led tv's

[Saint Keith]

are these any good, and are they proven? thinking i might get one rather than get a large plasma. will they be good for watching sport or suffer in the way lcd's do?

[St Landrew]

If you skip back a few months you'll find the answer to your question. The quick answer is that Plasma TVs use twice as much power as an old equivalent sized CRT TV, and LCDs [not LEDs] use half the amount of power as old CRTs. So unless you're Saint George, or have a generator and a forest, the no brainer is an LCD TV, if you're going to have one or the other. Quality is dependant upon manufacturer. Do a lot of research.

[bungle]

I would like to see an LED tv.

[hypochondriac]

Do you mean this?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HbXzSdResM

[Saint_Jonny]

You can get OLED' (organic light emitting diode) tv's, but I doubt thats what he meant. Think that tech currently maxes out at about 5inches or something. Means you can have a tv about one inch thick and the picture clarity is immence, but getting a big tv out of it is some way off yet.

[Saint_Jonny]

ok just watched the video, you can get a 31inch one, which is mad. Bet they cost a BOMB though!

[Saint Keith]

i mean one of these http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/category/1874/LED-Backlit-LCD-TVs/n/1001874+4294966914

[TNT]

Not sure its worth spending that sort of money on a tv !

[Saint Keith]

Not sure its worth spending that sort of money on a tv !

 

 

hence the original post! could get a very good plasma for a 3rd of that, but dont want to if these are the next big thing

[TNT]

I didnt think plasmas where that good ?

 

Maybe you should have a butchers at the sony bravia or samsung lcds.

[Redbul]

We were waiting to get a Sony Bravia but they were never in stock. We ended up getting a Samsung 42" 8 Series from Novatech. It's got a slightly better spec. than the Bravia and cheaper. With HD it is the dogs. It's 100Hz, or 100 frames per second so there's virtually no motion blur which is great for footy or other sport. Dynamic contrast ratio is 70000:1, the Sony was 50000:1 so the dark/light contrast is marginally better with the Samsung (depending on how it was tested I suppose....)

 

Anyway, we're happy with it and we spent quite a bit of time researching which one to get.

[SOTONS EAST SIDE]

LED TV's have an LED backlighting rather than a lamp arrangment like an LCD, which means than can react faster for colour changes, hence the excellent blacks and colours they can acheive and slimness! And their working life is 3x longer than LCD!

Definately the TV to get if you can afford it, until OLED's become more affordable!

[Saint Keith]

LED TV's have an LED backlighting rather than a lamp arrangment like an LCD, which means than can react faster for colour changes, hence the excellent blacks and colours they can acheive and slimness! And their working life is 3x longer than LCD!

Definately the TV to get if you can afford it, until OLED's become more affordable!

 

thanks for that, appreciate it.. what are oled's?

[St Landrew]

i mean one of these http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/category/1874/LED-Backlit-LCD-TVs/n/1001874+4294966914

 

Bloody hell, I didn't for a moment think you meant one of those. Besides, I didn't think the technology had moved on enough, just yet.

 

Time passes, when you're not paying attention.

[Saint Keith]

Bloody hell, I didn't for a moment think you meant one of those. Besides, I didn't think the technology had moved on enough, just yet.

 

Time passes, when you're not paying attention.

 

 

are they any good then, or just expensive because they're new?

[St Landrew]

thanks for that, appreciate it.. what are oled's?

 

HTH

 

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/oled.htm

 

EDIT: The ones you linked to are another step in the direction of LCD technology, by having them back lit by LEDs, which use less power than a lamp. OLEDs use even less power, and are supposedly far more accurate in the overall picture. Anyway, read the How It Works article.

Edited 8 May, 2009 by St Landrew

[Saint Keith]

HTH

 

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/oled.htm

 

blimey. weird!

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

A bit cheaper than the Sonys...

 

 

£1599 at Currys

[Saint Keith]

yeah, i saw the samsungs were a lot cheaper, i just assumed the Sony's would be better?

[swannymere]

I thought that Samsung were ahead of Sony in terms of TV's? Oh and the current range of Plasma's are almost on a par with LCD's in terms of power consumption.

[St Landrew]

 

[Mr Nice]

I hate the 'finish' on the new samsung range the plastic type screen look and prefer Sony or indeed i have a nifty panansonic with freesat hd.

[Dr Who?]

Well things have changed on the TV front!

[buctootim]

I'm still using the Sony LED lit LCD tv in bought in May 2009. Much more natural colour than the over saturated HDR versions fashionable atm   

[Manuel]

I remember having to lift a Sony Trinitron out of the boot of my car and almost giving myself a hernia in the process.  

edit: I had forgotten about StLandrew.  He was alright.

Edited 1 September, 2021 by Manuel

[Patrick Bateman]

TVs are one thing that have changed massively in 10-12 years. A bloke on my team at work has just bought a 77" LG. It costs about £3k if not more at the thing is a monster. 10 years ago that wouldn't have been a thing, and I think 42, maybe 50 was the biggest and people were still debating LED vs Plasma. Personally I've gone through 4 main (in the lounge) TVs in this time, with each being pushed to the next room as the new one comes in, bar one, a Panasonic, which was rubbish and died completely. 

But I also remember not that long ago, perhaps 2002, buying a fat 32" CRT widescreen and being really excited. The bastard thing weighed a tonne. I lived in a townhouse back then and carried the thing up 2 flights of stairs, nearly killed me, heavy as f**k. 

[Whitey Grandad]

7 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

TVs are one thing that have changed massively in 10-12 years. A bloke on my team at work has just bought a 77" LG. It costs about £3k if not more at the thing is a monster. 10 years ago that wouldn't have been a thing, and I think 42, maybe 50 was the biggest and people were still debating LED vs Plasma. Personally I've gone through 4 main (in the lounge) TVs in this time, with each being pushed to the next room as the new one comes in, bar one, a Panasonic, which was rubbish and died completely. 

But I also remember not that long ago, perhaps 2002, buying a fat 32" CRT widescreen and being really excited. The bastard thing weighed a tonne. I lived in a townhouse back then and carried the thing up 2 flights of stairs, nearly killed me, heavy as f**k. 

When I dumped our large CRT model, I think it might have been 28”, it was the first thing that I had thrown away that was in good working order. I could barely lift it when I bought it and it needed two of us to carry it to my car. At the tip a young man just picked it up with two hands and carried it to put on the pile with all the others.

When I used to be in TV research up until 1982 the talk was all about being able to make 14” LCD screens for small TVs and portable PCs. Phillips had just bought a production line of Sharp in order to get some experience. It might have been the other way round.

[whelk]

Will OLED tvs continue to fall in price? Have two perfectly good TVs but the sharpness of OLED appeals but cannot really justify it other than being a twat.

Edited 2 September, 2021 by whelk

[Lighthouse]

21 minutes ago, whelk said:

Will OLED tvs continue to fall in price? Have two perfectly good TVs but the sharpness of OLED appeals but cannot really justify it other than being a twat.

I am a twat and I did buy one, have to say the image is astonishing. The first time I watched sky sports in 4K they were interviewing David Moyes, I never knew he was quite so grotesque.