Welcome to the advancements in today’s technology in OLED panels and QLED TVS. These new smart TVs come with major enhancements in both OLED technology and QLED TVs, with better picture quality. amazing refresh rates and tremendous wide viewing angles, so you can have a fun party with lots of guests while watching sports. These new TVs come with HDMI 2.1 standard for the latest in connectivity with peripherals like a A/V Receiver or Soundbar set up for your home theater cinematic experience. Improved black levels and contrast ratio give both OLED panels and QLED TVs like Samsung QN90C, a dramatic great tv with unprecedented image quality.
When looking for a new TV for your home theater that is an upgrade over previous LED TVs, or just to relax while watching sports in your bedroom, you need to find the right TV that will fit your needs.
These new smart TVs will offer tremendous HDR support including HDR, HDR 10, HDR 10+ and Dolby Vision. The HDR viewing experience on OLED TVs (organic light emitting diodes) and HDR on QLED TVs, you can expect a fantastic picture quality with the latest apps, and the ability to upscale content to match the output of your 4k TV.
On an OLED TV the individual pixels give off their own light, so there is usually a local dimming setting on the best OLED TVs, so that your TV can adapt automatically to any light source in the viewing setting. So, let’s say you want to watch a sports game in a room with a dark or low light setting, or where there is a lot of natural light, these lighting conditions are handled amazingly with better contrast ratio and being able to hit peak brightness when needed. Some of the best OLED TVs like the critically acclaimed LG C3, or the LG G3, deliver qualities like motion blur reduction, many times this is often done via VRR or (Variable Refresh Rate), this means that you can hit the that minimum 120Hz refresh rate that is now available on the best TVs. Therefore, watching sports will be an awesome viewing experience as having your TV set up in your Living Room with plenty of room for all your guests who are watching the game with you will be left in awe with the smoothness and color accuracy that these TVs give off during fast paced action.
Let us delve deeper into the features and specs found on each panel type and make a determination as to which is the best TV to watch sports with a QLED TV or an OLED TV. As the image quality in these Smart TVs will showcase what some of the best TVs have in their arsenal that are available for you. So, let’s make some recommendations so you can make an informed decision when deciding on an OLED vs QLED TV.
General Features
Image Quality
QLED
QLED TVs (Quantum Dot light emitting Diodes) with LED backlighting made by Samsung’s technology, use Quantum dot technology watching TV including sports. Its picture quality is extremely lifelike and has excellent color accuracy and brightness levels. So, watching TV in any viewing environment, even with harsh lighting conditions will be a great viewing experience.
For example, the Samsung neo QLED and micro led line of TVs have higher brightness levels, better contrast for enhanced and deep black levels. Samsung which uses the QLED moniker for their many of their best new TVs also have developed the QD-OLED screen type TV which adds a QLED layer over an OLED display which gives off a higher peak brightness level an even wider color gamut when you compare them to basic OLED TVs.
The QLED technology which Sony originally introduced in 2013 also make some of the best OLED TVs on the market like the Sony Bravia series. Now Samsung has its own amazing line of QLED TVs and has created a licensing agreement with other Smart TV manufacturers like Hisense and TCL for example. These TV brands also make great middle of the road LCD TVs with technology like LCD displays with mini-led backlighting.
QLED TVs such as the Samsung QN90C series have great 4K HDR technology with great 4K upscaling abilities. So even older content recorded in FHD or Full HD at 1080p will be upscaled to a better-looking picture than the original content. Please note, that while upscaling is a great feature, the picture will not look as good as native 4k content.
With the great LED backlighting on QLED TVs can include edge lit panels and mini led displays. These will offer better color accuracy when matched up against some of the best OLED TVs. Also, as we have seen OLED TVs are more susceptible to image burn in than QLED TVs. This is not as much of an issue as it used to be with Plasma TVs as most of the best OLED TVs like the LG C4 OLED TV will offer great burn in protection. However, as there is some risk of burn in on OLED TVs, you may get more longevity out of a QLED TV.
OLED
OLED TVs have uniformed panels and offer better wide viewing angles than QLED TVs. So, get ready, prepare for an amazing Super Bowl watching party at your home. Your guests enjoying watching sports with you, will be able to have a wonderful and accurate viewing experience, regardless of where they are sitting when watching the TV (thanks to the viewing angles) with a real feeling of being in the game yourself.
