OLED vs Mini-LED TV: A Clear Winner?

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Finding the right TV to buy can be an overwhelming experience. Do you go OLED? How about micro, mini, or nano LED? Does this TV set actually look better than what I have at home? All questions that probably go through your head. In today's video, I want to help your TV buying experience by comparing OLED to Mini-LED and help you decide which one is better for you.

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[Mackster]

I feel like the answer really comes down to 2 things.. Do you use/watch your TV usually during the day and in a bright room? If so, LED. Do you use/watch TV mostly at night or if during the day a not so bright room? Then it's easily OLED.

[joKerchy]

There is nothing confusing about it. Basically you have 2 technologies: LCD and OLED. QLED, QNED, Mini-Led all are high end LCD based tvs. QD-OLED and lg’s Evo Oleds are high end oled tvs. Oled still has better picture quality. QD-OLED tvs are the next big thing.

[mateuszptaszynski]

From a person which works with tvs every day:
1. You should say WHICH NeoQLED are you testing, QN90A for example is great, QN85A is garbage, 8k models are meh, between LCDs there are huge differences so talking about average isn't that helpful
2. As for LG, C1 isn't even its last years top model, this 2022 models are much better and Sony/Panasonic/Samsung OLEDs are even better
3. Talking about QLED as a different technology is just misleading, it's regular LCD tv with color enhancement film and it doesn't really guarantee best color, as many non QLED Sony, LG or Philips lcd tvs can have better color or even also be miniLED
4. miniLED isn't evolution of QLED, it's evolution of lcd
5. miniLED doesn't guarantee more zones but smaller LEDs, there are normal FALD tvs with more zones than some miniLEDs
6. Miniled isn't generally cheaper, actually you can find many cheaper OLED models as they are cheaper to produce
7. Many MiniLEDs are thinner than OLEDs, yes, minimal OLED thickness is razor thin but they usually have huge bump on the back
8. 2021 Oleds also got brighter, some are brighter than some miniLEDs, that's why we shouldn't generalize
9. Using brand new 2022 tv to show average pricing of oleds is misleading, especially when compared to a miniled which is on sellouts with basically no availability
10. miniled doesn't guarantee better blacks or brightness over regular lcd, it gives you better power efficiency and smaller thickness, other things depend on exact panel and processing
11. miniLEDs aren't best backlit tvs from blacks and contrast standpoint, that goes to dual cell tvs
12. For a 8k tv you showed regular FALD tv from 3 years ago
13. MicroLED isn't coming to mainstream anytime soon or maybe never, aside pricing it has huge problems with power draw and thermals so brightness isn't really that much better than OLEDs can be now, especially with improvements coming and advent of QNED (not the one from lg)
14. You shouldn't get 8k even if you have money for it, every company's 8k flagships have worse picture quality than 4k ones, while being around at least 2 times more expensive, and even if content was available the difference isn't noticeable
15. You missed elephant in the room, QD-OLED, miniled is just evolution of the lcd available for 4 years already meanwhile QD-OLED is the first brand new technology in the market since 10 years ago and it connects biggest advantages of lcd and oled, not even mentioning it is just bad, especially that you showed neo qled but you didn't show the best Samsung tv: s95b OLED
All in all it's like 4th video from your series about tvs where it's clear to see that you don't really know much about tvs and it's nothing wrong really! Please just don't make videos like these because they spread misinformation and don't really help nobody.

[henriquemagalhaes]

Mini LED for me and I'm huge OLED fan. Still as far as tv options for all day usagebits better. You won't have any problems with brightness or burn in . Longevity I think they're way better...

[khunopie]

I am watching this on a 12 year old, 50 inch, LG Plasma TV, that gets a lot of use and has a fantastic image

[SooperFlye]

Back in the good ole days of analog TV, a person knew the difference when an old TV technology was being replaced by new TV technology. Now days, it's a ball-of-confusion. *The way I do it ... start off looking for anything 4K, then worry about being confused later on.*

[justinsugay]

I just got the QN90B 43 in for use as a monitor. I was going to try OLED but my current plan is to enjoy this until QD-OLED comes out in a smaller form factor closer to 43/42 in. I know the Alienware at 34 is out but there's some short comings there and I want to see how things play out and when that time comes I'll give this to my gf as I just built her a setup in pink that she's loving but the old 1080p monitor she's on will need to be upgraded eventually. Not having to worry about burn in particularly down the road for her (she isn't as careful as I am) is also a big factor for longevity.

