Remember when OLED TVs first started making news as tiny, 10-inch displays that cost the earth? Oh how we’ve all come on: CES 2012 is playing host to a new breed of massive, 55-inch OLED sets …that still cost the earth.
As predicted, Samsung and LG have both launched 55-inch OLED beauties at the Las Vegas show. Both sets take advantage of tweaks to the phosphors in OLED technology to allow the TVs to reach such enormous sizes without making the universe implode, and both offer stunning picture quality.
While both TVs offer 3D, the Samsung may just win out by packing in the genuinely top Samsung Smart TV line of software, no improved with face recognition, motion control and cloud syncing for your photos and the like.
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OLED boasts a far better contrast and response rate of anything offered up by LCD or LED, as each pixel lights itself, rather than relying on a backlight. You’ll notice it most in the colours: they’re far more vibrant, while the blacks remain incredibly black.
And the damage? Well, they’re not going to be cheap. Initial rumours are that each of the 55-inch OLED TV sets will fetch around $8,000 – an eye-watering £5,169.
