LG and Samsung Are Getting Serious About Their OLED Panel Deal Again (arstechnica.com) 9
It's been a rollercoaster ride for Korean tech conglomerates LG and Samsung. In 2021, it was reported that they were about to reach a major business deal regarding OLED panels, but in 2022 it seemed like the talks fell through. Now, in 2023, the talks may have resumed. From a report: The Elec reports that Samsung Electronics and LG Display have resumed discussions on a deal that would see LG supplying more than 200,000 white OLED (WOLED) panels to Samsung for a new line of Samsung-branded TVs that could launch as soon as 2024. That number would potentially be just the start of a longer partnership. When news of the negotiations first broke a couple of years ago, it was reported that the conversation was started at the behest of the South Korean government in response to an international situation wherein LCD panel-producing Chinese companies like BOE were driving up the cost of LCD panels, threatening Samsung's TV dominance. At that time, Samsung was all in on LCD technology in its TVs, competing with LG's increasing focus on OLED. Because of those market changes, and because OLED, in general, has achieved a bigger portion of consumers' display spending compared to LCD, Samsung needs to further diversify with OLED to ensure its future success -- at least until Micro LED becomes an affordable OLED alternative.
hmmmm.... (Score:2)
I definitely like the OLEDs (Score:2)
I went searching for at TV that had the same "theatrical" look to it...much of that being TRUE black.
No matter what level or version of LCD I tried, they all seemed lacking.
Then I found the LG OLEDs, and well...that's all that is in my house now.
Once you "tune" the setting in a bit, or get something to fed them with Dolby Vision, WOW....nothing else, IMHO can come close.
I've had the 4K OLEDs from LG a few years now and they still look as good as day one!!
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Same here. I had a wonderful Panasonic plasma TV that carried me to the end of the technology. Then I got an LG C8 65", and I've been very pleased with it.
QLED? (Score:2)
What about QLED? Are those good too?
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I have a QLED TV. They are pretty damn good. Critically they aren't self emitting quantum dots, but rather a quantum-dot screen over an LCD emitter. Black levels are good, but they aren't zero like they are on a QLED. But you can only tell if you turn off the lighting in the room.
They do however have both the brightness and the colour gamut nailed down as well as OLED. I've heard the black levels are better on the new QLED neo displays but I don't have one so can't comment.
The only problem is ... Samsung. T
So Samsung cannot scale their own OLED production? (Score:2)
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Fascinating, after years of ridiculous smear campaigns against OLEDs
There's nothing ridiculous about selectively stating facts when comparing products. That's literally the fundamentals of marketing, you talk up your product you talk down the opposition. Smear campaigns are actually illegal so Samsung would be in legal trouble if they said something untrue about a competitor.
Samsung only recently started to sell a few of their own, and now they need LG to deliver them because they cannot ramp up their own production? Pathetic...
Samsung has zero classical OLED TV production. Their attempts to scale up their own production was a combination of quantum dots and OLED. It hasn't worked out yet. Neither has Micro-LED.
That's not path
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Samsung and LG manufacture different kinds of OLEDs.
Samsung is great at manufacturing OLEDs with high pixel density, but the downside is the OLED displays are small. So they manufacture the OLED displays with 4K+ resolutions but smaller than 10" or so for tablets and such.
LG is great at
Re: So Samsung cannot scale their own OLED product (Score:2)
Thank you for the explanation.
Early OLED displays faded and died over time. Does anyone know how long the modern versions, both small and large display sizes, last in years?