OLED vs qled TV for a sunny bright room

smallzoo2

Ok , so for a few years how does LED compare to QLED, QNED etc

It's not directly in the sun , the window is to the side and as I said , I can easily watch iPlayer etc no problem but Netflix films are just so dark sometimes they are unwatchable 

smallzoo2

So how does LED compare to QLED , QNED ?

The window is to the side of the TV not direct and I can watch iPlayer etc no problem at all its mainly Netflix movies which are sometimes unwatchable 

coffeehound

Maybe put up a shelving unit or even a partition to shade that side of the TV?

DullGreyGuy

smallzoo2 said:

So how does LED compare to QLED , QNED ?

The window is to the side of the TV not direct and I can watch iPlayer etc no problem at all its mainly Netflix movies which are sometimes unwatchable 

They are all LED, they just vary a little in how the LED backlight operates and if there is an extra colour filter layer. They claim anything with a "Q" will have better HDR colour and the "N" helps with contrast without diminishing the extra brightness you get with LED over OLED

RumRat

One of the OP's barriers is the budget....Here's a couple to research which should be OK in bright lit rooms and are OK for the price.
Buy LG 55 Inch 55UR80006LJ Smart 4K UHD HDR LED Freeview TV | Televisions | Argos
Samsung 55 Inch Q60C QLED 4K HDR Smart TV (2023) - Dual LED Television, Alexa Built-In, Super Ultrawide Gaming View Screen, 100% Colour Volume With Quantum Dot, Crystal 4K Processor, Airslim Profile : Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

bob2302

DullGreyGuy said:

smallzoo2 said:

So how does LED compare to QLED , QNED ?

The window is to the side of the TV not direct and I can watch iPlayer etc no problem at all its mainly Netflix movies which are sometimes unwatchable 

They are all LED, they just vary a little in how the LED backlight operates and if there is an extra colour filter layer. They claim anything with a "Q" will have better HDR colour and the "N" helps with contrast without diminishing the extra brightness you get with LED over OLED

I haven't followed this in detail, but my understanding is that LED is simply LCD with an  LED backlight, whereas the other two have light-emitting pixels from organic  or quantum-well LEDs.

DullGreyGuy

bob2302 said:

DullGreyGuy said:

smallzoo2 said:

So how does LED compare to QLED , QNED ?

The window is to the side of the TV not direct and I can watch iPlayer etc no problem at all its mainly Netflix movies which are sometimes unwatchable 

They are all LED, they just vary a little in how the LED backlight operates and if there is an extra colour filter layer. They claim anything with a "Q" will have better HDR colour and the "N" helps with contrast without diminishing the extra brightness you get with LED over OLED

I haven't followed this in detail, but my understanding is that LED is simply LCD with an  LED backlight, whereas the other two have light-emitting pixels from organic  or quantum-well LEDs.

There are two fundamental technologies... LCD and OLED. In the former you have some form of backlight and an LCD panel in front of it to block the light where you dont want a white pixel. In the later the screen is made up of tiny organic LEDs which you view directly rather than through an LCD layer. 

The question is LCD is how you create the light behind the LCD, originally it was generally side light which is why the edges of the screen were brighter than the center but then someone had the bright idea of sticking LED panel behind the LCD. Still fundamentally the same tech but gave more uniform picture brightness. The problem with LCD is that the gates aren't perfect and you get light bleeding around and hence blacks are really grey. 

Before we had the change of names again LED had continue to evolve from a single LED panel to zones of panels that could be dimmed/brightened independently. That brings us to Nano/Mini LED which is just another marketing name for an LCD TV with many more zones of LED lighting... some have as many as 2,500+ zones. The LCD gates are still liable to bleed light but if you turn off the LEDs behind the black area of the screen then it's much improved. 

QLED adds an extra film layer between the LED and LCD which converts the white light of the LED to a coloured light and is claimed to help further enhance HDR content. 


The next generation will be Micro LED TVs which is basically an OLED screen where the LEDs are no longer organic and like OLED there is no LCD in front. Get the same infinite contrast ratio/ perfect blacks but the brightness of LEDs. The problem is that the cheapest Samsung Micro LED TV is currently £150,000, TCF do have a budget offering for £86,000 but isn't officially being sold outside of China right now.