Samsung’s QD-OLED Screens Offer Best Bang for Buck: DSCC

Display Supply Chain Consultants President Bob O’Brien came away from CES 2022 convinced that Samsung Display’s quantum dot OLED screen (see 2201030004) “is the best flat panel for TV that money can buy,” he blogged Monday. LG Display’s existing white OLED technology “should not be dismissed” because its “manufacturability” is a key advantage over QD-OLED, he said. “We know that QD-OLED is an exceptionally complex product, with many new technologies that have never been manufactured at scale.” DSCC doesn’t know whether Samsung Display “can make millions of these panels cost-effectively with good yields and high throughput,” he said. “LGD had its own struggles in manufacturing WOLED, but those are nearly a decade in the past.” Along with wide color gamut, the QD-OLED “offers a superior color volume,” clearly demonstrable in Samsung Display’s private suite in Las Vegas “on scenes with bright red, green or yellow patches,” he said. “Because the WOLED panels require a white sub-pixel to boost brightness, they do not show peak brightness of individual colors as well as they show white.”