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thanks to LG for sponsoring this video if you're watching this video on a flagship smartphone chances are it's got an OLED display in it and we're told that it's better but what does it really mean so the first time I saw an OLED TV was at CES and obviously that's like a kind of ideal situation but the difference was really like staggering I kind of me my first thought was Darren's in the picture was kind of like the first time I saw an HD picture it looked really apparent all my analogies and stories come back to sports but when I watched a football game for the first time on an HDTV and I could see the blades of grass it was that staggering to sort of see oh let's actually see black and not just see kind of a dark shade of grey that I've been used to on a TV set it's probably not a spoiler or surprise LG Display makes some of the best OLED displays on the planet in fact they're so good they make them for other manufacturers even so they invited us actually go up to San Francisco and I do want to give them a big thank you for sponsoring this video to compare how an OLED TV compares against the flagship Q LED and LED and LCD TVs that are out on the market people generally don't buy TVs that often and certainly you're not looking at two TV sets next to each other all the time you order one on Amazon you go to Best Buy and you pick up your set then you're done for a few years but if you see the technologies side by side if you see them up on a wall you can notice the difference that you wouldn't necessarily notice if you were just watching your set at home what Oh what essentially is a stands for organic light-emitting diode and what that boils down to is each pixel on the panel is individually controlled to be turned on or off and the off is where you get to see those true black levels so you're looking at actual black so Game of Thrones just ended but if you saw the Battle of Winterfell or maybe you didn't see the Battle of Winterfell because it was so dark that's an instance where having an OLED TV would have made a tangible difference for what you can see if to your eyes you couldn't see the zombies you couldn't see the battle going on it was because of backlighting issues and you weren't getting that true black that the creators kind of wanted you to see in that battle that's sort of one example where where old lead really starts to shine if you're watching movies with true black you're watching like Star Wars you're watching anything that's sort of you need those true black levels it makes a tremendous difference in the picture and also because you don't have sort of layer on layer on layer on layer on layer like you need with an LCD set you can get these displays crazy thin I mean I'm sure you've seen these OLED displays that look like I mean almost like sheets of paper stacked on each other they are so thin you can do more with those displays and they could be they could be bent they could be curved you can do a lot more with an OLED display and you can with anything that needs a backlight so you've got a TV up on your wall you probably got a character sitting on another area that's important is being angles you're not always sitting right in the sweet spot of your TV or your friends or family are sitting around you the viewing angles on OLED TVs are also really good I mean you can sit really far off to the side and still see the true to color picture and also because those black levels are again so black it makes the colors pop even more by contrast if you holds a black piece of paper up at a bright red piece of paper up you can see the difference the red starts to pop more than if you took that black sheet away and that's kind of one of the benefits you get with an OLED set so LCD technology has been around for a while the pixels on an LCD screen can't let themselves up individually they need a light source so you'll see sometimes on lower end TVs edge lighting around the side it's really apparent if looking at something that's dark you can almost see a border where the light source is and on higher end LCD TVs that lighting can happen on a smaller scale in grids or matrixes matrices and they'll light up as something is moving across the screen and in most cases that can look fine but where you can start to see a difference it's again back to those black lobes you can see a ghost and you can see trails that start to happen as you are moving across the set no matter what marketing turn you hear whether it's LED LCD cue LED quantum dot it's all some variation of LCD technology those pixels need a light source and while it's changing is how those pixels are being lit up and what colors being used to light up those pixels so obviously I watch a lot of sports I like action movies so I'm able to watch a picture without ghosting it's super important but again you're not always thinking about your TV technology and you don't really notice it until you see them side by side so LG Display had us come out to San Francisco to see both flagship sets and both flagship technologies on display to see what they could do who was medical themed it wasn't that they were using the Ola tech for any medical or just sort of a theme to show off the tech so the first thing that we saw was kind of simulated eye tests and they were using the latest flagship 4k OLED panel and comparing that to the latest 8k LCD display and it was a black background and they put letters and shapes up and as I sort of faded away and came out you could clearly see a difference between the picture so as we saw these sort of letters and symbols on a black background they would go at varying those of brightness at that point you could clearly see the difference between the technologies even if they didn't say you know this one's OLED and that one's cool ed it would be very good parents which one was which the second area was again kind of an eye test but it was showing actual moving images and both images that were being shown they showed us was coming from the exact same source it wasn't like gamed to make one look better than the other and again I insisted that I check to see that both sources were exactly the same but you again you could see a difference the ocean looks blue versus the ocean looking purple and instead of Pandora I don't remember ever seeing a purple looking ocean when you saw the sort of green Firefly go through the back area you could see more that was sort of where that Game of Thrones thing came up again I could see more backgrounds with the OLED TV than I could with the cue light it just looked almost gray whereas on the OLED it actually black because OLED TVs can be way thinner you could do a lot more of them so we've seen this technology in the past since what manufacturers are doing they're putting an exciter on the back you actually get to use the whole display as a speaker which is awesome and it wasn't just the whole TV as a speaker it was actually localized so I'm looking at a TV set or in this case facing away I could tell where the audio was coming from it was localized so that would translate to if you're watching a movie and someone's talking on the left side of the screen that audio is gonna come from the left side of the screen and same thing for the right without having actual speakers there it's using the whole display that was really cool to see but I always tell my kids is never touch daddy's TV but they let me actually touch this one and you could feel the display vibrate and it was so localized you can feel it when I was on the left side my finger up on the right I couldn't feel it there and as sort of the things we're moving around you could track how that was going that's another way that you can sort of have a benefit with OLED tech even if you you know use a sound bar or you set up a surround sound system and you never use that at least you can appreciate a smaller set is generally just gonna look better up on your wall or on a stand so again I want to give a big thank you to LG displays for sponsoring this video but then sponsoring the video doesn't change the difference in the technology OLED versus LCD and like in the real world that Oh matters and seeing the sets side-by-side and the same image on both sets that was very clear which technology gives you a better overall picture so whenever it is you're looking to get a new TV set you owe yourself to at least check out one of the awesome OLED options available