How Can I Select the Best TV Display for My Home?
Sony Offers a Wide Selection of TV Displays Suited to Your Entertainment Needs
At Campo Better Living, we work with trusted brand partners with long histories of customer satisfaction and quality. When selecting TV displays for our clients’ homes in Slidell or elsewhere, we consider Sony for its reputable history full of innovation and performance.
There are several display options on the market today, even from Sony alone, and it can feel overwhelming combing through all of the electronics specifications. OLED, QLED, LCD, LED? What do these acronyms mean?
At the most basic level, the TV you decide to add to your home theater or media room space should suit your entertainment needs as well as look great in your home. A big gamer and a movie buff have different viewing habits, though, and wherever you want to install the TV is also a consideration for your future TV selection.
In this blog, we’ll help you understand the science of two popular options: OLED versus LCD. Plus, we’ll explain how to choose the best TV display for your Louisiana home. Keep reading below!
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LCD
LCD stands for liquid crystal display, which is a flat panel display technology that uses LEDs (light-emitting diodes) and rose to the top of the home entertainment market in 2007. Since then, these TVs’ thin, light-housing and backlit pixels offer a high-definition resolution that makes screen images pop.
If your media room space has natural or ambient artificial lighting, you’ll like that the plastic display screen is less reflective. You experience less glare than an OLED display’s glass screen. Because LCD LED technology has been around for so long, it’s a more affordable option compared to newer display technologies. Sony’s BRAVIA line of TV displays offer several options and are available in sizes up to 100-inches.
OLED
Each pixel, or diode, is self-lit, so that’s the most obvious difference from LED pixels, which are backlit. Also, every individual OLED pixel is controllable, so there’s better contrast on the screen, making images seem more lifelike. Take, for example, a starry night scene in a romance movie. Instead of backlit, bright white stars that seem blurry on the contrasting black night sky, they shine bright as their own unique pixels on the contrasting background.
OLED TV displays also offer faster response times and speedier refresh rates, so it’s perfect for video games and sports viewing to avoid motion blur. These displays have a higher propensity for image burn-in than LCD options, so if you plan to have static images on the screen frequently or plan to install the screen in a room with lots of ambient light, this is probably not your best choice. Sony’s OLED displays come in a wide range of sizes up to 83-inches.
How to Decide
Luckily, with Sony TV displays, you’ll have no problem selecting a high-quality option with superior image resolution. There are two primary considerations for choosing your next large screen TV display, though.
First, where do you want to place the screen? Rooms with ambient artificial lighting and copious amounts of natural light would likely fare better with an LCD display with a less reflective screen; OLED displays have a more reflective screen. If you’d prefer one over the other, though, Campo Better Living can assist you with the selection and installation of motorized roller shades that reduce glare with a simple tap of a button.
Secondly, what do you like to watch? Fast-paced action films, sports, and gaming require a higher refresh rate, so an OLED display would work best. You won’t miss a football pass or a critical mission while playing Xbox with the self-lit OLED pixels.
We hope to have cleared up a bit of the overwhelm you’ve been experiencing regarding TV displays, though there’s so much more to learn! Chat with us at the bottom of your screen, or connect with us using our online form for a one-on-one audio/video consultation for your entertainment space in Slidell or the greater New Orleans area.
