By 2024 TCL hopes to launch a new panel technology: ink-jet-printed (IJP) OLED, which is being developed by its subsidiary China Star Optoelectronics Technology. This RGB variation of front-emissive OLED may enable better colours than existing ‘white’ OLED panels, which nearly all OLED brands currently source from LG.Display.
Meanwhile TCL has been developing Mini LED as its lead interim screen tech. But you know what? Given the price and the quality of this 55-inch C835 4K Mini LED television, it’s hard to imagine how IJP OLED could make things any better.
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Consider, for example, brightness. There has been some kerfuffle this year that the top new OLED panels have upped their brightness by 20%, marking the first solid such increase in a good few years of OLED stagnation. At peak brightness they can now hit around 1200 nits.
But TCL’s Mini LED TVs this year hit an astonishing 2500 nits in its top C93 range, while this C83 range has peak brightness of 1500 nits, still significantly above the best OLED performance by this measure.
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