Samsung to Buy WRGB OLED TV Panels from LG Display, Ditching QD-OLED?

[BLASTO]

TCL OLED TVs might finally make the technology be more affordable - Gizmochina

TCL has recently announced that it will officially start making OLED TVs. These TVs will be launched sometime in 2023 and would mark the company’s arrival in the premium segment of TVs. But, this might be good news as it could also have the technology finally becoming affordable. For those...

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At last, some competition.

 

[crashnburn]

Samsung display has stopped producing LCD panels. Currently they are just going to produce QD-OLED panels and QNED in 2-3 years.

If the QD-OLED panel isn't satisfactory (not bright enough or some other issue), it makes sense for Samsung to go to LG.

TCL CSOT will be the only big LCD making player left now, apart from the ultra cheap Chinese edge lit panels flooding India.

Maybe if Sharp figures out how to get their Non Pentile RGB OLEDs out in Big Size at Scale & Price in the next 1-2 years? to beat LG WRGB OLED?

 

[OM_2K19]

It looks like it's a go...

 

[OledPhile]

As per media reports, they will apply their Quantum Dot layer on the top of LG's WRGB OLED panel and will market them as QD-OLED. Probably they will also use the White sub-pixel less aggressively like Sony to achieve a higher color volume.

It is going to be more expensive if they are going to use the OLED panel for backlight purpose. Why not use straight OLED instead?

 

[Donivlapog]

It is going to be more expensive if they are going to use the OLED panel for backlight purpose. Why not use straight OLED instead?

instead of LCD they are using OLED here. So it is not an emissive technology.

 

[lightgamer]

instead of LCD they are using OLED here. So it is not an emissive technology.

It is an emissive technology. And even LCD TVs use LEDs for backlight. It's the front part(filtering and color conversion) which makes them LCD.

It's not like LCD where there's a filter. There's pixel level control of the backlight(every pixel can be turned on/off), and blue light gets converted to green/red using quantum dots.

Even OLED uses layers of organic material. This one is just replacing red/green organic layers to quantum dots. It's not blocking or filtering the light like LCD.

 

[OledPhile]

TCL OLED TVs might finally make the technology be more affordable - Gizmochina

TCL has recently announced that it will officially start making OLED TVs. These TVs will be launched sometime in 2023 and would mark the company’s arrival in the premium segment of TVs. But, this might be good news as it could also have the technology finally becoming affordable. For those...

www.gizmochina.com

At last, some competition.

Are they planning to get OLED panels from LG or develop their own?

 

[rajeshpapani]

Huh what? All OLED makers support DV. LG, Sony, Panasonic all support it.

Also the biggest advantage of DV is on lower brightness TVs. If the TV is bright enough no tone mapping is needed in the first place.

audio engineer who working for indian films said Dolby vision watchable only in higher brightness display or good brightness + great contrast ratio (OLED) display

 

[lightgamer]

audio engineer who working for indian films said Dolby vision watchable only in higher brightness display or good brightness + great contrast ratio (OLED) display

I was comparing to HDR10, and he was perhaps comparing to SDR. All HDR scenes make sense only with a TV that has a good dynamic range, i.e. high brightness and deep blacks. If the TV is 200-400 nits or edge-lit garbage, no HDR/DV/HLG can save it.

However, if the TV is very bright HDR10 and DV will look exactly the same. DV is just HDR with dynamic tone mapping. But tone mapping is only required if the TV can't display the scene natively.

TV is 1500 nits, 1000 nit scene -> TV will display accurately 1000 nits on both HDR10 and DV

TV is 500 nits, 1000 nit scene -> TV will hard clip or use own tone mapping for HDR10, DV will already have metadata on how to handle it and will display it better (obviously not as good as native 1000+ nit TV)

If a display is 4000 nits, for example, all HDR content regardless of the format will look the same on it as it can natively handle the entire EOTF curve (4000 nits is basically the max mastering brightness in movies).

 

[OM_2K19]

It is going to be more expensive if they are going to use the OLED panel for backlight purpose. Why not use straight OLED instead?

More details about their proposed QD-Oled.

Samsung's QD-OLED TV might be here very soon. Here's everything we know

Samsung's rumored OLED TV with quantum dots could be coming as soon as 2022, and the new technology is set to challenge the best from rival LG.

www.cnet.com

It's an interim solution until they sort of the production issues with their Micro LED panel. As of now, it looks like QD-OLED is a go, and they might have abandoned their idea of procuring LG OLED panels, but you never know.