Samsung shows concept of TV based on microLEDs

Samsung has shown the concept of a TV based on micro LEDs. The 146″ TV The Wall will not be released, but the manufacturer wants to show that the technology of microLEDs, small LEDs that give off light themselves, is almost ready for mass production.

Apart from the 146 “diagonal, Samsung disclosed little concrete information about The Wall. The resolution is unknown. There was already a rumor in November that Samsung would show a microLED TV.

Because the micro LEDs do not require a backlight, the contrast is much higher than with TVs based on LCD technology. The characteristics are more similar to those of OLED. Samsung is the global market leader in OLED production, but this only concerns smaller screens. Only LG produces OLED screens that are large enough for use in TVs.

Samsung is focusing on the technology as a successor to its LCD technology with quantum dots, which still require backlights and which Samsung markets as QLED. More information about the technology behind microleds can be found in Yole Development’s presentation on this topic. The presentation discusses, among other things, the difficulty that the minuscule LEDs have to be applied individually to the substrate. Samsung claims that the individual pixels are ‘micrometer-scale’ in size.

It is unknown when the manufacturer will present its first TV based on microLEDs.