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posted by martyb on Thursday January 24 2019, @08:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the more-and-better-pixels dept.

15-inch, 4K OLED laptops are coming thanks to new displays from Samsung:

Larger OLED laptop screens are coming sooner than we anticipated. Samsung Displays announced that it has made a 15.6-inch 4K laptop display and will begin producing the panels next month. The company plans on providing them to other manufacturers to put into their premium notebooks.

[...] Samsung's 15.6-inch display has a brightness range of 0.0005 to 600 nits, and its spectrum of 34 million colors is double that of similar, 15-inch LCD panels. Samsung claims that its panel can produce blacks that are 200 times darker than those of LCD panels, and whites will be more than twice as bright. These attributes contribute to the HDR capabilities of the panel, and the company claims that the panel passes VESA's new DisplayHDR TrueBlack standard.

The cost? Don't ask.

Also at Engadget.

Related: SEL Develops 8K OLED Displays for Tablets and Laptops
VESA Expands DisplayHDR Specification to Include OLED and Emissive Displays


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @09:55PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @09:55PM (#791453)

    As long as you only use it to watch TV and movies, with no logos in the corner, you'll be fine. Just don't display applications for any length of time, or it'll look like so many 80s CRTs with Visicalc burned in.

  • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Thursday January 24 2019, @10:39PM

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 24 2019, @10:39PM (#791471)
    I mean, it's a laptop, not a TV. RTINGs OLED burn-in tests have shown they are actually not as easy to burn in as people make them out to be.
  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday January 24 2019, @10:41PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday January 24 2019, @10:41PM (#791472) Journal

    Maybe put it to sleep more often. I tend to keep my non-OLED laptop on 24/7.

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    • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday January 24 2019, @11:52PM

      by Immerman (3985) on Thursday January 24 2019, @11:52PM (#791503)

      Heck, you don't even have to put the laptop to sleep, just the display. Or use a screensaver - those entertaining relics of from the days when CRT monitors were the norm, and burn-in was a not-uncommon problem.