[mohamadhamad]

My Oled tv pixels get burned after 2 years of usage

[kingkong]

Just so you know John this year Sony is actually getting its highest end OLED panel from Samsung, they have moved over to QD-OLED

[mookox]

I work at Best Buy in the home theater department and I can say for sure that the TVs are not calibrated or altered in anyway. Every TV gets the same feed with the same settings. If you don't believe me you can cask someone that works there to show you the settings on the TVs. Great video though.

[Zoranurai]

Just a correction, miniled isn’t an evolution of qled it’s just as follows:

Qled is basically a marketing name for a traditional lcd based backlit panel with a quantum dot (made by nanosys) color filter, which is a reactive substance that can efficiently create green and red from blue light.

Lcd used to be lit by fluorescent ray tubes, which then changed into led light sources, changing the name to “led tv” which in essence is still lcd but with a different lighting system.
There is edge lit and direct lit with edge lit being well.. lit from the edge of a panel, and direct lit well.. shining right through.

Then direct lit was enhanced by enabling local dimming, which introduced finer control over direct-led backlit lcd panels, problem was that these leds were still too large to induce fine control. Hence why mini-led was created, which gave even more light control and efficiency, however it is more difficult to process for a display making it expensive to manufacture.

Simultaneously kodak was working on oled tech back in the day (patent was bought up by lg display) which used organic material which would light up when electricity was flowing through it, essentially making it a different technology all together and in no relation to lcd/miniled tv’s.

Now comes qd oled which uses a similar process to qled using a filter, it’s just that the light source is now based on blue oleds instead of blue leds

[SC-xfxi]

I just bought a TCL QM8 (Mini Led) to replace my old LG Oled, it lasted a week the motion control was dreadful I tried every permutation of the motion smoothing control I just kept seeing jitter in fast moving scenes. I ended up giving it to my daughter and purchasing a LG C3

[thefowlyetti]

why didnt you pick the QD Oled from Samsung to represent Oled?

[andyH_England]

I think it is clear that miniLED or Q-LED is a good option and OLED will become the base options replacing current LCD displays. They are both great though so win-win as far as I am concerned, but for peak brightness ATM OLED struggles and Samsung's refusal to make dual-pane OLED (for business reasons, they last longer) means that the negatives of OLED are currently not being addressed. Apple's refusal to use OLED due to their relative short shelf-life and lower peak brightness will change as Apple got LG to start developing dual-pane. Of course, once Samsung saw this and new this could be damaging for them, they have come around and will also manufacture these (late 2023/early 2024). When these arrive then OLED may become number one again as they will eliminate the main cons.

[bandgeek]

I liked the video but it feels weird for you to bring up microLED and not QD-OLED as well for future tech. Especially with Samsung and Sony releasing QD-OLED TVs and the QD-OLED tech being used in gaming monitors as well.

[Sal]

if your living room is full of windows, lots of lights take Mini LED, its a day and night TV. I bought 77" A80j not knowing that my bright living room will be impossible to watch image of daytime program. Costco told me to return it and replaced it with 85" qn85a. Big difference, now I can appreciate what I am watching during daytime and nightime no lights. I play both of them side by side and Mini LED is the clear winner for being both day/night TV. Oled is slightly better with all light close in picture quality during night time viewing, but horrible image quality during daytime just glare/reflection all you see.

[LittyJonez]

What is funny is everyone crying about “burn in” on OLEDS….. the tech is nowhere comparable to old plasmas etc ….. please watch the RTINGS video on “burn in” and you will laugh at what it took to actually get true “burn in”…..

[RegalPixelKing]

One other pro for Mini-LED displays is that unlike OLED they can't burn-in. That's not a big pro if all do you do is watch entertainment media like Netflix or play console games, but if you use an OLED display as a PC monitor that is a major potential issue.

[sahilpatel]

To be fair, you're comparing prices of last gen QLEDs to current gen OLEDs. If you grab a C1, they're fairly cheaper than a C2. 55 inch C1 in the US is like $1100.

[eddieevangelista]

I get natural light beaming into my apartment, and that has not stopped me from enjoying my oled. If it ever does, I'll invest in better curtains. Oled is superior and I can't go back lol