TCL and Samsung reveal major updates for two OLED beet technologies, but are not yet enthusiastic for them in TVs
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- Inkjet-printed OLEDs are very close to mass production
- Samsung Display seems to have solved the problem of the lifetime of EL-QD
- Do not pause your new TV plans if you are currently shopping
The race to find the next big thing in TV -Tech has just passed two large milestones: TCL CSOT-the subsidiary of TCL-HEEF demonstrated his inkjet-printed OLED technology on a TV size with panels up to 65 inches, and Samsung Display has demonstrated the potential OLED-knocking el-qd In a new and brighter version.
IJP OLED And El-QD compete for the next technology that replaces current OLED production, and both are self-emissive technologies such as current OLED.
Both are very exciting, but neither will come to your front room and of the two printed OLEDs will probably arrive long before El-QD. But they can both prove to be revolutionary.
Why we are a bit enthusiastic about printed OLED and EL-QD
Inkjet-printed OLED panels are the most immediately exciting, because they can be used in a wide range of applications: telephones, tablets, laptops, PC monitors, TVs, carashboards … almost everywhere you might want to place a display.
TCL has previously shown 65-inch panels: an early prototype in 2021, and a curved prototype in 2023. But it is much closer to production than before, and some of the smaller panels that TCL showed, included a new oxide backplane that apparently delivers a faster response times and a lower power consumption.
Although TCL CSOT says it has become the first manufacturer to commercialize a complete family of IJP [inkjet printed] OLED products “, we are not yet pausing our New TV plans: every new panel technology starts in the eye water panel until the yields improve and costs fall.
IJP OLED is still an OLED technology in the sense that the organic material uses to make self-emissive pixels, but the structure of the panel is completely different because of the production process, so it is very much a next-gen ole instead of just tweaking the current technology.
It has the potential to be more powerful and cheaper in the long term, but it is not completely ready to go.
TCL immediately told Techradar that it will probably take a few years before IJP OLED will be affordable in TVs – but it already lands in smaller screens.
Is the future clear for EL-QD?
El-qd sounds like it should be the name of a bullfighter, and Samsung Display is bullish about its prospects: it uses quantum spots as light -emittering diodes and can produce wider color gamnates, faster response times and lower power consumption than other display technologies.
Just like TCL CSOT, Samsung Display showed off its technology during the SID show in the US. It brought a number of printed OLEDs and a number of bending, but the technically interesting was EL-QD because Samsung seems to have solved the biggest problem of that technology.
So far, EL-QD displays have suffered due to a lack of lifespan: early versions that Cadmium used, and that is forbidden in many countries; Without it, the lifespan of the blue materials that are essential for EL-QD was not great. But Samsung Display says that it has “dramatically raised the lifespan” with its latest cadmium -free prototypes.
That enabled Samsung to make the brightest el-QD prototype so far, but it is still far behind the brightness that you would like in your front room: the newest EL-QD panel has 400 nits; Many of the best OLEDs deliver more than 1,000 nits While my mini-guided TV seems to bring ninety billion nits.
It is also quite a bit smaller than your TV: 18.2 inch with 3,200 x 1,800 pixels.
EL-QD is then far removed from production, assuming that it will ever come into mass production. The future is rosy, but it must become a lot brighter before the one HDR TV.
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