If you want to know what OLED’s superpower is...

[Mornnb]

Ok... but I don’t see how ‘true blacks’ is more than a minor thing, are people really that bothered by LCD blacks?
OLED has no sigificant advantage where it really counts. Viewing angle tint changes. Colour accuracy and gamut.

 

[torana355]

Ok... but I don’t see how ‘true blacks’ is more than a minor thing, are people really that bothered by LCD blacks?
OLED has no sigificant advantage where it really counts. Viewing angle tint changes. Colour accuracy and gamut.

Yes low contrast ratios do bother me very much. So does light bleed and grey blacks. btw OLED panels can have accurate colour and gamut. The 2 biggest downsides of OLED are the risk of Burn-in and lower lifetime as the Green and Red pixels have a longer lifetime then the Blue pixels which causes colour shift over time.

 

[Faelan]

Meh...

Don’t see the big deal.

When inside while at home, I run my 8+ at ~25% to 30% brightness. At that point, black is black. It looks the same as the AMOLED display of my old Note 2. Can I see the glow if I crank the brightness up to 100%? Heck yeah. Not arguing against that. But my eyes can’t handle looking at the retina-searing white of iOS and most webpages at that point. In short, it doesn’t really affect me and therefore the magic of OLED black is lost on me. But if it makes you happy, then good for you. At least there’s now an iPhone with an OLED display.

Now, if OLED could display vantablack... that would seriously impress me.

 

[Mornnb]

Yes low contrast ratios do bother me very much. So does light bleed and grey blacks. btw OLED panels can have accurate colour and gamut. The 2 biggest downsides of OLED are the risk of Burn-in and lower lifetime as the Green and Red pixels have a longer lifetime then the Blue pixels which causes colour shift over time.

In most lightning conditions (ie, a well lit room or outside). Any light bleed or lower contrast difference is hardly noticable, where burn-in and tint issues certainly will be. The point is that OLED is being hailed as this fantastic thing which is more born of marketing and exciteable hysteria because it happens to be in the latest iPhone, but it’s not obviously technically superior to a well built IPS LCD. They’re essentially equal, each with pros and cons.

 

[torana355]

In most lightning conditions (ie, a well lit room or outside). Any light bleed or lower contrast difference is hardly noticable, where burn-in and tint issues certainly will be. The point is that OLED is being hailed as this fantastic thing which is more born of marketing and exciteable hysteria because it happens to be in the latest iPhone, but it’s not obviously technically superior to a well built IPS LCD. They’re essentially equal, each with pros and cons.

But when it comes down to pure PQ, a good OLED panel wins.

 

[Mornnb]

Again, that’s not obviously the case. LCD and OLED have comparable colour accuracy and colour gamuts these days, and the benefit of ‘true black’ tends to be wildly exaggerated.

 

[torana355]

Again, that’s not obviously the case. LCD and OLED have comparable colour accuracy and colour gamuts these days, and the benefit of ‘true black’ tends to be wildly exaggerated.

I suggest you do some more research and read some reviews. Best Tv out now is an LG OLED and proper blacks are not over exaggerated at all, having good blacks is essential to give decent contrast ratios.

 

[Mornnb]

Again. If the only significant spec wise difference between two TVs is the contrast ratio spec. Then the marketing and excited TV enthusiasts are going to have a motivation to exaggerate this one spec point as much as possible.
The real question to ask is what is the big picture in terms of the actual user experience with the screen? Ignore the hype. What is the actual experience and value? Is the difference between LCD black and OLED black in outdoors light or in a well lit office, really something that anyone is going to notice as beyond a subtle difference?

I would point out that the reason Apple has such a loyal following is that they do a good job of seeing beyond the tech hype to the big picture of the user experience. And the OLED screen is picked more for what design and form factor changes it allows rather than it having a picture quality benefit over LCD.

 

[Ezra923]

the calculator looks awesome lol