It does matter. But all my big displays are still LCD, because of cost.
It’s about blackpoint. With an LED, pixels which are black still have a backlight. This makes them a kind of grey.
With OLED, the pixels themselves emit light. This means that black pixels are unlit.
The difference is obvious in a dimly lit room looking at dark content.
That said, while I would love OLEDs all around, they’re expensive. I’m willing to give up having true blacks for the cost difference. It may be different as costs on OLED come down.
I do have an OLED phone, because Samsung is pumping out OLEDs on everything.
It does matter, but does is it justify spending 50% more on a product? You’d only notice the difference if you did side-by-side testing anyway. Ignorance truly is bliss.
OLED also matters more on phones because such a large fraction of their power use goes to the display (apparently up to 80% at max brightness on a task that doesn’t require much computing power). A desktop would need one hell of a multi-monitor setup to get remotely close, plus you aren’t as concerned about power usage when there’s no battery to deplete.
It does matter. But all my big displays are still LCD, because of cost.
It’s about blackpoint. With an LED, pixels which are black still have a backlight. This makes them a kind of grey.
With OLED, the pixels themselves emit light. This means that black pixels are unlit.
The difference is obvious in a dimly lit room looking at dark content.
That said, while I would love OLEDs all around, they’re expensive. I’m willing to give up having true blacks for the cost difference. It may be different as costs on OLED come down.
I do have an OLED phone, because Samsung is pumping out OLEDs on everything.
It does matter, but does is it justify spending 50% more on a product? You’d only notice the difference if you did side-by-side testing anyway. Ignorance truly is bliss.
I said it matters: “the difference is obvious”.
But for me, it does not justify the cost difference at the current time.
You definitely can easily tell led from oled. No need for a side by side test.
OLED also matters more on phones because such a large fraction of their power use goes to the display (apparently up to 80% at max brightness on a task that doesn’t require much computing power). A desktop would need one hell of a multi-monitor setup to get remotely close, plus you aren’t as concerned about power usage when there’s no battery to deplete.