Samsung Display: QD OLED TV panels achieve a brightness of 1000cd/m²

Samsung Display reports that its QD-OLED panels for televisions can achieve a brightness of 1000cd/m². The company does this partly on the basis of findings from certification company SGS. With this, Samsung Display confirms previous suggestions about such a peak brightness.

Samsung Display mentions 1000cd/m² without saying what percentage of the screen that is achieved. Presumably this concerns the display of a white area that occupies at most 10 percent of a black screen. With an average OLED TV based on LG Display panels, the peak brightness with such a surface is roughly around 700cd/m², although there are also more expensive models that can achieve higher peak brightness values, partly due to modified panels and the possible presence of a heatsink. . An example of this is the Panasonic HZ2000, which achieves around 900cd/m² on a 10 percent window.

Furthermore, Samsung Display cites a number of other aspects, such as the capacity of its QD OLED panels to display 90 percent of the Rec.2020 color space. With OLED panels from LG Display, this is usually between 70 and 75 percent. Samsung Display also points its arrows at its competitor several times. For example, Samsung Display states that the color reproduction is more accurate with QD-OLED and that screens based on this technology can provide a display that can appear brighter. The panel maker also states that QD OLED panels have better viewing angles than panels based on the white OLEDs from LG Display.

Samsung Display already seemed to suggest in the summer of last year that its QD OLED panels could go up to 1000cd/m². A recent video from LinusTechTips, which is sponsored by Samsung, broadly mentions the above findings of Samsung Display. The makers of that video were already given a taste of QD OLED TVs and were allowed to perform some measurements. Based on this, it was also stated that a brightness of 1500cd/m² was measured at a window of 3 percent.

For the time being, we have to wait for the first QD-oled products. Sister company Samsung Electronics has not officially announced any televisions based on this technology; the only thing that did appear from Samsung Electronics about its QD-oled TVs was brief information on a CES website where, among other things, a refresh rate of 144Hz was mentioned. Sony has already announced its first QD OLED TV and Alienware will release a QD OLED monitor in April. Samsung Display reports that it is continuing to mass-produce QD OLED panels and is working with a number of customers to bring the technology to market this year and beyond.