...between the Samsung SUHDTV and the LG OLED.
I just got back from CES, and had a blast. I've always been an incredibly anal picture quality enthusiast, and CES is an absolute joy for people like me. It was wonderful.
For those who want the absolute best quality display, LG's OLED's are the best. They are pricey, but they are the best.
Samsung's SUHDTV's were a really nice evolution of the LED LCD screens, but they have several problems:
1. The black levels still aren't perfect, unlike OLED. While they dim or even shut off lighting elements behind pixels which are black, the lighting resolution isn't a 1-to-1 with pixels, so there are still pixels which are supposed to be black, but are not.
2. The SUHD's are actually too bright. They wash out color detail via over saturation and brightness. That said, that could probably be adjusted, but even in Samsung's own comparison demo, a flower on the OLED showed better color contrast and detail... And Samsung TRIED to make OLED look bad.
3. When a screen is mostly black but with a bright logo or graphic, the dynamic contrast levels a halo around the bright elements. Being that the lights behind the LCD panel don't have a 1-to-1 ratio, the light bleeds over into the black, making this grayish halo effect.
All in all, OLED's from LG were just perfect. There was just nothing that could be better. The upscaling was also really good. Native 1080p stuff looked great on them. Noticeably better than 1080p display's.
My next TV is going to be an LG.
Sony get honorable mention for the thinnest TV's (but picture just wasn't as good as Sam or LG), but LG and Sam really had the two best... And LG's OLED took the best HDTV award home.
I just got back from CES, and had a blast. I've always been an incredibly anal picture quality enthusiast, and CES is an absolute joy for people like me. It was wonderful.
For those who want the absolute best quality display, LG's OLED's are the best. They are pricey, but they are the best.
Samsung's SUHDTV's were a really nice evolution of the LED LCD screens, but they have several problems:
1. The black levels still aren't perfect, unlike OLED. While they dim or even shut off lighting elements behind pixels which are black, the lighting resolution isn't a 1-to-1 with pixels, so there are still pixels which are supposed to be black, but are not.
2. The SUHD's are actually too bright. They wash out color detail via over saturation and brightness. That said, that could probably be adjusted, but even in Samsung's own comparison demo, a flower on the OLED showed better color contrast and detail... And Samsung TRIED to make OLED look bad.
3. When a screen is mostly black but with a bright logo or graphic, the dynamic contrast levels a halo around the bright elements. Being that the lights behind the LCD panel don't have a 1-to-1 ratio, the light bleeds over into the black, making this grayish halo effect.
All in all, OLED's from LG were just perfect. There was just nothing that could be better. The upscaling was also really good. Native 1080p stuff looked great on them. Noticeably better than 1080p display's.
My next TV is going to be an LG.
Sony get honorable mention for the thinnest TV's (but picture just wasn't as good as Sam or LG), but LG and Sam really had the two best... And LG's OLED took the best HDTV award home.