John Siracusa

Way more than 2,000.

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That's one side of things and the other side of things are the technologies that allow per pixel lighting control And the one that is most commonly used in television these days is oled But just like on your phone or on the new ipad pro Oled you can turn on a single pixel because the pixels themselves emit their own light There is no light behind them that's shining through them and big chunky thing.

The individual pixels make their own light um and

There are trade-offs between them because OLEDs can't get as bright as those other ones because when you've got the big light behind everything, you can crank up the light real high.

More recently, the battle between these two different kinds of technologies has advanced to the point where it's not just brightness anymore.

It used to be, okay, well, OLED has the best picture, but LCD TVs with backlights can get brighter.

And the competition is now in something called color volume, which is like, okay, how many colors can you show?

And it used to be that the fanciest OLEDs were winning that as well because the QD OLED, the quantum dot OLED that I've got in my TV and that's in a lot of monitors now, had R, G, and B subpixels.

And you could turn the R, the G, and the B on to maximum brightness and you could get a really pure white or you could turn on the R to maximum brightness, get a really pure red, so on and so forth.

Whereas those other monitors that had a backlight, they had a backlight that they would shine through and then they had to have something that would turn the backlight into other colors.

some kind of color filter or quantum dots or whatever.

Um, and on the OLED side, there were some OLEDs that had to add a white sub pixel to increase the brightness.

And of course that would wash out all their colors.

Anyway, QD OLED was the champion in color volume as well, because it didn't have a white sub pixel.

You had perfect lighting control.

You could turn up the red pixel really, really high.

Um, it wasn't as bright as the best, uh, LCDs, but that was sort of like the enthusiast thing.

All of it, the Sony 895 L, Sony 895 K, all the, all the, the,

Sony monitors and the Samsung monitors with Samsung's QD OLED panels.