered for a year or two. I have a Sony Bravia 42” that is 14 years old 1080p and never hard a problem with it. I love LG but mine got grey lines because the mother board shorted or something and it’s not worth fixing because I can get a better TV than it for the less than fixing it if I got an LED. That said, the OLED dead pixels now go black by design because you rarely see an all white image and often are dark scenes or completely blacks screen hiding “dead pixels” remember there are literally millions of them. If you take millions of anything, something is bound to happen to one of them. Some people have 10s of dead pixels and have no idea. Hands down if money is not a factor and you want the best, OLED, and there is no subjectively here, it’s objectively better. BUT is the diet difference which is significant, especially today, you can get a quality 65” LED for $1000 while a quality OLED is $2100 for a 65” and if you want a 75-85, you’re talking $4k vs $1500 difference (approximations on both) and is it worth it to you. For me, the 65” price difference vs quality to price is worth the OLED but as I said I’m a VFX supervisor and I can see things many dont from 25 years at staring and judging images on a screen. It all depends on what you want to do. It should be noted that OLEDs are for all the reasons stated MUCH better in bright rooms because of the individual pixels having their own set of color, greyscale and light. I hope this helps. There is so much more to say but these are the main differences. I promise. Good luck and ask your friends who have both and have a look at the houses, the promos are obviously made to sell TVs and so it’s not the best to judge.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.That’s a great question Cindy. OLED stands for “organic LED.” Rather than attempting to explain what OLED is, read up on actual OLED televisions (Sony and LG are the market leaders). OLED is an industry-wide established standard, meaning that the underlying technology will be identical or extremely similar from one manufacturer to another (eg, there’s an industry wide standard of what constitutes a 1080P or 4K TV). Conversely, QLED is a Samsung-only term that standards for “quantum LED”. Again, you can read up on QLED in any Sumsung TV advertised as a QLED model. Industry experts and independent reviewers regard OLED as the new gold standard in picture quality. As you noted, OLED TV’s are priced significantly higher vs. ultra-high definition 4K televisions because OLED is more expensive to manufacture; although as with all things technology, OLED prices will drop significantly over the next few years. The real question is whether you think the extra cost is worth it to YOU. Forget about the technology (be it OLED or Samsung’s less expensive QLED): do you notice a meaningful difference in picture quality when you compare either type to a conventional 4K TV when watching the type of programming that you enjoy? Most people will not notice a meaningful difference. Unless you feel compelled to have the ‘latest and greatest’ TV, get a 4K TV and wait for OLED prices to drop over the next few years.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Do you get dark scenes on a QLED or OLED better than other TVs? I mean on my present TV when there is a scene in a dark room or night scene outside I can never see what is going on.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Much better explanation and comparison here: https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/qled-vs-oled-tv/ for anyone who really wants to understand the differences. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. Both yield impressive color and range.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.QLED is still an LED back-lit LCD display. OLED is made up of actual LED pixels and is NOT backlit.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.What is the difference between QLed and. OLed TV Samsung TV ?
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.QLED stands for quantum dot LED and OLED stands for organic dot LED.
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