OLED HDR

As TCL CSOT begins to commercially produce inkjet printed OLED panels at the company's 5.5-Gen line, MSI announced the first product to use one of these panels - the premium MSI Pro Max OLED 271UPJW12, based on a 27" 4K (164 PPI) 120Hz and Real RGB Stripe side-by-side subpixel structure. The monitor integrates MSI's OLED Auto Care Compensation Technology, to mitigate burn-in.

Today, at the ChinaJoy tradeshow in China, MSI demonstrated this panel, and a reviewer posted a video where they tested the new display and revealed several interesting specifications.

Value Electronics, an independent Audio/Video retailer in New York, hosted its well-respected annual TV Shootout Evaluation event a couple of days ago, bringing together several flagship TVs side-by-side to compare picture quality attributes. The TVs, which were professionally calibrated to their best potential, were reviewed by a panel of judges using test patterns.

The judges looked at six flagship displays. Three OLED models (Samsung's S95H, Sony's XR80M2 (also known as the Bravia 8 II) and LG's OLED G6), and three Micro-RGB LCD models (Samsung's R95H, Sony's XR90M2, and LG's MRGB95B).  Judges evaluated picture quality attributes in SDR and HDR categories. Every display delivered outstanding performance, with exceptionally close results overall and across many of the individual picture quality attributes. 

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced its latest flagship specification standard, the DisplayHDR True Black 1400. This new standard certified the latest generation of OLED displays for professional HDR content creation and premium HDR content consumption.

VESA says that by launching this new tier, it recognizes the advances in OLED display technology that enable significantly higher luminance performance while preserving the deep black levels, exceptional contrast and visual fidelity.

Value Electronics, an independent Audio/Video retailer in New York, hosted its annual TV Shootout Evaluation event a few days ago, bringing together several flagship TVs side-by-side to compare all picture quality attributes. The TVs, which were professionally calibrated to their best potential, were reviewed by a panel of judges using test patterns.

This year's winner was Sony' Bravia 8 II OLED TV, beating Samsung's S95F, Panasonic's Z95B and LG's G5. Interestingly, all four TVs that were chosen utilize OLED panels - this is the first time that no LCD TVs was included in the competition.

Samsung Display announced today a strategic partnership with Dolby Laboratories, to offer SDC's automotive displays which are pre-tuned to deliver Dolby Vision to automotive makers. 

Samsungs says that by implementing a new streamlined evaluation and implementation process it will be able to offer best-in-class imaging experiences  for automotive displays. 

Samsung Electronics announced their upcoming 2024 QD-OLED gaming monitor range. It starts with the flagship Odyssey G9 (G95SD) gaming monitor that offers a curved 49-inch 32:9 5120x1440 240Hz QD-OLED panel. 

The other two monitors offer a flat panel. The Odyssey G6 is a 27-inch 1440p monitor that offers very fast 360Hz refresh rate, while the Odyssey G8 (model G80SD) is a larger monitor, with a 32" 240Hz QD-OLED panel.

Samsung Display is showing a new OLED smartphone display, that achieves a brightness of 2,000 nits and an improved dynamic range. Samsung brands this as a UDR 2000 display.

The new OLED display was verified by UL (Underwriter Laboratories), an independent testing and validation firm, for the UDR 2000 certification. Samsung's AMOLED have already achieved 2,000 nits (for example in the iPhone 14 Pro screen), but this new display offers a higher dynamic range.

Second-generation OLED phosphorescence emission features an internal quantum efficiency of almost 100% - which would normally mean you cannot get more efficient than that.

As Kyulux explains in a recent post, though, phosphorescent suffers from a wide emission spectrum. In order to achieve a good color gamut (for which as narrow-spectrum emission as possible is best) display makers have to filter out the "tail" of the emission. This results in reduced brightness and efficiency.

Both Samsung Electronics and Dell have announced new gaming monitors that both use the same 34" curved QD-OLED panel. As we reported last year, SDC started to produce 34-inch QD-OLED panels and it is great to see the first products already launched.

Dell's Alienware AW3423DW gaming monitor sports a curved 34-inch QD-OLED panels that offers a resolution of 3440x1440, 175Hz refresh rate and a response time of 0.1 ms. The AW3423DW supports Nvidia G-Sync and is DisplayHDR 400 True Black certified. Dell says the monitor will ship by March 2022.