From the article: OLED and MicroLED are the future
Now if I could just a “dumb” TV that doesn’t have a bunch of built in apps, which apparently is now a huge ask. I just want my TV to display whatever HDMI port is currently selected. Not nag me about connecting it to WiFi every time I turn it on.
But then how would they get that sweet sweet metric data they can resell? Think of the megacorps!
I just disabled the “smart” features on my Samsung S95B and set it to run the last used “app.” Which is just the last used input.
It’s not perfect, but combined with HDMI CEC I almost never need to go into the ugly menu. I don’t mind the smart menus of the older TVs when it was a separate part of the TV you could ignore. But the integration in these new TVs where inputs are treated like another smart app and you have to go past apps to get to picture settings is just bad design.
Not to mention serving ads for each manufacturer’s own streaming apps on a device someone spent a lot of money on us completely unethical. But at least disabling the Internet features took care of that issue.
Yikes! So you mean you just can’t switch inputs without the smart TV side anymore? Time to avoid the Samsungs then…
Man I’m still rocking my Samsung plasma TV from 2011. No need to heat the house with the amount that TV gives off but still works great.
I really hope microLED takes off in the near future. It’s basically OLED on steroids, all of its advantages without the risk of screen burn-in. It’s just too expensive right now…
I have been reading about MicroLEDs for years now, never bought any OLED because of the burn-in. I’m curious when MicroLEDs will actually hit the mass-market and at what price-point and also how they will scale for smaller screens.
I’ve had my QD-OLED for a little while now and it has had quite a bit of static images on it without any trouble. From what I read before I bought it, OLEDs in general really don’t have a burn-in issue like the early models did.
From what I can tell they’re better than even plasma was at the end. And you’d have trouble actively trying to get permanent burn in on some later model plasmas. I used to service TVs and appliances. In most cases outside of using a plasma display for digital signage, I’d be able to run a swiping pattern for a little bit to get rid of the image retention. The only exception I really had for a plasma that was used in a residence was an older couple who didn’t have a widescreen source and only watched shows in 4:3 aspect ratio. They finally got the HD channels from their TV provider and realized they had the bars on the sides burned in (really the screen aged unevenly).
Nice. Moving countries killed some pixels in my screen so I guess I may OLED it.
I’d love to have an OLED tv. I just need a good reason to get one. The tv I have now works just fine (unfortunately).
That’s great, it means LCD TVs have hit maturation point.
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The OLED Switch rocks!
LCD TVs can still improve via faster refresh rates, strolling backlights, and smaller local dimming zones. If the last part can be made small enough, then it would be very hard to tell the difference between an LCD screen and a emissive display. These facts shouldn’t be ignored by display companies.
The problem is that we are reaching a point where it is cheaper to achieve the same or better results with OLED or microLED than by dumping even more money into improving LCD.
We are already at a point where OLED provides a straight up better value than LCD in higher end price brackets as long as peak brightness is not your #1 priority.
Can they please just bring back actual buttons instead of invisible tap points where you can’t tell where the fuck they are?
No. You’ll suffer the invisible tap points because they can advertise that feature and ship more units.
How do you fuck up televisions? It’s the simplest thing and these corporations just need to fucking meddle.
