By now, techno geeks are raving about this thing called OLED TV (Organic Light Emitting Diode) in the same vein as rabid religious fanatics are frothing in the mouth at the Second Coming and the end of the world at 2012. What exactly is OLED?
Picture a simple LED bulb, the kind you may have as a handy little flashlight attached to your keychain. Now, shrink that in size and spread them over a flat rectangular pattern. Organic Light Emitting Diodes will flash variety of colors in a very wide spectrum, and with this, comes a new medium of placing pictures, images and video on screen. What is the basic advantage of OLED over LCD?
First of all, OLEDs do not require a backlight as compared to LCD TVs and monitors. A regular LED flashlight has a much longer life compared to a tiny light bulb. The same can be exactly said about OLEDs, which are very similar to LED. Do the math and you will see that OLED will have a much longer life span than LCD TVs. An LCDs lifespan is often dictated by the lifespan of its back light. Hence a dead backlight means good bye LCD TV. In connection with this, an OLED TV is much skinnier than an LCD TV. No backlight means less space and a much thinner profile, and also less energy consumption. All those advantages accrued from the simple fact that an OLED TV has no backlight. Amazing.
Second is the viewing angle. You can view an OLED from a much wider angle compared to an LCD TV or Plasma TV. OLEDs produce color and pictures similar to the way a plasma TV does , so you can now visualize the difference between viewing a movie on an OLED TV and an LCD TV. You don't have to sit right smack in the middle to enjoy the action. You can practically view it from any angle in the room. This is useful when you have a dozen or so people viewing a boxing match in front of the TV. You won't have to punch each other out to get the best seat in the house.
Third is the picture. It is simply beyond words and you have to see it to believe it. It all boils down to the process by which an LCD TV produces colors. In extremely very simple terms, color is produced by elimination in LCD. In OLED, it is by a combination of colors in the spectrum. Hence, more vibrant colors, sharper blacks and whites. In fact, there is even a possibility of 3-D OLED TV.
But don't just let go of your beloved LCD TV just yet. OLED is still in it's every early stages, and still has a long way to go before toppling the LCD TV king out of the hill. Just as the LCD TV smashed the CRT TVs into oblivion, OLED may someday do the same but not just yet.
Plasma Television Guide For The Average Joe and Jane
As opposed to giving you a list of the myriad of differences between Plasma TVs and the other makes and models of new Digital TV technology that is out on the current market, let's look at what you need to know about a Plasma television that you may not have known before.
HDTV - Things to Consider Before Buying HDTV
With all new HDTV being announced in the tv market, all of them claim to have advanced technology features which encourage you to get another tv although you already have one. However, buying an HDTV is a long term investment, there are several important things you need to think about before invest your money on any new hdtv model.
LCD TV Home Theater Set Up
To set up your new lcd tv home theater, it used to be so simple. Take the TV out of the box, plug it in and it’s ready to go. Nowaday, we have high definition LCD TVs with a myriad of cables and wires for the 5.1 sound system, gaming systems, dvd / bluray player, digital tv including a mess of power cables for everything. Things seem more complicated. Question is how to set it up?
