LG Show didn’t have its standard exhibit of flashy, breakthrough new screens at this 12 months’s CES. This resulted in an odd scenario the place it was truly Panasonic that shared the most particulars about LG Show’s newest and biggest OLED panel. Even earlier than any official announcement, it was already the centerpiece of 2025 flagships like Panasonic’s Z95B and the LG G5 from LG Electronics (to not be confused with the show division).
However now the corporate is able to spill the complete particulars on its new four-layer tandem OLED design. “33 p.c brighter than the earlier era and optimized for the AI TV period, it’s the trade’s first-ever OLED show to realize a most brightness as excessive as 4,000 nits,” LG Show wrote in a press launch that went out tonight. The AI point out made me roll my eyes a bit, however there’s no doubting that this can be a very spectacular panel.
Right here’s the rundown on what’s so progressive, in accordance with LG Show:
The brand new panel’s innovation facilities on a Main RGB Tandem construction, which is LG Show’s proprietary know-how that makes use of unbiased stacks of RGB components to supply mild. It had beforehand used a three-stack mild supply, with two layers of blue components emitting comparatively brief power wavelengths alongside crimson, inexperienced, and yellow components in a single layer.
The Main RGB Tandem construction utilized to the fourth-generation OLED TV panel organizes the sunshine supply into 4 stacks by including two layers of blue components and unbiased layers of crimson and inexperienced components. It improves most brightness by rising the quantity of sunshine produced by every layer in comparison with the earlier construction.
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Graphic: LG Show
In fact, seeing as we’re squarely within the OLED brightness wars, Samsung Show has its personal brighter-than-ever QD-OLED display screen that’s going into Samsung’s S95F, which was also announced in Las Vegas. However whereas Samsung goes all in on its glare-free show end, LG is sticking with a extra conventional shiny end — although it makes use of “ultra-low reflective know-how” to minimize any potential distractions.
Vitality effectivity has improved once more with the fourth-gen LG Show OLED, and the corporate says that shade brightness can attain 2,100 nits, which is a 40 p.c enchancment in comparison with the prior model. These peak brightness numbers are what the panel is technically able to, however that doesn’t essentially imply that TV makers like Panasonic will essentially push it that arduous in shopper units.
Both means, OLED retains getting brighter and extra vibrant whereas nonetheless retaining all of its trademark strengths like excellent blacks, unbelievable viewing angles, and quick response occasions for gaming. One of the best ones don’t come low cost, however they’re price saving up for. For those who’re after extra information on the brand new panel, I like to recommend these nice movies from Caleb Denison at Digital Trends and Vincent Teoh at HDTVTest.
LG Show’s rival, Samsung Show, did have a CES showcase that my colleague Sean Hollister caught through the present, so make sure to give that a watch as well.
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