oled displays might not be the best you
can get for long there's a new
technology from samsung display who
sponsored this video that at least on
paper is better in every way and it's
not micro led it's
oled but a new kind of oled called qdo
led and samsung display is so confident
in it that they pulled the unprecedented
move of flying us
and our testing equipment out for an
early preview of their tvs and gaming
monitors and after seeing them side by
side with the current best of the best
yeah
i think i better just say it this is the
new top of the line and i want one
stick around and we're gonna show you
guys how you can spot a qd oled just by
the picture quality itself
but first picture the quality of our
sponsor wait this is sponsored by
samsung i outsegued myself
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if you've shopped for a premium tv in
the last few years you've probably had
to answer the following question am i
going to be watching in a dark basement
or a sunbathed living room that's
because neither of the current leading
technologies look their best in both of
these scenarios no matter how many local
dimming zones you add an lcd is always
going to glow a little and the oled tvs
on the market are simply not bright
enough to be impressive or in some cases
even usable in very bright environments
but with qd oled this variable is all
but removed from the equation because
like a regular oled each pixel can be
turned off entirely for perfect blacks
and we measured 27 percent greater
luminance blasting full screen white
compared to an lg g1 which uses lg's evo
panel that is itself 20 brighter than
what you would find on most of their
lineup including the c1 which is what
most people buy and in smaller areas it
gets even better we measured a thousand
nits over a 10 patch and 1500 nits over
a three percent patch which is a lot
bigger than you might think on a 55 or
65 inch screen so yeah
while an lcd might actually still be
better for the deck of your yacht these
new qdo leds are closing the gap
substantially of course you could be one
of those people who doesn't really get
why everyone's so obsessed with
brightness these days
but don't click away because it's not
just that these displays are brighter
it's what they do with their brightness
the first thing you'll notice are the
reds they're simply put like nothing
you've ever seen on an oled before and
they're in full force in spider-man
miles morales here from the suit to the
fire the lg c1 looks browny orange by
comparison and in a game like this
it's not just eye candy it's immersion
like in person this burning building
looks hot well this one looks about as
threatening as this quality desk pad
from lttstore.com
then there's the green during this mall
chase look at these signs instead of
looking like paper posters they pop like
backlit advertisements should making
them all feel like a vibrant purposeful
setting on the lg
they're just kind of a generic asset
now unfortunately we had pretty bad
internet in the demo room so we couldn't
use our shield as much as we wanted but
if what we've seen is anything to go on
i really want to see the shire on one of
these
the most magnificent color upgrade
though was gold and there's a really
cool color science reason for why we all
know that white is created by mixing r g
and b
but they're not mixed in equal
proportion there's actually less blue
because it's the highest energy
wavelength but if you remove the blue
altogether you're left with just red
plus green which makes yellow therefore
yellow is the brightest saturated color
possible and it is just
stunning on the cutie oled whether
you're looking at a bird a statue or a
landscape current oleds look brown and
drab by comparison
and this improvement in saturation means
that even if you turn the brightness of
a qd oled way down say you're in a light
controlled theater room and you don't
want it to be eye searingly bright
it will still appear brighter than the
current tech because humans perceive
increased saturation as increased
brightness like it's one thing to
describe it but it's a whole other thing
to actually cap our hdr test signal to
both tvs at exactly a thousand nits and
yet have our eyes tell us no
these are different but it all makes
total sense once you understand the
hardware inside these new qdo leds use
only blue emitters as their light source
then since blue is a high frequency wave
it can be stepped down to green and red
that's done with quantum dots that are
inkjet printed directly onto the
emitters in an rgb subpixel pattern this
blue light to red or green conversion is
done super efficiently with only 10 of
the light being lost and then on the
blue sub pixel there's no color
conversion though the light does pass
through a clear scattering material to
mimic the quantum dot's ability to
spread light out evenly in all
directions this improves viewing angles
the end result is that nearly all of the
light from the source actually makes it
to the front of the display and it does
so with very precise definitions of red
green and blue this is in stark contrast
to how w oleds the kind made by lg who
produce virtually every large format
oled panel on the planet work
