With apologies to Samsung and a few others who haven’t made the OLED plunge, and show no signs of doing so, OLED remains today’s hottest flat screen technology. But the battle continues as UHDTV manufacturers scramble to take the next big technological leap. That will likely be Micro LED, which is currently in a hot stage of development. But it isn’t yet a “Thing.” You can’t pick up a Micro LEDTV at your nearest Best Buy and bring it home. That’s unlikely to happen for at least a couple of years, and probably closer to five before the average TV buyer can even think about affording one. That is, if it doesn’t turn into the second coming of SED (Google SED TV for
that sad story).
The industry’s headlong rush toward the 8K cliff may also work against Micro LED. The limitation of Micro LEDs is the need to get them small enough to function as the actual pixels. That is, to act as a self-emissive display, as do OLEDs. Today’s “LED” sets still use the LEDs simply as the backlight for an LCD panel; the latter produces the actual image. And at today’s stage of development, the smallest Micro LED prototype shown to the public so far has been Samsung’s 75-inch (diagonal) design. But that’s for a 4K set. Use the same size Micro LEDs for an 8K display and we’re talking 4 times as many pixels, resulting in a 150-inch diagonal screen! So Micro LEDs will need to get even smaller, a lot smaller before you’ll see a 65-inch, 8K Micro LED set at any price...
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