The OLED technology is the perfect basis for a TV set. The colored pixels glow like plasma cells themselves, but they can be dimmed as desired. Unlike LCD, no background light is needed, which allows for perfect black values. And then the OLEDs are still driven in microseconds, so that moving pictures can be reproduced in a special sharpness and crystal clear calm.
Design
The Korean TV giants Samsung and LG want to realize the power savings TV with perfect picture quality for many years, but now it seems to be serious. Both manufacturers have the largest display factories in the world in the back, which will ultimately decide the OLED race so that these dreams come true - and this is obviously not so easy. Big picture OLEDs were already presented last year, but they did not make it into many shops. It is said that serial production is still a problem and that the giant committee is pushing prices up or preventing the mass market.
Speakers
Now, both super-high-tech TVs are for the first time in our laboratory. Both minimize the display margin, but differ from the start very clearly. LG has a futuristic technology look and displays the phenomenal thinness of the display. It is based on a carbon fiber back, supported by an aerodynamic foot made of plexiglas.
Functions
Practice: Hidden cables simply hide
From the laboratory
The Samsung TV, however, looks almost classic, but all the more elegant. Embedded in the timeless metal frame, which visually enhances the convexity of the display, the panel almost seems to float. Samsung rounds the design ambitions through the use of the feed box One Connect and the almost invisible integrated speakers and video camera. Thus the rear wall remains chic, for the two single sockets are hidden behind flaps. Dumb only that you have to lose one when you insert an HD + or Sky module.
In the LG TV, the cable strings are inserted as usual into the rear of the unit. However, a flexible silver cuff is included to ensure that the cables can be moved subtly past the transparent base of the device.
LG has also succeeded in integrating sound transducers into the transparent foot. However, the delicate ClearSpeakers function only weakly in the uppermost frequency range when listening closely and extend the width of the picture. The surprisingly thick basic tone comes from the center of the device, where the TV has a good volume and the curved foot is like an acoustic horn.
Samsung has hidden the speakers invisibly in the frame behind fabric. Due to the direct rays, they sound beautifully precise, but also a little thin.
Both manufacturers use the highest development levels of their full-HD top series in terms of equipment and image processing. Samsung is still one thing: With improved Smart TV with voice and gesture control, a recommendation function for TV content and especially the double tuner and streaming to the tablet, the TV has reached our maximum score. Because of the new MultiView function, which allows two viewers to see two different programs flicker-free through a pair of shutter glasses, we had to add up to our highest rating.
Practice: Wireless transmission with NFC, Miracast & Co.
LG also offers everything you can expect from a top TV - and more. Particularly noteworthy: Certified Miracast for smartphone mirroring.
Since OLED is a new technology, we have carried out all the lengthy measurements and tests that our laboratory offers. Some results are excellent, others surprise.
In the most important discipline image quality, the opponents at first sight are brilliant because we have concentrated our tests and measurements on the weaknesses of LCD and plasma technology. Contrast comparisons, backlight problems, flicker, rainbow and angle of view are forgotten. The phenomenally rich black value is hardly measurable and the in-picture contrast is the only obstacle in the eye.
Picture gallery
The view angle is immaculate, the LG despite the color filters even better. The Samsung shows in critical test images a slight green tint with shimmer effects in side-views. For this, its color processing shines frontally through top studio qualities. Although LG dominates the new image processing with supplementary white, but shows a slight slant to reddies when filming.
TV-duel: LCD vs. TV Plasma
Image quality
Both consume a lot of electricity. Like plasma TVs, the OLEDs limit their maximum brightness enormously when too much image area is too bright. The pump does not fall, but the LG control changes the image composition by a gamma shift.
The Samsung is the clear image winner. Its speed produces the best and sharpest moving picture we've ever seen. The object recognition is bravuraous and in the case of 24p films an incredible nine intermediate images are calculated, the LG only four. The short response time allows the Samsung, in addition to MultiView, the first 3D image, which is free (only 0.1 percent) of conversations - better than the LG with its polarizing filters, whose only advantage now remains the light, powerless spectacles
The lifetime and the burning-in are problematic with OLED. In our one-week tests, we can hardly give any information about this. After all, both TVs are so intelligent, still images dimmed after a few minutes. For caution, we recommend limiting the pixel intensity. The OLEDs still have enough brightness for high-contrast TV evenings.
Image problems
Conclusion
Ultra HD - The new generation of television
Slightly shocked us, that the LG already after the laboratory measurements memory effects in dark sequences showed. The much used pixels are not burnt (worn out), but seem lighter. This effect usually disappears when the display has cooled down, but in the case of critical test images it was still weak on the following day - perhaps as a kind of one-shot behavior. The Samsung did not show this flaw. For this, the last bit of the picture is a bit finer. This is due to the clean processing of the brightness resolution and color information. Here, Samsung barely manipulates the picture.
Both TVs leave the entire LCD and plasma competition far behind - unless it is about the sharpness of UHD. These first representatives of a new species are already very successful: LG in the technical-sporty look, Samsung classic elegant. They open up technologically new quality dimensions.
Download: Test results
Download: Data & Measured Values
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