re: How far will the TV industry go with screen sizes?

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Why do you think Qled or mini led are that much cheaper than Oled screens??

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Not sure if you are asking a question or using a rhetorical question to try to make a point.

The simple answer is OLED technology is more expensive to produce and it has a smaller economy of scale. It is very analogous to the differences between plasma and LED from the past. Plasma lit each individual pixel and was better at a lot of things and was more expensive due to the same economy of scale and complexity. Plasma died because it couldn't be miniaturized for 4K.

OLED is an easy button if you have the budget. It produces a great picture and does pretty much everything well except light output. In a room with high ambient light like most living rooms in the daytime a similarly priced QLED with a high population mini-LED backlight will beat it in overall quality because light output is so important there.


Keep in mind OLED and LED are not just a single types of displays. Both have been increasing quality and trying to make up the gaps to the other in the areas they lag.

If you are considering an OLED then you have OLED, QD-OLED, WOLED and Tandem OLED each has pros and cons.

With LED you have the backlight type (eg edge lit, local area dimming and mini-LED) and the panel type you have standard LED and QLED.

All these types have pros and cons and depend heavily on your budget.

I still stick with my general assessment if you do most of your watching in controlled light get the best OLED you can afford, if you do most of your watching in high ambient light then go with LED. This is solid advice for anyone that doesn't know what nits, REC 2020, and HDR10+ are off the top of their head.

Thanks for clarifying
We just installed a 83” Samsung Oled from Costco for $2499 Gen 3 or 4 processor- I can’t remember.
It includes a 5 year warranty through Costco.
I found one similar on Amazon for $2200, a year old and older processor, didn’t include the extended warranty.

Thanks for your input

very informative. thanks.

definitely LED (mini-LED) for me then.

If by "certain areas" you're referencing ambient light, or BFTB, you're certainly right. If you are talking theater experience .... not a chance.

Certain areas are every objective metric besides size. Some people have less eye fatigue, but I don't find that to be an issue for me.

There is an interesting effect with PJs in the area of immersion. Even when I sit at the proper distance from my PJ screen and TV to give the same viewing angle there is still an increase in subjective immersion from my PJ in my HT. Some of that is certainly other aspects of a purpose-built HT with a massive screen, but there is something magical about a large display even if none of the objective characteristics are as good as a high-quality panel.

In the end, when you can buy emissive displays in the 120 (wide) range, and the price settles into the upper middle range of high-quality PJs/screens (say $20k) PJ will begin to die at a rapid rate.

I got a free 65" tv. So that is the right size tv.

The Samsung oled 83” was reduced by $500
To $1999
At Costco

Console televisions were the best. There was nothing like lying in front of the tv with a pillow and blanket, watching Saturday morning cartoons.

Video walls and full immersion.