In the market for a new television? Technology moves fast, and it can be hard to keep up. And, with the industry’s fondness for new acronyms and marketing terms, picking out the essential features from the nice-to-have can be difficult.
technology. It is essentially an LED TV that uses quantum dots instead of liquid crystals, to help improve the picture. And Nanocell is technology on LG TVs that filters red and green better, also to give you a better image.Then there is OLED, widely considered the top standard currently available in television displays. Despite sounding similar to LED, they are very different technologies. OLED, or organic light-emitting diode, uses pixels that produce their own light source.
MicroLED, meanwhile, is aimed at the extreme premium end of the market. As in, the sort of market that has room for a 100-inch screen in the living room. This technology is closer to OLED, lighting its own pixels, with millions of microscopic LEDs packed on to the screen. That means excellent light control and colour. But – and here’s the big but – they’re incredibly expensive, and they are only available in extremely large-sized screens.
And 8K pushes that again, doubling the resolution of 4K, to 7,680 by 4,320. That adds up to a lot of dots on the screen. But should we skip the 4K TV and go straight to 8K? For most people, it probably doesn’t make financial sense. The current crop of 8K TVs suffers from the same drawbacks that 4K screens did in the early days: they are expensive and, given the lack of native content available out there right now, you can probably get better value from a good-quality 4K TV.