I just never could be happy with a TV without an OLED panel after i got my first one last year. Since then all other screen types look like garbage to my eyes, the better cinema projectors too.
Shouldn't have bought an expensive big monitor for work without OLED the year before, but i hear that OLED is not that great for close up text rendering.
I personally don't prefer OLEDs in anything large like TVs. Call me old, but I don't want inconsistent wear on display panels, and I don't change my devices every n years.
An OLED screen is a dealbreaker for me on anything but a smartphone. I don’t want risk of burnin anywhere near any large expensive display. I have laptops that are over a decade old and have seen a ton of use and their screens are still in great shape, which almost certainly wouldn’t be the case had they been equipped with OLED panels.
The moment that microLED displays start hitting the market however I will be buying them. All of the advantages of OLED without the drawbacks. Until then it’s IPS/VA for me.
Oled for a monitor is tough because burn in a very real for high contrast static images. They have done a good job but I watch a lot of high end oled tv reviews and it doesn’t take too long for menu bars and the like to start ghosting.
OLED TVs are in a much better space than PC LCDs, where no really good options exist. Either IPS, which has poor contrast, bleed and doesn't do HDR, or VA, which has good contrast, but also doesn't really do HDR, and VA generally has poor uniformity (nitpick) and viewing angles. Some VA are pretty smeary, but that seems to have cleaned up in the latest generation. TN panels are much better than they used to be in the color department, but it doesn't have the contrast of VA, and even poorer viewing angles than VA.
OLED is clearly the way forward - accurate colors, excellent contrast, no bleeding, no uniformity issues, proper HDR, excellent response time. Except OLED doesn't come to PCs.
I hope OLED's major flaw gets fixed at some point - burn in. As long as burn in exists, brightness will have to be carefully controlled - which means OLEDs can never get as bright as a traditional LCD, and they're dangerous to use in cases where content is frequently static like desktops.
For TVs, OLEDs are fantastic. But for now I feel they're too limited for desktops.
Still, it's an exciting time for display technology. So many advancements made in the last 10 years.
Wasn't the problem with OLEDs simply breakdown? They lose some percentage of their brightness and color depth every year until they look old and washed out? And the worst part is each color degrades at a different rate so the color balance gets wonky as the panel ages.
An OLED even ruins the theater experience. The last time I was in a theater I was very disappointed by the black levels; something I never really noticed before. The viewing experience would have been better at home.
What do you want it for? I recently got an OLED TV which I'm now using as a monitor for games and video, and it's brilliant (although you might think otherwise if you have extraordinary latency demands). I also find the large size of the display more immersive than a conventional monitor.
I still use an LCD for static content (programming; web browsing; etc.) as I want to avoid burn in, but I don't really care about high contrast and wide colour gamut in that use case.
I'm surprised that no one in this thread has mentioned the OLED technology. just take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED and you'll understand why it's the best: It just doesn't require any backlight, resulting in the most natural and eye-friendly viewing.
Is OLED really that interesting? I've watched OLED tv's and in rooms with any sunlight the dark parts become unusable. I've also seen reviews for OLED computer monitors, where people are annoyed that the screen will auto-dim at inopportune times.
How do you figure the OLEDs are better for text? I've read a lot of folks reporting fringing on text due to the subpixel layout not matching the expectations of various text-rendering stacks
OLED is absolute crap. Low brightness, slower than LCD, burnin, uses more energy for bright UIs, turns yellow with time (as blue LEDs degrade faster), and a thousand more things I don't remember. OLED is only sold because of eye-candy.
Shouldn't have bought an expensive big monitor for work without OLED the year before, but i hear that OLED is not that great for close up text rendering.
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