Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “OLED vs Mini-LED TV: A Clear Winner?”.
Portion of this video is sponsored by you, green every, like half a decade or so it’s it’s time to buy a new tv uh and if you go to best buy look online. It is a garbled mess of letters and i think the brands are trying to confuse you on purpose. Led oled q, led mini, led micro, led neokula qnet. I do this for a living and i had to look up half of those to understand fully what the technologies are and what they do. It’S generally confusing now for years, oled’s been the best of the best, but you know recently mini leds, have kind of come on strong and hit the market sort of taking what sort of qlik had done in the past and improving on it. So the big question and the one that i want to answer here.
I want to take two of sort of the new leading tv techs out there and compare them and try to decide if sort of q-led mini, led tvs are ready and finally equipped to take the crown from oled as the new king of tv tech. So for this reference we’ll be using sort of what i consider uh to be the best version of an oled and mini letv set. You can buy there’s a lot of oled tv options out there from a lot of manufacturers for this one we’re going to use what we consider to be the top sort of the lgc line, we’re using the c1 for this, but there’s a c2 available as well And then on the qled mini led side. There’S a lot of manufacturers doing this as well, and we’re going to be using a samsung variant of the neo qled mini led tv.
But if you’re not looking at either of these two brands, maybe you’re. Looking at a oled tv from sony, which i should say, lg makes those panels for or looking at a mini, led tv from, let’s say, tcl, the general tenements of this video and the technology behind it still going to be the same. So now, like i said, uh ola technology hasn’t changed all that much uh.
When it comes to how the tech actually works. You still have each individual pixel on the screen, acting like its own light source, which can turn on change color and then, when needed, turn off, which is how oled sets get those really deep. Dark blacks because they’re just off uh cue light technology is basically the evolution of existing lcd tech.
It uses hundreds of leds in a backlight panel as its light source. This allows for a much brighter image, but at the sometimes sacrifice of black levels, never getting perfectly black, just some version of usually dark gray. Broadly speaking, at least mini led, is kind of the spiritual evolution of the cue light tech. It uses the exact same technology as kilo displays, except it takes the hundreds of leds that back like tequila displays and shrinks them down. So now thousands can fit into that panel.
This means many led displays will have more local dimming zones, which will help create sort of sharper contrast, deeper blacks and less blooming around bright objects. So in theory, we’re getting with the mini led set is the awesome sort of brightness and vibrancy of culet set with the contrast and sharpness of black levels that are now really approaching uh an oled set and generally at least at a cheaper price. So right there? It probably sounds like a clear winner right if it’s less expensive, the brightness tends to be better and blackouts are good enough. Your mini led is the winner not entirely the case.
There’S a few really compelling reasons why oled would still remain king here. So, let’s talk about it so with oled sets, there’s a lot of advantages for one design is usually more striking since there isn’t a backlit panel, companies tend to take advantage of that lack of real estate needed and make the displays just razor, thin and lg means. Obviously, take a look one of those companies, so samsung and other mini, led tvs are still pretty thin and surprisingly thin, considering that the backlight panels are in there, but they are generally thicker.
Due to you know, if you need that light source and because that backlit panel mini led still suffers from dimming and color shift sort of the further, you stray from doing the screen straight on. In all fairness, the viewing angles have gotten better, as generations of tvs have improved, but still there’s a sweet spot and then there’s less ideal. Seating positions so with oled sets individual diodes give oled their signature black levels as they have the ability to just straight up turn off.
Not only are you getting perfect contrast, but you’re also getting insanely accurate, color reproduction and the image feels rich. The colors pop off the screen. It looks awesome. Oled is unmatched in image quality. As long as you’ve got the right settings and again big caveats here as well, if you watch tv in the evening or night or you control the light in your room, to keep it darker i mean oled is just not so good. However, the second, you know you turn on a lamp or the sun comes out.
Uh oled panels suddenly become less ideal. Now new 2022 sets have gotten brighter in all fairness, but they’re still not at the brightness level of mini leds. Many leds do not suffer from that problem. They are some of the brightest tvs out that you can get.
But if you primarily watch tv in a darker setting, then you might find a mini led set sometimes even be too bright, and this is a weird thing. So if you go to a best buy or any store that has these sets up, typically, they got overhead lights, but the tvs are calibrated. So looking at an oled versus looking at a mini led in those bright environments, you might not notice a huge difference, but if you can see the set side by side in a darker setting, it’ll be relatively apparent, which one is which. So i think the question here is: where are you going to put your set and which stuff do you care about? Is it brightness at your jam, then decisions made for you or is it black levels you care about, in which case decision made? For you, too, probably the last thing to consider, and maybe the biggest one is that oleds are expensive and generally much more expensive than a mini. Led panel oleds have come down in price over the years, but they are still way above the price point of mini led, which tends to be around the price of like an expensive q led set, while picking the right tv can be a tough decision.
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Backlit panel, the biggest one is brightness oled just can’t match the brightness of a mini led panel, so that brightness obviously comes in handy. If you are in a bright room, your tv is typically you’re right next to a window or you like to keep all the lights on. Mini led is perfect for you, colors are vibrant, hdr looks incredible, and these sets are really color accurate. All the way to peak brightness, but with that brightness again we sacrifice black levels and granted many leds go a long way in helping produce sort of a deeper blacks and traditional qled will thanks to increased local dimming zones. But at the end of the day, it’s still some version of gray, even if your brain might interpret it as black, but the mini leds credit. This is the best version of a backlit panel that i’ve ever really seen to date.
So since this is the evolution of a q led panel, things like blooming, where you could see halo effects around very bright objects, noticeably better and viewing angles have improved since, like the early days of qled. But neither of those are at the levels of an old wet set. Oled sets are producing these perfect contrast. Levels have incredible viewing angles that mini led, while better than q-led still is not as good as oled in those areas, if you’re the type of buyer who’s. Upgrading from a q led set – and you just want something drastically different – you might be drawn to two oled, but the difference between some of the early qled sets and now the mini led sets is still really drastic, so you’ll get that same sort of newness. Look! No matter which set you decide to go for where mini led does when out, though again is in price, you can buy.
Multiple mini led sets for the price of one oled set generally speaking. So if price is a factor, mini led will be much easier on your wallet. Speaking of price. You have the ability to go up in resolution from 4k to 8k for around the same price as a 4k oled.
But if you wanted an 8k oled, uh you’re, paying close to 10 000 bucks, at least as of this filming, so keep that in mind, and if all of this wasn’t enough micro led is coming to sort of be more mainstream relatively soon. That’S going to be a whole other discussion, comparing what micro led can do versus what ola can do and you’re probably thinking micro led is just smaller version of mini is there’s relatively different uh from what we’ve got right now so we’ll make that video and get My hands on a micro led set, so this is a tough decision. If you asked me a year ago, uh, it would have been oled all day every day, no matter what, but, having spent a lot of time, looking at these mini led sets and sort of seeing how good they look and ultimately, when my tv is up on A wall i’m hard pressed to not go and buy a mini, led set. I have a lot of natural light where my main tv is um. Generally i’m sitting in front of it anyway and be able to get 8k well, not a lot of 8k content out there.
A lot of tvs will upscale. I feel it’s a bit more future proof for me. I think i’m going to save the cash and probably go mini led, but if you are in a darker area – and you really want those incredible blacks, you cannot go wrong with an oled set and if you got the money to spend old is still an incredible.
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