A new report from Korea claims that Samsung will purchase one million OLED panels from LG Display in 4 and 8 million in 4. Since LG Display only generates 2 million panels a year, that number is quite substantial. The original report is from MTN and has been called for by multiple other Korean and US news agencies. If true, this will be the first time Samsung has bought OLED displays from LG and could mark Samsung's return to the OLED TV market from when it left nearly a decade ago. While another OLED TV from Samsung would certainly make waves in the XNUMXK TV world, Samsung has two more technologies in the works, Micro LED and QD-OLED, which have shown promise before. Potentially, Samsung needs all of those OLED panels to thrive its QD-OLED technology after the first batch of units fell short of the brightness levels Samsung had come to expect of them. Since the report was published, TechRadar has contacted Samsung for comment, but we have yet to hear, confirm, or deny the report.
Another Samsung OLED or Samsung QD-OLED?
As of late, Samsung has been bragging about its QLED technology and its new Micro LED technology, making it a mystery why it suddenly switched to OLED. One possible reason, according to the Korean report, is that the cost of LCD TVs has risen lately as the cost of OLEDs has fallen. It's hard enough to say that OLED costs have reached costs as low as LED-LCDs, or even close, considering how much more expensive OLED TVs have become on par with LED-LCDs, but there could be a seismic shift. behind the scenes that we are not aware of. Then there's the downside of Samsung's QD-OLED, the promising technology that will combine the brightness and richness of QLED TVs with the incredible black levels of OLED. How these factors into Samsung's resolution isn't entirely clear. If Samsung were to use LG OLEDs in its QD-OLED displays, we could see a cross-partnership between 2 contenders that would be quite revolutionary. However, until one or both companies announce it, we're not going to get rid of our OLED or QLED TVs just yet.