LG OLED65C9PTA

Ah, OLED. When this front-emissive display technology arrived, it made everyone go ‘wow’ — televisions like this had never been seen before. Not only were they super-slim, but their picture quality was to die for, especially in the blacks, because when an OLED pixel is off, it’s absolutely off—black is black. LCD TVs with LED backlighting simply couldn’t compete with that.

OLED vs LED

But time moves on, and as we’ve seen over the last couple of years in particular, LED-LCD has been tweaking its technologies to deliver many of OLED’s merits, together with potentially higher illumination levels. Meanwhile OLED has not progressed in the same way. According to accepted wisdom, OLED panels hit their performance limits in 2017 and, from a hardware perspective, the 2019-released OLEDs are similar to models from back then. Furthermore while LG won the early OLED market tussles against original OLED rival Samsung (whose version of OLED was superior in some ways, but couldn’t compete on price), LG Electronics’ sister company,