OLED v QLED

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by David M

The real question is “OLED vs LCD” - QLED as it exists at the moment is another rebranding of LCD technology (following on the extremely successful rebrand of it as “LED TV”). Yes, Quantum Dot technology does add benefits to LCD, but not enough to transform its performance into a new product category. It still looks and quacks like an LCD.

Can you burn an OLED? Yes. Will you? Probably not, unless you watch nothing but the same rolling news channel and nothing else. YouTube use is probably much safer than the cable news channels, which have irresponsible onscreen graphics. I don’t think too many YouTube videos have gigantic fixed solid logos. For the ones that do, OLEDs now have image analysis functions that detect such screen graffiti and dim the respective part of the screen. LG’s OLEDs let you turn the sensitivity of that function to a high setting if you’re especially worried about it.

If you’re leaving your kids unsupervised with it, you can also leave the TV set on one of the Zoom modes for an extra layer of protection. The LG OLEDs have fully customizable controls so you can zoom and reposition the picture as much as you want.

I run a bunch of OLEDs both at home and at work, and of course when they were brand new I was more protective of them. I’ve seen temporary image retention once or twice, but never burn, and I play a ton of video games on my home OLED.

My opinion: the risk of burn on an OLED is not big enough to warrant downgrading to LCD picture quality. How much do you care about picture quality and true zero black?

True black is fine, that's what people always parrot about OLED, it's the near black response and stuff like chroma overshoot (© your pal Vincent) that gives me the heeby-jeebies when I read about people's adventures with OLED on forums.

You know your stuff and you know I respect that, but it's amazing the amount of times in the UHD threads someone casually mentions "oh, I had this problem with x movie on my OLED" and then several other people chime in with the exact same issue, funny how it never came up before. We can't have the cult of perfect black be diluted by the reported imperfections of other aspects, can we? Some of that shit would drive me insane, more than it would any of the foibles of my horrible LCD TV. As for zooming in the picture to get rid of static logos I was having to do that with my Pioneer plasma like 15 years ago, "the more things change..." etc etc

Not that there will ever be the perfect TV, but if my ZD9 goes bang tomorrow the only one I'd even consider replacing it with is the Panny HZ2000 OLED.