- Samsung Display presents a modular screen mounted on the OLED wall
- The key technical change is a 60% reduction in bevels on OLED screens
- It is very similar to the Samsung’s the Wall micro-led product, but Oled
Samsung Display has presented a new modular OLED screen concept, in which a particular size or shape screen can be built using a smaller series of OLED screens that are gathered (through the Tom guide).
If the idea sounds familiar, it is because it is an idea very similar to Samsung’s micro-lide screen, but this is the first time we see the idea applied to Oled.
The key technical change that is possible is that Samsung says that it can reduce the necessary bevel space in OLED panels and QDs of 40%, reducing them to 0.6 mm. Now, each Panel has that bezel, so there is actually a 1.2 mm edge between the screens, which will be enough to be remarkable, which is probably part of why this remains a concept for now.
But suppose Samsung can continue to improve technology and can make the bezel even smaller, in which case I think that makes this technology extremely interesting to create Giant Projectors TV screens. But I am not necessarily interested in the square modular concept shown above: the same technology could be applied in other similar ways.
I immediately began to think about how the prices of the best OLED televisions increase exponentially as the sets become larger, due to particular peculiarities of OLED production and how the combination of smaller screens could make them much more profitable.
Four 55 -inch televisions in a gabardine
To illustrate what I mean, I will use LG OLED televisions instead of Samsung’s, due to the sizes involved. The LG G5 range (the company’s flagship) includes a 97 -inch model, and costs $ 24,999 / £ 24,999.
That is literally 10 times the price of 55 -inch LG G5 model, which costs $ 2,499 / £ 2,399. And the 97 -inch model actually has a lower panel: there is a couple of generations behind, and it will not be as brilliant as the panel of four Pilas RGB batteries of the 55 -inch model.
The reason for this is that it is incredibly difficult to make large -scale OLED TV panels in a profitable way. The OLED screens are produced in huge leaves called ‘mother vidretes’ that are then cut to smaller sizes; Therefore, it can produce almost four times more 55 -inch screens per mother glass sheet than 97 inches screens.
But also, Oled production still has performance problems, which means that many screens occur imperfectly, and this waste is taken into account at the cost of the screens. If you are producing a batch of mother glass panels (if you are making phone screens, for example), then the waste does not matter too much: losing a panel only waste a small amount of its material and time.
But if you are making 97 -inch panels and there is a problem, it has lost a lot of material and time, and those costs are considered in the price of good panels, effectively.
Therefore, the modular concept is immediately interesting because it solves that problem: combine smaller screens on a larger screen and reduce the problem of waste massively.
So, what I am thinking is this: if the bezels can be further reduced, could we have a 110 -inch OLED TV in the future that is actually four 55 -inch televisions combined in a unit? That is even larger than the 97 -inch model and yet it could cost a (relatively) mere $ 10,000, according to the cost of four 55 -inch LG G5 televisions.
And I have used LG as my example due to easy -to -size comparison with existing televisions, but this new technology comes from Samsung to potentially use on its Oled QD televisions, and that is even better, Because these panels are not currently 77 inches, so doing so would allow him to offer a giant OLED for the first time.
It is not as simple as all that, of course. Combining four OLED 4K panels means that we are talking about an 8K TV, although Samsung has a lot of experience with 8K processing.
And in addition, many purists, that is, the most chance of wanting this TV, would reject any sewing sign between the panels, so unless the bezels can be fully eliminated, I am probably talking about something of an impossible dream.
But it would not be the first time that a secret double screen configuration has been used to make avant -garde technology more realistic: the first 5K screen in an Apple IMAC was literally two screens of 1280 x 1440 fed by a personalized visualization processor to treat them as a unit, without sewing in the middle.
Obviously, building a television with small squares also solves the problem of the screen size, but there is a simplicity to fix four 4K televisions that solve problems such as dealing with a non -standard resolution.
I do not think that we are going to see a 110-inch OLED built in this way competing with the best televisions in the short term, but if this bevel reducing technology continues to improve, the film screen of their dreams could make possible, especially with Micro-Led without seeming to seem affordable in the near future.
