Samsung's first QD-OLED TV could arrive early next year

Samsung's first QD-OLED TV could arrive early on side by side year

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Will nosotros soon see Samsung OLED TVs? The company that has long-favored LED panels might exist planning its own accept on the best TV engineering for side by side twelvemonth.

According to a new Korea Economic Daily report (via SamMobile,) Samsung is working on Quantum Dot OLED, or QD-OLED, TVs. The beginning QD-OLED sets would come up in 55-inch and 65-inch versions and exist ready for marketplace in the "first half of 2022," KED'southward sources claim.

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Instead of strictly splitting QLED vs. OLED panels, Samsung reportedly designed a hybrid panel that elevate's OLED moving picture quality with Breakthrough Dot pixels. Though the company has recently divvied efforts to develop Samsung MicroLED TVs, Quantum Dot has been the heart of its LED business for several years now.

While OLED is widely considered the premium picture engineering science, it's expensive. The price, plus the added brightness and viewing angles of Quantum Dot like nosotros've seen on the Samsung QN90A Neo QLED TV, has fabricated the best Samsung TVs nearly equally attractive every bit LG'south or Sony'south OLEDs.

It was previously rumored Samsung would buy OLED panels from LG to diversify its own Boob tube offerings, simply this new report suggests the company is taking an in-house arroyo. KED said Samsung Brandish began producing QD-OLED panels concluding year.

As well picture quality, flexibility could be a possible benefit of QD-OLED. The report reveals Samsung's upcoming TV applied science isn't powered by delicate backlighting, meaning a QD-OLED set might be able to contort like the LG Rollable OLED.

Party tricks are neat, but consumers will care more than about cost. KED'due south analysts believe QD-OLED is less expensive to industry than OLED, then information technology could exist pitched as an affordable culling to the pricey panels that dominate the premium Goggle box market.

If Samsung QD-OLED TVs are shut to a completed product, we could see them as early as CES 2022, taking place in Jan. Information technology'south not uncommon for TV brands to bring new panels equally experimental prototypes, besides.

That arroyo seems more plausible since the Samsung should have its hands total with MicroLED and NeoQLED, but it as well could be ready to push button the boundaries of Idiot box tech even farther.

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Kate Kozuch is a senior writer at Tom's Guide covering wearables, TVs and everything smart-home related. When she'due south not in cyborg fashion, y'all can find her on an exercise bike or channeling her inner celebrity chef. She and her robot army will rule the world one day, just until and so, reach her at kate.kozuch@futurenet.com.