Samsung Claims Its New QLED TVs Are Better Than OLED TVs (theverge.com)

Samsung recently unveiled its latest flagship televisions at CES 2017, the QLED series. The company is challenging the notion that OLED TVs represent the pinnacle of picture quality in the living room. According to Samsung, the QLED TV represents its best achievement in image quality and viewing experience yet. The Verge reports: Of course Samsung would say that at an event meant to showcase said product. But the company insists it's made very real improvements compared to the flagship TVs it unveiled only a year ago. One of those upgrades pertains to brightness. The QLED TVs reach a peak brightness between 1,500 and 2,000 nits -- up from the 1,000 peak from 2016's lineup. Color reproduction has also been improved. The QLED sets handle DCI-P3 "accurately" and are capable of reproducing "100 percent color volume" -- something Samsung claims to be a world first. "This means they can express all colors at any level of brightness -- with even the subtlest differences visible at the QLED's peak luminance -- between 1,500 and 2,000 nits." Samsung says all of this is possible because it's using a new metal material along with the quantum dot nanocrystals. On the software end, Samsung's 2017 TVs are still powered by Tizen and feature basically the same user interface as last year. But there are some new additions like a sports mode that aggregates scores and other content from your favorite teams and an expanded Music section that lets you Shazam music as it's playing in a TV show and immediately launch that track in Spotify another streaming services. Samsung is also looking to clean up how its TVs look in your living room. New this year is a clear-colored "Invisible Connection cable" that runs from the TV to an external breakout box where you'll find all the HDMI ports and other critical connections (besides power, which is a separate input).

Comments

Not sure what they're talking about

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

Just a week ago I visited the closest to my apartment mall and compared 2016 SUHD Quantum Dot Samsung TVs and LG's OLED TVs.

And you know what? LG's blacks are just mind boggling, I mean the contrast ratio of LG's display was head and shoulders above what Samsung can manage.

Maybe Samsung can claim and does have higher brightness (not sure if it's relevant since most people have their TVs at apartments/houses and usually watch them in the evening/at night) and a wider gamut, but when it comes to darkness/dim lights, OLEDs are miles better. I'd have deeper blacks over higher brightness/wider gamut any time, please.

Re:Not sure what they're talking about

[Anonymous Coward]

Attention morons!!!
There are two HUGE areas that ALL of these panels fail at

1) In comparison to CRT's... black level, aka contrast. Specifically 0 IRE, blacker than black. Yes there is such a terminology thing. But you wouldn't know it unless you grew up NTSC / HDTV engineer.

2) Color gamut. This is improving so I won't bitch.

NO ONE gives a fuck about 'brightness' ok, in the real world, all flat panel TV's are sufficiently bright enough, particularly in the dimmed home movie environment, and certainly for the lame daytime shows. These aren't CRT / FPTV / RPTV affected by room light. So if you are buying and perpetuating the 'brightness" panel demand, you're an idiot.

Where they suck balls is in the ability to block all light resulting in true black, then after that, in true contrast ratios.
THIS magic black and blacker than black, GENTLEMEN, is what makes a good set really pop!!!
And you can't get it with any current technology on the market until you start demanding it and throwing dollars at it.
Establishment of 4k FPTV / RPTV CRT production is possible if you demand it.

My 2k CRT projectors do this (and you can't have mine :-)