Who has seen a LED TV? What do you think about it?
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Who has seen a LED TV? What do you think about it?
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LED or LCD?
Dont they use LED on massive billboard type screens at sports events where clarity isn't such an issue?
LCD are the TVs most people buy (along with plasma) in order to get the best possible quality at a reasonable price.
LED, no LCD. What's the difference?
Dont they use LED on massive billboard type screens at sports events where clarity isn't such an issue? Or for news/stock & shares tickers in times square etc.
LCDs are the TVs most people buy (along with plasma) in order to get the best possible quality at a reasonable price.
edit; do you mean OLED? Organic LCD...the very latest TV screen thats still yet to fully hit the market and will one day replace LCD/Plasma (AFAIK).
LED is better. Better colour as well as not emitting heat and consuming less electricity (Think those spiffy new Samsung LED ones consume around 80W in comparison to my REZGA downstair which is rated at 203W apparently) Your looking at a starting price of around £900-1000 for a 32" LED TV though. LG do an LED monitor if your after something small and affordable however the panel type is TN rather than the more desireable PVA/IPS.
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We are about to start work in our front room (flooring, fire place etc), we want a SAMSUNG LED to go with it.
I saw them in comet, the picture quality is the best i'v seen and there really slim (slimmer than the plasmas and lcds).
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I work in an electrical store part time and we've had a few of these new Samsung LED models on display for a month or two..
I must say the quality of them is superb, the colours do look very vibrant, but they're pretty much the equivalent of some of the very-high end Samsung and Panasonic LCD models, but about 20% more in price.
The real advantage of them is the depth of the screen, fantastic for wall-mounting.
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Thats why we want one and we will get it once we finished the room (even if i go overdrawn). Where after a 46" should be big enough.
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If you want to be technical, surely you mean OLED? LEDs and OLEDs are totally different technologies.
LED screens aren't that impressive. They're used on large (and by large i mean metres wide) screens in stadiums, town squares and so on. They have three (red, blue, green) LEDs grouped together in a cluster for each pixel and then the whole screen is a big array of these clusters. Thus they act, from a distance, like a proper screen but up close they just look like a lot of oddly arranged lights.
OLED on the other hand is a relatively new technology (though it's only recently been used seriously in commercial products). They're designed using organic materials and as such let you make ridiculously flat screens with superb contrast. In essence they are towards the holy grail of screen technology, having the potential to be cheap, flat, bright/contrasty as well as there being flexible (as in bendy) applications. However, it's still a very niche and expensive product at the moment and there are issues like limited life span (especially with the blue components).
LCD is old as the hills in technology terms and is used in practically every flat screen these days. It is cheap to produce, provides decent results but has the problem of needing to be backlit - i.e. you can change the colour of the pixels but you need to provide extra illumination to make it visible. Nowadays manufacturers are switching to LED backlighting - laptops and monitors for instance - because it provides low power, bright and even illumination compared to CCFLs.
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I was looking at one today in Curry's. Does look very impressive and is very thin. My understanding was that the Samsung ones on display at the moment were different to the OLED versions that they've already prototyped, and they were delaying the launch of OLED TV's until they recouped the development costs of the LED ones? Might be the same, but I would have thought they would label it as OLED.
He does mean LED. It's just refering to the back-lighting.
As you said - they just replace the CCFL's, nothing more. OLED is very different as I'm sure you know.
There are no OLED TV's of large sizes you can easily buy from the high-street currently. Even current 11" (yes, eleven inch!) screens are selling for over a grand in some places. Buying a 40" OLED TV currently isn't an option for general members of the public.
Theyre 'normal' LED ones in currys/comet -wherever. OLED is too dear to produce on a TV size at the min along with the features that youd expect a TV (100Hz, Super-1337 colour enhancing software exlcusive only to us[insert brand here]) to have. I think that 11" Sony X OLED cost an arm and a leg earlier this year so until prices come down to around the same as LED TV's now LED will remain the new the wave to be riding.
Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
I have the thin Hitachi "monitor" type TV. Got it from Richer Sounds for £500.
Very impressed with it's FullHD loveliness. Really thinking about getting the 32" version fro my bedroom now. It's only 10KG!!!
Whilst they're too expensive to be used in televisions they have been used in some MP3 players for a while. The new Walkman X has an OLED screen, for instance. The old NWA-3000 had an OLED screen (albeit a mono-colour) and that was a good few years ago.
And as i said, very expensive and niche, but there has been a 40" prototype!
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