By all accounts, 2020 promises to be a good year for OLED TVs. It's not hard to see why, amid growing interest in premium panel technology and with a new fleet of OLED TVs from LG, Sony, Philips and Panasonic, as well as a new 48-inch model from LG offering a point of cheaper entry to its OLED CX range. However, several factors may prevent OLED from succeeding in 2020 in the way we had hoped. And now, market research company Omdia has provided a new forecast for OLED TV deliveries this year, and that's almost half of what the company had previously predicted, and actually less than the number of OLED TVs. . submitted in 2019 (via Statistica). Omdia (formerly IHS Markit) plans to ship just 3.5 million OLED TVs this year, up from 5.5 million at the end of 2019. So how does that affect you? The fallout from the global Covid-19 pandemic has hit manufacturers hard, with some, like Sharp, even using their factories to help make face masks. Elsewhere, LG Display, which makes all the OLED panels used in commercial TVs these days, is still mired in production issues that prevent it from expanding its OLED operations.