instead of starting with a single color
those have emitter material for each
primary color so r g and b
these then combine into white inside the
display before then being separated back
out by color filters at the subpixels
unlike with quantum dot color conversion
these filters block all of the colors
they're not selecting for and what they
do let through has a relatively low
standard for what's considered red or
green combine all of that with the fact
that red and green oled emitters just
aren't as powerful as the blue ones to
begin with and you start to understand
the w in w-oled it stands for white
because there's an additional clear
sub-pixel that lets white light shine
through to help make the image brighter
this is why the kind of brightness
matters
if you add up the brightness that you're
getting from just the red green and blue
sub pixels on the wo led you get a sum
that is way less than the display's
overall measured brightness and knits
that's because that white pixel is doing
a lot of the heavy lifting
now on a picture of a glacier you
probably won't care or notice but on a
landscape or a golden coin it's like
brightening the image by turning up the
gain instead of by doing it properly
qdio led though
add up your r g and b
and that's the whole enchilada
armed with that knowledge then let's
take a look at some color charts
this thumbnail shaped area represents
every color perceivable by the human eye
the triangle is the bt 2020 color space
which is pretty much the gold standard
for modern displays the points on the
triangle are the rgb color primaries and
every color within the triangle can be
created by mixing those three colors
see how on the g1w oled the primaries
don't quite meet the corners that's why
this tv can only create 75 of the colors
in the gamut but on the cutie oled the
reds and greens push closer to the edges
for a result of over 90 coverage of bt
2020
multiply that 2d cross section over the
entire luminance range that these
displays can produce and you've got a
color volume that is unprecedented in
the consumer space
that's why they look more lifelike more
lively and often more red to the extent
that i think we could probably pick out
a cutie outlet out of a lineup just
based on their warmer look but who cares
how good it looks if it's just going to
burn in right
that's a valid concern
but honestly i'm not too worried
remember the bit about how much more
light efficient these displays are well
that means that the emitters don't have
to be driven with as much voltage for
the same brightness which should give
them a longer lifespan unfortunately
samsung display would not quote us
specific image retention expectations
but here's what we do know
number one in addition to the prevention
techniques that are found on
conventional oleds these new panels have
real-time image sticking compensation so
it's basically like the program that i
ran on my 48 inch c10 except that it
works on a pixel by pixel basis in real
time so there's no user intervention
required
and since it's continuous it could
extend the lifetime of the display
beyond one that relies on a manual
process and number two they're making
gaming monitors which means that they
are clearly damn confident that our
start menus aren't going to be stuck on
them after a few months we got to see a
curved 34-inch ultra wide alienware
display equipped with a samsung display
qd oled panel that made the local
dimming lcd beside it look absolutely
stupid g-sync ultimate oled's
instantaneous pixel response times and a
175hz refresh rate come together to
create what has a good chance of being
the new god of gaming monitors it even
has rgb or well all monitors have rgb on
the front it has it on the back as well
so get subscribed for a full review of
that
but do we think everyone should rush out
and buy one of these next-gen displays
when they launch in early 2022.
that depends
and yes i give these displays high
praise for days but that was in the
context of a side-by-side comparison
that was obviously curated by samsung
display since they flew us down here to
see it and sponsored this video
and
yeah a qned mini led or a w oled might
look like it's from the stone age next
to a cutie oled
but the reality of it is if you were to
walk into your friend's living room and
see that same qnet mini led tv you'd
probably be really impressed with it i
sure was when i first saw one
if i had to quantify it i'd say that
these new units are 15 to 25 percent
better than the w o leads that we have
today depending on how you score them by
the way i didn't even mention they can
do 4k 144 hertz on the tvs
but the issue is you can count on paying
a premium for all that extra shine
overall we don't know how much that is
so whether you buy one or not innovation
and competition in the oled space the
penetration of oled into the gaming
monitor space and the ability for
creators to more articulately
communicate their vision to audiences
gives me anything but the blues for the
future
oh i get it the blues because it's a
purely blue light with quantum dots
if you guys enjoyed this video uh maybe
go check out our qned tv video that was
the whole thing they're they're super
impressive though