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    LCD with super powers

    Oct 14, 2018 6 minutes
    Stephen Dawson

    It is very easy to get so smitten with OLED technology that one neglects to pay as much attention as one should to what remains the entirely dominant TV panel technology — LCD. Indeed with the price discrepancy between the technologies not likely to disappear any time soon, it’s clear that LCD is going to be around for quite a while.

    Here we have 65-inch LCD in the form of the LG 65SK8500PTA UHD TV, one of the company’s ‘Super UHD’ range. Indeed, it’s second from the top of that range. And it sells for $2200 less than the same-sized entry-level LG OLED C8 model which we reviewed last issue. How does it compare?

    Nanotechnology

    Let’s be clear, there is very little difference between this TV and that OLED except for that one thing: the display panel, and also some changes to the panel driver technology (principally, the new OLED range uses LG’s Alpha9 image processor, while this TV uses its Alpha7).

    So, to the panels. LG.Display’s OLED technology — which is used, as yet, in all

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