The future of TV?
The world of flatscreen displays is dense with terminology that can seem deliberately created to mislead. From endless acronyms that look and sound deceptively similar but have totally different meanings to old technologies that get rebranded with new, more jargony monikers.
Developed by Samsung, QD-OLED is one of the newest and most exciting kids on the flat panel block. For once, its name represents exactly what it is: a combination of Quantum Dot (QD) displays – endorsed by market leader Samsung as well as the likes of Hisense, Vizio and Roku – and OLED technology, of which Samsung’s arch-rival LG is the dominant player, as the sole supplier of large OLED panels to other manufacturers.
The two screen types have different strengths and weaknesses, and combining them could potentially yield results greater than the sum of the parts, achieving that holy trinity of TV manufacturing: vivid colours, high peak brightness without light bleed, and dark, saturated blacks.
How does OLED work?
OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) is a type
