Tuesday, March 31st 2020

Samsung to End LCD Manufacturing by Late-2020, Focus on AMOLED and QLED

Samsung Display, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics that develops and manufactures display panels, is reportedly ending the manufacturing of all its LCD panel products by the end of 2020. These include TN-film, various kinds of VA, and IPS. This would see an end to even LED-backlit LCD panels that make up a bulk of the company's low-cost PC monitors and TVs. The company will focus on more advanced panel technologies, such as AMOLED and QLED. Samsung manufactures LCD panels at plants in South Korea and China. With LCD being phased out, the production lines will be re-tooled to manufacture quantum-dot LED (QLED) panels. The company will spend the rest of 2020 shipping out pending orders of LCD panels.
Source: Reuters
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54 Comments on Samsung to End LCD Manufacturing by Late-2020, Focus on AMOLED and QLED

#51
londiste
R-T-BOnly LGs have it. I think they own a patent. Samsung notably doesn't.
LG is using white OLED patent that they bought from Kodak when it went out of business.
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#52
mtcn77
mtcn77Well, yeah, but 'off' is only an illusion with the background radiation present in our universe. :)
I'm just making a case to adapt to it: cut back gamma for the blue channel 0.2 notes increase its brightness and contrast, reduce lcd brightness. I read an essay sometime in the past. I cannot find it, but can vouch for it to work out as stated.

It was a case of replacing mobile brightness with gamma and saturation. Let's be realistic, backglow is uncalibrated black level.
Turns out I have stumbled upon a great idea. Thanks, Norman Koren.
www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html
In other words,

Gamma is contrast.

The Contrast control on monitors and television sets is actually brightness, and the Brightness control is, as we've seen, black level.
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#53
Valantar
mtcn77Turns out I have stumbled upon a great idea. Thanks, Norman Koren.
www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html
That article is from 2005 and concerns CRT monitors. LCDs work differently and must thus be adjusted differently. The brightness controls of an LCD affects its black level, but only indirectly as the black level rises as the backlight brightens. Contrast controls on an LCD do not affect the intensity of the backlight and as such can't affect brightness in any meaningful manner.
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#54
mtcn77
ValantarThat article is from 2005 and concerns CRT monitors. LCDs work differently and must thus be adjusted differently. The brightness controls of an LCD affects its black level, but only indirectly as the black level rises as the backlight brightens. Contrast controls on an LCD do not affect the intensity of the backlight and as such can't affect brightness in any meaningful manner.
I am not dismissive, but there is a lot going on you might have missed. For instance, gamma is linear at the lower end of the luminance range. I bet you didn't know that... No pressure, just keeping things on the same page.
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