OLED TV

Its organic, uses less power, eco friendly, they still on the save the world vibe...
 
I have an OLED on my nokia n85, the colours are amazing and the best part of not having a backlight is that the clock screensaver is on 24/7 showing the time clearly day or night.

Having the display on lower brightness showing the time doesn't use much power at all, it was on standby for about 4 days before the battery started getting low.

I also believe they are much cheaper to produce, but it will take time for the prices to come down as they aren't as highly produced as LCD's yet.
 
If you look at a standard LCD screen they use a type of florescent light to back light the screen.

The Back light is extremely important on an LCD that's what give you clarity the problem with Standard LCDs is that they have to make the backlight so bright to give you clairity that the Black of the picture some times looks a bit grey

There is also no way of dimming the backlight actively with the picture that is being displayed

In Comes LED in the OLED tv's they replaced the traditional back light with LED's these use much less power and are controllable so you can turn them off and on as needed and dim them as needed this makes a huge difference in picture quality and brightness

These screen are also extremely thin and last I read are actually flexible and can be rolled up and put in a tube like a Map.

I was actually looking at the Samsung OLED TV this weekend and it was really expensive but I was surprised how good the picture was I have not see anything that can compete with it its absolutely amazing.
 
hrm.. this on a ereader/multimedia device might be good esp the flexibility.
 
It is not that expensive and the thin aspect of it is beautiful! You don't get thinner!
 
Great pic quality. What I also like is the low power consumption. I'm not a Greenie, but I do want to reduce and eventually eliminate the lock-in to the local council electricity monopoly. My next tv is definitely OLED.
 
So you spend R20K now on a small TV and then in 5 years the OLED's juice runs out and forces you to buy a new one. Sounds like a sustainable business just like our car industry :D
 
chubster said:
So you spend R20K now on a small TV and then in 5 years the OLED's juice runs out and forces you to buy a new one. Sounds like a sustainable business just like our car industry :D
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Mmmm maybe I should start a Sony pre owned dealership!:p
 
Why is OLED better?
Well, cause the TV will be able to adjust the backlight according to what is displayed on the screen.
So for the dark or black parts of a displayed pickture, the backlight will be dimmed for those area's.
Trying hard not to sound like an detergent advert, but your blacks will be blacker and your whites will be brighter :)
So now the cost. Now your TV will need to look at the pickture it is displaying and decide what the backlight setting for each LED needs to be and adjust it accordingly, meaning more processing power.
 
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I have one of those old big screens. It's currently 8 years old. It's so good i still haven't had the need to buy a big LCD screen.
 
killkom said:
If you look at a standard LCD screen they use a type of florescent light to back light the screen.

The Back light is extremely important on an LCD that's what give you clarity the problem with Standard LCDs is that they have to make the backlight so bright to give you clairity that the Black of the picture some times looks a bit grey

There is also no way of dimming the backlight actively with the picture that is being displayed

In Comes LED in the OLED tv's they replaced the traditional back light with LED's these use much less power and are controllable so you can turn them off and on as needed and dim them as needed this makes a huge difference in picture quality and brightness

These screen are also extremely thin and last I read are actually flexible and can be rolled up and put in a tube like a Map.

I was actually looking at the Samsung OLED TV this weekend and it was really expensive but I was surprised how good the picture was I have not see anything that can compete with it its absolutely amazing.
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Samsung haven't commercially produced an OLED TV, so I think you're confused. Also, since the sets that you are talking about are LED backlit LCDs, they can't control areas because Samsung uses sidelighting to make the screens thin.

The picture quality on the Samsung LED sets is not better than a good fluorescent backlit set... they're just thinner. Salesmen have been bull****ting you.
 
Well, let's say you watch TV for 6 hours per day. That is now from 18:00 till 24:00 every day.
50 000 / 6 = 8 333 days
8 333/365 = 22.8 years!
 
wetkit said:
Why is OLED better?
Well, cause the TV will be able to adjust the backlight according to what is displayed on the screen.
So for the dark or black parts of a displayed pickture, the backlight will be dimmed for those area's.
Trying hard not to sound like an detergent advert, but your blacks will be blacker and your whites will be brighter :)
So now the cost. Now your TV will need to look at the pickture it is displaying and decide what the backlight setting for each LED needs to be and adjust it accordingly, meaning more processing power.
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OLED doesn't use a backlight. Organic Light Emitting Diode. This is not an LED backlit LCD set that Samsung makes out is a breakthrough.
 
@killkom & wetkit, you both got it wrong. You are talking about LED backlit LCD TV's like Samsung latest LCD TV's. OLED is a completely different technology and does not require a backlight at all. It is the Organic Light Emmiting Diode pixels themselves that produce the light. Read the article again.
 
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