March 4, Beijing time, China touch screen network, LGD: OLED display will surpass LCD display into the mainstream.
Leading TV makers, including LG electronics, have been trying to expand the OLED TV market since 2012.
However, high prices, among other reasons, have kept high-end TVS out of the mass market.
In addition, the high-end TV market remains a stronghold for LCD TVS, which offer relatively competitive prices compared to OLED TVS.
Still, giant OLED Display giant LG Display says OLED TVS will soon become mainstream as more companies join the fray.
Kang in-byoung, chief technology officer of LGD, said In a press release: "with the advent of 8K TV, OLED technology, which controls 33-megapixel displays, has a competitive advantage over other types of displays."
The 8K display has about four times as many pixels as the 8.3 megapixel 4K display on its surface, meaning it offers four times more clarity and clarity.
Since each OLED pixel emits its own light when it receives an electric current, OLED panels do not need a backlight to display colors, allowing OLED TVS to offer deeper blacks.
On the other hand, LCD display panels with pixels that don't glow spontaneously require backlighting, making it difficult to produce a deeper black.
OLED displays are light, thin and flexible, so they can be used in flexible and foldable products.
LGD's current foldable, crimpable and transparent display technologies can all be commercialized, and the company's foldable display technology for mobile devices does not lag behind those recently demonstrated by its competitors, according to the company's chief technology officer.
While LGD has so far shown off its flexible and transparent displays at various events, it has so far been reluctant to show foldable OLED displays for smartphones, while rivals such as samsung display and boe have been competing to show off their own foldable products.
Having seen the potential of OLED, the big display makers and TV makers have started to make a steady shift to OLED.
These include SONY, Toshiba, panasonic, philips and the German brand Loewe.
OLED TVS accounted for 82 percent of the market in Japan's high-end TV segment in 2018, according to LGD.
Even samsung electronics, the technology giant currently focused on TVS equipped with semiconductor nanocrystals or quantum-dot thin film liquid crystal displays, is expected to join the OLED army.
After launching OLED TVS in 2012, the tech giant stopped producing them because of low volumes and high prices.
However, samsung display, a subsidiary of samsung electronics, recently drew up a plan to produce a prototype qd-thin film OLED TV display at its asan plant in chungcheong south road, according to sources.
Samsung is likely to resume OLED TV production in 2021 after a series of tests next year.
With this trend, LGD will also accelerate the momentum of OLED development.
Starting in the third quarter of this year, LGD will launch 60,000 OLED panels per month at its production line in guangzhou, China, increasing its total OLED production to 130,000.
The LGD plant plans to sell 4 million OLED panels this year, up from 2.9 million in 2018.
