Why your OLED panel looks pinkish on white screens

I’ll never forget the cold sweat I broke out in after dropping three months’ rent on my first flagship OLED TV. I fired up a nature documentary, eager to see those ‘perfect blacks’ everyone keeps raving about, but as soon as the camera panned across an Arctic tundra, my heart sank. The snow wasn’t crisp … Read more

Why your OLED blacks look gray in a bright room

Why your OLED blacks look gray in a bright room

It was a Saturday afternoon, and I had just finished setting up my “perfect” home theater in a sun-drenched living room. I popped in a 4K disc of Interstellar, expecting those deep, inky blacks that OLEDs are famous for. Instead, my screen looked like a muddy, washed-out mess. I actually checked the box to see … Read more

Why your OLED screen has a strange smell during HDR

I’ll never forget the first time I fired up a high-bitrate HDR movie on my brand-new OLED. The neon lights were blindingly beautiful, and those deep blacks were a revelation. But about twenty minutes in, I didn’t just see the movie—I smelled it. A sharp, chemical, “electric” scent started wafting from behind the panel. I … Read more