Just this past fall, when I reviewed the least-expensive OLED TV yet, the $3,000 LG 55EC9300, I knew I'd found something special. It didn't take long to realize that it had the best picture I'd ever seen.
Why? In the case of OLED, the contrast outclasses that of any LCD TV available. More important than resolution or screen shape, contrast between black and white provides the most visible picture-quality benefit, and these TVs are only going to get better.
But when will they get cheap enough to afford? Don't hold your breath.
"We're not going to sell a ton of OLED televisions in 2015," says David VanderWaal, LG's senior director of marketing. They're too expensive. And LG doesn't expect its 65-incher to fall below $7,000 by the 2015 holidays -- almost a year out. Same-size, high-end 4K LCDs cost a third as much.
The reason for the delay is production yield. ... "We're using OLED to gain brand perception," says VanderWaal. ...
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