OLED still too expensive for me. Bleeding edge in large screen size with a price to match. Like in the past, if you wait 5 years, they will be blister packed, an impulse item in the checkout lane
The stores have unrealistic advertising and are showing something no one can reasonably achieve at home. They have the latest and greatest OLED sets with 8k demo picture streams in memory to highlight the awesome resolution and blackness of the background. They look astounding. But there is almost nothing available in 8k that you can access once you bring it home…
I still have my first LED, about 20 yrs old. We had a top of the line Sony CRT, the picture on the Sony looked horrible compared to the LED. Movies look better with the 16:9 screen ratio. The simulated surround sound works well.
Car related, yes I use the backup camera, my car has a small screen for that!
They’re under $1,000 now. I too am waiting for the prices to get lower. My 10yo+ LED/LCD is just fine.
I too had a Sony CRT TV (35") and replaced it with my LED/LCD TV. It was night and day. But at that time I had seen some of the extreme high-end industrial use CRT TVs. They were amazing…and extremely expensive.
Depending on size, etc.
At this point, I would only upgrade my main TV and those size, refresh rate etc in OLED are still $5000+
It needs wheels and can drive me to work for that kind of $$
They are starting to come down dramatically in the smaller display sizes. The bigger ones are still so expensive because they have increasing yield issues as the display size increases.
The equipment manufacturers are still working out kinks in making those larger screens. One of the trickier parts is with the process for creating the base panel. OLED displays rely on a thin glass sheet that has silicon vapor deposited on the surface. In order to convert the deposited amorphous silicon to a polysilicon, it has to be heated to over 600 degC. As you can imagine, this much heat can easily distort or melt the mother glass if it is not carefully controlled.
They use excimer lasers to rapidly anneal the silicon layer without damaging the mother glass. But achieving a uniform heating across a large panel is difficult. The larger the panel, the more difficult it becomes. It takes multiple lasers working in unison to process the panels and the requirements for them are very tight tolerance in order to achieve the proper results.
As with anything, the more time and effort put into it, the better the equipment and processes used to manufacture them become. In time, they will be on par with the LED sets…
I too have some of those channels, but only about 5 between the two… But I do have 9-channels of QVC, QVC 2, QVC 3, HSN, HSN 2, and Shop LC… Some of these come on multiple channels as my antenna pulls in stations from towers in adjacent cities… We have three PBS channels, but also get the same three from another city and not all the programming is the same…
I use the Internet App TitanTV for the TV Schedule… They also show 8-more channels soon to be added (no programming available yet).
When I was a kid in the late 50’s and early '60, my friends and I had problems with just three channels. After the news they often showed the westerns, The rifleman, Have Gun, Will Travel, Laramie, Wagon Train, Wyatt Earp, The Rebel, and so many, many more…
I still have my “Cisco Kid” fan club card… With so many options there was usually two on at the same time… So many choices…
One of our cable channels has all those shows. Loved the Rifleman. Amazing how it was considered a Family show when Lucas McCain estimated to have killed at least 120 men. I still watch it every now and then.
Yes, for its time, it was very good. But, the weight and bulk of the largest ones made them very unwieldy to ship, and for people to carry. My friend and I had to take a break midway through carrying one from his Explorer to my living room.
I find the back up camera distracting. I have to look behind me but the seats are in the way. So it’s look behind, look at the camera, look behind, repeat.
I hate the feel of drive by wire, I just did a tune on my Tacoma for 3 things,
1st) cause the throttle response sucks,
2nd) get ride of the terrible gear hunt (main reason),
3rd) more low end torque…
It is now the way it should have come from the factory…
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I love my back up camera, I also added a front camera and a switch to use either one anytime needed/wanted… Now I can see how close I am to something, I can see the edge of my front bumper now… lol
I can see just fine looking out the back window of my 2010 Accord.
And for the CRT tube TV discussion, I prefer CRT over flat screen for an insidious reason:
Did anyone notice just how overblown (over-bright, over-saturated, over-sharpened) those things are in the store showroom? You could never get an old tube set that bright without damaging the phosphor layer or warping the shadow mask.
A lot of people just watch their flat screen in that mode, and then wonder why their sets last 5 years or less. It’s called store mode (or Vivid or Dynamc). It’s set that way to sell TVs, not for long-term viewing.
I, for one, know enough how to put the LED or later tech. into a picture mode(usually Movie or Film maker) appropriate for actual home use, and my eyes thank me for it also.
It takes a lot less menu surfing to dial in an accurate picture on on old tube set, because they don’t have all those so-called ‘enhancers’ to look for and disable:
are the only one who knows the right way to do it