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If you've been looking at TVs in 2018, you've probably come across the acronym QLED (either pronounced Q-L-E-D or 'cue lead')
includes all of its top-tier TV models.If you've heard about it from a friend or a sales rep, you may have been lead to believe that QLED is
some sort of opaque future technology that's come for the head of OLED and will radically shake up the TV industry
It's not and it hasn't.Instead QLED is an LCD-LED TV with a metallic quantum dot film that enhances color and contrast, supporting
technology like HDR and 4K by making QLED TVs brighter and more colorful than other non-quantum dot LCD-LEDs.There's a little more to it
than that (QLED models now include Samsung's Bixby virtual assistant and a nifty Ambient Mode to help them blend into your room better)
which, either intentionally or not, that often causes confusion for most folks.We'll cover the differences down below and highlight what
makes QLED a neat evolution of basic LCD-LED TVs, but the basics are all laid out above.What is QLEDIt's a bit of an enigma, to put it
Samsung-baked concept is basically just the latest set of enhancements to the same quantum dot technology that the company has been working
separate LCD backlight (and an edge-lit backlight, at that) just like any other LED-LCD TV
So, to start, all QLED TVs have a quantum dot filter
crystal semi-conductor particles that can be precisely controlled for their colour output, which replace the red, green and blue colour
filters that old TVs used.Samsung says that its QLED TVs use the new filters to display 100% coverage of the DCI/P3 color space (read: much
QLED TVs can manage anywhere between 1500 nits to 2000 nits brightness
Considering 1000 nits is needed to produce HDR, that's proper bright, though exactly how anyone could stand the glare of 2000 nits, we're
Sunglasses, anyoneWhile the advances in brightness are intriguing, Samsung claims that the new QLED TVs have a newly designed pixel panel
structure to allow better off-axis viewing
For a living room environment, that could be QLED's big selling point.Vials containing quantum dots before they get put into a TV
isn't really anything new at all
that's dominated bigscreen TVs for the last decade
technology, but they're the same problems that are addressed year in, year out by TV makers
that we'll see some real improvements in these areas with Samsung's new sets.QLED vs OLEDPerhaps a more important comparison is QLED
The latter uses pixels that emit their own light, but OLED displays are manufactured only by Samsung's arch-rival LG, and now used
bySony,Philips andPanasonic, too.There's no doubt that QLED, for now, has an advantage in terms of brightness (so in theory may better
next-gen display technology, OLED is still the frontrunner
The latter uses individually lit pixels to achieve better contrast ratio and richer blacks that LED-LCD will never be able to hit, quantum
Samsung's QLED TVs are ultra-bright
although the jump from 1000 nits on the top-end SUHD TVs to 1,500 to 2,000 nits on the flagship QLED TVs is perhaps more revolutionary than
Put simply, for a buying public still getting to grips with what UHD is, SUHD just proved too confusing, so Samsung has dropped it
(It also probably didn't help that the 'S' in SUHD didn't really mean anything although we're not convinced that QLED is much
clearer.)Samsung's QLED TVs come with a swivel 'Studio' stand.Should I buy a QLED TVSamsung's QLED TVs are claimed to be all about the
brightest possible, most accurate coloured images pictures, which therefore work with all kinds of content in all kinds of lighting
package for the living room, but whether you should buy a QLED TV will ultimately come down to price
And here comes the crux of the matter; will QLED TVs be cheaper than OLED TVs They may need to be to stand a chance, but is Samsung really
going to make itself a cut-price brand We seriously doubt it
Expect oodles of marketing that make QLED seem a better option than OLED, though whether it is or not, only time will
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