![]() ![]() If you ever find yourself with time to kill, wander into your local big-box retail store, where they’ll have an OLED panel, allowing you to see the difference for yourself. Seeing this in action - fiery scenes at night or brightly colored scenes with deep shadows are particularly good - the difference is stark and unmistakable. A pixel on an OLED screen can also become much brighter than those around it - think of scenes with the sun peeking over the ridge of a mountain covered in shadow. (This is one of the reasons night scenes in TV shows and movies sometimes seem hard to make out.) But on an OLED, when a color is supposed to be truly, completely black, that pixel can just turn itself off and emit no light at all. On a traditional LCD or LED screen, the pixel on the screen will color itself “black,” but there’s still a backlight shining through. Where this difference really shines (or, in this case, doesn’t shine) is during night scenes, when TVs need to reproduce dark or complete blackness. On an OLED screen, however, each pixel on the screen provides its own color and its own light source. Think of it as a Lite-Brite toy where the pegs are always being replaced and shifted around at tremendous speeds, but no matter what, there’s still a light shining behind everything. On an LCD or LED television, individual pixels on your screen are shaded a certain color, while a backlight shines through them to produce the picture. What makes an OLED screen so much better than your average LCD or LED screen? It all comes down to how light is produced by an OLED screen. They’re not cheap - its low-end 55-inch OLED goes for at least $1,600, and its high-end 77-inch screens can cost more than a new Honda Civic - but if you want the best picture (especially when it comes to deep, vibrant colors), no one is doing it better. But in 2018, it’s not open to debate: the best TVs in the world are made by LG, specifically its OLED screens. Eight years ago, Sony’s plasma screens were at the top of the heap, followed closely by Samsung and Panasonic panels. If you had told me during the 2010 Winter Olympics that the absolute best TV for watching the 2018 Winter Olympics would be made by South Korean company LG, I would have said you were high. ![]()
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