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But I wouldn't get an OLED unless you are buying it for a theater room that will see relatively little run time. OLEDs replicate plasma pictures for the most part but have a shorter life than any display
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Today, all manufactures that sell OLED televisions use LG panels. In 2013, LG adopted WOLED. In this panel, the light source is white OLED material. This light is passed through WRGB color filters. This was their way of getting around the lower life of blue OLED material. Samsung got into the OLED business briefly, but quickly abandoned OLED due to low panel yields. Samsung does not currently market OLED televisions. A 2016 Korean study showed that LG’s white OLED has a life span of 100 thousand hours. That is the equivalent of running the set 10 hours every day for 30 years. OLED televisions have eclipsed plasma displays in terms of contrast ratio, infinite and unmeasurable, no loss of contrast or color quality 85 degrees off axis and a wide color gamut DCI P3.
The bad press about OLED came from studies made in 2008 measuring the life spans of RGB OLED material prior to LG’s invention of WOLED. Since LG only uses white OLED as the light source and filters for WRGB, they circumvented the life span problem of blue which had the lowest life span as well as red and green.