OLED TVs have better color accuracy than LCD, LED TVs and most QLED TVs. OLED displays typically will have a much better contrast ratio than QLED, which allows for those gorgeous deeper black levels and better dark room viewing.
The best OLED TVs offer low input lag when streaming TV, watching sports or playing video games. This will hasten response time for fast action TV viewing like a great Basketball game which has very fast paced action or a Racing event, there should be no jitter or stutter coming from your internet connection through your router.
OLED TV screens use less power consumption than QLED TVs and they produce less blue light than QLED TVs. This should help ease eye strain and allow for better sleep patterns, so you can stay up late while watching sports, after all you don’t want to miss a movement of your favorite game and be worried about falling asleep for work the next day.
Sound and Connectivity
QLED
The best new QLED TV’s may come with the technology for Dolby Atmos or DTS:X surround sound.
OLED
While the same holds true with OLED TVs, there are several aspects which both display panels meet the same standards.
Overall Connectivity
Whether you purchase an OLED TV’s and QLED TVs, both will come with a wide array of of HDMI ports including ones with eARC (enhanced audio return channel) which can communicate with your A/V receiver or sound bar. This will allow you to achieve true surround sound increase in bandwidth speed thanks to the 32 channels of audio, as well as allowing you to get the best audio from your TV to a sound bar or AV receiver. To achieve Dolby sound on your AV receiver or sound bar, you need the HDMI 2.1 connection. Both new OLED and QLED TVs come with this connection in addition to an optical and coaxial audio and video connection as well. Please note that the audio quality won’t be as good as an HDMI connection. Ultimately It will depend on your set up of the sound bar or A/V receiver.
The best OLED TVs and QLED TVs will also have at least Wi-Fi 5 or Wi-Fi AC if not Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi AX. This gives your TV a blazing fast connection to your router, meaning you get fast download of apps on your TV’s operating system, and smooth jitter free viewing. In addition to this, you will find Bluetooth with a minimum standard of 5.0 up to 5.3 for connecting peripheral devices such as your headphones or your smartphone, even a remote.
These Smart TVs will also include Apple Airplay which means you can stream music from your Apple iPhone directly to your TV, then music is playing will emit either from your TV speakers or an attached A/V Receiver or Sound Bar.
There should be at least two 120ghz HDMI ports for the fastest connections and the best viewing experience. Some of the newest TVs offer a 240Ghz refresh rate, however current content is pretty much capped out at 120ghz, and streaming services cap their refresh rate at 60FPS.
Operating System
The newest OLED and QLED TVs from manufacturers like LG and Samsung for example will have their own built in OS to download streaming, gaming and productivity apps. However, you could always attach a secondary device of your choosing. For example, if you are heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem with an iPhone or iPad, you may want to consider an Apple TV streaming box. The same applies to the Amazon Alexa ecosystem. With that you may want to consider a Amazon Fire TV Stick, or if you are an Android user than a Google TV OS may suit you best. These will download games, streaming and productivity that can be synched across your devices. You will also find these options on some of the best projectors on the market. Whichever device you choose to watch sports on will offer great viewing options for sports.
Closing Thoughts
OLED TV’s and QLED TVs come in a variety of TV screen sizes. So, finding a great TV to fit your home theater space that has a wide viewing angle, and an amazing viewing experience from even further distances has never been easier. You can find 4K HDR and even up to 8K HDR OLED displays and HDR QLED on even over 80-inch TV’s. Typically, when choosing a TV model, the specs from that model will apply to all the screen sizes offered in that lineup.
Typically for watching sports we recommend using OLED technology for a new TV over a QLED TV. While both technologies are great for watching television, streaming movies and gaming, the vibrant and sharp picture quality of OLED displays cannot be eclipsed by QLED technology. So, fast action sports should show up a bit sharper, smoother and clearer on an OLED TV. However, it is very close between the two and will ultimately be up to the user as to which TV they want to go with. Seeing some of these great TVs in the Best Buy showroom may lead you to a QLED TV over an OLED TV. As we stated its personal preference, albeit we feel OLED panels will offer a better sports watching viewing experience.
One final note is that usually QLED TVs are generally more affordable than OLED TVs. So, if you are on a budget you may want to go in that direction.
Enjoy watching sports and cheering on your favorite team!
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