Posted by SignOfZeta on February 10, 2021 at 13:13:14 EST in reply to In Plane Switching, Zeta just said. Guess I'm taking his word for it. ; ) (n/t) from Paleface.
I find changing terms like this very annoying. When people/makers describe an “LED” screen they don’t mean that at all. It’s still just an TFT LCD screen lit with LED (instead of fluorescence) backlight. TFT is LCD with transistors in the screen instead of outboard. IPS is simply LCD again with some sort of variable grill that modulates the amount of backlight that each pixel gets. It helps a SHITLOAD but it’s still mainly LCD. OLED is in fact something else but aside from monochromatic screens on small devices I’m not very familiar with them. I don’t know if there are in fact 4K screens where the visuals are generated by OLED or if it’s just a OLED backlight instead of an LED backlight which to me would be a meaningless distinction not worth mentioning except when it comes to maybe power consumption.
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