Goodbye OLED - QDEL Displays Are Here (CES 2025)
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Thank you to Ruipro for sponsoring this video! Buy the Ruipro HDMI 2.1 Certified Fiber Optic Cable (6FT): https://amzn.to/3wvHB7j Buy the Ruipro HDMI 2.1 Certified Fiber Optic Cable (25FT): https://amzn.to/432NDGS Buy Ruipro Cables: https://ruipro.store/displayguy Best Monitor Settings Here (Guides & Discord): https://patreon.com/TheDisplayGuy Goodbye OLED - QDEL Displays Are Here (CES 2025) Well, TCL thought they could sneak one by me again. But as always, these vigilant eyes and sweaty hands got all over their new technology, which was as digital trends described, hiding in plain sight at their booth at CES 2025. But what is QDEL? Why is it so exciting? Well, QDEL or Quantum Dot Electro Luminescent Display is the technology which should be in theory dethroning, OLED and QDOLED. Now, the reason as to why I'm saying that is because unlike OLED, there should not be the risk of burn-in from organic material. Instead, the Quantum Dots themselves should be directly excited by electricity, allowing for, in theory, great brightness, as well as all the advantages of OLEDs, such as their near instantaneous response times, at least hopefully we'll wait and see when we get our hands on an actual model, but definitely looked good at CES. The per-pixel local dimming, which is absolutely excellent, allowing for the highest contrast possible, as well as pure black. And unlike QDOLED, it didn't really seem to be lighting up either, so it could actually be a significant enhancement over QDOLED. So OLED better bend over and kiss their a** goodbye, because on top of all that, it should also be actually much cheaper to produce. OLED is notorious for being very, very expensive to produce, and no matter how much brighter they make it, or how many units they sell, at a certain point, it just simply cannot get any cheaper. QDEL can get cheaper, and hopefully this will be replacing OLED in the not too distant future. Now, last year, Digital Trends got some video of it that, let's be honest, frankly, that engineering sample just didn't look that great, but this year, what TCL was showing, I could see as being a real product. It was very, very good, and had some very significant improvements in terms of the color, as well as possibly brightness as well. And in fact, if we take a look at the actual specifications of the display, which I captured on camera, this monitor was a 2880 by 1800 display on a laptop, which is getting pretty close to 4K, so that's pretty great. And it actually had 85% BT2020 coverage, which I would consider to be as good, if not better than QDOL, so that's really, really good color performance. And even more shockingly, it had up to 400 nits of brightness. My Favorite HDR Displays (For Now). Affiliate links below. I earn commission on purchases. Best 4K OLED Monitors ASUS 32" (4K 240Hz OLED) PG32UCDM: https://amzn.to/3RXG01U LG C4 42" (4K 144Hz OLED): https://amzn.to/49smYrf LG G4 55" (4K 144Hz OLED): https://amzn.to/3Uow3MD Samsung 55" (4K 144Hz OLED) S90C: https://amzn.to/4bQPt3q Gigabyte 32" (4K 240Hz OLED) FO32U2: https://amzn.to/3W42Do0 MSI MPG 32" (4K 240Hz OLED) 321URX: https://amzn.to/4ek1Oyg Gigabyte 32" (4K 240Hz OLED) FO32U2P: https://amzn.to/3LzLufJ MSI MAG 32" (4K 240Hz OLED) 321UPX: https://amzn.to/3VGknWE Alienware 32” (4K 240Hz OLED) AW3225QF: https://howl.me/clPs75aw3DU Best 4K Mini LED Monitors Samsung 32" (4K 165Hz Mini LED) Neo G7: https://amzn.to/3RBznSw Samsung 57" (4K 240Hz Mini LED) Neo G9: https://amzn.to/3VhjG5B INNOCN 32" (4K 144Hz Mini LED) 32M2V: https://amzn.to/3URIZuQ KTC 27" (4K 160Hz Mini LED) M27P20P: https://amzn.to/4bOblMM KTC 27" (4K 160Hz Mini LED) M27P20P: https://amzn.to/3wuOuWo INNOCN 27" (4K 160Hz Mini LED) 27M2V: https://amzn.to/3Ia8FeT My Favorite Mounting Hardware. Affiliate links below. Commission earned. VESA Adapter: https://amzn.to/4cO7Nuq VESA Adapter: https://amzn.to/4aQ6Pw6 VESA Wall Mount (For TV Mounting): https://amzn.to/3xvAFYc VESA Monitor Arm (For Heavy Displays): https://amzn.to/4aqiDoT VESA Extender Plates: https://amzn.to/4cIG3Y2 Music https://www.davidcuttermusic.com My Favorite HDR Videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5tcDDlxmnwDh5BZz4LXubXRXnLuW61G2
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