Having bought a 'clever' WRGB display Samsung Note Pro and seen how shitty the yellows are, I'm mistrustful of clever solutions that skirt around having the real colour solutions. All the claims for WRGB were quite frankly bollocks and lies because they had to sacrifice the screen's ability to display content properly. Mention 'additional white' OLEDs and I'm immediately thinking low saturation to the point of the colour being useless.
Basically, all the tech speak in the world means nothing. I need to see a screen in the flesh to know whether it's good or not, and not some amazing science-speak.
The other point that would be surprising if you weren't worldly-wise is that it seemed OLED would be an ideal solution - individual light sources for each primary - but its never that easy. Things like LED half-life means the simple ideal is never realised and panel makers need to jump through hoops. So whenever you come across a Scientific American or New Scientist article extolling a fabulous new tech that's just around the corner and will be better and cheaper and faster, scrunch it up and chuck it in the bin with the methanol fuel cells that power your mobile devices and the SED TVs. The only thing these dream techs are really good for are fleecing investors.
Whoa, now we're going into a different territory! Your 'clever' = not my 'clever' What you own is actually a 'RGBW' OLED, not 'WRGB'. Despite the confusing similiarity, they are completely different!
Pentile is a completely different monster. They are much, much more problematic because they actually try to skirt around reduced resolution. The LG OLED TVs do not. They use 4 subpixels for every pixels, all the while having 8 million pixels for "full" 2160p resolution. But pentile uses extra subpixel trying to create extra resolution.
http://www.displaydaily.com/display...-out-for-ultra-hd-tvs-with-reduced-resolution
There's a benchmark done with LG's RGBW pentile IPS LCDs and you can see it's failed to pass every tests, whereas LG WRGB OLEDs passed every tests with flying colors!
http://www.displaydaily.com/display-daily/32947-resolved-no-more-dot-counting
Then, the inventor of pentile comes in and critisizes him.
Can't say I disagree with everything she says though. I also own a Samsung plasma TV that uses pentile. While it's no good for text work, and compatibility with games were hits and misses, for general TV/movie contents, it was pretty decent. Since today's HD broadcasts and streaming has poor bitrate, pentile actually helps masking bitrate deficiencies. While my pentile plasma has about the same subpixels as a 720p TV, it still looked much closer to 1080p than 720p. (and yes. I also own a 720p Samsung plasma. I just can't get enough of my plasmas!)