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I was planning on buying a QD-OLED TV next year... maybe I'll wait.


FWIW, I don’t think you should wait. I bought this year’s samsung s95c qd-oled, and it is such a nice looking display that I feel we’re well into the territory of diminishing returns of further improvements. I was struck by how much nicer 4k hdr movies look compared to the last few times I went to a movie theatre.

The only real downside is that now I notice just how much content is not 4k hdr. Improving the upscaler’s software would probably make a bigger real world difference than improving the panel, at least for me.


Microled will be the next game changer. Current oled panels have something like 800-1000 Nits peak brightness?

Dolby Vision can be mastered at up to 10,000 nits and microled displays will apparently have the ability to reach that brightness.

HDR content will be absolutely unbelievable, getting blinded like you're outside.


Not disagreeing, but miniled displays are already out, apparently blow oled brightness out of the water, and are much cheaper than oled. (Black level isn’t quite as good.)

https://www.tomsguide.com/opinion/this-is-the-tv-im-most-exc...

(The 98” is $9999. 85” is $2799, but it was down to $2299 earlier this year.)


MicroLED != MiniLED.

A MiniLED display is a traditional LCD display, but the backlight is divided into addressable sections called dimming zones. A few of Apple's high-end displays use this technology. The downside is that each pixel isn't 1:1 with a dimming zone, so there are "blooming" artefacts where a zone overlaps a region that needs to be lit up.

MicroLED, much like OLED, is where each pixel self-illuminating. For OLED there are organic materials that emit light in the red, green, and blue. For MicroLED each individual sub-pixel is an LED.

Making a MiniLED display isn't too hard, depending on the number of zones. Making a MicroLED display is quite hard because the LEDs need to be microscopic and also there need to be millions of them. There are some MicroLED displays available for sale today, but they're huge (you don't need the LEDs to be as big if the display is massive), and they also cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, e.g. https://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/tvs/micr....


Thanks. I assumed microled was lcd with ~ one led behind each pixel.


Samsung LED TVs suck. They use a very specific coating, and if there is any significant light source any blacks turn into less-deep than on LCD.


You mean a sunny room?


There’s always a better one a year away in the OLED game. Brighter, faster, better colors, cheaper, whatever.

It’s a bit like waiting for a faster PC in the 90s. At some point you just have to buy.


From my experience these new types of displays show up in small form factors first before the yield is good enough to build larger panels such as for televisions.

I have yet to see this in small panels so you may need to wait for quite a lot longer than a year.


Any modern OLED (last 5 years) will do you very well.

Newer ones have some additional bells and whistles, but there isn't anything on the near horizon worth waiting for.


which tv do you have right now ?




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