John Siracusa
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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.
They were the champions because they had perfect lighting control.
They could get really bright and they had huge color volume.
This is sort of an Empire Strikes Back like situation where the televisions with the backlights are saying, OK, we've got a new idea.
It's not really that new, but Sony did it ages ago.
But anyway, in the past few years, it's been like instead of having a backlight that is just a white or blue light, most of them are blue because you can change the blue until the other colors because it's the shortest wavelength.
How about we have a backlight broken up into little regions, but we'll make the backlight itself, like the little lights that are, you know, behind there, the little backlight regions, they will be RGB.
This is like a gamer's dream.
RGB lights, they're behind my TV, right?