It’s not easy to be up to date with new technologies and trends. The speed of evolution is overwhelming, but you can learn the difference between OLED and QLED TVs to impress your friends next time you gather.
In this article, we’ll tell you all about these two technologies, their differences, similarities and everything else. We’ve also made a comparison to help you decide which kind of system you should get on your next television.
Stick around and find out the winner of this battle between OLED and QLED.
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OLED TVs or QLED TVs – Let’s see the differences
Before making any important decision such as this one, you should know what those letters mean and how they’ll affect your TV watching experience.
The most important thing is, probably, to know where the light comes from, because that is the main difference between these two technologies. OLED means Organic Light-Emitting Diode, which is a way of saying that these TVs have particles that emit light on their own, instead of having to rely on an exterior light source for that.
This is what happened with the previous LCD models, which were not capable of generating the light they needed and had to have a side or front panel to generate the images we would see on screen.
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QLED stands for Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diode, which doesn’t sound that different, but the “Quantum” part is important. These screens are an upgrade from previous LED TVs, but they’re still unable to generate light by themselves, unlike the OLED models that we saw above. You’re probably wondering what changed from LED to QLED.
Well, in these upgraded TVs, pixels can be activated with higher precisión, thanks to the quantum dots, which are tiny (from 2 to 10 nanometers) semiconductor crystals. This allows for a much better contrast and colours.
Price is also different
QLED TVs are amazing and, depending on several factors, such as the size of the screen or any other advanced features, can cost anything between 500 and 1.500 euros, which makes them a bit more appealing if you have budget constraints.
But if you wanna go for the best solution out there, OLED TVs are the answer – they have no rival in terms of quality and advanced features –, but they cost a lot more than other options in the market. We’re talking about prices that start at more than 865 GBP, and that’s for the bottom-of-the-range models. The best ones can go up to 8.650 GBP.
Remember that almost all models of QLED or OLED TVs are big in size, so make some space available at home.
Take a look at the Pros and Cons of OLED screens
Now we’ll tell you what’s good and not so good about OLED televisions and how they compare to QLED models.
Benefits
- Amazing brightness and great viewing angle, which means you get what you paid for from any position of the room.
- These screens can be really thin, because they don’t need to pack so much stuff inside, like LED screens did, so you’ll have a beautiful piece of design that doesn’t occupy much space.
- Because it doesn’t rely on an external light source, it can also help you save on the electricity bill.
- If you look at the black color on an OLED TV, you’ll see a pure back. And this is exclusive for OLED screens, because they can turn off individual pixels to generate absence of light (basically, what we call black). Other technologies can only block the light, which isn’t 100% reliable.
- These screens have a higher response rate, of about 0,1 milliseconds, against the 2-8 milliseconds that QLED TVs can offer. They’re both ultra fast, anyway.
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- QLED screens are made by Samsung, the creator of this technology, which means that you’ll be limited to one brand only if you want a QLED screen. OLED has many manufacturers, giving you a much wider range of options.
Cons
- OLED screens are much more expensive than any other TVs. That’s what happens when you have the best technology out there.
- These screens might have a smaller life cycle, because of the organic composition that makes it so good.
- All of these screens are big, at least 50 inches, so if you don’t have enough space or if you’re not interested in a wall-sized TV, you’ll have to look at other options.
¿How about QLED, which are the pros and which are the cons?
Here you’ll learn about the advantages and disadvantages of having a QLED screen when compared to their OLED rivals.
Advantages
- Very high brightness level, up to 4000 nits of brightness. This will light up your room even if it’s daylight, which means you’ll always get the quality you want, at any time and from any position.
- The colors that you’ll get with these screens are the purest available, all thanks to the individual pixels that make up the screen and can be activated individually to emit 100% of color, instead of older models. Additionally, they can also control the level of light that comes out of each pixel, to fine tune the saturation.
- They can last longer and cost less than OLED screens.
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Against
- They can’t give you pure black. To achieve the absence of light necessary for pure black, these screens would have to cut their own power supply, which means they would be out of energy to be turned on. Unlike OLED, that can choose to turn off specific dots.
- Available from Samsung only, which means a shorter range of options.
- Slower response time than OLED (but still amazing) and inferior design.
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