OLED TV Advice

jai247

From my understanding the benefits of OLED's far out way that of LCD/LED tv's. Plus it depends on the environment you have your tv, if you are front facing then LCD/LED is fine but if you need to view the tv from an angle then OLED wins hands down.
The samsung QLED might be brighter but dont forget it is just LED technology.

I am receiving the LG B8 tomorrow so hopefully this will work for me. If not then I am not sure what I will do.

wongataa

Houbara wrote: »

After a lot of reviewing I have gone off the idea of an OLED TV altogether..The OLEDs lose their brightness by 50% in a few years, so one review quoted.. The OLEDs are already nowhere near as bright as Samsungs QLED s .

Do you really need very high brightness levels?

Houbara wrote: »

What TV did a head to head with the current best OLED and Samsungs flagship OLED F9 this month and there is little difference bar a slightly better black level on the OLED.

OLED don't require local dimming to get pure black and any artefacts that can cause. If you want to read good reviews of various televisions look at AVForums. Read the reviews of the sets with different panel types (OLED, LCD, etc) and you can see the various pros and cons of each. They will be much more in depth than What TV.

LCD televisions have quite poor viewing angles. The picture starts to wash out the greater the angle from head on you view the set. OLED does not have this issue at all. How much this could affect you I don't know.

Houbara wrote: »

Anyone got any views on the question of diminishing brightness on OLEDS..One review I read of the lifespan of OLEDS was as little as 2 years before they started losing brightness for viewers who averaged 10 hrs a day.

How long would you have a TV on for each day? Would you really average 10 hours a day? If not (and I suspect that will be the case. When you factor in sleeping and being at work it is quite hard to have the TV on that much unless you just leave it on when you aren't around.) then any brightness loss will take longer to manifest and won't need to bother about it for a lot longer.

getmore4less

The 2017 OLED panels are plenty bright enough,

if not watching HDR content it won't be running at full tilt anyway.

For general day to day SD and HD the £700/£800 LCD sets are good enough no need for the fancy expensive bits to make HDR work.

It is very easy to overspend on feature you are not using and will replace before you do.

With TV currently unless watching(or have plans) significant quantities of UHD and HDR better to keep the powder dry for the next set.

Best time to buy is Q2Q3 when last year's models are on their deepest discount.